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Space Wangs

I’ll admit – I laughed pretty hard when I heard about the “creative” image recently discovered in the large NASA database. If Superbad taught us anything, it’s that every kid has spent endless hours at some point in their life drawing countless male genitalia. These children must grow up eventually, perhaps even into high-level scientists…

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Twitter Doing Music Now?

Some of you Twitter addicts might have noticed that Twitter has just launched a new page over at http://music.twitter.com.  If you go to that website you’ll be given the chance to login to the #music app.  Sadly once a Twitter account is connected there is nothing a user can do.  The web-site just says that…

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LucasArts Gets Shut Down

Bad news for all you fans of the game developing studio LucasArts.  First, don’t panic, some people on Twitter were confusing LucasArts with Lucasfilm.  LucasArts was a subsidiary of Lucasfilm dedicated to making video games.  Lucasfilm is still intact and plans still in place for Star Wars VII. It was announced yesterday that Disney is…

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iThing of the Week: The 4 Things that Helped Me Survive Boston

Recently, I was in Boston for PAX East. This was my second PAX East, so Boston was still strange to me, but with the help of three apps and a device for my iPhone, the trip went smoother this year than it did last year.   Guidebook At PAX East this year I picked up…

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Do Phone’s Really Need to get Bigger?

Samsung recently announced the details for the Samsung Galaxy S4 and one of the big feature changes from the previous model was an update to a 5 inch display. This is a prime example of how over the last few years phone screens have been getting bigger and bigger. This is happening so often that…

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Why the Facebook Apps Irritate Me…

As you may know I now regularly use both iOS and Android and one thing that irritates me is no matter how big the company is their apps always seem to offer different experiences – even Facebook. What really bugs me is that Facebook itself operates so differently between Android vs iOS that the actual…

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Google Unveils Touchscreen Laptop – Chromebook Pixel

With its ever increasing-in-popularity Nexus line of touch devices, Google has been gaining more traction than ever in the line of consumer electronics; it appears they want more. On Thursday Google unveiled their first touch screen laptop which is powered by the Google Chrome operating system. The Chromebook Pixel will cost $1299 for a Wi-Fi…

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iThing of the Week: GoTasks: The App I Can’t Live Without

I used to be unorganized. I would start projects late, come close to missing due dates, and get overwhelmed because of all of things I needed to complete. My first step in getting organized was creating “To Do” lists. These lists helped a lot, but I ended up having many lists in different places. Items…

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Windows 8 after two months of use….

I’ve now been using Windows 8 on my primary desktop computer for close to two months and contrary to my initial reaction – I don’t regret it one bit. I admit that when I first downloaded the consumer preview I was convinced that I would never make the jump; however, their upgrade deal at the…

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