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Nexus 5 Listed in Google Play Store…

… or at least it was for a brief period. The highly rumored Google Nexus 5 has had yet another leak courtesy of, well, Google themselves. Last night reports started coming from multiple media outlets that when certain users went to the devices section of Google’s Play Store that instead of seeing the Nexus 4…

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iThing of the Week: Turbo Tip Calculator

Many people don’t know that servers in most restaurants don’t earn minimum wage in the United States; tipped employees are actually paid $2.13 (in some states it is more), which is why servers rely on tips. For those of us who don’t want to spend time figuring out the proper tip, Turbo Tip Calculator is…

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iThing of the Week: The Simpsons: Tapped Out

The Simpsons: Tapped Out doesn’t really need additional publicity, but out of all of the games I’ve played on my various iDevices, including the ones I’ve discussed here, Tapped Out is the one I’m still playing a year after I started. In case you haven’t heard of The Simpsons: Tapped Out, the game, which has…

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Your Best Defence : A Smart House

 In honor of the new season of The Walking Dead, I wanted to take a moment to look at a smart house and how it could save your life. Whether its the strange change in the weather or the zombies banging at your door, your home may be your best defence in case of a…

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Google Nexus 5 Rumor Round Up

For months I’ve been eagerly awaiting the rumored Nexus 5 phone to decide whether or not I’ll be making the final jump to Android (I currently own a Nexus 7 tablet but still have an iPhone 4S). There have been many rumors over the last several months so I thought I’d create an article to…

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Adobe Confirms 2.9 Million Customers Information Stolen

Adobe confirmed that their security team recently discovered ‘sophisticated attacks’ which allowed for the hackers to get private information of 2.9 million Adobe customers. The information includes customer names, encrypted credit/debit card details and ‘other information relating to customer orders’. Adobe also revealed that they were investigating the ‘illegal access’ of source code for Acrobat,…

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The Flying Bike.

From Icarus in  greek mythology to the Wright brothers, humans have always been interested in flight.  This desire has allowed us to travel the world and reach the stars in some fantasy to reality inventions. Two british inventors  have again challenged our concept of flight with their latest invention: a personal flying bicycle.   John Foden…

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iThing of the Week: Free Menstrual Calendar

The purpose of this column is to highlight apps I have found interesting, fun, and/or useful. While this app is geared toward a certain segment of the population, Free Menstrual Calendar (FMC) is an app I have used for a long time. FMC has been a decent app, but not noteworthy until now. The latest…

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iMessage Bug Hits iOS 7

The roll out of iOS 7 to your iDevice probably hasn’t been quite as smooth as most users were hoping for.  The lock screen issues have been well documented, but now a new bug has popped up.  A lot of iMessage users are reporting that messages are not being sent using the iMessage app and…

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Hulu Plus Comes to Chromecast

We’ve talked a lot about Google’s Chromecast dongle here on Gonna Geek.  One of the most interesting things about this device is the promise of all the apps that would be coming in the future.  At launch we had YouTube, Netflix, and Google Music.  There were rumors and promises that a Pandora, HBO GO, Hulu…

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