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MTV Geek Shuts Down

It’s the end of an era for a division of MTV which geeks have come to love and follow regularly. MTV Geek announced today through a simple post that they’ll be closing down. Over the years MTV Geek has offered a variety of content from articles based on hilarious geek-related internet memes to some extensive…

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iThing of the Week: iOS 7

It’s been a week since I installed iOS 7 on my iPhone and iPad. Over the course of the week, some aspects of the update I like, but some I don’t. The cons: This first one is purely aesthetic. The folders now have a light grey background. I prefer the contrast of the black background….

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The Johnny Cabs are Coming!!!

The Johnny Cabs are Coming!!! Johnny Cab: Hello I’m Johnny Cab, where can I take you tonight? Doug Quaid: Drive, drive! Johnny Cab: Would you please repeat the destination? Doug Quaid: Anywhere, just go, GO! Doug Quaid: SHIT, SHIT! Johnny Cab: I’m not familiar with that address, would you please repeat the destination?    picture…

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iPhone Users Tricked to Water Their Phone

It appears that iPhone users have been tricked into thinking that somehow iOS7 makes their phone waterproof. An ad appeared on line styled after the latest iOS7 ads, and apparently some people who saw it though it to be legit – and decided to give it a test. The ad claimed that “In an emergency,…

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My First Impressions After a Day with iOS7

After a challenging upgrade to iOS7 which consisted of multiple iTunes reinstalls, waiting for the download for close to half hour when it told me 5 minutes remaining and a brief period where I thought I might not get my phone to even boot back up, I finally got to play with the new OS…

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Lights Camera Dragon!!

Lights Camera Dragon The annual tradition of the Drachenstich Festival is know as the longest running community theater in Germany. The play is a combination   of myth and reality, a merger of dragons and the long debated Hussite wars  The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were fought between the…

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iThing of the Week: Contemplating Leaving the Apple Ecosystem

It is 10 PM. I’m sitting at my desk. I’ve updated iTunes, restarted my computer, backed up my iPhone to my computer, transferred apps and photos, and synced. Now I’m waiting for the newest iOS update, iOS 7, to download. I decided to go through iTunes because in the past this method has been the…

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Stardate 66114.3 Voyager 1 Has Entered Interstellar Space.

On August 25, 2012 Voyager 1 left our known universe and passed into interstellar space.  NASA  recently received data from Voyager that for the past year it had been traveling through an ionized gas zone present in the space between solar systems.   Since Voyager 1’s plasma sensor broke in the 1980s scientist calculated the emergence…

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Preparing Your iDevice For iOS 7

As I’m sure you gadget geeks know, the long anticipated debut of Apple’s iOS 7 is upon us.  At some point on Wednesday Apple will release the new software for your favorite iDevices.  In the past I’ve learned some lessons when it comes to upgrading that might be able to save you some pain in…

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Leaked iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 side by side photos

There was a time that the iShip was so carefully locked down that it took something as silly as an employee leaving a prototype at a bar to leak features of an upcoming product. With Apple’s announcement this past week it became painfully obvious that those days are long gone. Although there have been extensive…

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