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What I think about the new Facebook Home

Facebook is cool and all, but most days I prefer Twitter, Google+, and Tumblr. But even though I personally do like Facebook at times, do I really want it shoved down my throat 24/7? I mean let’s face it - we are on our mobile devices the majority part of our days. Do I want to spend all of my time on Facebook? Like the saying goes, “if you have too much of a good thing, something pleasant becomes unpleasant.” This may be the beginning of the end for Facebook. 

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Dead battery and no electricity? No problem with the Pocket Socket Hand Generator

I’m sure we have all been in this situation at some point or another. Your mobile device is dead, or close to dying, and you have no electricity to juice it up. Maybe your power is out at your home due to a bad storm, or you are out on a trail biking or camping and you need to charge your battery. Your savior will be your own human power and a cool gadget.

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Unlocking your phone is now a felony and punishable of up to five years in prison

imageYes, you read that headline correct. Starting this past weekend, a simple unlock of your iPhone or your Android could get you a hefty fine, and if you plan to profit off selling unlocked phones it could land you in prison for up to five long years, locked up with murderers and rapists and a fine of up to $500,000 all because you want to sign up with another carrier service.

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Genius: Bluetooth enabled gloves for your mobile device

I must admit, this is a really cool idea (pun intended!). Anyone that lives in an area where it gets cold enough in the winter to have to wear winter gloves knows handling your smartphone is no easy task. Since most mobile devices are touchscreens, we all know gloves and mobile devices don’t play well together.

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Samsung fights back, hits Apple where it hurts

After Apple’s big win in it’s patent war, Samsung was left holding the bag having to pay Apple $1.05 billion dollars for copying the Apple iPhone and iPad designs. Now Samsung is finally able to fight back.

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Use the ChargeCard to get rid of your old iPhone charging cables

It’s a fair statement to say that during the day, for iPhone users your battery will run low at at some point, and you will need to plug in your phone with the charger and cable to get some much needed juice to your device. However, carrying around your cable is bulky and a pain, especially for guys.

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#BoycottApple, or should it really be #DefendInnovation?

Millions of Samsung and Google Android users are up in arms about the recent court injunctions that ban the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus phone in the United States. In addition, another ban was set pre-trial on the Samsung Galaxy tablet. The bans have moved many to ask for a boycott of Apple, who is suing Samsung for patent infringment causing the bans.

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Google Now: a real intelligent assistant

Some of you may have noticed that I am an iPhone fanboy, well because I own one and it’s pretty darn awesome. One of the major changes to iOS 5 version that came along last year was Siri, the “intelligent assistant.” Siri allows you to ask it questions, and get responses based on queries it makes to different sources. The big problem that I have had with Siri is that it hardly works. Most of the time whatever I say just ends up being a Google search.

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Here’s the leaked video of the new Google Nexus 7 tablet

Today is the start of the Google I/O event in San Francisco. One of the big rumors of the event would be if Google is really introducing their own tablet to the market, which would compete with the iPad and more recently, with the Microsoft Surface. Although Google has not officially announced the Google tablet at I/O, an image and video have already been leaked.

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Say goodbye to light switches, and hello to the INSTEON app controlled light bulb

The INSTEON LED Bulb is not just any ordinary light bulb, it’s way better. It’s the world’s first networked dimmable light bulb. Plus, it’s an LED bulb, so you get the same energy saving and long lasting bulbs, but with the added benefit of it being a networked bulb.

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Good or Bad: The Clambook

The Clambook is a beautifully thin and lightweight extension of your mobile device that gives you the usability of a laptop. Ideally, I would say users with smart phones are the perfect market here. If you have a small phone device, and possibly use it for email, documentation and videos/movies, this could be really something of value to you.

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Easily set helpful reminders on your Android with on{x}

Every once in a while there will be an app or technology that I see on the Android platform that makes me wish I had an Android instead of an iPhone, and on{x} appears to be one of them. Pronounced “on-ex”, it’s a new app from Microsoft developed specifically for Android that let’s users easily set reminders. The reminders once set, happen automatically without worry from the user to have to set it up in the future, and the reminders are extremely powerful - let me explain.

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Turn your Android phone into a kid-friendly phone

Anybody that has kids knows that in today’s mobile driven society that you probably have a mobile device that your child likes to play with. It’s only natural. They see mom and dad playing with it, and you may even download apps for them that are made specifically for children. But what happens when they accidentally delete your other apps or maybe purchases apps unknowingly? Or that have access to the Internet?

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Shocker: Apple iOS drives majority of mobile traffic in the U.S.

comScore released their 2012 Mobile Future in Focus report, which is the first of an annual report that examines the mobile and connected device landscape and gives insights and projections for the following year based on this compiled information.

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Apple’s countdown to 25 billion downloads and $10,000

On the Apple site for iTunes, they are counting down to the moment that the iTunes App Store hits 25 billion app downloads with a snazzy countdown ticker, which is moving extremely fast.

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