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Another “Bold” move (for RIM)
Posted on May 6, 2011 | No CommentsIt’s no secret to those who know me that while I love Android with every fiber of my being there is still a soft place in my heart for RIM and their Blackberry smartphones. RIM has answered my plea for an updated Blackberry Bold to... -
Chicago Comic book and Entertainment Expo :C2E2
Posted on March 23, 2011 | No CommentsThe massive, marvelous and mighty C2E2 attracted guests, attendies, and vendors that lived up to it’s name. With heavy hitters in the comic world such as Brian Michael Bendis, Garth Ennis, and Adam Hughes. Plus literal heavy hitter Chris Hemsworth who will be playing... -
Android App-aholics Anonymous (Pulse)
Posted on February 19, 2011 | No CommentsApp Title: Pulse Usage: RSS reader gone graphic Price: Free Pulse in the Android Market Here In app markets, RSS readers tend to be a dime a dozen; so when I find a good one it is quite a surprise. Pulse is that good one.... -
Android’s Bit O’ Honey
Posted on February 18, 2011 | No CommentsGoogle has decided to bless us once again with a glimpse at the next version of the Android operating system. Honeycomb is Android 3.0 for those of you who love version numbers like I do. There are a large amount of changes to the core... -
Make Detroit Awesome Again!
Posted on February 17, 2011 | No CommentsIt all started with a tweet, the mayor of Detroit wanted ideas for a statue to help tourism in his ailing city. One man wrote this. This was just an innocent idea, but then this happened. Well, if there’s anything that makes people want to... -
Johnny Storm, the Human Torch is about to die. Should we care?
Posted on January 26, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe death of the Human Torch is discussed. -
Google Voice now lets you use your own number!
Posted on January 19, 2011 | No CommentsI’ve been waiting for this feature since the first day I used Google Voice. You can now port your own number into Google voice and therefore guarantee that no matter what carrier or whatnot that you go with people will still be able to reach you with... -
First Look At Movie Captain America!
Posted on January 13, 2011 | 1 CommentI like it, unlike the new Spiderman suit. Tell me what you think! -
First Look At The New Spiderman Costume
Posted on January 13, 2011 | 4 CommentsThis will be the costume that Andrew Garfield will wear in the Spiderman reboot. I think it’s a little too… S&M. I don’t like the lack of webbing or the strange tribal marking shaped gloves. I’m not sold on this movie yet and this not... -
Yes Virginia, There Is A Cataclysm
Posted on December 5, 2010 | 1 CommentIt’s the holiday time of year again, and if nineteenth century poems are to be believed, many of us are beset in our slumber by chimeras of pruned dragées (or visions of sugar plums, if you prefer). Some of us dream of a white Christmas... -
A Living Legend of Comedy Leaves Us.
Posted on November 30, 2010 | 1 CommentActor Leslie Nielson passed away last night due to complications from pneumonia, but he’ll forever be remembered as one of the masters of slapstick comedy. Nielson’s career began in television in the late 1940’s, but his comedic turn in Airplane! and the Naked Gun film... -
A tornado of a Tonido
Posted on November 5, 2010 | No CommentsThere is a new app in town. Ok, not new exactly but I bet that very few of you have ever heard of it. A service called Tonido is well on its way to stealing my geeky little heart away. Do you have a server... -
A little closer to cutting the cable
Posted on November 4, 2010 | No CommentsWe’ve been waiting for quite a while, but it’s finally in sight. Hulu Plus will being coming to the PS3 for general users starting next week. Hulu Plus has been available, by invitation, to PS3 owners who subscribed to the service and PlayStation Plus, but... -
Lions and Apps and Airs, Oh My.
Posted on October 20, 2010 | No CommentsHere we are in October and its time for yet another Apple announcement were Uncle Jobs get’s to tell us how to spend our holiday dollars. This years Mac announcement contained 3 major talking points: - A remodel to the current MacBook Air - Mac... -
Drop that disc PS3 and Wii.
Posted on October 18, 2010 | 1 CommentAs of today, October 18th, the Nintendo Wii and the Sony Playstation 3 no longer have to use their respective discs to access Netflix. When you boot your PS3 today it will have a new Netflix entry in the “Video” section of the XMB, when... -
That phone doesn’t belong to you!!!
Posted on October 6, 2010 | No CommentsAs if it weren’t enough to have one phone on the market with an anti-power user feature (Droid X and it’s eFuse), now we have another showing its ugly head. The HTC G2 is said to ship with a hardware rootkit that “undoes” any user... -
Skype gets the Android treatment. Finally. (Update!)
Posted on October 5, 2010 | 1 CommentSkype has finally broken away from Verizon mobile phones and is available on most Android devices as of today. The app itself has a slightly hefty footprint at 14 Mb but if you use Skype and have the space on your Android device to hold... -
An easy root for EVO’s with 2.2
Posted on September 20, 2010 | No CommentsThe geniuses over at unrEVOked.com have done it again. Thanks to their efforts we now have an easy way to get back or get root for all of us with an EVO 4G with froyo on it. Head over to the site and download the new unrEVOked... -
Motorola, why do you hate us so?
Posted on September 1, 2010 | No CommentsFirst they said that efuse would brick your Droid x if you tried to reflash it. When that didn’t work and we started to reflash our, more than willing, droids they had to change their strategy a bit. Now Motorola is not only suing and... -
Woman seduces teens with Xbox 360s
Posted on August 8, 2010 | 4 CommentsA 42-year-old California woman, married and mother of three, is being charged with 67 counts of sexual assault, including oral copulation, lewd act on a child, and exhibition of lewd material to a minor, for having sexual relations with two teen boys under the age of...