Austin, Texas is one of the places in the country where high tech companies flourish. Some major technology companies have operations in Austin including Motorola and Dell among others. In April 2013, Google announced that after Kansas City, Austin would be the second city to get the ultra fast Google Fiber …
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Apple Leaks iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2
Google is getting all the limelight today after announcing the Nexus 6 smartphone and the Nexus 9 tablet, but the spotlight will shift off Mountain View very quickly. In fact, tomorrow all eyes will be on Apple is it launches its new iPads, sadly making the Nexus devices quite literally yesterday’s news…
The Projecteze System Keeps You Productive with Just a Word Processor
A lot of to-do list systems require you to adopt new apps or tools. The Projecteze method works with your favorite word processor and requires almost no time to set up.Read more…
Watch the Brushstrokes of Classical Landscapes Invade the Real World
In "Regular Division" shots of gardens inside greenhouses and domes all over the world mosaiced together. That would be trippy enough, but overlaying each shot is a magnified, high resolution paint stroke from a landscape. It gives the short film, which already whirls around in a dizzying circle, an…
You can now get a 7-inch 3G Android phablet for just $54 in China
No, that’s not a bulk purchasing price. According to the folks at Beijing chip designer NuFront, some Chinese retailers are now selling 7-inch 3G phablets — powered by NuFront’s TL7689 chipset — to consumers for as low as CN¥330 or about $54 per…
An entire city tells Comcast it’s not wanted thanks to ‘deplorable and substandard’ customer service
Comcast’s awful customer service has rightly become the stuff of legends and now one city in Massachusetts is telling the company that it wants nothing to do with the cable giant’s unique blend of wallet-incinerating prices and customer service agents who would make Kafka novel bureaucrats blush. Continue reading…
Movie Edit Touch is your own mobile video editing suite
There used to be a time that for you to be able to edit the videos you take on your mobile devices, you need to transfer them to your desktop, download a video editing suite, edit and render on your desktop (which sometimes takes hours) and then transfer back to …
Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?
While any new major software release is bound to have its fair share of bugs, the number and severity of glitches that accompanied the rollout of iOS 8 were far greater than we’ve come to expect from Apple. Many early iOS 8 users were quick to report…
Build and race your own space vehicle with RoverCraft Racing
RoverCraft Racing is a game for iOS in which you are an astronaut driving your rovercraft around on Earth, or perhaps foreign territory in our galaxy. The game doesn’t really so much involve racing other than trying to beat your own records, but it…
Mac App Store frustrations begin to boil over
Over the weekend, just a few days before an Apple event that is expected to be the debut of some new Mac hardware, Bare Bones Software revealed that the company will no longer sell new versions of its popular BBEdit HTML/text editor on the Mac App…
Apple may kick Fitbit out of stores over HealthKit
Not long ago, we reported that Fitbit wasn’t enthralled with Apple’s HealthKit. They didn’t say it was lacking, but they also said they were being a bit more pragmatic about it than some users would hope for. According to a new report, Apple will stop selling Fitbit products in their …
Nexus 9: Up Close
Google had a busy day today as it rolled out a new smartphone, tablet, operating system, and even a streaming box. The Nexus tablet range got an update in the form of a new form factor and a new manufacturing partner with Mountain View announcing the HTC built Nexus 9 slate…
Easily Capitalize Words in iOS with a Double-Tap and QuickType
If you like capitalizing random words when you’re typing on iOS, WonderHowTo shows off a pretty simple way to do it on iOS 8. Read more…
This Video Explains How Microwaves are Safe (Even When Running)
We’ve all heard the tales of our cancer-causing cooking boxes we keep in the kitchen, but they really aren’t dangerous to be around when they’re running.Read more…
Fifty Shades of Gray Matter: The Most Malevolent Brain Monsters
Seriously, what’s with everyone hating on brains? They’re our most important organ (or, so they tell us), yet in just about every genre film, TV show, comic book or game, the sight of an oversized cranium or a levitating frontal lobe is a sure indicator of malicious intent.Read more…
AMC Nabs Artificial Intelligence TV Series Humans
AMC is readying an artificial intelligence drama picked up from Xbox’s now defunct original programming slate. That’s good news for us, because this series Humans looks and sounds awesome. Read more…
It’s A Bantha Hoard Of Awesome Star Wars: Episode VII Concept Art!
Hold onto your Stormtrooper helmets, folks. A major pile of Star Wars: Episode VII concept art seems to have dropped, and they match many of the movie rumors we’ve been hearing about. Major spoilers ahead, so check them out at your own risk!Read more…
What If Hogwarts Had A Mandatory Sex Ed Class?
There are a lot of important courses that don’t appear in the Hogwarts curriculum: math, science, history of the muggle world. But what about sexual education? What would happen if Professors Snape and McGonagall taught the young wizards and witches about birth control?Read more…