When the iPad launched in April last year, news media companies were among the first to create applications for the new tablet device. We’re now a year into the iPad era and some of those news apps have dramatically changed how we consume news. But it hasn’t been the apps from traditional news media.
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UX Evolutions: News on iPad
Apple’s next big cat is almost here. But exactly how will it change and improve the ways we use our Macs
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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: What To Expect
We’re living in an exciting era for media. The user experience of consuming (and producing) media is changing rapidly, as new devices take hold of the consumer market. Smartphones, tablets, Internet TVs, eReaders, and more.
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UX Evolutions: Mobile Music
Changing a user account’s name in Windows is a straightforward easy to achieve task. The problem that many users experience after changing the name is that the name of the profile folder is not changed during the process. Say you have a user account Martin and a user profile folder under c:usersMartin.
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How To Change A Windows Account Name And User Profile Folder Name
In part one we took a look at several features expected in Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, including facial recognition, instant-on and tablet support.
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11 Features to Watch for in Windows 8 (Part 2)
Mark my words: Muscle System Pro II will one day appear in an iPad commercial.
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Muscle System Pro II shows the great potential of iPad apps
The advent of last year’s iPhone 4 caused quite a stir with its high resolution Retina Display.
Call me a nerd, or call me nostalgic — but I loved the Sidekick series. Though that love fizzled over time (partially due to hardware issues in the later Sidekicks, partially due to the fact that smartphone prices plummeted while their user-friendliness skyrocketed), the first three Sidekicks are still some of my favorite devices ever. Today, just two weeks after T-Mobile and Microsoft announced that they’re pulling the plug on the old Sidekick cloud servers , T-Mobile is officially unveiling something they (and I) hope can bring life back to the Sidekick series: the Android-powered, Samsung-made Sidekick 4G
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A Legacy Lives On: T-Mobile Sidekick Reborn As The Android-Powered Sidekick 4G
What happens if you violate Steam’s Subscriber Agreement and you have a library of games worth nearly $2,000?
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Steam user violates subscriber agreement, loses $1,800 in games
Motorola’s Atrix 4G smartphone was one of the most promising products unveiled at CES earlier this year. The innovative handset can plug into a netbook shell accessory, offering a desktop-like computing experience. The netbook shell contains no processor, memory, network hardware, or internal storage—it relies entirely on the docked phone to provide those essentials
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Hands-on: Motorola Atrix’s Ubuntu-powered WebTop experience
In a statement issued today by Twitter on its official developer mailing list, the company informed third-party developers that they should no longer attempt to build conventional Twitter client applications. In a move to increase the “consistency” of the user experience, Twitter wants more control over how its service is presented to users in all contexts. The announcement is a major blow to the third-party application developers who played a key role in popularizing Twitter’s service.
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Twitter tells third-party devs to stop making Twitter client apps
When it comes to EA games, you really should watch what you say. That’s what one BioWare forum-goer learned after possibly being banned by asking BioWare, an EA studio, “Have you sold your souls to the EA devil?” The comment resulted in a temporary 72 hour ban, but more importantly meant that the user couldn’t play a brand-new copy of Dragon Age II during that time. “I just got my Bioware Signature Edition [of Dragon Age II ] from the store,” the user wrote on BioWare’s forums
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Forum user gets banned, loses access to Dragon Age II
We’ve already seen Acer include a sleek little touch pad / remote with its Revo 100 in the UK, and it looks like one could also be coming to the US, as a similar device known only as the RMTP-S1Q has now passed through the FCC.
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Acer touch pad / Media Center remote surfaces at the FCC
So you think you’re a Twitter Jedi master? While you may have mastered the dark art of the retweet and even decrypted the meaning of hashtags, there are still a few tricks and tips that even pro Twitter users may not be aware of. While many of us have eschewed the Twitter website in favor of the official mobile app on the platform of your choice (or one of the many excellent third-party apps), Twitter.com is perhaps one of the best ways for users to take advantage of the company’s many shortcuts and tricks
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How To Master Twitter’s Secret Shortcuts and Commands
Google has long touted the speed of Chrome, most recently tying the Year of the Rabbit in to its announcement of a Chrome beta.
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Latest Version of Chrome Now Available with Speedier, Safer Browsing
Apigee is extending its console to be integrated into a provider’s Web framework. SoundCloud, PayPal and LinkedIn have been the first to integrate the Apigee service that lets developers explore an API from within the providers development environment and share it as a social object. Apigee-to-Go is an iFrame of the Apigee console that embeds into the provider’s CSS, allowing the site to be skinned and in the process make the experience transparent to the user.
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Apigee-to-Go: Extending the Console Metaphor and the Concept of the Social Object
When Google first introduced Chrome OS and the idea of “Web apps” last December, the idea made little sense to me. Then, over time, as I became used to it and started playing around with their prototype CR-48 unit, which runs the browser-based operating system, it began to make more and more sense. But still, there was something missing.
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Mozilla Makes A Better Case for Web Apps in Minutes Than Google Did in Months
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Google has been under increasing pressure in recent months to improve its’ search results. From accusations of SEO gaming by big sites to a search results page dominated by the likes of Demand Media and other content farms, the search engine has repeatedly heard the cry that it was becoming less and less relevant.
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Google Announces "Big Algorithmic Improvement" to Search
The hosting business is going through a shift that could make many providers obsolete or conversely give the smart ones the keys to the kingdom.
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Live Bog: How the Hosting World Prepares for the Small Business Move to the Cloud
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Continued here: Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
Read more from the original source: The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents
Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
Original post: About Last Night Wants To Improve Your Nightlife By Making It Even More Social
I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
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