Browsing all articles from September, 2011
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Sep
2011

Back when I was a kid, I used to love crafting ornate puzzle boxes out of Lego. There would be just one way to open the box, by carefully shifting and rotating a bunch of pieces. Well, either that, or breaking the box in frustration. Interlocked takes that spirit and turns it into a beautiful Flash game. It’s a good thing the soundtrack is soothing, because the game itself can get pretty frustrating. At the [...]

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Sep
2011

Lenovo, which released its IdeaPad K1 tablet just a month ago, is already back to the table with the oh-so-sexily-named ThinkPad Tablet. Source: http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/09/thinkpad-tablet/ Paz Vega Penélope Cruz Pink

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Sep
2011

For most people and an iPad is part of their lives. This is because the ipad is the best tablet pc in the market. They are many tablet pcs today but none offers impressive specs than the ipad. This is the main reason why it ws even featured on the Oparah show. Many consumers use the iPad for my reasons ranging from reading eBooks to reading their emails and for entertainment. You can buy iPad [...]

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Sep
2011

The latest Foursquare update for Android is now available for download in the Android Market. Nothing huge will be found here like previous versions where we got a whole new UI but lists is now included and that's been lacking on the Android front until now. Lists for Android! Wooo! Points for check-ins are now in the post check-in screen. Connect your Twitter account via the Settings screen. Sort Friends by Nearby or Worldwide on [...]

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Sep
2011

We’ve all heard it before; you need to select a lengthy password, one that’s hard to guess. Not a dictionary word. And it has to have some capital letters in it too, and some digits, and a symbol or two won’t hurt either. That’s a handy set of rules to keep in mind, but How Secure is My Password helps us understand why they’re important. It’s basically like a full-screen version of one of those [...]

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Sep
2011

Dropbox offers a lovely client for Android, but it’s lacking true “sync” functionality. You can merely browse your Dropbox, pull files into the device, and manually upload specific files. DropSpace is a little Android app that makes Dropbox on Android work like Dropbox – that is, you get real folder synchronization in the background. When you run the app you’re prompted for your Dropbox credentials. After logging in to Dropbox, you get to select which [...]

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Sep
2011

Shot Shot Pirate is very satisfying, because each level is short and to the point. You know what you have to do and you just do it. As you may have gathered from the name, you’re cast in the role of a pirate. Your goal is to shoot at a diamond and make it fall off a tower of bricks. The height of the tower changes as you progress through the levels. It’s not enough [...]

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Sep
2011

A delay in the firing of brain cells responsible for memory may explain why people sometimes feel “teleported.” In rats, that delay was found to be exactly one-eighth of a second. Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/brain-wave-teleportation/ Marisa Coughlan Marisa Miller Marisa Tomei

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Sep
2011

You know those fridge magnet kits composed of a whole bunch of words? The ones you put all over your fridge door and then try to arrange into all sorts of juvenile and/or amusing sentences. Well, Farragomate is the social, webby version of that very same pastime. You get to play with a bunch of random strangers in real-time, and make up sentences out of a pre-set collection of words, including some fairly naughty ones, [...]

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Sep
2011

The Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car delivered a beating to damn near everyone at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, pointing the way toward Porsche’s gas-electric future. Source: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/09/porsche-911-gt3-r-hybrid/ Rachel Bilson Rachel Blanchard Rachel Hunter

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