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Warpia’s StreamHD: Connecting Wireless USB and HDMI

Posted in: Tech  Tags: HDMI StreamHD streaming Warpia wireless USB  2011/11/30 Author: jay
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The Warpia StreamHD unit is designed to make streaming content from your laptop or desktop computer efficient and easy. The system uses wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology to send data from…

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Intro to Arduino

Posted in: Tech  Tags: Arduino circuits electronics microcontroller  2011/11/30 Author: jay
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The Bar di Re Arduino is a quiet little pub in the town of Ivrea in northern Italy. One of its patrons, Massimo Banzi, was so fond of the place and its link to the underdog kings who ruled the area in…

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IFTTT Explained: If This Then That

Posted in: News Productivity Web Dev  Tags: computer programming if this then that ifttt programmers programming Social Media  2011/11/17 Author: jay
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The buzz one the street is that there is a really cool new web service that allows normal people to do computer programming. The program is called ifttt, which is an acronym for the common programming…

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Why Does Amazon Want a National Internet Sales Tax?

Posted in: News  Tags: Amazon Internet sales tax national Internet sales tax online retail sales tax Tennessee  2011/11/16 Author: jay
by DonkeyHotey

An announcement had stated that online retail giant, Amazon, is working with the Governor of Tennessee towards implementing a national sales tax. It appears as if the frustrations involved in calculat…

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Picnik- the best free online image editor 2011

Posted in: Software  Tags: online image editor picnik picnik 2011 web services  2011/11/11 Author: moiz
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Online image and photo editing tools come in really handy as they don’t need to be downloaded and installed on your PC and as a result, don’t really take much RAM helping you run a lot more programs w…

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What is the Imagine Cup?

Posted in: News  Tags: Imagine Cup microsoft student competition Technology  2011/11/10 Author: jay
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Microsoft wants its legacy to be about more than just PCs and software. In its ninth year, the Imagine Cup is Microsoft’s way of giving back and challenging today’s youth to design a better tomorrow. …

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Blackberry Mail Outage

Posted in: News Productivity  Tags: Blackberry Blackberry mail outage Blackberry phone Blackberry users mobile device Playbook RIM  2011/11/09 Author: jay
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Blackberry phone users from around the globe have been experiencing email outages with their mobile devices. The company that makes Blackberry, RIM, has been working tirelessly to repair the damage th…

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Will People Really Use Siri?

Posted in: Productivity Usability Experience  Tags: Bluetooth iPhone iPhone 4S mobile phone Siri voice recognition software  2011/11/09 Author: jay
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Siri is a program that’s been around for a while, but many people had no idea what it was until the launch of the new iPhone 4S. What started out as a small app with a lot of potential has now become …

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Americans Drop Over 4 Billion on Gaming in Second Quarter

Posted in: News  Tags: gamers gaming gaming industry mobile gaming Social Media  2011/11/08 Author: jay
by Ian D

The United States may still be in the grip of a recession, but that didn’t stop Americans from spending over 4.5 billion dollars on video games during the 2nd quarter of 2011. This total includes purc…

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Google Earth Hits a Billion

Posted in: News  Tags: billion google Google Earth mapping software OneWorldManyStores.com  2011/11/08 Author: jay
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When Google purchased Keyhole in 2004, the idea of owning its own online mapping tool was certainly the goal. Google Earthwas originally released a year later in 2005. However, Google Earth is much mo…

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India to Release the Globe’s Most Affordable Tablet

Posted in: News  Tags: Aakash Aakash tablet Android cheap tablet India tablet Technology  2011/11/07 Author: jay
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India has one of the largest populations of any country in the world. Many of the people of India live in poverty and do not have access to current technology. In an effort to broaden technology to ev…

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What We Can Learn from Visionary Steve Jobs

Posted in: News Web Dev  Tags: apple Apple computer iPad iPhone ipod Mac Steve Jobs visionary  2011/11/05 Author: jay
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The reaction to the death of Steve Jobs had people around the world online creating digital tributes to his memory. He will go into tech history as a visionary, innovator and leader in the electronics…

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Xbox TV & What It Means for Cable Companies

Posted in: News  Tags: cable cable box cable companies microsoft Netflix streaming Xbox Xbox Live  2011/11/05 Author: jay
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For years the cable companies have owned the way viewers watch television. Plenty of other companies, like Netflix and Hulu, have tried to revolutionize the way people watch TV. With the popularity of…

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Twitter Status Updates Used to Determine Individual Mood Swings

Posted in: News  Tags: mood swings Science Social Media social scientists status updates twitter  2011/11/04 Author: jay
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Fans of the social media website, Twitter, can probably name a dozen or more different ways the site can be used. In fact, there are articles and sites dedicated to the many different ways Twitter mig…

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Amazon Is Launching Their Own Tablet: The Kindle Fire

Posted in: News Productivity  Tags: Amazon Amazon Prime Android kindle Kindle Fire tablet  2011/11/04 Author: jay
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Those people who have been sitting on the fence, trying to make a decision between a new e-reader or a tablet can breathe easy. Amazon.com, the largest online media retailer, has officially announced …

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Why I Am Buying a Kindle Fire Instead of an iPad

Posted in: News Productivity  Tags: Amazon apple eReader iPad Kindle Fire mobile device tablet  2011/11/03 Author: jay
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I have been looking into getting a tablet for a while now. It seems like all the buzz lately is mobile – mobile devices, mobile gaming, and mobile communication. I didn’t drop $500 on the iPad because…

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Download Online Videos and Convert them with FVD Suite

Posted in: Software  Tags: FVD suite FVD suite free FVD suite review  2011/11/03 Author: moiz
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FVD Suite is a freeware which can not only download online videos from more than 200+ video sharing websites but can also work extremely well as a versatile video converter. Not only this, FVD Suite i…

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Should Netflix Fret Amazon’s New Streaming Service?

Posted in: Productivity Web Dev  Tags: Amazon Amazon Prime live streaming Netflix online streaming Qwikster streaming streaming video  2011/11/02 Author: jay
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The streaming wars are fully in play and Netflix, the front run contender, may not come out as the winner in the end. Netflix started offering live streaming of movies back in 2007 with a meager 1,000…

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OnStar ToS Changes Explained

Posted in: News  Tags: collecting data GPS GPS coordinates law enforcement OnStar privacy  2011/11/02 Author: jay
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OnStar, the company known for its paid emergency assistance in vehicles service, is taking some heat lately over privacy issues. In mid-September, OnStar sent notification to its subscribers that it w…

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Top 5 must have Chrome Extensions for Google Chrome users!

Posted in: Software  Tags: chrome chrome add-ons google chrome extensions  2011/11/01 Author: moiz
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Google Chrome has developed a great fan following ever since it was released by Google some three years ago and it seems that Chrome is slowly but surely winning the war of the browsers. Google Chrome…

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Kanji Learner: Kanji-learning software for Japanese language learners

Posted in: Software  Tags: japanese kanji Learning  2011/11/01 Author: t.k.
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One of the characteristics of Japanese language compared to other languages is its unique writing system, which uses three main scripts to form sentences: hiragana, kanakana, and kanji (Chinese charac…

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