By Sean P. Aune |
At one time copiers were considered the height of office technology. You couldn’t go into any office without there being a huge, clunky machine sitting in the corner, churning out copies with a cacophony of whirling, thumping sounds. And of course the further you go…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would seem that some people have lost their minds when it comes to e-book pricing. Because it makes total sense that a digital book should cost more than a hardcover edition of a new title. It was spotted late last week that at least…
By Sean P. Aune |
According a new study, your age, gender and intelligence may both be factors in which type of e-reader or tablet you end up purchasing. Nielsen, the same company behind TV ratings numbers, talked with 5,000 consumers who own a tablet computer, eReader, netbook, media player or…
By Leslie Poston |
If you are smart online, you’re always looking for ways to make multiple income streams happen. Every trickle into your wallet adds up. Luckily for you, internet shopping behemoth Amazon makes it easy to create a subscription income stream and get your blog offline to…
By Leslie Poston |
With an economy that’s still limping along coupled with an upswing in mobile device use as an economical and portable computing solution, you’d think that all mobile device manufacturers would be sitting pretty. Not so. According to recent data, Apple is the only one really…
By Sean P. Aune |
While Amazon’s popular Kindle e-reader may not have passed muster in university settings, that doesn’t seem to be stopping at least one Florida high school from thinking that the device will be just fine for replacing its textbooks. Clearwater High School in Clearwater, FL has…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would seem that the days of packaged media is definitely coming to an end if the latest announcement from retailer Best Buy is any kind of measure. Best Buy for years has had large portions of its retail stores dominated by racks of CDs…
By Sean P. Aune |
Ever since e-readers first popped up in the world, people have been dreaming of the day they would replace those heavy, expensive textbooks that college students have to put up with. There have been test runs done with Amazon’s Kindle that were less than successful,…
By Winston Sih |
Unboxing and taking a first look at the new 6th generation mid 2010 Apple iPod Nano. This is the first Nano to lose the clickwheel and rely solely on a touchscreen. Do you have one of these new iPod nano’s? Do you like the new…
By Winston Sih |
Apple unveiled the 4th generation iPod Touch on September 1, 2010. It features Apple’s Retina display and two cameras; one for FaceTime and the other for photos and HD video recording. It also contains Apple’s A4 chip for faster processing, a microphone for communication and voice memos…
By Sean P. Aune |
There are constantly mysterious happenings in the technology world, but every once in a while one comes along that is so bizarre that you just have to go, “Wha…?” It was reported earlier this week that Amazon has hired Andre Vrignaud, Microsoft’s (now) former director of game…
By Winston Sih |
For the lack of a cellular radio, Jon Rettinger was curious to see whether the iPod touch 2010 edition was faster than the iPhone 4. Take a look at the video to see!…
By Travis Harvey |
Apple just released iOS 4.1 for the iPhone and iPod Touch families and it looks like the jailbreaking community just found their next way in to Apple’s oh-so-secure iOS. This isn’t your run of the mill exploit like we saw in iOS 4.0.1 from the…
By Sean P. Aune |
How do you know when your genre of iPhone app has probably run its course? When Apple singles it out as the type of apps everyone just needs to stop bothering with. In a rare, and seemingly random, move for Apple, the notoriously secretive company…
By Winston Sih |
Apple unveiled the 4th generation iPod Touch on September 1, 2010. It features Apple’s Retina display and two cameras; one for FaceTime and the other for photos and HD video recording. It also contains Apple’s A4 chip for faster processing, a microphone for communication and…
By Winston Sih |
The iPod shuffle is a digital audio player designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the smallest model in Apple’s iPod family, and was the first to use flash memory. The first model was announced at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 11, 2005; the current fourth generation model was introduced on…
By Winston Sih |
We’ve all been tethered to an outlet, but we don’t need to be anymore, at least that’s the hope with Eton Corp’s solar iPhone/iPod speaker set. Jon Rettinger will put it through the paces and find out whether it is a good buy.…
By Travis Harvey |
Hitting sometime this week, iOS 4.1 for the iPhone and iPod Touch will bring some welcome changes to the devices we may or may not already own. What will likely be one of the more popular, Game Center is the gaming social network that’ll let…
By Sean P. Aune |
You know how people say an iPod Touch is just an iPhone without the phone? Well, apparently someone in Apple’s art department didn’t get that memo. While it isn’t exactly embarrassing, it is unintentionally hilarious. Engadget spotted a couple of “oops” images on Apple’s site…
By Travis Harvey |
On Wednesday’s iPod keynote, Steve gave a very brief preview of a new feature coming to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad when three merge together with iOS 4.2 in November. Previously restricted to streaming music, Apple renamed AirTunes to AirPlay with the added ability…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’re not quite sure who is doing the math over a Apple, but someone appears to need go back to accounting school to figure out some of their numbers. During the Apple press conference on Wednesday of this week, when it came time to discuss…
By Sean P. Aune |
With new iPods out in force, how do you judge if it’s time for you to upgrade your current model or buy new? Hopefully we’ll be able to help you with all of those questions. The new iPods for 2010 were announced today, and there was…
By Winston Sih |
In this video Jon Rettinger recaps the Apple Event where CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a new iPod nano, iPod shuffle and new iPod touch. The new iPod line was complimented with iTunes 10 along side a new Ping social network built into iOS 4.1. Lastly,…
By Sean P. Aune |
Having 275 million iPods sold to date would mean most companies could sit back and enjoy their success, but this year Apple redesigned the entire line (minus the iPod Classic). And all of them got a major face lift. iPod Shuffle The iPod Shuffle is…
