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• Buying Guides 2011: Choosing All the Best Gear
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  11.15.11

• Camera+
  As the secret weapon in many a great iPhone photographer's arsenal, Camera+ transforms that device's already excellent camera into a full studio.
  11.15.11

• Smartphone Prices Shrink as First-Time Buyer Numbers Increase
  Smartphones used to be reserved for those wealthy enough to fork over hundreds of dollars for a handset -- and over a grand each year to actually use said handset over a data connection. But the times they are a-changin'. Although the iPhone dominated smartphone sales last quarter -- with the iPhone 4 and 3GS taking the number one and two spots, respectively -- a new trend is taking shape: super-cheap smartphones for the masses.
  11.14.11

• Apple's Cloud-Based Music Service Now Live On iTunes
  iTunes 10.5.1 is now available, and with it comes iTunes Match, Apple's cloud-based music subscription service. For $25 a year, Match drops any track you purchase from iTunes directly into Apple's iCloud. Songs are saved to the cloud automatically, so there's no need to download the song from iTunes separately on each of your iDevices. iTunes ...
  11.14.11

• Craig Thompson's Habibi: Gorgeous, a Bit Overwhelming
  Craig Thompson is a masterful comic book artist with the ability to fill pages with life: the amount of detail he includes in some of his drawings is incredible and astounding, as is the sheer scope of the work. You may remember Blankets, a semi-autobiographical book published in 2003 to great acclaim, which weighed in ...
  11.14.11

• Is This Really the Tablet Everyone's Talking About?
  As an assembly of physical components, the Fire lives at the bottom of the tablet food chain, and this limits what the Fire can actually do as a mobile device. But all those consumers who pre-ordered the Fire knew this going in, right?
  11.14.11

• Barnes & Noble: Microsoft Using Patents To Cripple Android Competition
  Barnes & Noble claims that Microsoft is attempting to stifle competition in the mobile device market and has asked the Department of Justice to investigate, reports Bloomberg. In a letter to Gene Kimmelman, the DoJ's chief counsel for competition policy, Barnes & Noble argues that by demanding patent royalties for Android devices, "Microsoft is attempting to raise ...
  11.09.11

• Hemingway, Bach, Led Zeppelin: Neuron Culture's Musical October
  'Twas an aural month at the blog. Here are October 2011's biggest hits at Neuron Culture: Listen: Hemingway¿s Short, Moving Nobel Prize Speech I have read the speech a few times before. Yet when I listened to it today for the first time, at a time when I am re- reading his stories now and have him ...
  11.08.11

• New They Might Be Giants Album Raises New and Troubling Questions
  11.07.11

• Bang! Adds First True Cross-Platform Multiplayer
  11.07.11

• Capture the Throne in Zoxso: The New Ancient Game
  Overview: I first came across Zoxso at PAX this year, where game designer David Weinstock was running demos. He calls it "The New Ancient Game" because it has some elements of chess in it and has the feel of a classic abstract strategy game. With a simple set of rules, Zoxso plays very quickly but ...
  11.06.11

• Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Is Jaw-Droppingly Spectacular (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  I'm a pretty tough sell when it comes to video games. I grew up on text-based computer games, and still think some of them were among the best I've ever played. I like to have some measure of control over how the game progresses, and I'm not usually a fan of games where the plot ...
  11.05.11

• Interview: The People vs. George Lucas Director on Altering and Bringing Balance to the Force
  "There is something about our love for Star Wars that is different from our love for other things." -- one of the many fan comments in The People vs. George Lucas that addresses the visceral emotions regarding this beloved science fiction series. Perhaps we react so deeply to these films because they are some of the ...
  11.04.11

• Get Your Own Warehouse 13 Farnsworth Communicator -- On Your iOS Device
  What do you do if you are a huge Warehouse 13 fan and you are stuck in that uncomfortable void between Season 3 and Season 4? Well, the folks over at QMx have created a little toy for all aspiring Claudia Donovans or aspiring Claudia Donovan boyfriends -- your very own Farnsworth. For 99 cents you ...
  11.04.11

• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: A Videogame History Book
  The first thing that caught my attention was the title: All Your Base Are Belong to Us. In big, bold, pixellated letters, this book was shouting in code: "Hey, geeks! Over here!" Up close, I could see the subtitle: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture. Although the title certainly piqued my curiosity, it's ...
  11.04.11

• Lullatone: Music for Everyday Adventures
  Lullatone creates a type of music that should find its way into the home of every family with young children. They offer a soundtrack to childhood that is free of the garish lyrics and jingle-driven melodies and instead provides evocative meanderings with new and interesting sounds that will rock babies to sleep and allow preschoolers ...
  11.04.11

• Settlers of Catan in a Novel New Form
  11.03.11

• Cars 2 AppMATes: Augmented Reality on the iPad
  In general, my kids don't get a lot of screen time: it pretty much amounts to a DVD every so often and some time on my iPod or iPad. (Since our move, we haven't gotten our TV set up yet, so there hasn't even been the occasional DVD in a while.) Part of that is ...
  11.03.11

• Talking About My (Smart Phone) Generation
  As I was standing in a long line at the bank the other day, minding my own business (and by that I mean: mindlessly wasting time on my iPhone by either repeatedly checking email, looking at my Facebook wall, or tweeting a one-liner I hoped my small list of followers would appreciate), a well-dressed, strong ...
  11.03.11

• Duck Duck Moose: Now More Than Just Apps
  Duck Duck Moose has always been slightly in front of the pack. Early on in the days of iOS apps they developed a little musical app called Wheels on the Bus which is well known in Pre-K circles and continues to be a well recognized and successful app that demonstrates the some of the capacity ...
  11.02.11

• Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Reviewed as a Film
  Reviews of big games are always hard to write, not least because so many other people are writing about them at the same time and often saying quite similar things. As I wrote my Uncharted 3 review I found myself taking a different route, and along the way comparing it to Lord of the Rings, Star ...
  11.02.11

• Fail: What We Got Wrong About Saving Apple
  Back in 1997, Wired offered up some embarrassingly awful ideas to save Apple from bankruptcy.
  11.01.11

• Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Is Jaw-Droppingly Spectacular (With Giveaway!)
  Review of the beautiful new adventure game, and a chance to win a copy.
  11.01.11

• Kodak ESP Office 2170: Average All-In-One Printer Punches Above Its Weight Class for Photos
  As someone who writes for a living and works out of a home office, printers come with the territory. Unlike with a new laptop or camera, I tend not to get all that excited about printers, especially the workhorse all-in-one variety. I've owned good ones and bad ones and I've reviewed a number of them ...
  11.01.11

• Google+
  Google's most fully realized social service comes to mobile devices with a clean, functional design.
  11.01.11

• Flipboard
  Flipboard lets you browse news sources right alongside posts from your Twitter and Facebook connections.
  11.01.11

• Instapaper
  The DVR and Hulu have taught us that we can watch TV on our schedule. But for some reason we feel compelled to read things on the web the moment we see them. Instapaper fixes that.
  11.01.11