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• Taiwanese Animators Distill Steve Jobs' Bio Into 93 Seconds of Funny
  Those kooky Taiwanese animators from NMA.TV have reached a new high in campy 3D synthesis of real-world events: They've boiled down all 630 pages of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs bio into a 90-second joyride through the book's most juicy revelations.
  10.25.11

• Review: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Billets 9mm Special Edition Earphones
  [Full disclosure: a pair of Munitio earphones was made available to me for the purpose of this review.] The Munitio Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Billets 9mm Special Edition Earphones look cool. But, lots of things look awesome. Do they deliver on their promise of serving sound on a rockin' silver platter for your ears? ...
  10.25.11

• Torrentz Big Kahuna Serves Up Foodcore Deliciousness
  In the ever expansive world of music genres, there is something new discovered every day. Whether or not you are the one doing the discovering is a different subject, but the creativity is out there. For some, it's discovering a country song they actually like, or a hip-hop fan digging a rock tune. Many genres ...
  10.25.11

• Ch-ch-ch-Changes: Apple Reshuffles Smart Cover Lineup, Axes Orange
  If you want an orange Smart Cover for your iPad 2, you'd better hurry to a third-party reseller and buy one now -- Apple has discontinued the fruit-flavored plastic cover in a reshuffle of the Smart Cover lineup. As you can see in the before and after picture above, the presumably unpopular orange has gone, replaced ...
  10.25.11

• Harry Potter or Steve Jobs? The New Midnight Release Party
  Jobs' biography may be the first great digital book event, a last hurrah for the culture-spanning hardcover, a collective reading experience of Potteresque proportions. But it's also a call to grow up, and to try to see him as he was, not as we (or he) wished he might be.
  10.24.11

• Apple Updates MacBook Line With Faster Chips, Better Graphics
  Apple has quietly (and quite gently) updated the MacBook Pro lineup. The improvements are solely in the processors and graphics chips, bumping speed slightly, and the smaller models get an increase in storage . Everything else -- from screen resolution to memory -- remains the same. To see the differences at a glance, take a look ...
  10.24.11

• VueScan Mobile: Use Almost Any Wireless Scanner With Your iOS Device
  VueScan Mobile is an iOS app which will let you scan from your wireless scanner direct to your iPhone or iPad, no computer required. The list of supported scanners is huge, and the software works with pretty much every wireless Epson, Canon and HP scanner out there. Hamrick software's Vuescan desktop app has been around for ...
  10.24.11

• Review: Mercury Extreme Pro 3G SSD
  One of my favorite computers for working is a 2008 vintage 17-inch MacBook Pro. When I bought it, this was a pretty fabulous machine, but it's far from cutting edge nowadays. I still use it pretty much daily, but lately it had begun to feel a little pokey. Wandering through the Apple Store and playing ...
  10.24.11

• Bike Bottle Lock Trades Security for Convenience
  Carrying junk in your bike's water bottle cage instead of filling it with delicious cool, refreshing water is probably as old as the bottle cage itself. Tools, keys and snacks can all be stowed either on an actual water bottle, or a water-bottle sized container. Now, you can so the same with a lock. The Bottle ...
  10.24.11

• Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots Is a Pop-Culture Mash-Up
  After Angry Birds teamed up with Rio for a movie-themed version of their app, it seems only natural for another app-movie mash-up, this time from our pals at Halfbrick. Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots brings you more of the fruit-slashing fun you've come to expect, but with a few other twists. Now, I haven't seen the ...
  10.24.11

• Bright Bike, Big City
  The Montreal-based Urbana makes a very comfortable (and unique looking) commuter bike for riding on city streets.
  10.24.11

• 10 Years Ago Today: Apple Introduces the iPod, Changes Everything
  There are some historical moments whose significance is obvious at the moment, where you know it will be remembered and commemorated in years to come. But I suspect most people wouldn't be able to recall the events in their lives on October 23, 2001, because you would have to have been able to see the ...
  10.23.11

• The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  Ken, Matt, and Jonathan talk about New York Comic-Con, the Apple iPhone 4S , and more. Enjoy! This episode of The GeekDads was sponsored by Rocksmith, the new XBox/PS3 game from Ubisoft that lets you learn and play great music with a real guitar. For more information, check out Rocksmith online. GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at ...
  10.23.11

• Steven Levy on Facebook, Spotify and the Future of Music
  It's like the Second Coming! A decade ago, Napster's attempt to set music free was crushed by the record labels. Now, Facebook and Spotify (and a host of others) have resurrected the dream.
  10.21.11

• Steve Jobs Bio: Its 6 Most Surprising Reveals
  Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs doesn't goes on sale until Monday, but advanced copies have been dribbling out telling insights and factoids about Apple's former CEO. Enjoy these surprising peeks into the life and psyche of the 21st century's most famous, if not celebrated, CEO.
  10.21.11

• Sprint Nixes Unlimited 4G Data for Tablets, Hotspots
  Effective this November, Sprint customers will have to pay for 3G and 4G data use combined, a departure from the company's previous policy of allowing unlimited 4G data while asking customers to pay only for 3G. Even worse, existing unlimited 4G hotspot data customers won't be grandfathered in.
  10.21.11

• Tom & Jerry Golden Collection Comes Out on Blu-ray Next Week
  My youngest son, spurred by the viewing of some fan-edited Star Wars films, has recently become obsessed with edited versus unedited versions of popular anime and American cartoons. He's the one who urged me to get a review copy of the Blu-ray high definition Tom & Jerry: The Golden Collection, Volume One, which is due out ...
  10.21.11

• 4 New Features Shine in FIFA Soccer 12 on Xbox 360 and iPad
  FIFA Soccer 12 is a must for fans of soccer, or "football" as this fine sport is known in the rest of the world. That's because this video game is not just for for video game enthusiasts, but also for aficionados of this great sport the world over because of what it has to offer. ...
  10.21.11

• Who Ya' Gonna Call? InSpectres! An In-Depth RPG Review
  Up for review this time and just in time for Halloween is an independently published RPG that is a great fit for both adults and kids: InSpectres is a game about supernatural investigation and elimination. It is by Jared Sorensen and published by Momento Mori Theatricks. In it, players adopt the role of members of ...
  10.21.11

• Ice Cream Sandwich: A Deep-Dive Tour With Android's Chief Engineer
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --- There are few things in this world I despise more than software updates. Downloading hundreds of files, waiting for the progress bar to fill, restarting the device -- it's all a thankless chore. Usually. But Google's Android 4.0 operating system, better known by its tasty nickname "Ice Cream Sandwich," or ICS, is far from ...
  10.20.11

• Apple Patent Describes Easy-to-Disassemble iOS Device
  An Apple patent, unearthed by Patently Apple, describes a few different rear cases that could be slid, hinged or tilted to reveal what¿s underneath, a departure from the company's normally tightly sealed devices.
  10.20.11

• Why Apple Isn't Going to Release a 7-inch iPad
  Fresh rumors are suggesting that Apple could be working on a small form factor tablet to share shelf space with the iPad and iPad 2. Although the release of a small form factor iPad is possible, conventional wisdom strongly suggests that a small form factor iPad is not the "Apple way."
  10.20.11

• Crayola Trace & Draw Turns iPad Into a Sheet of Paper
  There are a few things I know about kids. One is that they never stop screaming or wanting something. The other is that they press really, really hard on my iPad screen, which is why I no longer let them near it. If you are a breeder, however, and can no longer endure little Johnny's wheedling ...
  10.20.11

• Kickstand Desk Lets You Ride Your Bike at Work
  It might not offer the simple good looks of the Pit-In, the drive-in desk for bikes we saw back in March, but the Kickstand desk is both more practical (it has a bigger top) and more available (you can actually buy one). The Kickstand desk caters to those obsessive multi-taskers who want to exercise and work ...
  10.20.11

• So Shallow: Big Lens App Blurs Backgrounds in Cellphone Photos
  Your new iPhone 4S camera might be the best phone camera you ever owned, but there are still a few things it can't do. One of those is that, thanks to its tiny sensor, it can't throw a background out of focus whilst keeping the subject sharp. These days, it's the fashion to take shots with ...
  10.20.11

• Why Apple Added Little-Known C Spire as an iPhone Carrier
  Apple will be expanding its iPhone 4S availability to another US carrier  in the next few weeks. No, it's not T-Mobile, but rather C Spire Wireless, a small, regional carrier that's popular in Mississippi and pockets of the Southeast.
  10.19.11

• Why Google Doesn't (and Shouldn't) Care About Tablets Yet
  Why isn't Google racing to get out ahead of the tablet market, pushing the envelope on pricing and capabilities, and generally looking to disrupt the whole show?
  10.19.11