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  • Samsung Reigns as Android's True Champion
    Samsung has its sights on being the king of all things Android. The company announced Wednesday that its Galaxy S 2 smartphone reached record sales numbers for the company, with more than 5 million handsets sold in the first three months since the smartphone's debut. And that number accounts for only a quarter of the company's ...
    07.27.11
  • If Amazon Out-Walmarts Walmart, Can Anyone Out-Amazon Amazon?
    To understand Amazon in 2011, you have to understand what has happened to the technology industry over the past decade. Amazon first turned an annual operating profit in 2002, making $64 million on just under $4 billion in revenue. Interest on company debt wiped out that profit, but it was still an impressive feat in a ...
    07.27.11
  • Piano Keyboard for iPad Teaches You to Tickle Those Ivories
    Here's one for all the luddites who whine that "the iPad doesn't have a proper keyboard." Piano Apprentice is an external keyboard for your tablet, only instead of adding QWERTY, it brings do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do. The keyboard comes with a free iPad companion app which plugs in via the 30-pin dock connector. With these two parts, you can ...
    07.27.11
  • Super Powered Love is a Super Powerful Album
    Kirby Krackle's 2010 release E for Everyone was, hands down, my favorite rock album of the year. Since its release I've reviewed it, played it on my podcasts, interviewed founding members Kyle Stevens and Jim Demonakos, scrutinized both their live band setup and their team of crack studio musicians and pretty much pimped the group ...
    07.27.11
  • BookBook Case Makes Your iPhone Look Like a Tiny Tome
    TwelveSouth has shrunken its BookBook MacBook case down to the size of an iPhone 4. It has also added a few pockets into which you can slot a couple of credit cards and your ID, along with a place for a few banknotes. Unfortunately, the tackiness of the leather-bound book design has grown as its size ...
    07.27.11
  • Kobo Working on Web App to Bypass App Store Restrictions
    E-book and e-reader seller Kobo is planning an HTML5 web app to bypass Apple's latest restrictions on its iOS devices. In the last few days, Kobo's iOS app, along with Amazon's Kindle app and Barnes & Noble's Nook app have all been forced to remove links to their online e-book stores. This is in ...
    07.27.11
  • Microsoft Adds RAW Support to Windows. At Last
    Photographers who use Windows machines can rejoice. The Microsoft Camera Codec Pack adds support for RAW image viewing to Windows Explorer. You can now look at images from over 200 different cameras right there on your computer, without having to open then in a RAW photo editing application first. Most new cameras from the major ...
    07.27.11
  • Toontastic Summer Cartoon Competition
    Summer + Roadtrips + Cartoons = Awesomosity. At GeekDad we love things that allow us to make things. Whether than is soldering arduinos or creating complete worlds for roleplaying. And, we love making cartoons! So, today we at GeekDad are please to announce  that we are partnering up with one of our favorite iPad Apps, ...
    07.26.11
  • Aviiq Charging Station Is As Portable As the Gadgets it Powers
    Aviiq's Portable Charging Station is little more than a powered USB hub in a pouch, but that simplicity is also its strength. Look at it this way: when you leave for a trip, you don't have to remember any chargers. You just grab this little powered USB hub. In its own pouch. The design makes ...
    07.26.11
  • Flexible Bike Racks Look Great, Probably Aren't
    We all know that a cable -- even a hardened one -- is just about the worst bike lock you can use. I learned this lesson some years ago when I lived in London. I came out of the pub to find my D-lock on the ground, still intact and looped through the ends of ...
    07.26.11
  • Toca Boca: Social Play on the iPad
    Toca Boca is a European App Development team that are approaching the whole app business in a different way to many of the developers out there in the children's app space. Their first two apps, Helicopter Taxi and Toca Boca Tea Party, are perfect examples of an app development company who have seen play and ...
    07.26.11
  • How a Security Researcher Discovered the Apple Battery 'Hack'
    A security "noob" mistake has left the batteries in Apple's laptops open to hacking, which could result in a bricked battery or, in a worst case scenario, fire or explosion. This was revealed Friday after Accuvant Labs security researcher Charlie Miller disclosed that he plans to detail the hack at the annual Black Hat security conference in early August.
    07.25.11
  • Chinese Officials Demand Closure of Two Imitation Apple Stores
    Chinese officials have demanded the closure of two imitation Apple stores in Kunming, reports Reuters. After an American blogger in Kunming posted photos of ¿a beautiful [Apple store] ripoff¿ last week, Chinese officials began to investigate around 300 shops in the area, finding five fake Apple stores. Two of the stores, lacking the proper business permits, ...
    07.25.11
  • First Nokia, Now RIM: The Mighty Are Falling
    Research in Motion, whose Blackberry handsets dominated the mobile phone scene only a few short years ago, announces Monday it's cutting 2,000 jobs -- about 11 percent of its global workforce -- as it falls further behind the curve now defined by the iPhone and Android-powered smartphones.
    07.25.11
  • Lies MC Frontalot Told Me
    The luckier among us were able to catch MC Frontalot, the godfather of nerdcore hip-hop, at last weekend's Comic-Con. (Fittingly enough he was featured at booth 1337 with the Dumbrella crew.) A select subset was even privy to his performance at the Ruby Room on Friday night with Random, ZeaLouS1, Dr. Awkward and DJ Swamp. ...
    07.25.11
  • Toyota's Prius Bike With Thought-Controlled Gear Shifters
    Remember Firefox? No, not the bloated open-source web browser, but Craig Thomas' sleek Soviet fighter plane which had thought-controlled weapons systems. Wouldn't it be cool if somebody, somehow, did that to a bike? It turns out that somebody has. Toyota, in cahoots with Saatchi & Saatchi, Parlee Cycles and the boffins at Deeplocal, has come ...
    07.25.11
  • Contest: Remix the "GeekDad" Song (A GeekDad Wayback Machine Reminder)
    GeekDad by John Anealio Want a chance to win some awesome prizes from Wired and ThinkGeek? Then enter the "GeekDad" Remix Contest! First, if you haven't heard the "GeekDad" song yet, click the play button on the player above. You can even download it absolutely free, just click the Download button on the player above or click ...
    07.25.11
  • Ameba: Kid-Friendly Apple TV/Netflix Alternative
    We receive many requests for product reviews at GeekDad and sometimes things pile up. This is one of those cases for me, a trail that began over a year ago (a rep was at a conference where I speaking on a panel), leading to an ongoing conversation, then periodic peeking at the product and a ...
    07.25.11
  • ICam Concept Lets iPhone Control Camera's Brains
    Finally, somebody has invented the camera I have always wanted. Or at least, Turkish designer Zeki Özek has invented the camera tech I have always wanted. Ozek's iCam is a way to integrate your iPhone with a proper camera. The camera would have a cutout in the back into which the phone slots, hooking into the ...
    07.25.11
  • Official iPad Facebook App Hidden Inside iPhone App
    Facebook's iPad app could be a lot closer to launch than we thought. A full-sized, fully-functional version of the iPad app is hidden inside the current iPhone app. That means that, if you are running the iPhone app you already have the iPad executable on your phone. Discovered by M.G Siegler, Apple writer for AOL's ...
    07.25.11


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