"Gadget" Greg Gazin Demystifies Tech & Life in a useful, fun & practical way!
Every July 1st folks across Canada show their Canuck patriotism by adorning their best red and whites while waving, wearing proudly and even tattooing the Maple Leaf, symbol of the Great White North on various parts of their bodies. So if you’re going that far, why not take along your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch or all of the above because for Canada Day, there are lots of apps for that!
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As another new tablet “surfaces” trying to make its mark in the tablet market and attempts to compete against the mighty iPad, another is looking at doing the opposite. LG has decided it was time to put things on the shelf – at least for now. Ken Hong, a spokesman for LG, told Bloomberg that they would be putting the development of all new tablets “on the back burner”, for the time being.
Bento is a personal database application and often considered a baby brother to the legendary Filemaker Pro. But unlike the first version or even its big brother, the new Bento 4 for iPad, by FileMaker (they skipped 2 & 3) has been completely redesigned from the ground up. It now allows you to quickly and easily create your own little personal productivity apps right on the iPad, without the need to be tethered to your Mac.
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If your basement is like mine, cluttered with computers, parts and accessories you might want to look and see if perhaps you have a motherboard labeled, “Apple Computer 1”. If you do, you could just be sitting on a very valuable piece of history.
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Father’s Day is just around the corner and right now is a great time to help Dad deck out his new iPad. If he doesn’t have one yet, or still has the original model there’s still time to get him one – and here are a few little extras that will go along nicely with it.
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An Apple event is always an event and you never really know for sure what’s in store and the opening keynote for WWDC 2012, Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2012 was no exception. With Apple’s online store temporarily unavailable we knew something new was afoot.
The crowd was welcomed by Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant with her utter charm, wit and an attempted sense of humour.
“I’m waiting for the new Samsung,” she said. “No, not the phone, the refrigerator. Hubba hubba.”
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If you haven’t changed your LinkedIn password recently, now you might just have to. Reports had surfaced earlier that a file containing 6.5 million encrypted passwords have been leaked and posted on a Russian hacker site, might be from LinkedIn accounts and many of those have already been cracked. As it turns out, they were.
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Gadgets and accessories are being made from all kinds of natural and man-made materials but these days the last thing you would expect them to be made from, especially a pair of earbuds, is wood. Surprise! Griffin Technology has just unveiled eco-friendly WoodTones earbuds that are made from reclaimed wood leftover from manufacturing processes that would otherwise end up being burned or dumped in a landfill.
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So you’ve decided that Mom’s old clamshell phone has more than run its lifecycle and it’s time for her to enter into the 21st century with a new iPhone. Now you know Mom will love you no matter what you get her, but she does like a little pampering, now and again. So why not help her accessorize and accentuate her new little pride and joy?
In a world that strives for peace and the pursuit of happiness, who would’ve thought that an app featuring angry birds would be so popular? Well it has. The Angry Birds games have now been downloaded over 1 billion times and there seems to be no end in sight. This incredible milestone comes on the heels of record-breaking financial results from Helsinki, Finland-based Rovio Entertainment Ltd., and the creator of the Angry Birds franchise.
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