"Gadget" Greg Gazin Demystifies Tech & Life in a useful, fun & practical way!
Since when is the world’s first printed anything considered something novel and progressive in t
oday’s world of wireless devices, apps, e-book readers and the trend towards everything green? Well it seems that a Washington DC-based technology group, The Cool Blue Company LLC , think so. The Social Media Monthly, their magazine dedicated to the exploration of social media and its evolving technologies, has added a printed format.
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Being The Gadget Guy, I’m usually one of those types of people who really enjoy the latest and greatest bells and whistles that any gadget has to offer. Recently however, I had an opportunity to test drive the Aluratek Libre PRO e-Book Reader. Now it doesn’t fit in the ultimate category, ie; it doesn’t have all the toys that one might expect like Wi-Fi, a colour display or a touchscreen, yet it does have a photo viewer and a built-in mp3 player you can listen to through the headphone jack while you’re reading. Quite frankly, I found myself pleasantly surprised with the experience.
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Here’s a device that can be handy for most drivers. It’s called the Yada Rearview Mirror Backup Camera and Speakerphone. And while the name is certainly quite a mouthful, it can do all those things, once you actually install it in your car.
QR77 caught wind of my Troy Media article on Apple iMessage being a wake-up call for BlackBerry and asked me to chime in on The Rob Breakenridge show on Friday Evening, June 10th at 10:30PM. You can listen to the podcast here: It will likely only be there for a week or two. http://emedia.qr77.com/Podcasts/1022/robbreakenridgepodcastjune10-4.mp3
SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 2011/ Troy Media/ – At the opening keynote of the World Wide Developer, Conference in San Francisco earlier this week, Apple previewed iOS 5, its latest update to the operating system that runs on iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. READ FULL ARTICLE AT TROYMEDIA
Since it was preannounced, no one was surprised at WWDC 2011 when Scott Forstall, Apple SVP iOS Software, took us through a preview of Apple iOS 5, slated for release this fall. However, what we didn’t expect was the extensive list of over 200 new features that could potentially make your iOS device the only one you’ll actually need and maybe even encourage you to get a second one.
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As Steve Jobs took the stage to kick off the opening keynote for the 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, California, the capacity audience welcomed Apple’s CEO with a great roar of appreciation. And while some thought we might see a new or updated piece of hardware come about, Jobs, Phil Schiller, SVP Worldwide Product Marketing, Craig Federighi, VP OS X Software and Scott Forstall, SVP iOS Software, kept the audience extremely engaged talking strictly about software.
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While fun, suspense, excitement and challenge as well as awesome graphics and animation, is all part of a great gaming experience, one other important element of a great game is the sound. And the more you’re immersed in it the better it is. But not everyone has the luxury of having a huge surround-sound home theatre system to crank up and even if you do, the last thing you want are your kids, your spouse and your neighbours hearing gunshots in the wee hours of the morning.
So I received an email, supposedly from BestBuy.ca, an excerpt shown above, alerting me to the fact that my name and e-mail address have been exposed by “unauthorized entry” into their system. It’s not Best Buy’s system, but rather Epsilon’s, a company who sends out e-mail on Best Buy’s behalf.
With the new and improved iPad 2 hitting the Canadian market, it opens the doors to some real cool and innovative accessories. And whether your interests lay in fun, fashion or just good old solid protection, there’s nothing more important than keeping your new iPad 2 well-dressed for any occasion. READ MORE AT G4 Canada
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