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The low-end 21.5-inch iMac can now be configured with Apple’s Fusion Drive for $250. You won’t regret it. [MacRumors]

Download This App and Learn To Play Blackjack

Contrary to popular belief, Blackjack is not an easy game to play or master. You could learn how to count cards but you’ll get kicked out of the casino and possibly banned, like those MIT students from the book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions…

Charge All Your iOS Gear From a Single Outlet With Griffin’s PowerDock 5

If your bedside table has become an unmanageable menagerie of phones, tablets, and other devices charging overnight, Griffin wants to bring order to your chaos of cables. The company’s new PowerDock 5 charging station has a footprint no larger than an iPad, but can accomodate up to five tablets, or a mix of devices, and…

Griffin’s Glowing iPad Stylus Lets Kids Draw Without Banging Up the Screen

Children are drawn to the iPad like flies to honey, but children are also notoriously bad at taking care of their toys. And if the thought of a young’n bashing away at your tablet’s display with a pen leaves you anxious, Griffin’s got you covered with a glowing stylus that lets them draw in mid-air.…

Belkin’s Thunderstorm Turns Your Now Bulky iPad Into a Handheld Home Theater

iPad users no longer have to lament the crappy speakers, and lightweight form factor, of their tablet when enjoying videos or music sans headphones. Belkin is promising to turn the iPad into a portable home theater with an add-on set of boosted speakers, or at least that’s what one assumes from a product called the…

Best Buy Lost $65K In One Day Trying to Price Match Walmart’s iPhone Discount

Best Buy dropped the price of the 16GB iPhone 5 to $150 last month, and Walmart bested that with a $127 iPhone. Now Best Buy says lost a whole $65,000 on this one product in just one day because it was forced go meet that lower price. In a recent WSJ article, Best Buy alleges…

An iPhone Lover’s Confession: I Switched To the Nexus 4. Completely.

Over the past few years I’ve invested a lot into Apple’s products and services. If you come by my house, you’d find four of the latest Apple TVs, two iMacs, the latest MacBook Air, a MacBook Pro, more than five AirPort Express stations and Apple’s Time Capsule. You could touch every single iPhone, from the…

JBL OnBeat Rumble: The Most Powerful (and Most Expensive) Lightning Connector Speaker Dock Yet

We get it. You love your iPhone 5 so much that you’re willing shrug off the money you lost on the two-year-old, 30-pin speaker dock that’s now obsolete. You’re ready to invest in an 8-pin dock because Apple wouldn’t dare change its proprietary standard again. Right? RIGHT? Don’t worry, this burly burnt orange speaker dock…

It’s official; the lesser, Ashton Kutcher-driven Steve Jobs biopic will get a US release in April. Weep for history!

Grace Your iPad Mini With the Sterile Charm of an Apple Store Display

If you’re worried about friends, family, or co-workers breaking or even scuffing up your new iPad Mini, this heavy-duty acrylic security base is reminiscent of what Apple uses to protect its hardware in its stores. Made from clear acrylic that’s over an inch thick at one end, the case can even be secured to a…

Apple Ignored Qualcomm’s Suggestion of Adding a Radio to the Newton

All the way back in the 90s, Qualcomm approached Apple to suggest that it might want to put a radio in its Newton PDA. It could have led to the first ever iPhone two decades early —but instead, Apple told Qualcomm to stick its radio chip somewhere else. The news came out of a Charlie…

Every Parent Who Gives Their Kid an iPhone Should Make Their Kid Follow These 18 Rules

If your mom and dad bought you an iPhone for Christmas or if you’re a mom or dad who gifted an iPhone to your kid, you should make your kid follow the rules of Janell Hofmann. Hofmann bought an iPhone for her 13-year-old son Greg and gave him 18 rules to follow. If you think…

Ultra-Thin Magnetic Keyboard and Controller Won’t Fatten Up Your iPhone 5

The EX Hybrid Controller system isn’t the first compact wireless keyboard or gamepad designed to sidle up to the iPhone, but it might be the first that’s actually worth using. At just 2 millimeters thick they won’t fatten up your phone. And since the separate accessories attach via the magic of magnets, both can be…

The Next Trick Up Apple’s Sleeve: Super Speedy Wi-Fi for Macs?

According to The Next Web, the next generation of Apple’s Mac lineup won’t look much different—understandable, given the 2012 overhaul—but the guts will be shiny and new. Including, importantly, a new Broadcom chipset that boosts Mac Wi-Fi to the 802.11ac standard. Translation: Internet Go Zoom. Apple won’t be the first laptop manufacturer to roll the…

Apple says that pesky Do Not Disturb bug will be fixed after January 7th. Otherwise, Apple suggests you turn it off.

You Can Now Pirate Apps On Your iPhone Without Jailbreaking

Apple must have heaved a great sigh of relief when it heard its Christmas wish had been answered—Installous, the jailbroken iOS app pirating app from the Hackulous community, was finally dead. But not so fast, Apple. Now anyone can install pirated apps, and without having to jailbreak too. The old adage is holding true. Where…

Report: Apple Testing iPhone 6 Right Now

HERE WE GO AGAIN, GUYS. It’s barely 2013 and we can officially kick off the hysterical iPhone 6 rumoring: The Next Web talked to iOS devs who are seeing The Next New iPhone testing their apps. Now. This isn’t surprising, of course—we know there’s a new iPhone coming, and there will be a new iPhone…

SeatGeek: Buying Tickets Just Got as Painless as Possible

SeatGeek’s been around the web for a while, so you might already be familiar with the concept. With the mobile version, though, the developers chopped out a lot of non-essential features. What’s left is a focused, easy to use app that still gives us all the info we need to snag the perfect seat. What…

Last Night Armed Robbers Stole Over $1 Million Worth Of Gear From a Paris Apple Store

If you think you’re having a rough morning after your New Year’s festivities, an Apple Store in Paris’ opera district is still trying to determine just how much hardware was stolen after four or five armed thieves robbed the store three hours after it had closed. The local police aren’t confirming the exact amount that…

The 10 Most Important Gadgets of 2012

OK, 2012 wasn’t the greatest year for tech, but it wasn’t a total bust either. Wade through the glut of comically oversized phones, tiny tablets and fruit company refreshes, and you’re bound to come across a few shiny needles in that crummy haystack. Here, in no particular order, are the 10 most important gadgets of…