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There’s something so refreshing about when great minds focus on small objects, isn’t there? And however much blasting alien hordes with these tiny buttons would hurt my delicate digits, I can still admire the ingenuity. If you recall, it’s not entirely difficult to make a mini arcade yourself, and this 7-inch, 8-bit wünderkind comes with…
Step 1: Before disassembling your iPhone, be sure it is powered off. Remove the two 3.6 mm Phillips screws next to the dock connector. (Apple has recently substituted the two Phillips screws with 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws. If your iPhone 4 has 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws instead of Phillips, please refer to the second picture.) Remove the…
Step 1: Before disassembling your iPhone, be sure it is powered off. Remove the two 3.6 mm Phillips screws next to the dock connector. Apple has recently substituted the two Phillips screws with 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws. If your iPhone 4 has 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws instead of Phillips, please refer to the second picture. Remove the…
Aw geez, I hope you were paying attention, guys. Because unless you signed up as a new Verizon customer yesterday (or before), you missed out on your last chance to feed at the unlimited data trough. https://lifehacker.com/act-now-to-keep-gorging-yourself-with-unlimited-data-fo-5818258 Starting today, new plans will pay $10 for 75MB, $30 for 2GB, $50 for 5GB, and $80 for…
Know what the latest must-have product is in Japan? While it looks like they’ve gone mad and are shaving their wrists, they’re actually saving the planet by switching off the air-con, and cooling down using freezing cold foam-spray. Over 10 years ago, two Stanford University biologists had a similar idea with their prototype glove which…
We’ve pretty much learned everything about the Motorola Droid 3 through previous leaks, but now it’s official. Android Gingerbread, 1 GHz dual-core processor, 512MB RAM, international GSM roaming, 8-megapixel camera, 4-inch qHD display, 1080p video playback and an HDMI mirror mode. Verizon will start shipping the Droid 3 on July 14 for $200. [Verizon] VERIZON…
I must admit, I scoffed when I saw that Capture’s developers were recommending you placretheir app in your dock. “Who do they think they are?” I asked. Then I read more and realized this app definitely deserves a place. If you shoot lots of video, anyway. Once you launch the app, it starts recording instantly—so…
Once formed from plastic, Western Digital’s My Book Studio line of hard drives are now made of brushed aluminum. The Firewire/USB-equipped drives come in 1TB, 2TB and 3TB sizes for $150, $200 and $250, respectively. [Western Digital]
Other than the battery, a phone’s myriad radio antennae take up a good chunk of its internals. But a new design from the University of Michigan, funded by government grants, could dramatically change this. Tiny, hemispheric, super-efficient. Maybe the future. The current operating prototype works at frequencies capable of WiFi and cellular action, but the…
According to Apple, they’ve reached the 15 billion mark for app downloads across a user base of 200 million. Roughly 75 apps per person. That’s a lot of virtual guns and face fatteners and T-Pain-related apps, amiright? [Business Insider]
Besides its aluminum body and USB 3.0 ports, the Gateway ID47 laptop will attract eyes because of its display. Similar to LG’s laptop, Gateway stretched and thinned the ID47 bezel to fit a 14-inch screen where a 13.3-inch display would normally reside. https://gizmodo.com/thin-screens-thin-bezels-lgs-new-blade-laptops-trim-t-5798075 Additionally, the ID47 has a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB…
We’re all still having a hard enough time cobbling together enough worthwhile rumorage surrounding the iPhone 5—a new screen? Thinner? Sure! But now the WSJ has gone and started talking about the iPhone 6. Ugh. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5-rumor-roundup-5811488 The Journal’s report claims—according to a Person Briefed on Apple’s Plans™—that the I-can’t-believe-I’m-typing-this iPhone 6 will have “a new…
…Well, my friend, nothing will. NOTHING. 30 hours of footage shot in Victoria, Australia, took Alex Cherney over a year to compile, but I’m sure you’ll nod your head in appreciation while viewing his majestic creation. When the Earth starts spinning out of control before crashing violently into the sun, well, at least we’ll have…
The war over the “App Store” name is far from over, but Amazon’s been granted a small reprieve by a US judge, having denied Apple from requesting a preliminary injunction on the use of the term. While the judge didn’t agree with Amazon’s claims that “App Store” (or even “Appstore,” as they phrase it) is…
A Pokemon game may be coming to iOS, but that doesn’t mean Nintendo’s relented on developing games for other platforms, with their spokesman commenting that their strategy “hasn’t changed and won’t change.” So, if you really must play Mario on the move, get a DS…or download an emulator. [Bloomberg via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/nintendo-nixes-future-iphone-android-games-despite-pok-5818457
Unless you’ve reviewed an Android phone; felt the need to boast of a Words With Friends victory or needed to record a screen error for some reason, you might not realize taking screenshots on Android is like pulling teeth out. There have been a few options in the past, all (mostly) involving rooting the device,…
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all said to be vying for Hulu, but only one tech-titian can snap up the movie-streaming service. According to Walt Disney’s CEO Rob Iger, the Hulu owners are “committed to selling” it, and that rather than focus on the actual buyer, they just want the best possible sale-price. The future…
