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  • Buy an iPhone 3GS in the last month or so? You might not be totally boned. [Update: Confirmed]

    Buy an iPhone 3GS in the last month or so? You might not be totally boned. [Update: Confirmed]

    Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Update: We’ve just confirmed this with AT&T. You needed a phone. Just about everyone with an Internet connection was telling you that a new iPhone was coming in June — but what do they know? You went ahead and bought an iPhone 3GS. June 7th rolls along, and Steve takes the stage to proudly proclaim that the [...]

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  • Bigelow Aerospace building first private space station

    Bigelow Aerospace building first private space station

    Posted on June 8, 2010 | No Comments
    The federal government can't be bothered with space exploration anymore (which is terribly disappointing, by the way), so private industry has to pick up the slack. A company by the name of Bigelow Aerospace plans to put an entire space station in orbit within the next four years.

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  • Spoiler Alert: Another iPhone 4G/HD appears

    Spoiler Alert: Another iPhone 4G/HD appears

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    At this point in the game I’m pretty much bored with the whole iPhone HD leak meme. In a twisted way, the run up to Apple launches was a lot of fun. There was endless speculation but no real data and all of a sudden a guy in a turtleneck and jeans pops out and, [...]

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  • Circuit City brick and mortar stores might live again

    Circuit City brick and mortar stores might live again

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    We all know the story: Circuit City Stores spiraled down from its high point in the late 90's to bankruptcy in 2008 and then liquidation in 2009. Systemax then bought the rights to the brand a few months later and quickly relaunched CircuitCity.com. Since then Systemax has been racking in the cash. So much cash in fact that Systemax is thinking about opening some Circuit City retail locations. Seriously.

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  • ‘Yay! Scale’ may encourage unhealthy eating habits, poor money management

    ‘Yay! Scale’ may encourage unhealthy eating habits, poor money management

    Posted on September 28, 2009 | No Comments
    This is called the “Yay! Scale” – it’s a $55 scale that has no numbers. Instead, you’re greeted with esteem-building words like hot, lovely, cute, ravishing, and stuff like that.

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  • Samsung Instinct HD coming to Sprint September 27

    Samsung Instinct HD coming to Sprint September 27

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Sprint may not be the number one mobile carrier, but it sure does seem to be picking up the slack in the handset department recently. The Now Network is expected to get yet another new mobile in the form of the Samsung Instinct HD. Looks like the rumor we noted back in August about a September [...]

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  • Installing the Whitoken theme on your iPod Touch

    Installing the Whitoken theme on your iPod Touch

    Posted on August 22, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems like only yesterday that we were slobbering over the Whitoken theme for the iPod Touch. Well, today you can install this amazing theme with a little muss and fuss. The first step is to jailbreak your iPod with redsn0w and install Cydia, the app installer, and theme manager Winterboard. QuickPWN will take up [...]

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  • iStubz iPod Cables: Short is the new long

    iStubz iPod Cables: Short is the new long

    Posted on August 7, 2009 | No Comments
    iStubzTangled cords are absolutely the bane of my existence and yet I'm not quite anal enough to wrap twist ties and rubber bands around excess slack, so I enthusiastically applaud the shortest version possible of any proprietary cable (or any cable, for that matter). Applause, then, to the unfortunately-named iStubz iPod cable.

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  • Video: Nearest Subway App Overlays Virtual Maps on Real World

    Video: Nearest Subway App Overlays Virtual Maps on Real World

    Posted on July 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Forget Google’s Street View, which overlays a view of the street in front of you on… the street in front of you. No, for a look at what augmented reality applications can really do, and just why a compass is so useful in the iPhone 3GS, take a peek at New York Nearest Subway. The application [...]

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