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Steve Wozniak praise Siri as the next evolution, lines up at apple store

2011-10-14T06:34:00.000-07:00

Steve Jobs Explains(Think Different) - Touches the Soul of Apple

2011-10-07T19:10:00.000-07:00

"Very complicated world very noisy world, Were not going to get a chance for people to remember much about us, no company is... so we have to be really clear on what we want them to know about us...

It honors the ones who've changed the world, some are living some are not, but the ones that aren't if they were alive, they'd be using the Mac.. Apple at the core it's core value, is we believe people with passion can change the world for the Better." -Steve Jobs

HTC EVO 3D

2011-09-20T23:18:00.000-07:00

With Tough competition from the Photon & Epic 4G... HTC Evo holds it's own

RES - 960×540 px, 4.3 in (10.9 cm) at 256 ppi qHD Super-LCD (0.49 megapixels) Gorilla Glass
CPU - Dual-Core, 1.2 GHz Qualcomm MSM8660 (Snapdragon)
GPU - Qualcomm Adreno 220
RAM - 1GB
Mem
1730 mAh Lithium-ion battery
2.3 Gingerbread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_EVO_3D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(system_on_chip)

Macbook Pro 13" worth the $1300

2011-05-24T14:19:00.000-07:00

The most POWERFUL MacBook 13' to date NEW features NOT available on previous MacBooks

Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro received the biggest upgrade of the lot. The advantages are numerous. You get much better CPU performance over the previous generation. In fact, the new 13 can outperform last year's 15 thanks to Sandy Bridge. The new 13 is quite possibly the best balance of portability and performance. It's the single largest upgrade you'll find in the lineup. If you own a previous generation 13-inch MBP, the upgrade is 100% worth it -AnandTech

No two ways about this: the new MacBook Pro is the fastest laptop we've ever tested, hands-down.
-ENGADGET

-->Twice as FAST next generation dual core intel processor,
-->FACETIME HD can make 720p HD calls
-->Thunderbolt - 20X faster than with USB 2.0 and up to 12X faster than FireWire 8 - can daisy-chain as many as 6 devices
-->new SDXC card slot up to 64GB

--FEATURES:
Next-generation quad-core and dual-core Intel processors.
2.3GHz Intel Core i5 processor or the fastest dual-core processor available --, performs TWICE as fast as the previous generation.

FACETIME HD & FASTER GRAPHICS!
The integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor. It encodes video quickly, making HD video calls with FaceTime possible. And it decodes efficiently, so you get long playback time for DVDs and iTunes movies.
camera built into the MacBook Pro display is even thinner than the camera inside iPhone 4.

THUNDERBOLT:
20X faster than with USB 2.0 and up to 12X faster than with FireWire 800. more than enough bandwidth to daisy-chain multiple high-speed devices without using a hub or switch. For example, several high-performance external disks, a video capture device, and even a Mini DisplayPort display to a single Thunderbolt chain while maintaining maximum throughput.
Thunderbolt I/O technology provides native support for Mini DisplayPort displays. It also supports DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, and VGA displays through the use of existing adapters. So you can connect your Apple LED Cinema Display or other existing display, along with multiple high-speed devices, all from a single port
http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/

NEW SD CARD(SDXC)
new SDXC card slot on the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro models supports up to 64GB cards and makes it a snap to transfer all those photos to and from your MacBook Pro, so you can edit and share them on the spot.

more details on the features here:
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features.html

***I was told this review was used for a Macbook pro on sale on Craigslist for $1000... $1200 + tax http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/clt/2400583024.html

MORE INFO:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/04/macbook-pro-review-early-2011/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4205/the-macbook-pro-review-13-and-15-inch-2011-brings-sandy-bridge

Steve Jobs Show Casing Apple retail store

2011-05-19T14:07:00.001-07:00

Google Voice and Sprint integration is live - Official Google Mobile Blog

2011-05-13T20:15:00.000-07:00

Google Voice and Sprint integration is live - Official Google Mobile Blog

Google Think Insights - research and insights to help marketers make smarter decisions

2011-05-13T20:10:00.000-07:00

Google Think Insights - research and insights to help marketers make smarter decisions

Google Music Is (Finally) Here

2011-05-13T20:05:00.000-07:00

Google Music Is (Finally) Here

It will run on all Android devices, including tablets and mobiles
You’ll be able to create custom playlists
You’ll be able to edit track info, get play counts, etc.
Music will be available when you’re offline, too
Users can upload and store songs to a cloud-based directory
Users can wirelessly and automatically sync playlists from the web to connected devices and vice versa

Official Google Blog: A new kind of computer: Chromebook

2011-05-13T20:00:00.000-07:00

Official Google Blog: A new kind of computer: Chromebook

AccuWeather BlackBerry Super App Demo (VIDEO) «Inside BlackBerry - The Official BlackBerry Blog

2011-05-13T19:54:00.000-07:00

AccuWeather BlackBerry Super App Demo (VIDEO) «Inside BlackBerry - The Official BlackBerry Blog

BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 Smartphones: BlackBerry 7 with a Bold Touch «Inside BlackBerry - The Official BlackBerry Blog

2011-05-13T19:48:00.000-07:00

BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 Smartphones: BlackBerry 7 with a Bold Touch «Inside BlackBerry - The Official BlackBerry Blog

ike the BlackBerry® Torch™ smartphone, these new devices integrate brilliant, high resolution, capacitive touch screens, trackpads and full QWERTY keypads and are the thinnest BlackBerry smartphones yet. Here’s a quick look at some of the key specs for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones.

• 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm, approximately 130 g
• 2.8″ capacitive touch screen display – VGA (640×480), 287 PPI resolution
• Full, wide QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad
• 1.2 GHz Processor, 768 MB RAM
• 8 GB on-board memory, plus microSD slot supporting up to 32 GB cards
• NFC technology
• 5.0 MP camera with flash, supports 720p HD video recording
• Orientation Sensor (Accelerometer), Digital Compass (Magnetometer), Proximity Sensor
• Built-in GPS / aGPS
• Dual-Band Wi-Fi® – 802.11 b/g/n at 2.4 GHz and 802.11 a/n at 5 GHz
• Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR support
• 1230 mAh removable, rechargeable battery
Wireless Network support:
o BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone: Tri-Band HSPA+, Quad-Band GSM/EDGE
o BlackBerry Bold 9930 smartphone: Dual-Band CDMA/EVDO Rev A, Dual-Band HSPA+, Quad-Band GSM/EDGE

99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns,

2011-05-13T19:21:00.000-07:00

Gary Vaynerchuk dropped by our TechCrunch TV studio in New York City with a bottle of red to discuss his new book, The Thank You Economy with TechCrunch Co-editor, Erick Schonfeld.

Samsung Droid Charge for Verizon

2011-05-04T12:41:00.000-07:00

4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen,
runs Android 2.2
, and it includes an HTML5 browser.
rear-facing 8-megapixel camera (with flash)
and a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera for video chat.
A 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor it isn't dual-core

samsung S 2... 2011 Dorid

2011-05-04T12:27:00.001-07:00

Fastest Way to Receive E-mail on your mobile device

2011-04-15T13:29:00.000-07:00

The fastest way to get your email on to your mobile device thus far on a blackberry via PUSH. Every one that purchases a blackberry can set up a free @blackberry.net email address. You can then forward you email from Gmail, ideally using a filter to your @blackberry.net...

Advantages,
You get to use BB's push serve that is their core of their business and receive much faster email.
Gmail Plugin only uses IMAP which isn't as fast

pop n imap i believe eat up more of ur battery from the polling

once you set that up you can easily sync your calendar and contacts from your gmail account though going to http://m.google.com/sync from your mobile phone

Enhanced Google Mail plug-in
If you have an existing Google Mail™ account, you can view your email messages on your BlackBerry® device with the Enhanced Google Mail™ plug-in. Similar to the Google Mail web application that you can access using a browser on your computer, related messages are grouped into a single conversation. You can perform the following actions using the Enhanced Google Mail plug-in on your device:
Add a star to a message or conversation
Add custom labels to messages and conversations
Search for specific messages

This article outlines the limitations associated with one-way data synchronization in the Enhanced Google Mail™ plug-in.

Limitations

Synchronization happens in one direction, from the BlackBerry smartphone to the Google Mail account. This means that some changes that take place in the webmail UI are not reflected on the BlackBerry smartphone. These include:

Applying a label to messages in Google Mail after they are retrieved by the BlackBerry Internet Service
Adding a star to messages in Google Mail after they are retrieved by the BlackBerry Internet Service
Marking messages as read, archived, or spam in Google Mail
Email messages marked as spam on the BlackBerry smartphone will be synchronized with the Google Mail account
Email messages marked as spam in Google Mail will not be marked as spam on the BlackBerry smartphone if they have already been retrieved by the BlackBerry Internet Service
Changing labels in Google Mail
Note: Changes made to labels in Google Mail will not be applied to the corresponding labels on the BlackBerry smartphone. When a label is renamed in Google Mail, it is synchronized as a new label on the BlackBerry smartphone.

Labels cannot be created, renamed, or deleted on the BlackBerry smartphone.

Useful links:
http://5thirtyone.com/mobile/gmail-imap-vs-push-sanity-more-important-than-push/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sync
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_e-mail
http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB18415
http://us.blackberry.com/support/software/gmailplugin.jsp
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Device-Software/Introducing-Enhanced-Google-Mail-plug-in-for-BlackBerry/m-p/315564#M6264

dr. dre song 2 play on ur iPhone

2011-02-24T15:46:00.000-08:00

"I need a doctor" video by Dr. Dre

Dr. Dre - New Music - More Music Videos

YouTube - androiddevelopers's Channel

2011-02-02T10:13:00.000-08:00

YouTube - androiddevelopers's Channel

"love the way you lie" original Demo by Skylar Grey

2011-02-01T20:59:00.000-08:00

YouTube - musicbuff1988's Channel: "Skylar Grey"

new lupe Fiasco ft Skylar Grey - Music for ur iphone

2011-02-01T20:49:00.000-08:00

Lupe Fiasco | Official Website: Photos, Blog, Videos, Interactive and more. - LupeFiasco.com

verizon vs att iphone side by side speed test

2011-01-13T18:52:00.000-08:00

CNN ipad Situation room review

2010-04-03T11:45:00.000-07:00

"if i were Sony, Nintendo, Gamers, i'd be worried"

Wall street Journal/ New Times Ipad reviews are in

2010-03-31T19:52:00.000-07:00

SUPERIOR BATTERY LIFE, Blazing Speed,

In 10 years of reviewing tech products for The New York Times, I’ve never seen a product as polarizing as Apple’s iPad, which arrives in stores on Saturday." David POGUE - New York Times

After spending hours and hours with it, I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop. It could even help, eventually, to propel the finger-driven, multitouch user interface ahead of the mouse-driven interface that has prevailed for decades." - Walt Mossberg - Wall Street Journal

Speaking of video: Apple asserts that the iPad runs 10 hours on a charge of its nonremovable battery — but we all know you can’t trust the manufacturer. And sure enough, in my own test, the iPad played movies continuously from 7:30 a.m. to 7:53 p.m. — more than 12 hours. That’s four times as long as a typical laptop or portable DVD player. POGUE

I was impressed with the iPad’s battery life, which I found to be even longer than Apple’s ten-hour claim, and far longer than on my laptops or smart phones. For my battery test, I played movies, TV shows and other videos back-to-back until the iPad died. This stressed the device’s most power-hogging feature, its screen. The iPad lasted 11 hours and 28 minutes, about 15% more than Apple claimed. I was able to watch four feature-length movies, four TV episodes and a video of a 90-minute corporate presentation, before the battery died midway through an episode of “The Closer.Oh, and all the while during this battery marathon, I kept the Wi-Fi network running and the email downloading constantly in the background. Your mileage may vary, but with Wi-Fi off and the screen turned down from the fairly bright level I used, you might even do better. Music plays far longer with the screen off. On the other hand, playing games constantly might yield worse battery life.” Walt Mossberg

iPad have nots:
Adobe Flash

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/31/first-ipad-reviews-hit-the-net/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/technology/personaltech/01pogue.html

http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20100331/apple-ipad-review/

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Google Voice explained

2010-02-19T11:58:00.000-08:00

created a set of short videos that dive into more detail about ten features of Google Voice:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleVoice
Voicemail transcription
One number
Personalized greetings
International calling
SMS to email
Share voicemails
Block callers
Screen callers
Mobile app
Conference calls

Wall Street Journals Mossberg on iPad - video

2010-01-28T11:15:00.000-08:00

Grace, Beauty, Feels good in the hand. "Holding the internet in your hand and making it more intimate".

Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg highlights some big points:
+ Out the box day one will run iPhone Apps... 140,000 apps
+ Starts at $499 that's' huge traditionally for a company that sells
expensive products. Will be a big problem for the netbook market and
the Dells, Lenovo etc... that go after the low price market.
+ 10 Hours of Battery life(no lightweight laptops can go 10 hours)
+ they made their own chip, allows them to charge a lower price

http://www.apple.com/ipad/
http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20100127/apple-ipad-impressions/?mod=ATD_rss
http://www.apple.com/ipad/features
http://www.apple.com/ipad/gallery/

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-first-impressions/
http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20100127/apple-ipad-impressions/?mod=ATD_rss

iPad makes Nexus One look Lexus expensive

2010-01-27T12:32:00.000-08:00

Apple® today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for web, email, photos, videos, music, games, e-books

iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch™ display.
iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds— thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook.

iPad will be available in late March starting at just $499.

iPad features 12 next-generation Multi-Touch applications. Every app works in both portrait and landscape, automatically animating between views as the user rotates iPad in any direction. Watch movies, TV shows and YouTube, all in HD or flip through pages of an e-book you downloaded from Apple’s new iBookstore while listening to your music collection.

iPad runs almost all of the over 140,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®. The iTunes® Store gives you access to the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 11 million songs, over 50,000 TV episodes and over 8,000 films including over 2,000 in stunning high definition video. Apple also announced the new iBooks app for iPad, which includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile device. The iBookstore will feature books from major and independent publishers.

iPad’s brilliant 9.7-inch, LED-backlit display features IPS technology to deliver crisp, clear images and consistent color with an ultra-wide 178 degree viewing angle. The highly precise, capacitive Multi-Touch display is amazingly accurate and responsive whether scrolling web pages or playing games. The intelligent soft keyboard pioneered on iPhone takes advantage of iPad’s larger display to offer an almost full-size soft keyboard. iPad also connects to the new iPad Keyboard Dock with a full-size traditional keyboard.

iPad is powered by A4, Apple’s next-generation system-on-a-chip. Long battery life of up to 10 hours.*

iPad comes in two versions—one with Wi-Fi and the other with both Wi-Fi and 3G.

Environmentally responsible products, made of highly recyclable aluminum and comes standard with energy-efficient LED-backlit displays that are mercury-free and made with arsenic-free glass. iPad contains no brominated flame retardants and is completely PVC-free.

Apple released a Software Development Kit (SDK) for iPad. The SDK includes a simulator that lets developers test and debug their iPad apps on a Mac, and also lets developers create Universal Applications that run on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Pricing & Availability
iPad will be available in late March for $499(16GB), $599(32GB), $699(64GB).

Wi-Fi + 3G models of iPad will be available in April for $629(16GB), $729(32GB) and $829(64GB).

More info on

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/27ipad.html