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   Rumor claims Samsung will unleash its craziest smartphone ever in January

   September 16, 2015 by gotbeer

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   Rumor claims Samsung will unleash its craziest smartphone ever in JanuaryThis does make sense if true. I think the tech is there. It pretty much will give you a pad for the size of a non phablet.

   

   Last reply by Tank, September 18, 2015
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   Google Fiber news

   September 11, 2015 by gotbeer

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   Irvine next on Google Fiber's high-speed Internet expansion plan

   

   Last reply by Aaronkv, September 17, 2015

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   Why you'll be paying a 'Netflix tax' soon

   August 21, 2015 by Jay

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   http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-you-ll-be-paying-a--netflix-tax--soon-161951515.html Annual U.S. sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs has fallen from a high of $20.2 billion a decade ago to around $10 billion, according to data from the Digital Entertainment Group, while the Recording Industry Assocation of America reports shipments of CDs fell from $13.2 billion in 2000, to $1.9 billion last year. In response, the city of Chicago is experimenting with having local taxes collected on cloud computing services and streaming music and video. Other state governments like Tennessee and Idaho are experimenting with new taxes as well.

   

   Last reply by Ray McKigney, September 13, 2015

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   ubuntu

   September 11, 2015 by red321

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   Wife bought a $5 laptop the other day at a garage sale. Brought it home. Shut down every device on the network and booted it up...long story short the thing was riddled with all sorts of viruses/malware..no wonder they got rid of it. Tried to create a windows 8 installation usb and wipe it clean to no avail (and lots of yelling and screaming)...so I said screw it and just installed ubuntu. $5 and we have a pretty spiffy laptop with a 17 inch screen. The only downside is...damn keyboard cut the lower left shit key in half and put the backslash key on the other half (which it looks like ubuntu remapped to the < key so I'm going to have to fix that). For a touch typi…

   

   Last reply by red321, September 12, 2015
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   In the market for a new phone... Help! 1 2

   August 24, 2015 by Chuck

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   Should I go for the: S6 Edge + http://www.sprint.com/landings/galaxy/#!/ The Note 5 (I have a Note III currently) iPhone 6 plus The latest LG phone (heard they're great) Or wait till another awesome smartphone comes out in another month? (I don't want to wait more than a month). Thoughts? Loved my Note III until the past couple months. The battery is dying fast. I've even tried factory resetting, using two different batteries. Won't make it through half a day for me. Ugh! I carry two extra batteries in my wallet. Luckily I'm plugged in at work or when I'm at home, or in the car when driving. Just want better battery life with all the latest te…

   

   Last reply by Chuck, August 31, 2015

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   Mouse problems

   August 20, 2015 by Tank

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   I've been having a ton of trouble with my school computer. It's an older mac laptop that has worked great, but on occasion the cursor would skip to some random place while i was typing and start in the middle of some other word. it was annoying, but i lived with it. the click bar on the trackpad stopped working over a year ago. just won't click easily or regularly, so i bought an external mouse. it seemed to work fine. this week it has been a train wreck. the mouse is suddenly highlighting random things and i can't undo it. it also has stopped working completely - the click buttons on it become useless. i've found that restarting my computer allows me to use it ag…

   

   Last reply by Tank, August 23, 2015

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   Which browser are you using?

   July 9, 2015 by Redondo

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   I have been using Mozilla Firefox for years. I run Adblock Plus on it. Lately it's been freezing up on me. I have downloaded all the updates but it's still running a little slower than usual. Anyone else have this problem? What are you using and what kind of problems does it have or is it really fast? Let's not bring up IE as it is worse Chrome, Opera etc Thanks for the input.

   

   Last reply by Vegas Halo Fan, August 8, 2015

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   Killer deal: Amazon will pay you $10 to buy a $30 Google Chromecast

   July 29, 2015 by gotbeer

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   Killer deal: Amazon will pay you $10 to buy a $30 Google Chromecast For those thinking of buying a Chromecast.

   

   Last reply by Jobu, August 8, 2015
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    Hey nerds

    June 16, 2015 by Brandon

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    Final Fantasy 7 is coming to PS4. Dislike the voiceover, but am interested. Greatest game of all-time and still is the highest rated among standard and aggregate sites.

    

    Last reply by Guest, August 2, 2015

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    How to unsend an email

    July 25, 2015 by Redondo

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    • 608 views

    How to unsend an email

    

    Last reply by Ray McKigney, July 25, 2015
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    ASUS Zenwatch now $129 on Google Store

    July 21, 2015 by gotbeer

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    ASUS Zenwatch now $129 on Google Store https://store.google.com/product/asus_zenwatch

    

    Last reply by nate, July 22, 2015
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    World’s first Liquidmetal phone is waterproof, stronger than steel, and ready to launch

    July 14, 2015 by gotbeer

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    World’s first Liquidmetal phone is waterproof, stronger than steel, and ready to launch Giz Explains: What Is Liquidmetal?

    

    Last reply by Ray McKigney, July 14, 2015
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    monument valley game free today

    June 26, 2015 by gotbeer

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    http://www.amazon.com/ustwo-Studio-Ltd-Monument-Valley/dp/B00KA7JIII never played it, but it has good reviews. It's the free app on amazon today.

    

    Last reply by gotbeer, June 26, 2015
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    T-Mobile announces JUMP! On Demand, allowing customers to upgrade at any time

    June 25, 2015 by gotbeer

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    T-Mobile announces JUMP! On Demand, allowing customers to upgrade at any time Sounds interesting. From what i read in the fine print. Payments are spread over 18 months instead of the customary 24 months.

    

    Last reply by gotbeer, June 25, 2015
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    Xbox One will be able to play Xbox 360 games

    June 15, 2015 by nate

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    At E3 - Microsoft just announced backwards compatibility for all Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One. Awesome news!

    

    Last reply by mrwicked, June 23, 2015

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    Samsung Display Introduces First Mirror and Transparent OLED Display Panels

    June 12, 2015 by gotbeer

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    Samsung Display Introduces First Mirror and Transparent OLED Display Panels The Transparent looks straight out of a Sci Fi movie. Kind of would be interesting if this goes mainstream, and the pricepoint drops from what I'm sure is a quite high number.

    

    Last reply by mrwicked, June 12, 2015
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    HTC’s epic One M9 disaster keeps getting worse

    June 11, 2015 by gotbeer

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    HTC’s epic One M9 disaster keeps getting worse I didn't realize it was so bad for HTC. Although come to think of it, the M9 wasn't even in consideration when I wanted to upgrade my phone.

    

    Last reply by gotbeer, June 11, 2015
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    Challenged App

    June 10, 2015 by halobob

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    A buddy of mine helped to create an app called Challenged. They just launched yesterday. The reason I bring it up is the event ticket company Gametime is running a challenge on people doing the best trick shot to win $1000 credit on their app. I figured people here would use the $1,000 on Angels or Ducks/Kings tickets. A few other challenges that may interest people here are a **** Cancer challenge as well as a challenge of the best way to spend 20K in a day (the winner will actually get the 20K to spend in a day in the way that they said they would). If you have a business that you want to promote it seems like it would be a pretty good platform to do so. …

    

    Last reply by halobob, June 10, 2015
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    No Joke: New $2.50 Gadget Makes Batteries Last 8 Times Longer

    June 3, 2015 by gotbeer

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    No Joke: New $2.50 Gadget Makes Batteries Last 8 Times Longer

    

    Last reply by mrwicked, June 8, 2015
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    Google Photos

    June 8, 2015 by red321

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    If you don't have it...you should think about getting it. Much better than how Apple handles photos...and their auto technology for "phone" photos is pretty impressive. Automatically creates some pretty impressive animated .gifs, slideshows, and albums. Hell, I've even started uploading some of my dslr photos just to see what it will do with it. Stuff like this..... https://goo.gl/photos/j4DW3oyncXvtaNX48 (if you click on the link you will see a series of photos I took of a surfer catching their ride of the day...hell...month)

    

    Last reply by red321, June 8, 2015
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    Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is the most popular smartphone in America

    June 4, 2015 by Redondo

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    Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is the most popular smartphone in America

    

    Last reply by nate, June 7, 2015
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    Amazon Echo

    June 1, 2015 by HaloMagic

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    Anyone have one? Mine came last week. So far I've been impressed with two things. First, it's amazing all the things I thought this thing could do without realizing it isn't JARVIS. It's not going to know what year Bill Clinton graduated college. I just assumed that since the internet knows it, Echo would. But it can't really decipher all the information on the internet. Finding obscure facts like that is just outside of its current range. It's clear at some point it will get there. Maybe not this current version, but the world is definitely moving towards it. But I imagined, without thinking, that it could do stuff like that right out of the box. It can't. Second, I'm…

    

    Last reply by HaloMagic, June 1, 2015

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    Woman tosses Apple computer that turns out to be worth $200K

    May 31, 2015 by gotbeer

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    Woman tosses Apple computer that turns out to be worth $200K

    

    Last reply by gotbeer, May 31, 2015
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    This Samsung Galaxy S6's Top Tech Triumphs Can Crash Your iPhone and Give You A Free Upgrade To Power From Thin Air

    May 27, 2015 by RallyMo

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    Welcome to the Ultimate Redondo thread.

    

    Last reply by Jobu, May 29, 2015

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    All 4.3 billion IP addresses created in 1981 will be gone by summer

    May 18, 2015 by Redondo

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    All 4.3 billion IP addresses created in 1981 will be gone by summer Engineers who created 4.3 billion Internet Protocol addresses back in 1981 probably thought that by the time we ran through all those, we'd be puttering around in flying cars. Flying cars are going to be a while, but it looks like our IP numbers are finally up: The American Registry for Internet Numbers, the group that hands out the numerical codes, says there are only 3.4 million IPv4 addresses left, and the group's president says the supply will probably dry up by summer, the Wall Street Journal reports. Major companies like Amazon and Microsoft are scooping up remaining addresses while they…

    

    Last reply by Guest, May 29, 2015

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    US’s 5 top tech triumphs

    May 26, 2015 by Redondo

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    US’s 5 top tech triumphs

    

    Last reply by gotbeer, May 28, 2015
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    This Single String of Text Can Crash Your iPhone’s Messages App

    May 27, 2015 by gotbeer

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    This Single String of Text Can Crash Your iPhone’s Messages App nate and tank, what was your phone numbers again?

    

    Last reply by Section517, May 27, 2015

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    Ad blocking software

    April 27, 2015 by red321

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    Adblocker mysteriously changed it's name to Betafish Ad block or some crap like that...without any notification. Kinda fishy!...what Ad blocking software do people use?

    

    Last reply by Jobu, May 21, 2015

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    The Lily Camera Is a Drone That Flies Itself

    May 13, 2015 by gotbeer

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    This is actually a pretty cool little drone. I can see how this will be pretty neat for sports enthusiasts. The Lily Camera Is a Drone That Flies Itself

    

    Last reply by mrwicked, May 13, 2015

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    The most addicting game you'll ever play

    May 7, 2015 by NrM

    • 1 follower
    • 9 replies
    • 915 views

    http://agar.io/

    

    Last reply by Crampknees, May 11, 2015