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1. 

   iPhone 6 case gets battery power from thin air

   May 11, 2015 by Redondo

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   Case gets power from thin air

   

   Last reply by Jason, May 11, 2015
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   New Laptop.... 1 2

   April 4, 2015 by SoCalSportsFan

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   Ok, the time has finally come for me to buy my 1st laptop. I've managed to make do without one for the past 17 years of being on the net. I need one because I was invited as "Press" to https://collisionconf.com/ 4 weeks from now in Vegas, and I WILL need a laptop to "make it so". Most of what I will use it for will be to access my websites which are on hosted servers, social media, and some minor MS Office stuff, but Google Docs works fine with me instead of MS Word, it's photo manager that I do use somewhat. Not looking to spend a fortune, but need a reliable semi quick portable computer. What is out there laptop wise these days? What are your rec…

   

   Last reply by mp170.6, May 10, 2015

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   GPS Unit, Non-Vehicle Use

   May 6, 2015 by Spencer

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   I'm in te market for a handheld GPS unit for plotting points on maps. It can't break the bank, but it needs to be reliable and accurate. I've used Trimble units, but they're expensive and I don't know how to utilize a fraction of what they're capable of. Anyone use this type of tech for work or fun?

   

   Last reply by deepdrive, May 10, 2015
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   First Samsung Galaxy Note 5 rumors hint at crazy 2K or 4K screen

   May 10, 2015 by Redondo

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   First Samsung Galaxy Note 5 rumors hint at crazy 2K or 4K screen Same jumbo screen with 2K or 4K clarity Samsung's screens are known for being very bright, colorful, and bold. The Galaxy S6 upped the ante with a super high resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 pixels, which is typically referred to as a 2K screen. SamMobile suggests that the Galaxy Note 5 may also have a 2K resolution, but Samsung could also bump the screen up to 4K. If Samsung gives the Note 5 a 4K screen, it would be one of the very first smartphones with that kind of resolution. Of course, the higher the resolution, the more energy the screen will suck from the battery, which is something that typicall…

   

   Last reply by Redondo, May 10, 2015
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   Phishing

   April 14, 2015 by red321

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   http://gizmodo.com/the-number-of-people-who-fall-for-phishing-emails-is-st-1697725476 Wow...hard to believe A study of 150,000 phishing emails by Verizon partners found that 23 percent of recipients open phishing messages, and 11 percent open attachments. Is that not crazy? One in 10 people opens an attachment when they have no idea what they’re opening.

   

   Last reply by gotbeer, May 6, 2015

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   Kodi

   April 26, 2015 by St1ck

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   Anyone here tried this? Supposedly you can basically watch anything you want for free, including movies at the theaters, and pay per view fights.

   

   Last reply by Jason, April 27, 2015
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   Awesome Google Maps Easter Egg

   April 24, 2015 by nate

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   Unfortunately it has been taken down already but these random coordinates in Pakistan was giving the image below.

   

   Last reply by nate, April 24, 2015
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   Google almost bought Tesla in 2013

   April 20, 2015 by nate

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   Interesting story. I am a big fan of Musk and glad he held onto Tesla. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-20/elon-musk-had-a-deal-to-sell-tesla-to-google-in-2013

   

   Last reply by Blarg, April 20, 2015
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    Music Manager for Android

    April 20, 2015 by 2112

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    Several months ago I purchased a 7" Acer tablet. One of the things I do is read books and listen to music, which is fine when I'm connected to wifi. But I would like to listen when I'm not connected. Acer does have a built in program for this,but I was looking for something a little more robust. Maybe similar to iTunes for the iPad, where I could create playlists on my PC and save them to the tablet. Any ideas?

    

    Last reply by Jobu, April 20, 2015
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    T-Mobile Suspends ZTE Zmax Sales Because People Are Idiots

    April 17, 2015 by gotbeer

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    T-Mobile Suspends ZTE Zmax Sales Because People Are Idiots I lol'd at this one.

    

    Last reply by Vegas Halo Fan, April 17, 2015

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    Phone Photograpy/Snapseed 2.0

    April 16, 2015 by red321

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    Snapseed is the mobile phone photo editing tool that Google bought a long with the rest of Nik Software. Nik Software is awesome...and for the most part Google has done shit with it since purchasing it a few years ago. I think they've been integrating the Nik tools in to Google Plus with things like Auto Awesome and the like. Nice stuff...but whatever. They recently just introduced Snapseed 2.0 for iOS and Android. For a mobile photo editing tool...it's quite impressive. If you are a photo enthusiast I would definitely take a look. Looks like there is a free web class from Kelby training. http://kelbyone.com/blog/snapseed You do have to give up …

    

    Last reply by red321, April 16, 2015
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    The $5B race to build a better battery

    April 16, 2015 by Redondo

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    The $5B race to build a better battery

    

    Last reply by Redondo, April 16, 2015
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    Just bought the Fitbit Charge Hr

    April 8, 2015 by NrM

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    • 1.2k views

    The fitbit seems like the perfect option if you're not sold on the smartwatches like me Love the app and website. Can add friends and see how you compare with them. Anyone else that has one, feel free to add me. https://www.fitbit.com/user/3BVY53

    

    Last reply by deepdrive, April 16, 2015

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    MLB At Bat 1 2

    March 25, 2015 by xboom28x

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    • 2.1k views

    I am looking for the best device to use for live streaming the MLB At Bat app. I have the full season package to watch the Angels but don't have a device to watch it on. The PS3 is in the living room. I can watch games in there. But most games are late (especially home games) and I would like to have something besides my iPhone to watch the games in the bedroom with start times so much later when they are at home. I would rather not spend $300-$600 on an iPad. Is there something larger than an iPhone that would have the MLB app that I could watch the games on? Would like to keep it under $200 if possible. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

    

    Last reply by Tank, April 13, 2015

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    USB Drive Not Found

    March 27, 2015 by red321

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    • 1.1k views

    One of my external USB drives is having issues. The device connects to my machine (Windows 8.1), I get the pretty little chime...but it doesn't show up as a disk. I can see it shows up as a USB device when I go in to DeviceMgr, it even shows up as a USB Mass Storage Device. But it won't show up as a disk/volume in the Disk Mgmt Utility, ChkDsk, or DskPart. Doesn't appear to want to come up on a Mac either. Ideas? (yes, I know...backup...blah blah blah...this is an older backup drive that I was looking for some archived data on)

    

    Last reply by Tank, April 7, 2015
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    Reddit user: PSN account gets hacked for $600, Sony only offers $125. Threatens account ban for bank reversal

    March 12, 2015 by Thomas

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    http://www.nextpowerup.com/news/19068/reddit-users-psn-account-gets-hacked-sony-refuses-to-cooperate.html

    

    Last reply by 2112, April 7, 2015

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    Periscope

    March 28, 2015 by The Ghost of Bob Starr

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    It is awesome. Direct Twitter interface. Watched two seminars today and a bunch of other cool stuff. Thoughts?

    

    Last reply by The Ghost of Bob Starr, March 28, 2015
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    Google is evil

    March 20, 2015 by nate

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    Color me shocked. Any time companies get as big as Google and as powerful there are bound to be bad things they do. http://bgr.com/2015/03/20/google-ftc-antitrust-report/

    

    Last reply by gotbeer, March 23, 2015
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    Apple Engineer Talks about the new 2015 Macbook

    March 13, 2015 by stevestevens

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    Last reply by Tank, March 23, 2015
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    DEATH OF 'EXPLORER' Microsoft giving up on Internet browser

    March 17, 2015 by Redondo

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    DEATH OF 'EXPLORER' Microsoft giving up on Internet browser

    

    Last reply by Schildog, March 22, 2015

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    Overthinking the problem

    February 27, 2015 by Vegas Halo Fan

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    • 9 replies
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    And I should have known better. One day last week my wireless all-in-one stopped responding to any print requests sent to it. I figured, probably a corrupted driver. Downloaded new drivers and installed them. Still nothing. Deleted the device and the drivers and reinstalled, didn't fix the problem. Network seemed to be working fine since I could still get online with my primary computer and my smart phone. After about three hours of working on the problem and getting nowhere I finally gave up on the printer and contacted Epson customer support. Their suggestions didn't help either. The next day, my wife said that her iPad and my stepdaughter's phone wouldn't connect t…

    

    Last reply by Vegas Halo Fan, March 21, 2015

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    Instant Messaging Apps

    March 19, 2015 by mp170.6

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    I'm looking for a recommendation to replace Google Talk which was discontinued last month. This is tougher than I imagined because most apps are mobile only, or if cross platform, they don't support XMPP's cool features, such as file transfers. Google Talk on the PC was a separate application that ran on boot and minimized to the system tray until used. As far as I can tell, most of the current apps run on the PC via Web interface, which means you have to have a browser open at all times...is that correct?

    

    Last reply by nate, March 20, 2015
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    The secret your cellphone company doesn't want you to know

    March 9, 2015 by Redondo

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    Does everyone know this already? I didn't and went in and changed my settings. Should I reset my advertising ID also? I have an Android The secret your cellphone company doesn't want you to know

    

    Last reply by Lhalo, March 10, 2015
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    HBO Go blocked on PS4/3 by Comcast

    March 8, 2015 by NrM

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    https://archive.today/20150307190110/http://www.gamespot.com/articles/hbo-go-blocked-on-ps4-by-comcast-just-like-on-ps3/1100-6425719/

    

    Last reply by NrM, March 8, 2015
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    The internet is about to get faster — here's why

    February 21, 2015 by Ray McKigney

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    HTTP/2 is coming soon. I wonder if it will be a noticeable difference? Finally Fast

    

    Last reply by gotbeer, February 22, 2015
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    Android malware increasing, getting smarter

    January 19, 2015 by Redondo

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    • 700 views

    http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/01/16/android-malware-increasing-getting-smarter/?intcmp=ob_homepage_tech&intcmp=obnetwork Most Americans still don't worry about malware on their mobile devices. But the halcyon days of Android innocence are fast coming to a close, according to a new report by San Francisco-based mobile-security-software developer Lookout, Inc. Android malware has grown smarter and more prevalent in the past year, Lookout found, and as a result, 7 percent of Android device owners in the United States encountered malware in 2014. That's a 75 percent increase from the 4-percent encounter rate of 2013.

    

    Last reply by gotbeer, February 20, 2015

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    Apple Car?

    February 16, 2015 by nate

    • 14 replies
    • 1.1k views

    http://bgr.com/2015/02/16/apple-van-video-spy-footage/ Question is, are they a competitor for Tesla or for Google's driverless cars.

    

    Last reply by Jay, February 19, 2015

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    Chinese worker with close to 100 iPhones

    February 11, 2015 by gotbeer

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    • 925 views

    This disturbing image of a Chinese worker with close to 100 iPhones reveals how App Store rankings can be manipulated This reminds me of when Picturesque launched on Google. It had 500+ feedbacks. And only 10 downloads.

    

    Last reply by Tank, February 17, 2015

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    World of Warcraft 1 2

    August 26, 2014 by nate

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    I have been playing this game off and on since it was in beta. Been playing more lately a couple nights a week since I moved. Last night for the first time ever I did the heroic version of the final boss in an xpac. Heroic Garrosh down: Sorry for the crappy screen shot lol.

    

    Last reply by nate, February 17, 2015

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    Google Cloud Security Settings Checkup - 2 free gb

    February 10, 2015 by red321

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    • 634 views

    http://gizmodo.com/get-2gb-extra-google-drive-space-just-by-checking-your-1684923230 Check your google drive security settings, get 2gb additional storage for freeeeeeeeeeee.....

    

    Last reply by RallyMo, February 10, 2015

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