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Next Tuesday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will announce the nominees for the 2012 Oscars. I hate to say it, but you know those videos you shot during your travels in 2011? Well, they haven’t got a prayer of landing you one of these nifty little golden statuettes to place on the [...]
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If Santa left you a toilet plunger under the Christmas tree you’d probably surmise that you’d been a very naughty child. That’s unless it was the iPlunge stand designed to prop your iPhone up on a table top to make viewing movies, videos, and photo slideshows hands-free. Thanks to my sister-in-law, Pam, playing Santa Claus, [...]
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You check in for your flight at the airport ticket counter and trustingly hand over your luggage to an airline employee. Then your bags disappear from sight. Hopefully, you’ll see them riding around a luggage carousel after you arrive at your destination airport. But where dos your bags travel during your journey? And how can [...]
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Here are three apps that you can use year-round, but would definitely be handy to have aboard your iPhone if you are traveling during the holiday season. Tripit Tripit is both an iPhone app (which also works on the iPad) and a Website (www.tripit.com). It lets you assemble reservation information for travel by air, rail, [...]
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(Be sure to read our posts “Tablet Computer Buying Guide: Where to Start”, “Tablet Computer Buying Guide: The iPad” , and Tablet Computer Buying Guide: The Nook Tablet before reading this review.) Leader of the Pack Amazon.com kicked off the race to develop devices that could read electronic versions of books when it launched its [...]
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(Be sure to read our posts “Tablet Computer Buying Guide: Where to Start” and “Tablet Computer Buying Guide: The iPad” before reading this review.) E-Reader on Steroids Barnes & Noble entered the e-reader arena with its black and white “Nook” and later added a color model. Now it also offers the Nook Tablet, a pumped-up [...]
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(Be sure to read our post “Tablet Computer Buying Guide: Where to Start” before reading this review.) iPad: A Good Idea Revived The notion of using a tablet computer isn’t new, but Apple paved the way for the resurgence of interest in using these devices instead of laptop computers when it first introduced the iPad [...]
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“I need one of these!” I told my wife. “No you, don’t” was her response. That conversation took place two years ago after I had a chance to try out the original Kindle e-reader from Amazon.com. Some things have changed since then, some have not. What’s the same: I still don’t own a Kindle or [...]
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Except for some apps, the word “free” doesn’t often come to the mind of an iPhone owners. The phone itself isn’t cheap ($199-$399 for a new 4S), and you’ll probably end up buying some accessories (a dock, a case, car charger, etc.) that don’t come in the box with the phone. Unless you buy an [...]
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