On July 3rd, The Amazing Spider-Man will jump-start a familiar franchise by offering yet another take on the origin of the beloved web-slinging superhero. We’re celebrating Spidey by searching for the best iPhone & iPad apps and accessories to feature Peter Parker and friends (or enemies). Read on to see which iPhone & iPad apps and accessories we got our radioactive hands on. (more…)
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Comic-Con is coming, which means it’s cosplay season! We want to see your best costumes, so we’re running a contest on our Facebook page, and one lucky fan who gets the most votes will win a Museum Replicas Obi-Wan Jedi Cloak! In honor of all of this creative character-creation going on, we’ve taken a look at another way to get into a fun fantasy character (without a stitch of sewing required): role-playing games! So keep that cape close by and pick up your iPad, we’re looking at the best massively multiplayer online games available from the Apple app store. (more…)
Are you the curious type? There are some things about the world that you’ll never know until you discover them for yourself. Enter science! Those who crave empirical data should check out these iPad apps for the experimentally inclined. (more…)
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It can’t be denied, change is coming to iOS’ geographical maps in a big way. According to Apple’s recent announcement, Google’s mapping data is on its way off of the iPhone and iPad. (more…)
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Anyone who has had a chance to carry around a Macbook Air for a few days knows that it’s pretty amazing how much power can be crammed into a tiny laptop. And nobody knows it better than Intel, who provides the Intel Core i5 processors that power these wonderful silver slivers of computer. In fact, Intel is so proud of the size and speed of the Macbook Air, they’d like to see everyone carrying a laptop so luxurious- and that includes you too, Windows users! (more…)
Somewhere in history, a proper gentleman or gentlewoman is speaking on the telephone for the first time in their life and is appalled. What, no eye contact? How can you carry on a true conversation without the benefit of body language? How do we expect our tone of voice to carry through these tinny contraptions and be accurately understood when they arrive at the other end? Those complaints are most certainly outdated and old fashioned, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some lingering, post-1800s complications associated with our preferred method of long distance conversation, the phone. And to make matters more interesting, now many of us text just as much as we actually speak out loud, on the phone. To keep your own lines of communication clear, I’ve compiled some helpful tips for cell phone etiquette, from when to speak to what to say. (more…)
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Apple brass took to the stage recently for another Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), an event at which they directly address all of the people who make developing for Apple computers and operating systems their business. As a company, Apple typically uses this event to make announcements about the future of their products, and 2012 was no different. Read on to check the biggest changes out of Cupertino. (more…)
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Another E3 video game conference is in the books. So, did it live up to the calendar-setting event of years past? Well…sort of. It looks like the next truly huge E3 will be in 2013, when Microsoft and Sony are likely to announce their next generation of consoles, to be released around Christmas of that year. Until then, we’re preparing to play the final batch of games that will push the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 to the limits of their processing power. Read on to find out what the best of those games were.
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When it comes to what will announcements will actually take place at the next Apple keynote address at WWDC on June 11th, we’re not about to put any bets down. But other prediction-makers around the web seem more sure about what Apple has in store. We’ve rounded up their top rumors in advance of the show. (more…)
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This Sunday, HBO’s hit show True Blood returns to television. Fans of this bloody-good gothic vampire series will want to check out these True Blood-related apps and mobile device accessories we’ve found online. (more…)
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