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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter


Kindle Fire Cools As Shipments Decline

Posted: 04 May 2012 09:58 AM PDT

When it comes to the tablet world, the iPad has the clear lead despite the fact Apple’s tablet is very expensive. The second most successful tablet so far has been Amazon’s Kindle Fire Android tablet. Amazon is expected to have shipped 4.8 million Fire tablets in Q4 2011.

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Wicked Lasers Outs Lasersaber for Star Wars Day!

Posted: 04 May 2012 09:50 AM PDT

Wicked Lasers unveiled the coolest product it has ever made just in time to celebrate Star Wars Day, which is today. The new product is called the Lasersaber and sells for $99.95. The device is an accessory that threads onto certain Wicked Lasers lasers.

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Is Microsoft already manufacturing the next Xbox?

Posted: 04 May 2012 07:27 AM PDT

We have had rumors of the next Xbox since the last one came out. We had heard that it was called the Xbox 720, with a codename of "Durango". So many rumors, so little fact. Well, the latest rumor is that Microsoft is already manufacturing the consoles.
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LittleBigPlanet Karting for Vita not in the works

Posted: 04 May 2012 07:15 AM PDT

Some time ago, United Front and Sony had announced LittleBigPlanet Karting, which was set to debut on the Sony PlayStation 3 later this year. It seems like it would be a fun game. It will be on the PS3 of course, but what about the PlayStation Vita handheld console?
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CornerClick Adds Extra Features To Your OS X Hot Corners

Posted: 04 May 2012 07:12 AM PDT

Hot Corners on OS X are great for quick viewing certain windows and performing a few important commands. But if you feel you would like a little more control over what you can perform with the Hot Corners on Mac OS X a neat little application might be able to assist.

CornerClick is a free Mac application developed by Greg Schueler, that easily let you supercharge your Hot Corners. Enabling you to pick any one of the four Hot Corners, and associate it with a file, an app or multiple apps if desired.

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Embed Angry Birds Levels Directly Into Facebook And Websites Using New Share And Play Feature (video)

Posted: 04 May 2012 06:32 AM PDT

Today Rovio the creator of the popular Angry Birds game has unveiled a new service called Share & Play on Facebook. That allows you to now embed an Angry Birds level directly into your Facebook page or with a website. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

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Nixon Synapse Touchscreen Watch

Posted: 04 May 2012 06:17 AM PDT

If you prefer your watch, to be a watch rather than a fully integrated smartphone connected data device similar to the Pebble smartwatch currently generating massive funding on Kicksrater. On the last count it had already passed $8 million.  You might be interested in the unique looking Nixon Synapse touchscreen watch, which has a few functions and has been predominately designed to just tell the time.

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Dell Upgrading Unshipped Alienware Orders To Ivy Bridge Processors

Posted: 04 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT

If you have ordered a new Alienware high performance laptop over the last few weeks and are still awaiting delivery, but missed the start of the roll out of the Intel Ivy Bridge models revealed at the end of April. You might be interested to know that Dell has announced any Alienware orders that are still outstanding, will be upgraded to the new Intel Ivy Processor at no extra charge.

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Pantech Vega 2 Racer Android 4.0 Smartphone Announced

Posted: 04 May 2012 05:59 AM PDT

Pantech has announced the launch of a new Android smartphone, the Pantech Vega 2 Racer which will come with the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.0 ICS.

The Pantech Vega 2 Racer features a 4.8 inch touchscreen display which has a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, and it is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor.

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Uguard Resing Skin iPhone Case Provides Extra Gripping Power

Posted: 04 May 2012 05:44 AM PDT

Uguard has a range of iPhone cases which have been designed to provide you with a little more gripping power when needed. Making it almost impossible for the case to slip off a desktop or sloped surface.

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Samsung Galaxy S III Event Video Released

Posted: 04 May 2012 05:03 AM PDT

Yesterday Samsung announced their latest Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S III, and if you missed the event, you can now watch the video as Samsung has just made it available online.

The Samsung Galaxy S III features a 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, and it features Samsung’s new quad core Exynos processor which is clocked at 1.4GHz.

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Windows 8 Wont Come With DVD Playback

Posted: 04 May 2012 04:53 AM PDT

Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 wont come with the ability to playback DVD’s built in, instead you will have to use a third party solution or purchase Microsoft’s Windows Media Center which will be sold as a separate program for Windows 8.

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Samsung Galaxy S III Headed To Three UK, Goes Up For Pre-order

Posted: 04 May 2012 04:46 AM PDT

Samsung announced their new flagship Android smartphone yesterday, and we heard earlier that the handset will be available Sim free in the UK from the 30th of May, it is also headed to a range of mobile carriers, and one of those is Three.

Three have announced that they will carry the Samsung Galaxy S III, and the device is now available to pre-order and it will launch on Three on the 30th of May.

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Apple Acknowledges OpenStreeMap Data Used In iPhoto For iOS

Posted: 04 May 2012 03:55 AM PDT

Back in March when Apple announced their new iPhoto app for the iPhone and iPad, when the app was announced the team from OpenStreetMap said that Apple were using their data without crediting them.

It looks like Apple has now decided to credit OpenStreetMap for the data used in iPhoto for iOS, as the iPhoto page on Apple’s website now lists OpenStreetMap as ‘contributors’.

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eBay 2.0 iPad App Redesigned To Bring Visual Shopping To Life

Posted: 04 May 2012 03:39 AM PDT

eBay has this week rolled out a new redesign update to its iPad application to hale bring the visual shopping experience to life, eBay explains. The new redesign brings with it a new visual layout for products, together with a customisable home screen with ultra-high resolution item images to help make a more informed choice on how to spend your hard earned cash.

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Samsung Galaxy S III To Retail For £550 Sim Free In The UK

Posted: 04 May 2012 03:34 AM PDT

Samsung’s new Galaxy S III Android smartphone will go on sale here in the UK in a couple of weeks, with the various mobile carriers, and now we have some information on the SIM free Galaxy S III.

The guys over at Unlocked Mobiles just dropped us an email to let us know that they will have the SIM free Galaxy S III in stock from the 30th of May, and it will be available in white or blue with 16GB of storage for £549.98 including taxes.

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Apple Recalls Recently Sold UK Mac Pros

Posted: 04 May 2012 03:27 AM PDT

Apple has been forced to carry out a small recall of Mac Pro Tower systems that have been sold in the UK over the past few months. Due to a problem which affects the system internal hard drives and could end up deleting user data without warning.

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Windows 8 Will Support Dolby Digital Plus Confirms Microsoft

Posted: 04 May 2012 03:15 AM PDT

Microsoft has this week officially announced that their new Windows 8 operating system will support the Dolby Digital Plus audio codec. Currently Dolby Digital Plus is used in more than 640 million devices including smartphones, tablets, PCs, HDTVs, Blu-ray players, and gaming consoles.

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Google Documents Update Adds 450 Fonts And More

Posted: 04 May 2012 03:03 AM PDT

Now that Google’s cloud storage service has officially launched as Google Drive. Google is rolling out new updates to its other services to enhance and bring them closer with their new Google Drive storage solution.

One such update has been released for Google Documents this week which has brought with it a number of great new features, allowing you to get the most out of the new Google Drive. Together with an additional 450 fonts you can use within your Google Docs, as well as over 60 new document templates.

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Flipboard On Its Way To Android Devices In the Next Few Months

Posted: 04 May 2012 02:46 AM PDT

Flipboard the awesome social magazine that is currently available to iOS users, will soon be arriving on Android devices and has been previewed running on the new Samsung Galaxy S III.

Flipboard is a social-network aggregation, magazine-format app, that allows you to collect social media content and other websites and presents it in magazine style format and allows you to “flip” through it.

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New iPad 2 Comes With Better Battery Life Due To 32nm Processor

Posted: 04 May 2012 02:29 AM PDT

When Apple launched the new iPad 3, they also made some minor updates to the iPad 2, and it would appear that the new version of the iPad 2 comes with improved battery life over the original version.

The guys over at Anandtech have been testing out the battery life on the new iPad 2, and have seen battery life improvements of around 15.8 percent for web browsing.

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Elder Scrolls Online MMO Arriving In 2013

Posted: 04 May 2012 02:23 AM PDT

Following on from the rumours back in March that a new Elder Scrolls MMO Online game might be in the works,  a press release has now been issued announcing that the new Elder Scrolls Online game will indeed be arriving sometime next year.

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SwiftKey 3 Beta Receives New User Interface

Posted: 04 May 2012 02:12 AM PDT

A new update has been rolled out to the current SwiftKey 3 beta software, which has brought with it a number of bug fixes and tweaks, together with a new user interface design. The changes in the latest update have been thanks to the SwiftKey 3 beta testers and community who have made suggestions on how the SwiftKey could be improved.

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Hand Stylus Is Equipped With A Precision 4mm Retractable Tip (video)

Posted: 04 May 2012 01:51 AM PDT

A new tablet stylus has started its journey on Kickstarter, and already raised, over $19,000 of its $25,000 goal to help it make that crucial jump into production. The Hand Stylus has been created after a need to have a more accurate stylus that didn’t feel like you were using a blunt finger, says its creator Steven King.

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Samsung Galaxy S III Comes With 50GB Of Dropbox Storage

Posted: 04 May 2012 01:32 AM PDT

Samsung recently announced their new Galaxy S III smartphone, and here is something we missed in the announcement, Samsung has teamed up with Dropbox and owners of the Galaxy S III will get 50Gb of Dropbox storage.

Owners of the device will get 50GB of free Dropbox storage for a period of two years, and the free storage will become available when you register your new Galaxy S III smartphone.

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Kindle Fire Gets Updates, New Security Features Added

Posted: 04 May 2012 01:25 AM PDT

Amazon has released a new update for its Kindle Fire Android tablet, and the latest version of the software is 6.3.1 and it comes with a range of new features as well as some new security features.

Amazon has added password protected purchasing and a range of new parental controls in the latest version of their Kindle Fire software, and you can now lock specific content libraries, and disable access to the devices Silk Browser.

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Samsung Galaxy S III In Action (Video)

Posted: 04 May 2012 12:39 AM PDT

Samsung has now officially announced their new Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, which comes with a range of impressive specifications, and a new TouchWiz UI.

Samsung has now released an official video of the new Samsung Galaxy S III which you can see below, and we get a good look at the handset and its wide range of features.

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LG Optimus LTE2 Android Smartphone Announced

Posted: 03 May 2012 11:26 PM PDT

LG has announced another new Android smartphone, the LG Optimus LTE 2 which will go on sale in South Korea in the middle of May, and comes with the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

The LG Optimus LTE2 comes with a True HD IPS display, and  a massive 2GB of RAM, unfortunately there are no details on what processor it will use as yet.

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Samsung Galaxy S III Gets Official, Full Specifications Revealed

Posted: 03 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Samsung has officially announced their latest flagship Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S III, and we finally get to find out what specifications this high end Android smartphone has.

The Samsung Galaxy S III features a 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, which means it can handle content in 720p.

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