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News February 28, 2012
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OnLive Desktop Plus Gives You Cloud-Based MS Office and Internet Explorer for $5 a Month

I had planned to write a review about OnLive bringing Microsoft Office to the iPad via their ‘OnLive Desktop’ cloud-based service, but one of the key usages for me is at work … and OnLive is blocked at work for me. But in general it is a fairly competent remote desktop solution for running Office [...]

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News February 28, 2012
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The Southern Foodie is a Must-Read Kindle Book

My parents were born and raised in New York. I was born in Summit, New Jersey. I grew up in a little place called Berkeley Heights, NJ. In other words, I am a North Easterner through and through. (Some would use the word “Yankee” to describe me.) Yes, I’m a northerner through and through and [...]

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News February 28, 2012
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A New Way to Watch Star Wars: Machete Order!

I got an email a while ago pointing me to an article from late last year about a new way to watch the Star Wars movies … and was reminded of it when I saw a post at Neatorama. It is quite intriguing and a new way to look at things – though not without [...]

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News February 28, 2012
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Disney Unveils The Lion King & Tangled Interactive Apps for iOS!

If you or your kids are fans of the classic Disney movie The Lion King or the recent retelling of Rapunzel called Tangled, you will definitely be interested in checking out these new apps. These interactive apps include original scenes from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ The Lion King (1994) and Tangled (2010), as well as [...]

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Events, News February 28, 2012
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Intel Goes Mobile at MWC in Barcelona

While the focus has been on Intel’s partnership with various companies on the creation of the new Ultrabook category of laptops here at MWC they are talking about a very different kind of partnership. This time, they are talking about new partnerships that will grow their presence in the exploding worldwide smartphone market. Just one [...]

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Events February 28, 2012
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Hands On with the Sony Xperia Ion and the Xperia P

After the mob scene Helena and I had encountered at the Sony Press Conference the other night, it was refreshing to have a one-on-one session with Alistair and Tobias from Sony. Tobias just happened to have the just announced Sony Xperia P and the upcoming (this summer) Xperia Ion on him, and he didn’t mind giving us [...]

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Events, Quickies February 27, 2012
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Get Your iBling On With this Gold-Plated iPad

The 64GB 3G iPad runs $830 new. That’s certainly not inexpensive but, at least in my humble opinion, it is worth every penny. But what if you didn’t want your iPad to look like every other iPad and you had money to burn? Judie found the answer in the airport yesterday as she arrived in [...]

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Events, News February 27, 2012
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Nokia PureView Brings 41MP of Camera Goodness to a Phone

If you thought 12MP was overkill you ain’t seen nothing yet. At MWC Nokia announced the Nokia 808 PureView camera. It sports a whopping 41megapixels. And it isn’t just the megapixels that stand out. No, there’s a lot more going on here. As the Nokia Press Release explains, The Nokia 808 PureView features a large, [...]

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Events, News February 27, 2012
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With Huawei MediaPad 10F HD Tablets Go QuadCore

If you thought dual-core tablets were speedy wait until you check out what Huawei just announced. The Huawei MediaPad 10F HD is a fast-performing tablet with unsurpassed audio-visual entertainment features including a Huawei 1.5GHz quad-core processor, Google Android 4.0 operating system and a 10-inch IPS high-definition display screen. Let’s repeat those specs- the 10″ tablet [...]

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Reviews February 27, 2012
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Eton Axis Self-Powered Radio Review

This past year Sarah and I have been very lucky. While our town did flood, it only necessitated the power being out for around 15 hours. Many of my coworkers and friends north of us had it much worse, with power outages lasting anywhere from 24 hours to 5 days! Unfortunately, the modern world isn’t [...]

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News February 27, 2012
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Pictures and Video from the Sony Press Conference on the Xperia Line of Smartphones

Sony had three phones in their Xperia line to show off yesterday. We posted on them at the time and you can get details here. Today we’ve got loads more pictures AND a video from the Sony Press Conference. Let’s start with the Press Conferences video and then you can check out all the pictures [...]

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News, Quickies February 27, 2012
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Adobe Brings a Better-Than-Ever Photoshop Touch to the iPad 2

Like many techies, I have been using my iPad for almost 2 years, and if you ask me ‘what do you use it for?’ … I would reply ‘just about everything’. And as of today that is getting enhanced as Adobe is bringing Photoshop Touch to the iPad 2! From their press release: Adobe Photoshop [...]

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Quickies February 27, 2012
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Jimmy Kimmel Introduces The Trailer for ‘Movie: The Movie:”

In his post-Oscar show, Jimmy Kimmel bemoans how at the Oscars most of the movies only represent one genre at a time, so if you want more you need to watch a bunch of movies. He then goes on to say how he has realized his dreams of creating the most epic motion picture ever [...]

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Editorials, Music Diary February 27, 2012
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Vinyl in a World of Digital Music An Interview with Tom Tom Mag’s Mindy Abovitz

While Judie and I were attending the Create.Work.Inspire event sponsored by Dell and Intel last week we had the chance to sit down with Mindy Abovitz, the founder and editor in chief of Tom Tom magazine. (As an aside, we both really love the magazine and highly recommend you check it out.) While the conversation was ostensibly [...]

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Events, News February 27, 2012
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Sandisk MWC iNAND Extreme and Mobile Experience Announcements

Today at MWC Sandisk made a couple of announcements. First, they announced that their iNand Extreme embedded Flash memory will be included on Windows 8 development platforms from companies such as Intel, Qualcomm and TI. Here is a snip from that press release: Companies such as Intel Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) [...]

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