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How to get Amazon Prime Streaming Media and Flash Content to Play on your Nexus 7

  Amazon Prime Streaming “Ronin” on Nexus 7 Flash is dead…or is it? Although Adobe Flash is no longer support on the latest version of Android 4.1 (Jellybean), that does not mean you can’t enjoy the benefits of Flash content and movies. The move from flash-based content to HTML5 has been long underway but the [...]

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Nexus 7 and Android’s JellyBean Feature List, Google’s App Updates

  Image courtesy of Android Advices Unless you have been hiding under your cloak of invisibility, or just been spending a little too much quality time in your fallout bunker, you probably know that Google’s latest tasty treat of an OS (Jellybean) has hit the streets. So far the only devices running the new OS [...]

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Tokyoflash Goes ‘Online’ with their Latest Wrist Accelerated Geek Watch

Image courtesy of Tokoyflash The latest Tokyoflash Kisai model popped up on their site today and as usual there is a launch day (48 hour) discount. The latest model, dubbed the “Online”, is their first to sport a built-in accelerometer. It works by a flick of the wrist and reveals the time. The large rectangular [...]

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Google’s Actually Making Some Money on the Nexus 7 and Not Just Taking One for the Team

Image courtesy of iFixit With the Nexus 7 official launch potentially minutes or hours away there has been a pretty solid stream of news about it around the web. A recent teardown (IHS iSuppli) reveals the 8GB Nexus 7 is earning Google a 24% profit on hardware alone. Of course they earn even more on [...]

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Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Offers Capped ‘Free-To-Play’ for New Users

  Image courtesy of SWTOR Not so long ago in a Galaxy not so far away, The Old Republic MMO was released to the world, and from what I gather it received a not so warm welcome from this galaxy. To those heavily vested in the MMO world The Old Republic’s pay to play was [...]

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Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet In Both Standard and Pro Attire

  Image courtesy of Microsoft It’s been some time since Microsoft came out with a decent piece of hardware. Short of the Xbox and Kinect I think the hardware team has been sinking to the lower end of the giant’s revenue stream. Well, after seeing highlights from today’s live event, I think that is about [...]

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A Response to GameSpot’s MOH: Warfighter Article; Let’s Remember why we Play Games

    Image courtesy of EA, Medal of Honor The other day a friend showed me an article on GameSpot that made me perk up a bit; they published an article on Friday called “When did regenerating health become realistic”. As an avid fan of First Person Shooters, and a veteran of two Iraq tours myself, [...]

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Gammatech’s 12″ Convertible Durabook (U12Ci) Gets the Ivy Bridge Treatment

Image courtesy of GammaTech Last year we were able to get a hands on review of both the GammaTech U12C and the S15C2 ruggedized notebooks and both measured up pretty well to the Durabook name. The newest tablet to the Durabook ruggedized comes by way of a  U12C refresh. The U12Ci is an updated version [...]

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Geeks & Heroes Unite, a Visit to Comic Con Wizard World in Philadelphia

  This past weekend Philadelphia hosted Wizard World Comic Con, and I was fortunate enough to attend. I’m not exactly sure why it’s called Wizard World, but none the less it’s a good time for all Geeks in the Philly with a nice assortment of stars and legends attending. The show ran from Thursday to Sunday at [...]

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview; Official Download Available for the Masses

    The official Windows 8 Public Preview is available for download directly from the software vaults at Microsoft. I am not really sure what is different from the previously available beta but assume some of the updates and fixes have been implemented. So far the verdict on Windows 8 has really been hit and [...]

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Chameleon KickStarter Could Bring the Ultimate Customization to Your Android Tablet’s Home Screen

  Image courtesy of KickStarter/Teknision One of my favorite things about the Android platform is the ability to customize the UI to fit your needs. There are literally hundreds of theme engines and thousand of themes to pick from, as well as thousands of widgets, live applications, and media feeds. I was browsing Kickstarter the [...]

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A Possible Glimpse of Google’s Nexus Tablet Specs; Things Are Looking Pretty Good

  Original Image courtesy of Samsung I’m not really one to care too much about leaks and non confirmed pre release info, but the Nexus Tablet is something I have been waiting quite a while to get my hands on. Not really knowing much about it yet — except that it will be running truly [...]

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Nike+ Fuelband Review; ‘The Out-Of-Shape Geek’s Dream Fitness Motivator

  It’s been few weeks since the release of the Nike+ Fuelband and, until last week, I had been unable to get my hands on one. This is probably the first fitness related gadget I have ever bought and, besides the super geek-esque Back to the Future style LED’s on it, I was excited to [...]

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Whirlpool Sticks Me with the Dirty Laundry, but Lowe’s Picks up the Tab

 Image courtesy of automaticwasher.org Is it really that hard to get good customer service anymore? Is the fine art of quality customer service a thing of the past? Looking through some past rants we’ve had here on Gear Diary, it’s evident that some companies just don’t care about anything dealing with “after the sale.”  Even [...]

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Does iOS Need a User Interface Overhaul?

I posed a question to my fellow staff at Gear Diary, asking all iPhone users why Apple hasn’t really changed their UI since 2007. As a non iPhone user, my questions stemmed from a post that Carly had put up about her finding her original iPhone, when she posted a side by side of the home [...]

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Sony NEX-6 Smart Remote Control in 90 Seconds

I upgraded my camera to the Sony NEX-6 today, and I am already loving it. At $899 for the body [...]

Budd Coates Teaches ‘Running On Air’ – The Monday Mile

Running on Air

I remember being about 20 miles into my first marathon, and the pacer making a very big deal about breathing [...]

Kinivo BTX350 Digital Wireless Speaker Review

I’m a big fan of Bluetooth enabled, wireless speakers in this age of cell phones, tablets, and computers.  We’re always [...]

Madden NFL 25 Anniversary Edition Amazon Exclusive Deals

EA Sports, Amazon, and DirecTV have released details on great deals included in the upcoming limited-edition version of the Madden [...]

team & marke Launches Fläzbag Tablet Pillow Stand

I don’t know about you, but when I think of “products from Germany”, I think of severe stuff, by and [...]

Toddy Screensters Clean Your Screen with Character

Toddy Screensters

If you own any device with a touchscreen, then you know all too well how quickly and easily they get [...]