Remember when Altec Lansing was the name in portable audio? I remember getting an Altec Lansing iPod dock for my bar mitzvah almost 10 years ago. That device was amazing and lasted until it was stolen from my luggage on an unlucky flight years later. Since then, Altec Lansing and I hadn’t been acquainted, but […]
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Review: Lenovo’s Thinkpad Helix — The Evolution Of Windows 8 You’ve Been Waiting For?
The Lenovo ThinkPad Helix is Lenovo’s attempt at providing a convertible product that can do it all. This 11.6 inch tablet laptop hybrid packs a full Ivy Bridge Core i5 processor in a moderately light package, but it unfortunately comes without the battery enhancements of Intel’s latest Haswell digs. The tablet itself weighs 1.8 pouns, […]
Inclusion Through Exclusion With Gay Meet-up Apps
In an increasingly digital world, vestiges of the romantic past grow increasingly remote and rare. Old-fashioned dating has been supplanted largely by online dating communities such as eHarmony, OKCupid, and Match.com. Beyond these more mainstream (and somewhat accepted) love-finding services, there exists a more secretive, more sex-focused, and location-oriented arena of lustful personal interactions. Nowhere […]
Google And Microsoft Working Together?
The battle between Microsoft and Google has extended into nearly every realm, encompassing a variety of services, especially their smartphone operating systems. Heating the fight up even more is Google’s decision to stop supporting Microsoft’s Exchange standard for Gmail on Windows Phone 8, calling for the usage of the more universal CardDAV and CalDAV protocols […]
Review: Lenovo IdeaTab S2110, Productivity In A Tablet?
The Idea S2110 takes what Lenovo is best known for (keyboards) and pairs it with a sleek, thin, and light tablet in a package that easily replaces a laptop for light work. Lenovo’s tablet is fairly run of the mill specs-wise, loaded with a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 running at 1.5 Ghz, 1 GB of […]
Review: Lenovo IdeaTab A2109A Fits A Specific Need
Sometimes a 10-inch tablet is too large and a 7-inch tablet is too small. For those Goldilocks circumstances, the few 9-inch tablets on the market can make due. The Lenovo IdeaTab A2109A fits the bill, capable of both content creation and media consumption in a smaller, relatively light, and somewhat cheap package at only $299. […]
How Could You, Apple?
A new iPad just eight months after the last one. How could any company treat its loyal customers this way? Apple is the rising star of the tech world. The company with the largest market cap in the world, valued at over $800 billion. It has legions of fans, feverishly purchasing every new iProduct at […]
SnApp Judgements: EVAC HD
Every night at 2:15 AM Central, Amazon gives away a free paid app through its Amazon app store. I let you know if today’s app is useful or more clutter in your app drawer that just plain isn’t worth downloading. Today’s free app of the day is EVAC HD, a game with a series of […]
Review: Does The Lenovo IdeaTab S1209a Sound Like A Good Deal?
The Lenovo IdeaTab S1209a is quite obviously Lenovo’s answer to Apple’s iPad. The IdeaTab has a 9.7 inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 768, identical to the original iPad and iPad 2. Lenovo’s tablet is sleek at a thin 0.35 inches and a light 1.3 pounds, lighter than Apple’s new iPad and on […]
SnApp Judgements: Angry Birds (Ad-Free)
Every night at 2:15 AM Central, Amazon gives away a free paid app through its Amazon app store. I let you know if today’s app is useful or more clutter in your app drawer that just plain isn’t worth downloading. It’s Angry Birds, and it’s Ad-Free. You’ve all played it. Slingshotting birds to destroy evil […]