Google ads
Now I want to start this post of by saying, this is a non biased article. We use Google ads on our site to help us fund it. Now for the post.
I think Google has it out for Apple. Just my blatantly honest opinion. I was watching some tech reviews on Youtube, and came across this ad on a TechnoBuffalo video. 
Now what I really want to point out is this: at the bottom left corner of the picture is says: “Ads by Google”.
I want to know who approved an ad for an iOS jailbreaking app on a video that has 50,000+ views, on a channel with 230,595,287 video views and 515,797 subscribers.
Just a little food for thought.
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Justin Long as Steve Jobs
Funny or Die released a parody biopic type of film starring Justin Long(as Steve Jobs), Jorge Garcia(As Woz), Anthony Gioe(As Justin Long), Michaela Watkins(as Melinda Gates) and more! You can check out the trailer Here.
This is Funny or Dies “comedic” take of the story of Steve Jobs and Apple. The story has some funny moments and some not so funny moments. Read more
(Resolved) iMessage and FaceTime outage affecting some users
Apple’s system status page http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
For the past couple hours, iMessage and FaceTime has had an outage that is affecting “some users”, according to Apple’s system status page. I noticed the issue a little bit ago when messaging Zac about some server upgrades.
It said to me “<personal info removed redacted> is not registered with iMessage.”, when indeed his address is registered with iMessage. Then chatting with someone else it only worked on the second send. Read more
Google Fiber heading to Austin, Texas?
Google Fiber, the 1 Gbit(1,000 Mb/sec download and upload speeds) internet service that is currently in Kansas City, may be heading to Austin Texas. Google and the city of Austin sent out invitations to an event next week. Details are still not known yet fully, and the story is still developing but it’s highly speculated to be Google Fiber. [1]
Google Fiber is taking advantage of “dark fiber” that Google has been buying up since 2005. [2] Dark Fiber is fiber that is already wired underground but isn’t hooked up to any networking equipment. Over time Google lit up some of this fiber(hooking it up to networking equipment) to link up its own data centers and peer up with other internet service providers to save money on bandwidth for products such as YouTube. [3] So since Google already has a large network of unused fiber under the ground already, they can start lighting them up for consumer use. Read more
Apple releases two new iPhone Ads
Apple just hours ago have released new iPhone ads. These are very similar to the iPad Ads they been airing recently, but these show the iPhone instead.
“Brilliant” ad, features a card app, Pass book and more
Apple award money cut to $599 million
Last summer, Apple called out Samsung on 6 patent infringements for various products. Judge Lucy Koh, who preceded over the trial, originally ordered Samsung to pay just over 1 billion dollars. According to a report, the award money has been reduced to just under $599 million, under half the original sum. The judge plans to open a new damages trial.
Source: Yahoo! News
iPod engraving gone wrong
Reddit user jayhawk503 bought a new 5th generation iPod Touch, and got more than he expected. The back of the iPod Touch was engraved “No thanks. I don’t want my iPod engraved.” on the back, and he claims he didn’t want it engraved. Not sure how true that is and I’m thinking he did this on propose, as you can leave the engraving line 1 and line 2 boxes empty and click “Continue” to skip it, with Apple’s clean and simple check out process.
So I’m pretty sure he just typed that as the engraving just to have a popular post on Reddit, but anyways I find it funny and noteworthy.
Source: Reddit
Apple released new iPad TV ad during the Oscars
Apple released a new iPad TV ad during the Oscars. I didn’t watch the Oscars, I was sleeping but I did see that Apple’s YouTube channel uploaded a new video.
This ad is one of those “drum roll ads”, like the iPad Alive Ad and iPad Together Ad. The new ad is called “Hollywood”. The ad features apps such as iMovie, different camera apps and a clapboard app.
Playstation 4! Would you buy?
We have all heard about the PlayStation conference that occurred at Manhattan Center Studios in New York few days past. Although many have heard about it, do you know much of what happened? Sony’s Computer Entertainment President and Group CEO Andrew House took the stage to explain the specs and features of Sony’s new PlayStation 4 (To be released in holidays of 2013). Let us get into it. First off, all rumors about them changing the naming style are not true, the new Sony entertainment system will be named the PlayStation 4, thus standing with Sony’s tradition.
There was several rumors that Sony was ditching the Dual Shock controller design, this rumor caused large controversy with blogs and gamers. Many loyal PlayStation players loved the DualShock design and comfort. Sony did not ditch the DualShock, instead now we have the DualShock 4. Lets talk about the specs Read more
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 announced
Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 8.0 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The screen on it is a 8 inch 1280×800 resolution display. It features a 1.6GHz A9 quad-core processor. It has 2GB of ram and has built-in storage options of 16GB or 32GB. if you need more storage, it’s expandable with a MicroSD card. Something not all tablets on the market support, so that’s great!
It features a 5 megapixel back camera and a 1.3 megapixel front camera that seems comparable to the iPad 3 and above , and iPad mini cameras.
Tweet from the grave
You may wonder what will happen to your Twitter account once you die. Maybe you’re worried that all your followers will miss all your funny Tweets and rants, or maybe that’s the last thing on your mind.
But what if I told you there’s an app that will look at your Tweets and use computer algorithms to analyze your Tweets to learn about things you like, your tastes and the way you speak. Then it pretends it’s you, once you’re dead. Sounds like something from The Twilight Zone, right? Well there’s an app for that. Read more
3D Drawing Pen
Startup WobbleWorks started a KickStarter so they can produce a product called the 3Doodler. It’s the world’s first and only 3D pen that lets you draw in the air, so you could draw the Eiffel tower base on a piece of paper or cardboard and then lift it up into the air off of the paper, creating a 3D model. Way more fun than drawing boring old 2D models. Read more
AOL is making $500 million profit from Dial-Up connections still
AOL recently released profits amounts for each of its divisions in Q4 2012. It’s Dial-Up division accounts for $500 million dollars of AOL’s profit. Surprised they are making that much from dial-up with its shrinking user base as more and more people are moving to broadband. I assume it would be more popular on Farmland and poor rural areas where they just have phone lines mostly and not cable. Read more
Kickstarter Launches iOS app
Kickstarter is a online site where people can post projects to be funded. They have gained a lot of fame in the past year or two. They have funded over 35,000 projects for a whopping total of $450 million dollars. ‘Bout had a heart attack when I saw that one. Read more
Exclusive: Facebook testing showing last active time on desktop
Facebook is testing showing last active time on the right side bar on chat. They do this on the mobile apps already, but not on desktop yet. I noticed this today on Facebook desktop, some refreshes show it and some don’t, this is because Facebook has a system to test features with a percentage of page loads, groups of people, etc using a “gatekeeper” system.
Just thought this was sorta interesting and creepy at the same time. Anyways, what do you all think of this feature? Do you like or dislike it, find it useful?
Facebook Promotes gift feature on Valentine’s day
Around September 2012 Facebook started rolling out a gift feature to its users, that allows you to pick a physical gift for a friend and then pay for it, then Facebook sends them a notification with a preview of the gift along with a virtual Card to the recipient alerting them to enter in their shipping address.
You normally see the option to send a gift when viewing a birthday reminder, and a gift button in the area where you write on someone else’s wall. Read more
Apple lowers 13″ Retina MacBook Pro Prices
Apple today announced some updates to its MacBook line up. The 13″ Retina MacBook Pro starts at $1,499 for 128GB of flash storage. The 256GB version with a new 2.6GHz processer starts at $1,699. About 200 dollars cheaper. So that’s great news and I expect that over time Retina MacBook Pro’s prices will eventually become around the same prices as the non-Retina MacBook Pro’s and replace them in the MacBook Product line.
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Twitter LOLCat language setting (Updated)
Twitter has started testing out a new language translation on the site. So instead of plain old English you can change your language to LOLCATZ (Beta). For those who are unfamiliar with lol cats, those are the funny pictures of cats with captions floating around the internet.
But anyways, I decided to try it. Stuff like “Interactions” turn into “INTERACSHUNS”, “Worldwide Trends” turn into “WURLDWIDE TRENDS”, “follows you” becomes “FOLLOWS U” and so on.
Apple rumored to be making a iOS watch
A watch band on the 2010 iPod Nano
Apple is rumored to be experimenting with wrist watches that would run iOS and feature curved glass. This is just a rumor and the exact feature set is unknown but we can always speculate, and with major news publications relaying these rumours, they may have some truth to them. The source wasn’t named but it seems it could have been an Apple employee familiar with the prototypes who leaked the info, wishing to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.
Corning, the company that makes the Gorilla Glass that is used on the iPhone, announced last year that it has been developing thin flexible glass for the last decade.
Wearable computers are predicted to be the next big thing. I currently wear a Nike FuelBand, Tim Cook, who is on the board of Nike, wears one also. Apple just might be interested in wearable computers too. Read more
Dell announces plans to go private
Michael Dell
Dell’s founder Michael Dell announced today that Silver Lake(A firm that invests in technology companies) and he are going to take Dell private again. Michael Dell and Silver Lake will be buying up the company at $13.65 per share. This deal is valued approximately at 24.4 Billion dollars.
By being a private company Dell won’t have to worry about impressing share holders each fiscal quarter. So now they can focus on whatever they want such as trying new interesting things. This is basically like becoming a startup again.
