Get Google Wallet For Your Verizon Galaxy Nexus Right Now!

Posted by: on August 3, 2012 at 9:02 am
Get Google Wallet For Your Verizon Galaxy Nexus Right Now!

Finally!

This post has three parts: why Google Wallet is awesome, why Google Wallet is more awesome now, and where you can finally get Google Wallet, officially, for your Verizon Galaxy Nexus. You will now officially be able to leave all your credit cards at home. That’s right, the singularity is here and it begins with your money! Let’s begin.

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Hotmail Gains Outlook View, Doesn’t Quite Win Over This Gmail Fan

Posted by: on August 2, 2012 at 9:50 am
Hotmail Gains Outlook View, Doesn’t Quite Win Over This Gmail Fan

Hotmail looks a lot better as Outlook, just sayin’.

Microsoft wouldn’t come out and say it, but Hotmail is becoming Outlook; a Metro-themed extravaganza without much of Hotmail’s muchness. The new Outlook web portal eschews most of the crap that had been caked onto Hotmail over the years, especially after their Live services launch years back. The new look is fantastic, if perhaps simplistic to the point of being barren (something that underserves the sophistication of Microsoft’s products at times) and comes with a clean Messenger client and Skype calling right in the panel. If I still used Hotmail regularly, this would probably be the best news ever. But I don’t.

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Ok, Yeah, So…We’re Pretty Much All Dead.

Posted by: on August 1, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Ok, Yeah, So…We’re Pretty Much All Dead.

Yep…we’re all screwed.

I’ve come upon the knowledge that a Japanese company called Suidobashi Heavy Industries is going to kill all of us with giant robots. That isn’t to say that they are going to do the killing directly but they are making the robots, which are available for purchase by the public, and the robots are going to end up doing the murders.

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Facebook Timeline Becomes Mandatory Come This Fall, Get Ready Now

Posted by: on August 1, 2012 at 8:12 am
Facebook Timeline Becomes Mandatory Come This Fall, Get Ready Now

Seriously, it looks better and everything, just do it.

Guys, if you haven’t moved over to Facebook Timeline, you simply aren’t going to have the option come Fall. Introduced nearly a year ago with crazy banner images and the ability to go your birth on a single page, Timeline has been a drastic change in how Facebook walls are presented. Also, you need to stop being a luddite and move over before Facebook forces you to.

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Nexus 7 Review: The Tablet For The Rest Of Us?

Posted by: on July 31, 2012 at 8:58 am
Nexus 7 Review: The Tablet For The Rest Of Us?

The mythological Nexus tablet has arrived, but can it compete?

We’ve waited a long time for the Nexus tablet; for proof that Google really wants to compete against the iPad. Hardware with the flagship Nexus moniker is co-designed by Google and granted not only the latest and greatest versions of Android, but tend to be high-quality hardware as well. Google said they wanted to spread the Nexus branding amongst their partners and Asus is the latest to join the stable of privileged. While Android dominates in the smartphone market, shoehorning it onto tablets has net lukewarm results, proving that the iPad success story is far more exception than rule. But does the Nexus 7 make enough headway as a tablet to lead Google’s hardware partners to the promised land of tablet dominance? And does it cure my indifference to tablets altogether?

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Print Is Dead – Journalism Next?

Posted by: on July 26, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Print Is Dead – Journalism Next?

What are we going to read at the dentist’s office?!

Newsweek’s probable transition into a digital proprietary shed it’s dreary light yesterday. Most think it’s the next step into a new era of technology. Others believe it’s one step closer to the end of professional journalism. Is convenience worth heavily biased news?

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YouTube Wants To Show Your Real Name

Posted by: on July 24, 2012 at 7:28 pm
YouTube Wants To Show Your Real Name

This is a caption, look at it caption stuff!

It’s a ballsy move for YouTube to make, have everyone show their real name in comments instead of being anonymous. Anonymity has caused YouTube comments to just be a cesspool of the worst hate filled, racist and terrible use of the English (I’m sure other languages also) language you can ever imagine. Don’t even get me started on top comments. Read the rest of this article…

iPhone 5: Are You Ready To Toss Out Your Old Accessories?

Posted by: on July 24, 2012 at 8:50 am
iPhone 5: Are You Ready To Toss Out Your Old Accessories?

The more things change, more things you’ll need to change…

iPhone rumors abound, with mounting evidence that the newest record-breaking Apple device comes equipped with a new dock connector. At the same time, Apple is said to be bundling the headphone jack along the bottom of the phone as well. Adapters or not, one has to wonder: are you willing to throw out all of those old accessories?

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When Is Jelly Bean Landing For The Verizon Galaxy Nexus? Ever?

Posted by: on July 23, 2012 at 8:35 am
When Is Jelly Bean Landing For The Verizon Galaxy Nexus? Ever?

So close, and yet, so far away…

We’ve talked before about how much we hate carriers for holding up our smartphone updates, the slabs of new functionality our phones need to remain relevant. For Android users, you have the Nexus series of phones that are destined to receive the latest and greatest first, and for GSM-equipped owners of the Galaxy Nexus, the new 4.1 Jelly Bean update has been available from Day One. But what about those who caved into the demands of big carriers and wanted subsidized phones? We wait.

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Hulu Face Match Just Blew My Mind

Posted by: on July 19, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Hulu Face Match Just Blew My Mind

I noticed Hulu rolled out a new video player on my account and and decided to check it out. When I dug into the settings I saw an option for “face match” with an on/off toggle and a learn more link. What is this, I got to know. Read the rest of this article…