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June 2012

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Android Games: Angry Birds Seasons Updated, New Temple Run Released

If you like mobile games and own an Android device then this has been a pretty good week.  Rovio released their summer update for Angry Birds Seasons, called "Piglantis", and Imangi has released a brand new Temple Run game.  Angry Birds is probably the most popular mobile game of all time, with Angry Birds Space setting a download record when

GNC-2012-06-14 #773 New Guts

I have been burning the midnight oil catching up on a incredible amount of work from all my travel. The inbox is slowly receding. Hardware refresh happening here in the Studio. Looking for some help with graphics here at the show so if you have some skillz reach out an let me know. Also looking for feedback how has the

Astronomers Spot Oldest Galaxy, Has Crazy Fast Star Birth

More than a decade ago the Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image that has since been referred to as "the most important picture ever taken".  It's real name is the Hubble Deep Field (you may want to watch this video before reading on).  While the image may seem old in this fast moving world of technology, it's not even an

New MacBook Pro With Retina Display Unfixable?

The brave souls at ifixit.org ripped apart the new MacBook Pro that Planet Earth has been raving about since Apple announced their newest laptop (with now-legendary retina display) and found something startling. “This is, to date, the least repairable laptop we’ve taken apart,” the ifixit.org team announced in a June 13th blog post, just a few days after the official

Goodbye, Apple Ping in iTunes. I Hardly even Used Ya

Apple announced their social network Ping would be removed in the next version of iTunes. It didn't build the excitement as Apple wanted it to. Because of the integration of Facebook with iOS6, and also integration with Twitter, Apple decided to retire the network. Ping was announced on September 2nd, and saw 1 million users in the first 48 hours.

Found and Streaming Sleep Timer: Two Apps That Do One Thing Well

Sometimes apps that do simple things, or seemingly simple things to the end-user end up being the ones that are the most useful. This week I discovered two such apps, one for the Mac Found and one for the iPhone the  Streaming Music Timer by Fusion Effects. Both do something that I have been looking for a while I use

Jolicloud Launches Public Profiles

Cloud storage hub Jolicloud today announced the launch of their new Public Profiles for users.  If you aren't familiar with Jolicloud, it's a service that grabs all of your various data from different social services like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Picasa, and Tumblr and places the data into neat files in one single location that users can then easily scan.  For instance,

MyFord Mobile – The Future of Smart Driving?

Adoption of electric vehicles in the United States has been a bumpy road, at best. If it wasn’t cost, it was availability. And if it wasn’t availability, it was functionality. For whatever reason, electric cars can’t seem to get traction. With a new app announced today, Ford is looking to set the tone for what owning an electric car should

Facebook Has a New Plugin For Sharing WordPress Posts

Facebook is always looking for ways to integrate with outside platforms. It just launched something called Facebook for WordPress plugin. It enables bloggers to make their WordPress blog more social, “in a couple of clicks”. You don't have to know how to do coding in order to make it work. Facebook has created a page that will talk you through

Amazon Cloud Player App Finally Available for iOS

Amazon Cloud Player has been available for Android devices since it launched, but today Amazon announced that the music app is now available for iPad and iPhone.  That's great news for iOS owners, especially given that the other big player in this field, Google Music, is also not available for Apple's mobile platform. Amazon Cloud Player offers 5 GB of free storage

GNC-2012-06-11 #772 Rockin With Good Bandwidth

Ohh boy I am so happy to be back in Honolulu fat bandwidth, my bed, my food, etc.... Thanks for being patient the past 10 days as things where simply crazy.. Nothing like hitting a 100k frequent flyer miles in just over 6 months. Way to many and hopefully I can keep my butt at home for a few weeks.

Domino’s Offering Discount for Online and Mobile App Orders

Are you hungry?  Domino's Pizza is currently offering a 50% discount on all orders placed either online or through their mobile app.  The big discount is a thank-you to their customers for placing one billion dollars in online orders between April 2011 and April 2012.  "Domino’s Pizza is giving its customers the thanks they deserve, as it celebrates – for the

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