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Almost one year ago many of us sat enthralled before our computers as we watched Felix Bomgartner slowly ascend into the sky, not stopping until he reached the stratosphere. The rise was painfully slow, but the man had a much quicker plan to return to earth. At a height so dizzying that the curvature of the earth was visible, Bomgartner emerged
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Microsoft is offering an interesting deal: If you have an iPad 2 or greater, you can turn it in for a gift card of at least $200. It's part of Microsoft's Trade-in for a Surface program. It showed up on Surface's Facebook page Friday. The post says its for a Surface RT, but when you go to the official page, it
Like many families, my kids are of an age where they have devices of their own. Living in Hawaii the traffic is incredibly bad, and we spend up to 3 hours a day in our vehicles. My Mazda CX9 fortunately has two charger outlets to plug devices like the Belkin 2-Port car charger into. Using a single charger port it
Apple has decided to discontinue their Cards iOS app service. September 10, 2013, was the last day it was usable. The service is no longer available. If you were someone who used, and enjoyed, the Cards app this news may come as a disappointment. Apple says that you will still be able to view your previous purchases by opening the
These are tough economic times and if you want to save yourself a few pennies, stop buying ebooks, join your local library and borrow ebooks for free. The OverDrive Media Console app lets you download and read ebooks offered by your local library for nothing, and if audiobooks are of more interest, the app can handle those as well. The
Voyager is now in Interstellar space, I talk about that and the Apple iPhone non-event. Subscribe Today: Audio | Video (HD) | Mobile Video | iTunes | Zune Download the Audio Show File Follow me on Google+ Follow @geeknews on Twitter Geek News Central Facebook Page Show Hotline 24/7 1-619-342-7365 or e-mail geeknews@gmail.com Links to articles covered in this Podcast
Vimeo has come up with a very interesting way to support video creators. It's called On Demand. The purpose is to help video creators sell their films and episodic series by providing them with a way to monetize their work. Vimeo is offering a 90/10 split of revenue. The video creator would keep the 90% (after transaction fees). Vimeo will
Yesterday on the Chrome blog, Google announced that new Chromebooks from Acer, Asus, HP, and Toshiba were on their way. Arriving in the next few months the new Chromebooks are based on Intel's Haswell chips rather than the current ARM processors and the chip's low power consumption will double the battery life. These new Chromebooks are (roughly) the third iteration
Imagine being 30,000 feet in the air and doing wireless business, watching a Netflix movie or even downloading and installing updates to your computer. With new initiatives, that could happen very soon. Gogo In-flight wireless - a leader in in-flight connectivity - announced a new program called Ground to Orbit (GTO). This combines satellite feeds with Gogo's air-to-ground Wifi capabilities.
This week was the monthly Patch Tuesday, a time when Microsoft sees fit to push out updates to various software, most notably Windows and Office. Its a tense time, thanks to past problems that have resulted in unbootable computers for some customers. This month did not cause anything quite so drastic, but it also did not pass without notice. The
Last time I had to deal with co-processors was in the 90's when I put in a 386SX/DX combo into a PC. Technically, co-processors are in your computer still - just as one chip. However, Apple has separated the processors once again with the iPhone 5S. The A7 and the M7 processor. The A7 processor will be the primary processing
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