Archive for August, 2011
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Google’s Shopping at Moto-Market Fetches 18 Anti-Apple Patents

After reading about Google buying Motorola, I wrote a slightly skeptical post about what it might turn out to be, and how it might affect the open-source platform of Android.

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The Social Evolution of Gaming [Infographic]

The true gaming geek will already know that the world of games has come a long way, baby. From the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 to mobile phone game apps like Angry Birds, the transition from solitary nerd-dom to an outright party has been made in the last 40 or so years.

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12 in 1 Guitar by Yoshihiko Satoh

If you got an opportunity to listen to the world’s twelve best guitarists playing together you would be experiencing the most awesome bit of music. But if you got these same twelve legends to play the twelve neck guitar of Japanese artist Yoshihiko Satoh it would be impossible for them …

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Cadbury Brings Augmented Reality Games to Chocolate Lovers

Augmented reality is not something new, but not many companies have considered it in their marketing strategies. Cadbury and Blippar joined forces to bring AR-based games to chocolate lovers.

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Join Bowser and Follow These Mario Propaganda Posters

I’m sure King Koopa built his army primarily on the “I’m a giant evil lizard who will stomp you” platform, but propaganda posters can further keep them in line to rise up against the likes of Mario.

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WiFi2Hifi Streams Music to iPhone Over WiFi

Some of us have huge audio libraries on the computer and transferring all the music to the iPhone is simply not possible. Wifi2Hifi will stream over your WiFi network whatever is playing on your PC.

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10 Awesome Uses for QR Codes

It seems that QR codes are everywhere these days, but some people have actually managed to be creative with them.

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Major Samsung Mobile Release On 9/1/11

Samsung, the company chosen to produce Google’s sweet Nexus S model smartphone, is planning to at least announce if not release a product that will make a big boom in the industry (in a good way, they claim).

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Firefox 6 Ready to Set the Net on Fire

Adaptability is the key to survival and in order to adapt to the changing times it is important to stay updated. One cannot find a better example for this than the World Wide Web. The internet has seen many changes ever since it came into existence even in one of …

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How to Get Better Grades Using Social Media [Infographic]

Looking for an excuse to Tweet from that snooze-fest of a lecture? Want to Facebook stalk during 3rd period? Here’s how to use social media to actually get better grades in school.