A buddy of mine told me he was going to get his kids an iPad. They’re young and he figured it was probably enough for them and he didn’t want to spend a lot of money like a PC but they would use it for school. Then I pulled up the Staples ad and showed him what he was missing. The Atom based tablet PCs share a lot – prices of $600 or less (the Lynx at $550 and the HP Envy X2 at $600 but with a keyboard); 11.6” displays; a tablet with keyboard option; 7+ hours of battery life; 64GB storage; touchscreens and of course they can also function as full PCs. A 64GB iPad is $700 by comparison. It took him all of 5 seconds to decide to buy the Envy X2. Why didn’t he make that decision without me? He had no idea the product existed. The idea of a tablet that docks and is a full PC in this price range wasn’t on his radar. And these Staples print ads are fine and all but that’s not really telling a story.

Bottom line is that Microsoft should be showing these things off on tv and telling the story of what people can be getting for their dollar. They may not think that the iPad is competing with Windows 8 tablets but if they don’t understand that then they also don’t understand why Apple owns the tablet market. Windows 8 tablets aren’t even in most tablet conversations and that’s the problem…there’s still an information gap and the current commercials don’t cut it. They need to get on the tv and go at them and show consumers what they could get for the same price.

A friend posted on Facebook this morning that she & her husband had been awoken at 3:30am by their dog barking. After yelling for her to shut it, they went back to sleep.

When morning came, they had to apologize to the dog: the friend’s purse, sitting by the door, had been stolen. (Luckily, the barking seems to have been enough – the Macbook Pro 4 feet away was untouched).

Enter Find My iPhone to save the day! With the police right there, they pinged the phone and realized it was only a few short blocks away. They got near, set the audible alarm and presto! The police found the purse, iPhone and all, under a doghouse, waiting to be picked up by the thief.

So is Find My iPhone worth it? She might say “Yes” now. And I hope that the dog is getting a nice, juicy steak tonight!

Me, I’m moving my purse’s resting area away from the door immediately.

So you’re tired of seeing everyone else’s Harlem Shake video, you think its time for you to be a productive member of pop culture and do you own! You’re in luck, if you happen to be an iOS user that is. Behold, the app sent from above, titled, “Harlem Shake Creator HD.”

The app makes your life a lot easier by divided the Harlem Shake awesomeness into three easy steps, so easy, you’d be crazy not to do it! Added “high quality” option is a must, but the best part of the app is the added slow motion effect at the end, NICE!

The original Harlem Shake Creator! Make viral videos with your friends in simple 3 steps.
★ Slow motion for last 2 seconds (canons)
☆ FREE upload to YouTube in HD or medium quality
☆ Save to camera roll
The Harlem Shake is an Internet phenomenon based on viral videos that began to gain popularity in early February 2013, following the release of a video by the YouTube comedy vlogger Filthy Frank.
Due to numerous requests, “save to gallery” option will be available for free within two next versions!!

source Lifestyles Defined

I’m sorry but are we as a society have not gotten to the point where the newspaper reading in a bathroom can be acceptably replaced by an iPad in a bathroom. Certainly not in a public bathroom. Yuppy-central Starbucks doesn’t qualify as an exception. In true spirit of George Costanza allow me to impart some advice. There is no amount of explaining you can do to justify taking an iPad into a public restroom. None!

Wait, did I just call myself a yuppy? Those are the breaks.

That moment when you realize technology has fallen into the hands of an idiot. That sums up this woman and her penchant for whipping out her iPad and snapping pictures as if that’s in any way acceptable. The crowd snickered and more than a few people told her to sit her arse down. Wait, maybe that was just me?!

DOUG EDIT: disregard, testing auto tweet embed, relax:

Galaxy S 4 With New AMOLED Tech, HTC One Shortages, Apple Music Streaming & More – Pocketnow Daily bit.ly/10sC1vX

— Pocketnow (@Pocketnow) March 9, 2013

EDIT COMPLETE…

A Federal Judge has upheld the $368 million award, and denied Apple’s request for a new trial. The judge also ruled that Apple must pay$330,000 a day to VirnetX, a company that profits from purchased patents, until the two parties get together on a licensing deal for the four patents involved, . If both sides fail to reach agreement in 45 days, the judge will make a final ruling.

The lawsuit centers around patents allegedly infringed upon by Apple in Facetime and iMessage. Apple’s chief defense is that even if they have used similar technology to the patented tech in creating Facetime and iMessage it only amounts to a very small part of the complex software.

There is something about patent trolls that nobody likes. Lets hope Apple and VimetX can work out a reasonable settlement and not drag this out.

Source: Seeking Alpha

If you are looking for a visually stunning game with lots of action to play on your iPhone or iPad, then check out Infinity Blade which is free right now at the App Store. This Epic Game has you pitted against the God King and all his Titans. There are lots of weapons, armor, helmets, shields and magic rings that you need to master to become stronger and beat the higher ranking Titans and the God King himself unless he beats you and you start a new bloodline all over again. This game has been updated several times with lots of new levels and Titans to contend with. It is a great precursor for Infinity Blade II which is even better than the first. At the low cost of free this is a no brainer, go grab yourself a copy and even challenge your friends in the Arena!

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If you found it hard to share content from your news feed on Facebook you are in luck because there is a new update today that is going to help us fat fingered guys! Instead of having all the buttons on the left hand side, they now stretch across the entire bottom. This is what it looks like now:

And this is what it looked like before:

It looks really nice on the iPhone as well. So get updated and head into the weekend sharing more social media on Facebook. While you are at it, show us some love and follow us on Facebook

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Apple has clearly parted ways with the super simple format of their product commercials from yesteryear. Now, we get an up tempo production to some random word association matching. Although the ads themselves are okay, I still can’t help but feel there is something more to be desired. It used to be, when an Apple commercial aired, the room stood still to see what feature they’d highlight and how they’d do it. Now? All you’re left with is this. Is this a sign?

Every once in a while we get a glimpse of someone being so wrong about how to use technology that you have no choice but to issue out a face palm. Not just any face palm but the Doh! kind of face palm reserved for only the most ridiculous images we come across. I present to you iPad Fanny Abuse.

This comes courtesy of one of our Twitter followers who was so generous as to share this display of social and fashion tech ineptness. Thanks @SilverTopTech