Cover your iPad like it’s 1984
The year was 1984. Ghostbusters was asking movie goers who they were gonna call. Mustached East German athletes were dominating women's speed skating at the Sarajevo Olympics. Michael Jackson won Album of the Year—and then burned his scalp filming a Pepsi commercial. And Apple launched the Macintosh, the ...
How much RAM, what processor speed should you choose?
Previously, Spot Cool Stuff wrote about how to best configure an Apple Macbook Pro laptop. But, with the new product launch from Apple, that advice pertains to what is now the "old" Macbook (still available on eBay but otherwise not sold in stores). The latest MacBook Pro now ...
Two $199 tablet computers compared
It seems that nearly every large electronics company is getting into the tablet computer business. So no surprise that Google is too. The company recently announced its Google Nexus 7, a tablet that takes direct at Amazon's Kindle Fire. Like the Fire, the Nexus 7 is designed primarily to ...
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Awesome, comfortable, incredibly efficient flying
Can flying on a passenger airplane be awesome, comfortable and incredibly efficient all at the same time? It can if John McGinnis has his way. He's the Project Manager for the Synergy Aircraft Project, an effort to vastly improve commercial air travel that's as ambitious as it is ...
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Which camera hits the right Mark?
For years now, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II has been a favorite mid-range digital SLR among serious photographers. The workhorse of a camera took professional-quality images and offered a huge feature set—and did so for a relatively low price. Then, two things happened: First, Canon came out ...
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Armchair travel in Brazil
You might think of Google Street View as that feature of Google Maps that let's you look at ground level photographs of your childhood home, a new restaurant you are trying to locate or some other street-side destination. But for several years now, Google has been expanding Street ...
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