TECH: Best of the App Store – August 2009

Aug 19, 2009 No Comments

After doing my two-part “Best of the App Store” piece last month, I received a lot of positive feedback via my Twitter page. I know that not everyone has iPhones (you should though, especially at $99 for the 3G) or iPod Touches, but I feel quite a large percentage of Rhombus readers do. So I’ve [...]

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TECH: Google's New Plan For World Domination

Jul 22, 2009 2 Comments

On July 7th , at around midnight, the official Google blog announced the next phase in the company’s plan for global domination. (I’m half-joking). They announced the development of the Google Chrome Operating System, the follow-up and natural extension of the Chrome Internet browser Google released a year ago. Chrome OS will be an open-source [...]

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TECH: Best of the App Store: (Part 2: Games)

Jul 15, 2009 No Comments

If you missed the first installment of “Best of the App Store,” you can check out part one here. If you read part one of my “Best of the App Store” series, you will have noticed that this was intended to be a three-part piece. Well, two vacations later I realized that may have been [...]

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TECH: Best of the App Store (Part 1)

Jul 08, 2009 No Comments

I’m am, admittedly, an app store addict. I try and stay away from the iTunes App Store because, once I get into it, I will undoubtedly download five or six new apps. With 50,000 different apps available, both free and paid, it’s sometimes hard to sift through the garbage to find the store’s true gems. [...]

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TECH: iPhone vs. The Field

Jul 06, 2009 No Comments

In the summer of 2007, Apple released the first generation of their groundbreaking smartphone, the iPhone. The device recieved rave reviews for its revolutionary mobile web browsing and touch-screen interface, but received criticism due to its lack of 3G support and third party applications. Sales were strong for the phone and Apple sold 6.1 million [...]

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TECH: Microsoft Announces Lower Prices For Windows 7

Jun 25, 2009 No Comments

Microsoft announced the price points for their new, much hyped Windows 7 operating system on Wednesday. The product is slated for release later this year. The software giant’s monopolistic approach to doing business has backfired in the past few years, starting with the release of the much maligned Windows Vista in January 2007. After Vista [...]

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TECH REVIEW: Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate

Jun 24, 2009 No Comments

I began using Mozilla’s open source web browser Firefox in 2005 — and I haven’t looked back since. With every new iteration of the browser, I’ve seen Mozilla upgrade the speed and compatibility of Firefox. With Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 showing significant speed upgrades, Apple’s Safari 4 boasting impressive Java benchmark results, and Google’s Chrome [...]

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