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iPad & Apple TV Wrapup (2012)
Just last week, Apple released 2 new products entering their third generation; the (new) iPad and Apple TV. The New iPad After selling 15.4 million new iPad’s in Q4 of 11′, Apple just had to do it again. Called the “new” iPad, Apple is trying to make an upgrade that will allow the current [....]
News, Software / Hardware
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Valve Gets Steamed by Hackers
Last Sunday the 6th, a set of currently unknown hackers muzzled their way into a select few of Steam‘s databases stealing usernames, passwords (these were thankfully encrypted), emails, and other material of the like. Though only a few forum accounts have been broken into (which are separate from the actual Steam Store/Service), no known instances of fraud [....]
News
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Victory for Video Games!
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States of America declared that the state of California (all states actually, but this court case only involves California) can not restrict the sale of “violent” video games to minors as the First Amendment protects the flow of ideas to other people, including minors. This idea [....]
Mobile, News
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DoubleSight Displays 9″ USB Monitor Review
Background The DS-90U is one of the main iconic products that made DoubleSight Displays the brand it is today. DoubleSight is known for manufacturing monitors, but when they released their USB Monitor, the market slowly started to take advantage of the new idea. Design The DS-90U’s Black matte finish looks very nice and blends in most [....]
Computers, Mobile, Reviews
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Canonical Cancels ShipIt
Ubuntu has been known for its ease of access to itself, not just by how open source it is but by how it is easily obtained by almost anyone. Back when Ubuntu first started to become popular and a real option as a alternative to Windows or Macintosh OS, Canonical, the company behind [....]
Mobile, News, Software / Hardware
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Google Celebrates Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd Birthday
Yesterday, everyone who searched for anything from Pasta to Tech Cores got a nice little doodle from Google. Google is known for their different ideas to celebrate peoples’ birthdays to holidays by posting creative artwork to spruce up their homepage in commemoration. Today is Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd Birthday, so Google couldn’t miss the chance to do [....]
Entertainment
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YouTube’s Prank of the Year
Happy April Fools Day Tech Cores Readers, Today, as always, YouTube has posted a April Fool’s Day joke. But this year, there wasn’t as big of hype from it. As many know, YouTube normally pranks people with things from Rick Rolling everyone a few years ago and last year introducing for one day [....]
Entertainment, Updates
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How To: Make a Ribbon Banner in Photoshop
Many new graphical designs use a newer form of design to show the importance of an object, and that is a 3D looking Ribbon Banner. This normally shows a few words that show the difference between different products or choices. Today, I will be showing how this effect can be archived in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or GIMP. Whats Needed [....]
Guides
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Boogie Board LCD Tablet – Unboxing and Review!
Background The Boogie Board is the first product of a new electronics company. iMPROV Electronics. As for a flagship product, it was a great starting point for them. The Boogie Board was first released in January of 2010 immediately after the creation of iMPROV Electronics by Kent Displays. As of the time of release they [....]
Reviews, Software / Hardware
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Verizon iPhone Announcement!?!
Since 2008, Apple and Verizon have been secretly testing a CDMA iPhone. A few days ago a few hundred people got invites to a Verizon event that immediately brought up the question, Verizon iPhone? Today the secret came out, yes, at 11:06AM, Verizon (for a shock) announced its latest partnership with (drum roll [....]
Mobile, News
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Webcam Max Review
This is one of my old reviews from 2009. For some reason I feel like doing a review of Webcam Max right here and right now because I have noting better to do at the moment, so here it goes. Please note to all who are reading this, this is my first review of a [....]
Reviews, Software / Hardware
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Gawker Accounts Hacked!
Over the December 11-12 weekend, many were in their homes waiting for the snow to stop. Sadly Gawker seems to have let their guard down. Yesterday, a hacker group released 541,376 commenter account passwords to the public via the popular torrent tracker, The Pirate Bay. A few tools have been released to the [....]
News, Updates
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iTunes Announcement
After all of the commotion in the Blog-o-sphere, today Apple announced “something you’ll never forget”. Indeed it is something that we won’t. For once Apple Computers and Apple the record company have settled on allowing The Beatles to be published on the iTunes Library. This is quite good news stating that I’ve wanted this ever [....]
News, Updates
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New Facebook Messaging System!
Today, Facebook announced a new system of messaging between people at once where the control of the conversation is in the users hands. In the next few months a few new changes will be added Facebook to help make instant communication more centralized. In the video Facebook’s Joel Seligstein created, he categorizes the new system into 5 [....]
Computers, News, Updates