Windows 10: Microsoft is trying way too hard to get you to upgrade
The longer you wait to upgrade your Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC to Windows 10, the more annoying Microsoft is going to be. According to reports around the Internet, some users are beginning to receive notifications to upgrade that don’t allow them to opt out, instead giving them the option to either begin the upgrade or reschedule for a future date.
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Meet MagCable, the accessory that brings an iconic Mac feature to your smartphone
Even the most hardcore Apple hater can grudgingly admit that the MagSafe technology Apple uses to keep MacBooks charged is incredibly cool. Now a new Kickstarter project called MagCable that’s being spearheaded by a company called aMagic is hoping to bring this technology to your smartphone.
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Name your price for any of these 5 awesome developer bundles
Whether you want to learn how to make apps, games, or websites, you don’t have to spend a fortune to do it. In fact, you can pay what you want. We’ve put together some of our most popular developer bundles for our most popular price—check out these five bundles and pay what you want for them now at the BGR Store.
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Rare photos of Apple’s highly secretive Input Design Lab
In conjunction with this week’s release of new iMacs and a slew of revamped accessories, Apple gave journalist Steven Levy unprecedented access to one of the company’s top-secret testing labs where it designs, prototypes, and tests all of its Mac accessories. Officially called the Input Design Lab, this secretive building is where Apple gets to work ensuring that its keyboards, trackpads, and mice are all up to snuff with the company’s standards.
Seeing as how no outsider has ever been granted access to the lab, the photos Levy was allowed to take and publish are extremely interesting, especially given Apple’s notorious reputation for taking product secrecy to the extreme.
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Scary video shows a huge slab of metal flying off a plane just as it’s taking off
What’s the worst thing you can imagine happening while your plane is taking off? OK, so having the plane explode during takeoff would probably be the worst thing, but we can’t imagine anyone would feel comfortable flying on a plane where a large slab of metal flew off it just as it was starting to leave the ground. And yet that’s exactly what we see in a scary video posted this week by YouTube user Carlos Troncoso.
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Save 70% on a great pair of over-ear Bluetooth headphones on Amazon
Get a great deal on a snazzy pair of headphones that will have you enjoying your music as soon as you put them over your ears. Amazon is offering the Bluedio H-Turbine Bluetooth Stereo Headphones for 70% off their list price of $23.99 with free shipping.
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Why 3D Touch is so much better than anything Android can offer right now
From the moment Apple demoed 3D Touch on stage during the iPhone 6s event, some Android users were quick to point out that Android had it first. But that’s not true. In fact, it’s far from being the case. 3D Touch goes well beyond what a long press can do on Android – and long press is available on iOS too, of course – and a detailed report that examines the math and physics of 3D Touch reveals the complexity of Apple’s new hardware and software tricks.
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Try to act surprised: Samsung just announced a rose gold Galaxy Note 5
We can’t even imagine the conversations that are taking place in Apple’s offices on Thursday. First a huge leak revealed the upcoming new HTC One A9, which is far and away the most shameless iPhone copy the world has ever seen outside of the Goophone. Not to be left out, Samsung just announced that its flagship Galaxy Note 5 will soon be available in two new colors: Silver and, you guessed it, rose gold.
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Video: The iPhone 7 I hope Apple will never make
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the 3.5-inch iPhones at the time. They fit perfectly in my hand and seemed to be just right for anything. But I wouldn’t want to use a new 3.5-inch iPhone no matter how up-to-date it was now that I know what iOS 9 os like on a bigger screen.
However, not all iPhone fans want such large displays on their iPhones, and some are still waiting for Apple to make a new iPhone that would pack the same awesome features available in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s series, but in a smaller package.
While rumors speculate that a 4-inch iPhone 6c is in the making for next year, a graphic designer has now imagined what a 3.5-inch iPhone 7 would look like.
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10 awesome paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time
We’re past the halfway point, but this week is still far from over. Don’t worry about all of those meetings you still have to fight through to get to the weekend, let this great list of 10 paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free put your mind at ease. And if 10 aren’t enough, you can always check back in yesterday’s post, where you’ll find several freebies that are still live.
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