Building a reliable home network takes a lot of work, especially if you live in a large home with a bunch of people. You have to worry about the placement of the router, the amount of devices connecting to the network, the cost of your Internet package vs. how much data you actually need — it’s a real hassle.
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Want to buy a new smartphone but are confused by all the options you have at your disposal? If so, then you really out to check out this awesome interactive chart posted over at Product Chart that will help you narrow down your choices and find the smartphone of your dreams.
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Ahh, Nintendo’s Power Glove. I have never seen teens more excited to try something in one of The Fine Bros’ videos. I have also never seen teens more disappointed in something once they actually tried it. At the time it came out, Nintendo’s Power Glove was an exciting motion-based controller that added a whole new dimension to video games. But in hindsight, of course, it was terrible and counterintuitive.
Now, we get to enjoy watching modern-day teens relive the frustration we all experienced decades ago.
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Here’s something just about no one was expecting: Apple has just released its first beta for iOS 8.3 before it’s even officially released the final version of iOS 8.2. As 9to5Mac astutely notes, Apple seeded iOS 8.3 beta 1 to developers on Monday alongside its Xcode 6.3 beta with Swift 1.2. We’re not even expecting iOS 8.2 to finally drop until sometime in March, which makes it a little surprising that Apple is already moving on to 8.3. All the same, the company may be rushing a bit to get all these key updates for iOS 8 out the door before it focuses all its energy on iOS 9.
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The ChargeTech Portable Power Outlet is an ingenious device recently seen at CES2015. In its simplest terms, the ChargeTech is an ultra portable 12,000mAh power bank, but its capabilities aren’t simple at all. While the ChargeTech does have two USB ports, much like other portable power banks, that allow you to simultaneously charge two mobile devices at once, what sets the ChargeTech apart from the competition is it’s AC power outlet that is also on the device.
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Last summer, President Obama signed the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act into law. This made it legal for consumers to unlock their cell phones, but until now, carriers haven’t been required to sell unlocked phones or honor unlock requests (although most did anyway).
That’s going to change on February 11th.
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Popular movie and TV show Torrent-streaming site Popcorn Time, a service that is also known as “Netflix for Pirates,” is taking even more measures to make sure its users are able to safely enjoy its services. As Torrent Freak has learned, the service is looking into adding I2P support and P2P technology to Popcorn Time, in order to further anonymize traffic and protect the app’s users.
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Just how amazing were Apple’s Q1 2015 earnings results? So amazing that the company is seemingly shredding years’ worth of conventional wisdom about how much an established firm can keep growing. Jean-Louis Gassée at Monday Note has written a tongue-in-cheek look at all the “laws” of economics Apple has broken with its record-crushing earnings report and he explains why some of these laws were highly questionable to begin with.
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Twitter is a truly fascinating place that is simultaneously an amazing source of information and entertainment, and a boring, soul-crushing waste of time. It really all depends on who you follow, and since there are more than half a billion users, it can be difficult to find the right people to follow.
So, we’ve done some of the heavy lifting for you.
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Apple has recently been hearing a lot of criticism from its own user base about the quality of its recent software releases, including the truly horrible release of iOS 8.0.1 that broke iPhones’ Touch ID features and made it impossible to make phone calls with the device. Given this, iPhone users will be relieved to know that Apple has decided to take a breather when it comes to major new features on iOS 9 and is making stability the most important addition to the new OS.
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