We took a look at Quickres and Quicklock late last year and noted that while small in utility, then specific utilities they catered too made our lives a lot easier. First off, Quickres is a handy utility that allows superb fast toggling of screen resolutions without having to jump deep into the system settings panel. Even cooler, though is that you can select multiple resolutions as “favorites” and set up keyboard shortcuts to toggle between your chosen...
iPad stands are like iPhone cases – a dime a dozen. There are good ones, “ok” ones and “don’t even bother” ones. CoolerMaster’s Cube stand looks to cater to the former. But visual appeal is but one small piece of the puzzle. Does the Cube actually work? Design & Construction True to CoolerMaster’s recent iPad specific accessories, aluminum is used heavily again. It makes for a nice and sturdy (but not too heavy) stand that...
BiteMyApple.co has begun shipping the OCDock for iPhone 5 which just happens to be the slickest dock without all the cable mess I’ve ever seen. Sitting elegantly on the foot of your iMac, the OCDock actually looks like it is is a wireless dock zapping info to your computer. The dock matches the color and design of your iMac as well as the Thunderbolt Display, creating a beautiful and seamless docking setup for your iPhone 5 and computer. Featuring a unique and...
T-Mobile has long been the 4th place underdog in the wireless world, With a subscriber count that trails (by a long ways) the two biggest carriers, AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile only has one thing to really compete on – price and unique service offerings. But even the various service options they’ve offered over the last several years haven’t turned into anything meaningful, specifically, actual subscriber growth. It hasn’t happened since 2009. But...
Taking weeks to get that insane star count on Angry Birds is pinnacle of human achievement. And then you have to restore or replace your phone for some reason and all of that hard earned work is…gone. For a while now, people have been asking for a way to sync game data. The most obvious response up front is iCloud, but that’s iOS-only and completely leaves the several other platforms Rovio supports out in the cold. A better solution (and one that is hopefully more...
After Google recently updated their iOS Search app with built-in Google Now functionality, reports started popping up of massive battery drain caused by the seemingly always-on GPS. I personally saw said problem with my first evening with Now active dropping my battery a full 70% in ~2-1/2 hours. Subsequent tests netted at least 40-50% in the same time span. Google quickly hit back that the way they implemented GPS use in Google Now should barely affect battery life because...
