Month: July 2013

Reader Kjeld Sorenson had a nasty shock and doesn’t care to be surprised again. He writes: I happened to have Disk Utility open the other day and much to my surprise I saw a warning about my Mac’s hard drive—that it had failed something called a SMART test and wasn’t reliable. […] Read the original…

Duluth, Ga. — Lake State Credit Union , which serves members in the Minnesota counties of Pine, Chisago, Carlton, Isanti, Aitkin, Washington, St. Louis and Kanabec, is adding a new branch in Duluth, Minn. Read the original post by Customer Interaction Solutions

The iTunes App Store offers Fieldrunners 2 for iPhone and iPod touch (pictured) for 99 cents. That’s $2 off and tied with our December mention for the lowest total price we’ve seen for this tower defense game. Also available is Fieldrunners 2 HD for iPad for $2.99. That’s also $2 […] Read the original post…

The iTunes App Store offers Man of Steel for iPhone / iPod touch for 99 cents. That’s $4 off and the best deal we’ve seen for this Superman game. Also available is the Man of Steel HD for iPad (pictured) for 99 cents. That’s $4 off and another price low. Read the original post by…

If you asked Macworld editors to name the technologies they can’t live without, you’d inevitably hear about Dropbox. This file-synchronization service lets you access your files from anywhere—not just your Mac, iPad, and iPhone, but also any Web browser. It provides easy cloud-based backup, too. But all that’s just the […] Read the original post…

J&R via Amazon offers the Iomega StorCenter px6-300d Diskless 6-Bay Network Storage Server, model no. 34769, for $299.99 with free shipping. That’s $273 under the lowest total price we could find for a refurbished unit elsewhere; this one is new. (It’s also $369 under the best price we could find […] Read the original post…

J&R via Amazon offers the Iomega 2TB StorCenter px6-300d 6-Bay Server Class Network Storage, model no. 35979, for $299.99 with free shipping ($0.15/GB). That’s $200 under our mention from last fall and the lowest total price we could find by $489. It features two 1TB hard drives, RAID 0, 1, […] Read the original post…

BuyDig offers the Coleman Xtreme 12-Megapixel Digital Camera in Yellow, model no. C4WP-Y, or Blue, model no. C4WP-BL, for $49.95 with free shipping. That’s the lowest total price we could find by $15. This camera is waterproof up to 10 feet and features a 1.8″ flip-up LCD screen, 8x digital […] Read the original post…

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to override its copy protection to make a backup copy or to convert its content […] Read the original post…

This Instagram image was taken by the TSA. No, really. It shows a weapon they confiscated from someone’s carry on luggage at Austin Bergstrom airport. The TSA now has their own Instagram account and has taken to posting images of some of the things they’re confiscating at airports across the […] Read the original post…

This Instagram image was taken by the TSA. No, really. It shows a weapon they confiscated from someone’s carry on luggage at Austin Bergstrom airport. The TSA now has their own Instagram account and has taken to posting images of some of the things they’re confiscating at airports across the […] Read the original post…

There are plenty of apps that can transcode video from one format to another, and there are a number of nifty apps that let you tag media files with useful metadata. But Jendrik Bertram’s $20 iFlicks (Mac App Store link) does both, and I’ve found none better at combining the […] Read the original post…

EE, the UK’s only 4G LTE enabled network provider, has this morning officially announced the rollout of double-speed LTE beginning tomorrow. Customers in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield will all benefit from the new super-fast mobile data. The service has already been […] Read the original post…

Today only, Defenders Quest offers downloads of Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten for Windows or Mac for $3.74. That’s $11 off and the lowest price we could find for this tower defense game. It includes the soundtrack and a Steam key. Read the original post by dealmac – Today’s Edition

Voice commands via programs like Ford’s Sync are so 2010. A newly-released app called “GlassTesla” uses the interactive capabilities of Google Glass to connect wirelessly with Tesla’s Model S . Read the original post by Gizmag