Month: October 2013

FreeNAS Mini provides administrators the ultimate in control over their NAS, thanks to the extensibility of its open-source software, despite some exasperation with the Unix/Free BSD software in administering. Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

For watching your money flow in and out—and for projecting how much you can spend in a day or week based on those figures—the free iPhone app Level Money does a good job. But it’s not at all useful for targeting budgeting, shared expenses, or many real-life financial situations. […] Read the original post by…

Bringing a totally different twist to bicycle-ride tracking, Strava Cycling takes segments of your ride and pits your best time against others who have ridden the same stretch of road. While exciting, and fiercely competitive, the Strava Cycling lacks some basic features typically included in tracking apps. […] Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

Staples offers the Toshiba Canvio 1TB Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, model no. HDTC610XS3B1, for $62.99. Coupon code “86069″ drops it to $47.99. With free shipping, that’s $0.05/GB, $15 under our mention from earlier today, and the lowest total price we’ve seen. The enclosed 2.5″ hard drive features an […] Read the original post…

Dell Home offers its Dell UltraSharp U2413 24″ LED-Backlit LCD Monitor for $499.99. Coupon code “9QB025WNJ3X$MJ” cuts it to $449.99. With free shipping, that’s the lowest total price we could find by $50, although we saw it for $27 less last month. (For further comparison, we saw it bundled with […] Read the original post…

Super Squares is a simple, addictive puzzle games for iPhone and iPad. The goal of Super Squares is to connect each square to another one of the same color, collecting all the stars in a level along the way. Draw different routes to avoid obsticles, and avoid blocking a color’s […] Read the original post…

About this time two years ago, we looked at the efforts of Miles Lightwood and the Thingiverse community to 3D print shells for hermit crabs, but Tokyo-born artist Aki Inomata has been creating artificial shells for hermit crabs since 2009. Read the original post by Gizmag

It’s been quite a while since we discussed Kingdom Conquest, SEGA’s action-strategy-MMO hybrid. Since then, the game has received a sequel, aptly named Kingdom Conquest II. Just like the first game, part II features a variety of gameplay styles all thrown into a pot and cooked together. One of […] Read the original post by…

As one of its daily deals, All4Cellular offers the refurbished Samsung SMX-F50 SD Card Digital Camcorder in Black, model no. SMX-F50BN/XAA, for $59.95 with free shipping. That’s the lowest total price we could find for a refurb by $60. (We briefly saw it new for this same price over a […] Read the original post…

The BenQ SH940 projector delivers bright, high-resolution, high-quality data images. Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

Avira Free AntiVirus (2014) did a great job keeping malware out of a clean test system, and Avira’s technology gets high marks from the labs. However, no tech support is available, so if malware cleanup does collateral damage (as it did in my tests) you’re on your own. […] Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

Staples offers the Motorola SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 Broadband Cable Modem in White, model no. SB6141, for $89.99. Coupon code “86069″ cuts it to $74.99. With free shipping, that’s $12 under our mention from yesterday (although that deal includes a free Netgear router, still available) and the lowest total price we […] Read the original post…

Here is a list of 11 startup companies that caught eWEEK’s eye at DEMO Fall 2013. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks