Month: October 2013

For its newsletter subscribers only, newegg offers the Seagate 2TB Barracuda Serial ATA 6Gb/s Internal Hard Drive, model no. STBD2000101, for $99.99. Coupon code “EMCYTZT4677″ cuts it to $84.99. With free shipping, that’s $0.04/GB and the lowest total price we could find by $10, although we saw it for $5 […] Read the original post…

Best Stop Deals via eBay offers the Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS II Telephoto Zoom Lens, model no. 2044B002, for $134.99 with free shipping. That’s the lowest total price we could find by $3 (most charge $175 or more), although we saw it for $6 less three weeks ago. It […] Read the original post…

Best Stop Deals via eBay offers the Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS II Telephoto Zoom Lens, model no. 2044B002, for $134.99 with free shipping. That’s the lowest total price we could find by $3 (most charge $175 or more), although we saw it for $6 less three weeks ago. It […] Read the original post…

Apple has updated Aperture with some new features, improvements, and fixes. Aperture now supports iCloud photo sharing, including posting videos to a shared photo stream. Multiple people can now also contribute their photos and videos to a shared stream. SmugMug is now supported, and you can publish and sync galleries […] Read the original post…

Provantage offers the Cisco Linksys AC1900 Dual-Band 802.11ac Wireless Gigabit Ethernet Router, model no. EA6900, for $186.06 plus around $6 for shipping. That’s $8 under our mention from last week and the lowest total price we’ve seen for this router. (It’s also a current price low by $8.) It features […] Read the original post…

Other World Computing discounts a selection of used Apple Macs and iPads, with prices starting at $239. With free shipping, that puts each model tied with, or at least $10 under our mention from three weeks ago. (It’s also the best deal we’ve seen on these items from OWC, yielding […] Read the original post…

The Sonos Play:1 is the most affordable, functional wireless multi-room speaker we’ve seen yet, and Sonos’ legacy makes it a breeze to set up. Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

Joe Kissell excellently documents some of the major problems that arise when using Gmail accounts in Mail on OS X Mavericks, and one possible (though not entirely fun) solution. We’re all hoping Apple fixes these issues soon; in the meantime, we suggest using Kissell’s solution or managing your email from […] Read the original post…

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that police must obtain a warrant prior to using a GPS device to track a vehicle, deciding on an unaddressed issue in an earlier Supreme Court order. Read the original post by John Ribeiro, IDG News Service

Apple’s move to offer its latest desktop operating system, OS X Mavericks, for free isn’t going to affect the Linux operating system at all, its creator Linus Torvalds said. Read the original post by Loek Essers, IDG News Service

We’ve gotten a bunch of messages from readers who originally bought iWork or iLife back when they were still sold on disk in boxes – yeah, you know, the dark ages – saying the Mac App Store is now properly offering them free updates to the new versions. Yesterday, for […] Read the original post…

It’s been a while since we wrote about The Sims FreePlay, Electronic Arts’ mobile version of the hit life simulation series. Even still, the game is going strong. EA has released two major updates for FreePlay in the last two months: the Teen and Mysterious Island updates. Together, they […] Read the original post by…

Pixelmator 3.0 has been released, bringing Mavericks compatibility, layer styles, and more. Layer styles are non-destructive ways to help you quickly apply colors, gradients, or effects so you can create more advanced compositions easier and faster than before. The preset layer styles are found at the bottom of the Styles […] Read the original post…

Following yesterday’s introduction of new Retina MacBook Pro models, the machines have already begun showing up in Geekbench benchmarks, offering the opportunity to see how their raw performance compares to the previous generation. While several of the entries appear to be fakes, there are enough legitimate […] Read the original post by Eric Slivka