Month: June 2014

Google Play offers downloads of Beck’s Blue Moon MP3 Single for free. That’s the best deal we could find for this track. (iTunes and Amazon each charge $1.29.) Read the original post by dealmac – Today’s Edition

Update: It looks like Feedly was able to neutralize the DDoS attack that crippled the news reader service for hours today. “We have neutralized DDoS attack that began at 2:04am PST last night,” the company wrote in a blog post, noting that “it might take a few hours for some […] Read the original post…

RSS aggregator service Feedly has been down since early this morning. the victim of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Feedly, which has come away as one of the leading services for news junkies in the wake of the Google Reader shut down, ties into numerous third-party apps across […] Read the original post…

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into Apple’s corporate tax affairs on suspicion that the company did not pay its fair share of income taxes. “It cannot be accepted that large companies do not pay their fair share in taxes,” Joaquín Almunia, Commission Vice President in charge of competition […] Read the original…

Motorola’s one-cent Moto X sale has put the smartphone once again in the minds of consumers, making the device relevant again. Read the original post by Gautam

Part activity tracker, part notifications accessory, and part journaling tool, the Sony SmartBand SWR10 has a lot of potential, but needs more refinement. Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

This “Brazilified” version of FIFA 14 captures the spirit of the World Cup with a new presentation style, team rosters, and game modes. Soccer (ahem, “football”) enthusiasts will enjoy total immersion in this year’s World Cup events, but next-gen console gamers are left out. Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

PGA Tour: King of the Course is a distinctly arcadey golf game we tried out at E3 2014 by EA Sports. Players take to the greens as one of several characters, each with their own strengths and weaknesses and work through a series of challenges. These range from fairly traditional […] Read the original post…

The BlackBerry Z30 GSM smartphone—with its 5-inch AMOLED screen and ability to run Android software—just may be the best BlackBerry yet. Read the original post by Stephen Hall

The list of options for custom ways to unlock the iPhone keeps growing thanks to the efforts of jailbreak developers. The tweak Genie provides an easy way to configure a gesture besides the standard slide to unlock movement to exit the lock screen. What makes Genie interesting is […] Read the original post by Bob…

Launch Center Pro, the action-centric utility for iPhone and iPad, has updated to version 2.3 on both devices, with a load of nice additions, including location triggers and support for connections service IFTTT. The update also includes QR and barcode scanning, custom notification sounds, and more. The major new feature […] Read the original post…

iOS 8, the next major mobile operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch includes a number of new features and improvements such as Interactive Notifications, Widgets, support for third party keyboards and lots more. We kick off our iOS 8 preview series with an in-depth look at the Messages app, one of […] Read the original…

As a reader discovered, Picture.com offers a voucher good for one MLB 8×10″ Photo Print for free when you sign up for its newsletter mailing list. With $5.95 for shipping, that’s a $13 savings and the only such MLB print offer we’ve seen of this size. Deal ends today. Read the original post by dealmac…

As a reader discovered, Fry’s Electronics offers the Canon PIXMA MX472 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer, model no. 6225B002, which also scans, copies, and faxes, for $59.99 with free shipping. (B&H charges the same.) That’s $10 below our April mention and the lowest total price we’ve seen. (It’s a current low […] Read the original post…

Screens, the VNC app for Mac, iPhone and iPad, today hits version 3.1 on the Mac and 3.4 on iOS with Dropbox support, giving users more choice in how to syncornize their saved screens. Screens will still default to iCloud for syncronization, except for the Mac version purchased outside of […] Read the original post…