Month: July 2014

Green-Sum via eBay offers the refurbished Achieva 27″ 2560×1440 S-IPS LED-Backlit LCD Monitor, model no. QH270-IPSI, for $209.90 with free shipping. That’s $180 under the lowest total price we could find for a new unit. It features a native resolution of 2560×1400 and DVI port. A 1-year Green-Sum warranty applies. Read the original post by…

Apple’s growth in the overall worldwide smartphone market continues to slow as it loses ground to smaller Chinese vendors releasing more affordable devices, even as the smartphone market itself grows substantially. According to IDC’s latest estimates, worldwide smartphone sales for the second quarter of 2014 grew 23.1 percent […] Read the original post by Juli…

3,300 Ford employees currently using a BlackBerry will be getting a company-issued iPhone before the end of the year, and 6,000 will be replacing their flip phones with iOS devices in the next two year. Ford spokesperson Sara Tatchio commented on the switch. “We are going to get everyone on […] Read the original post…

While we cover a lot of the smaller jailbreak tweaks that are released through the week in our jailbreak tweak roundups, every once in a while a larger tweak comes along. Most recently it was Hermes and Smart Search, and now we have an extension called bluePill that is worth […] Read the original post…

While BlackBerry was once the go-to smartphone for many business individuals, and major corporations around the globe, transitions happen. Based on a statement from a Ford spokesperson, it looks like the auto manufacturer is gearing up to make its own transition. Continue reading → Read the original post by Evan Selleck

I love working from home, and all its myriad perks, but without a commute to sit through, I often miss out on my daily NPR fix. I’ve tried to address this gap using Hourly News, but this Mac app limits me to desk-bound listening—and it gives me only the five-minute […] Read the original post…

Ford Motor Company is planning to transition its corporate employees from BlackBerry to Apple, providing approximately 3,300 workers with iPhones by the end of the year, reports Bloomberg. According to Ford spokesperson Sara Tatchio, Ford is also aiming to get iPhones into the hands of an additional 6,000 corporate employees […] Read the original post…

Jared Sinclair, the developer behind RSS reader app Unread, has provided a detailed account of Unread’s first year of existance. It’s a sobering look at the state of indie app development and the market for pay up front apps. Sinclair goes in-depth about the stress of creating Unread, and the […] Read the original post…

Adorama offers the Logitech Ultimate Ears 500vm Noise-Isolating Headset in Gray, model no. 985-000364, for $22.89. Coupon code “SDJULYDEAL” cuts it to $13.99. With free shipping, that’s a buck below our mention from two weeks ago and the lowest total price we’ve seen. (It’s also a current low by $9.) […] Read the original post…

Looking for the best iPad apps to help you turn mindmapping and creating charts and diagrams into less of a headache? If you’re giving a presentation or just in the beginning stages of starting a project, flowcharts and diagrams can be immensely useful when it comes to conveying and sharing […] Read the original post…

Looking for the best iPad apps to help you turn mindmapping and creating charts and diagrams into less of a headache? If you’re giving a presentation or just in the beginning stages of starting a project, flowcharts and diagrams can be immensely useful when it comes to conveying and sharing […] Read the original post…

Echoes is a new take on voice announcements using your Mac. The app lets you send voice announcements to other computers on your local network without any fuss. To get started, select the menu bar icon. From there, you can announce to all connected computers, or select which individual recipients […] Read the original post…

A report from yesterday said that Apple was close to acquiring Swell, the Pandora for talk-radio service, for $30 million. The acquisition seems to have been completed as the Swell website says the service has shut down, and the app has been pulled from the App Store. Continue reading → Read the original post by Jason

Stor4PC via Amazon offers the Sabrent USB 3.0 mSATA External Enclosure Adapter for $19.99. Coupon code “NEW10SBT” cuts it to $9.99. Plus, Prime members bag free shipping. (Non-members can get free shipping with orders of $35 or more; otherwise, shipping adds $8.17.) That’s the lowest total price we could find […] Read the original post…

Ryan Petrich has released the biggest update to Activator in over a year, with the latest version of the popular jailbreak tweak packing over 50 new features and changes. Activator 1.9 is now available on Cydia through the default BigBoss repo, and we have a complete rundown of the updated package ahead.  Continue reading […] Read the original post…