As I discussed on the podcast last week and again on Monday, I got an Apple Watch. Ahead of the Watch’s launch, I said several times that I couldn’t have been more excited professionally and less excited personally for the device; my love of mechanical watches and my experiences with the terrible smartwatches that were already on the market made Apple’s watch a boring proposition for me.
Or so I thought.
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Nature is chock full of terrifying phenomena, from hurricanes to tornadoes to celebrities with strong political leanings, but nothing strikes fear into our hearts quite like a thunderstorm. Dogs run under tables, babies start crying and adults pretend it doesn’t bother them, but they know deep down that getting struck by lightning is a real possibility.
Fortunately, like most things in nature, we seem to have found a way to corral that crackling electrostatic discharge.
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Our posts on paid iPhone and iPad apps that go on sale for free comprise our most popular recurring series by far. People love taking advantage of limited-time sales on great paid iOS apps, and we’re happy to do our part in eliminating the dozens of low-quality apps that go on sale and focusing only on the best of the bunch.
Today, we’ve got eight great options for you and they’re all free for a limited time. There are also still a few free apps in yesterday’s post as well, so be sure to check that post out before those sales end.
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With about four more months to go until Apple launches the new iPhone 6s models, reports are already starting to offer more details regarding Apple’s iPhone plans for 2015. At the same time, talented designers are constantly imagining fascinating iPhone concepts, and some more interesting than others.
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If you’ve been using Gmail for a long time, you may think you know every tip and trick in the book. That said, there’s a whole set of incredibly cool Gmail features that you may not know about despite the fact that they’re hidden in plain sight. We’ve picked out the 10 best ones and listed to them below.
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It’s hard to believe next-generation iPhone rumor season has already begun. It seems like just yesterday that Apple finally came around and launched the larger iPhones users had been clamoring for, and Apple fans couldn’t get their hands on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus fast enough.
With about four months to go before Apple releases its next new smartphones though, attention is now turning toward the future. When the iPhone 6s finally does debut, however, don’t expect it to fix the biggest problem with the current iPhone 6.
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The biggest tech news of the week was a doozie, with Verizon announcing its plan to acquire AOL for $4.4 billion. Naturally, the acquisition led to a whole lot of chatter regarding what Verizon’s long-term plans with AOL truly are. After all, though AOL owns a number of extremely popular web properties (i.e Engadget, Huffington Post), the company still derives a good portion of its revenue via dial-up subscribers, of which there are currently 2.1 million.
Still, many believe that the deal was largely a play to acquire AOL’s ad platform.
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The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge are widely seen as some of the best Android smartphones money can buy this year, and certainly the best Samsung handsets made to date. But that doesn’t mean everyone has been impressed with Samsung’s new iPhone-inspired design philosophy.
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My dream of having Google take over my iPhone is quickly becoming a reality. Apple’s smartphones are sleek and its mobile platform is the best in the business, thanks largely to superior third-party apps that are abundantly available. As it turns out, Google’s iOS apps are among the best in the App Store, and I recently wrote about the fact that Google’s iPhone apps are better than Apple’s own iOS apps across the board.
But now that Google has dominated my iPhone, there’s a new Apple device I need Google to take over as soon as possible.
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The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge will both receive a an update to a new Lollipop version, a Canadian carrier has revealed, just as recent rumors suggested.
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