iPad
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Warning: Choose your iOS backup option wisely
I never really paid that much attention, and I was almost forced to learn the difference between the different iOS backup options the hard way. Had my iPhone been lost or stolen, I would have lost some data and configuration settings. Thankfully, I was just replacing my iPhone because I had dropped it and cracked the display,…
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Get all three of my Kindle books for the price of one
There are plenty of tech reviews ad opinions, but every once in awhile I like to dig in a bit deeper and share a more complete experience instead of just a brief overview. Over the past few years I have spent 30 days immersing myself in various platforms and technologies, and a few of those…
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Target Will Buy Your First-Generation iPad For $200
If you happen to still have an original, first-generation iPad laying about, it’s time to cash it in. Target will buy it back from you for $200. For some perspective–that’s a lot. The street value of an original, first-generation iPad on a site like eBay or Craigslist is probably about $100 at best. The popular tech buyback…
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Apple Can Ignore Android Market Share Stats All The Way To The Bank
It’s not a secret that Android has surpassed iOS in terms of mobile market share, and that it’s well on its way to dominating the mobile market in much the same way that Windows has squashed Mac in the desktop arena for years. While Android loyalists take great pride in this fact, though, Apple could…
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Tidbits from the iPhone 5S rumor mill
The Apple rumor mill is in high gear with the impending unveiling of Apple’s latest mobile devices a few weeks away. As is tradition in the days leading up to any Apple product unveiling, the tech news seems to be dominated by “reports” from various analysts and other sources providing hints and clues of what…
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All tablets are PCs, but not all PCs are tablets
There’s a debate going on over the affect of tablets on the PC market. Tablets are taking over, and killing PC sales…or so the story goes. We need to start out, though, by examining what defines the “PC” market. The term PC has traditionally been associated with Intel-based hardware running some version of the Windows…