The Top Three Free Apps:

• Minion Rush – Gru’s loyal, yellow, gibberish-speaking Minions are ready and waiting for you to help them compete in hilarious, fast-paced challenges in order to impress your boss, Gru. There are hundreds of despicable acts to keep you…

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The report’s Abstract notes that as the world’s leading market for electronic products, the United States generates large quantities of used electronic products (UEPs) each year, which are collected from consumers and businesses and evaluated for their value. UEPs are classified as either working electronic products or parts that can be refurbished and resold, or as non-working goods to be recycled into scrap materials. Both working products and scrap materials may be either resold in the United States or exported.

The report notes that the UEP supply chain is a complex network of domestic sales and exports, which are respectively likely to occur along each step in the chain, and that in 2011, total domestic sales of UEPs were valued at $19.2 billion, compared to U.S. UEP exports of $1.45 billion, categorized by value. Most UEPs that are exported are refurbished products resold as working computers, cell phones, and other used products in other…

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This week on the Free Apps Roundup: Next week is WWDC, where Apple is sure to unveil iOS 7. Let’s show them and the app developers  how much we appreciate their hard work by downloading their apps. We’ll make it easy on you by telling you about the best free ones this weekend, including VSCO Cam, Musyc, and Toon Camera.

The Top Three Free Apps:

• Percepto – Don’t you hate it when you fall asleep in a strange room and wake up to find its been smashed into two dimensions? So does Bruce. See if you can help the little guy out.
• VSCO Cam – When is the iPhone camera not an iPhone camera? When you’re editing its…

Continue reading Free Apps Roundup for June 7, 2013

• The European Commission sent Motorola a strongly worded letter accusing them of abusing their standard-essential patents against Apple in Germany. Motorola licensed some patents to Apple, but still sought injunctions against them even though Apple wanted to enter into an agreement. This isn’t an official ruling and Motorola said they did nothing wrong, but is still beneficial for future patent conflicts.
• The National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan sued Apple in 2012 over Siri violating one of their patents, and they’re suing Apple again in 2013. They claim that “all of…

Continue reading Apple lawsuit wrap-up for May 2013

In fact, while I used to use the indie TenFourFox PowerPC hack of Firefox, it began to be too much for the old Pismos to handle, and Camino became the last Web browser standing that offered a reasonable combination of features and performance on these old…

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The Top Three Free Apps:

• iTunes Movie Trailers – Apple has updated their Movie Trailers app to give you a choice between HD and SD quality previews, though you might not need it with the improved video playback. Now trailers take less time to start playing. After you’ve found a good movie to watch, like say Star Trek Into Darkness, you can buy tickets using the Fandango app, which is supported from the Movie Trailers app.
• Adobe Kuler – Capture…

Continue reading Free Apps Roundup for May 31, 2013

The Top Three Free Apps:

• Tetris Blitz – Yet another Tetris game, I know. But the truth of the matter is that most of us just can’t get enough Tetris anyway. This version of the classic game has you racing against a two-minute countdown to clear lines and rack up as many points as possible. There’s a Facebook leaderboard, weekly tournaments and more. Give it a try. My guess is that you’re going to be playing a lot of Tetris this…

Continue reading Free Apps Roundup for May 24, 2013

Kaiser and Frazer perhaps came closest to achieving qualified success, their companies building passenger automobiles for nine years from 1947 to 1956, and through their 1953 purchase of Willys-Overland living on as independent Jeep-maker Kaiser-Willys. This was changed in 1963 to Kaiser-Jeep, until purchased by American Motors Corp. in 1970, and subsequently by Chrysler in 1987.

Tesla Motors is certainly the most impressive and promising automaker startup since the Kaiser-Frazer effort. Last week, shares of Tesla Motors Inc. hit a new 52-week high of $97.12 on May 14, well above its high water mark of $88.00 a…

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Of course there are other cloud storage and synching services: Apple’s own iCloud, Box, iDolly, Google Cloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, and more. However, while they all have their virtues, none of them matches Dropbox for no hassle, transparent, “just works” functionality in the context of keeping work in progress—along with recently archived files—on several work platform laptops and my iPad harmoniously synchronized.

Actually, I do remember how I used to choreograph file management on multiple computers before Dropbox (which was founded in 2007 by Drew…

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The Top Three Free Apps:

• Bombcats – Blow the cage, save the kitten! Words to live by…almost. This is Chillingo’s latest game. In it, there are seven cut but volatile felines that are ready to explode into action to save their fury friends. There are over 190 levels and 42 goals to keep your furiously flicking these exploding cats across your screen. Sounds a little like some displeased avians, doesn’t it?
• UPS for iPad – Now you can finally track your UPS packages on your iPad via an official UPS app. You can manage your…

Continue reading Free Apps Roundup for May 17, 2013