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Life With LEGO: Building a Growing Obsession

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LEGO was one of those brands I mostly ignored. I’d enjoy playing Traveler’s Tales’ LEGO video games, but never messed with physical LEGO builds. Part of me felt I was too old for LEGO and the other half didn’t want to take the time to believe otherwise. That all changed not too long ago. I more »

My life history with text messages

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Today marks the 20th anniversary of SMS, better known as text messaging. In honor of this occasion, I wanted to look back at my history with SMS technology. Like many people, text messages have brought me great convenience and a lot of frustration. Let’s get started shall we?

Happy Thanksgiving 2012 from GadgeTell

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More often than not we try to provide a full days worth of coverage, however there are a few days out of the year when things slow down to a crawl. Or in this case, to nothing. Today happens to be one of those days. Today is Thanksgiving and for that, your faithful GadgeTell writers more »

GadgeTell Review: Acme Made Skinny Sleeve for the MacBook Air

Acme Made Skinny Sleeve for the MacBook Air

What is being reviewed? Up for review today is the Skinny Sleeve for the MacBook Air. The Skinny Sleeve is from Acme Made, priced at $39.99, available in a variety of colors and made for the 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air. The Skinny Sleeve is touted as having an ultra-thin design, a unique StretchShell neoprene more »

GadgeTell Review: Ballistic Smooth Series for the iPhone 5

Ballistic Smooth Series case for the iPhone 5

What is being reviewed? Up for review today is a Smooth Series iPhone 5 case from Ballistic. The case is described as being sleek, slim and minimal. But perhaps more important for some, the Ballistic cases are said to be designed to survive life and capable of surviving a drop. All that aside, at first more »

Attention iPad 3 owners; how about stopping with this ‘obsolete’ crap

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Apple introduced a new iPad today, no, not the iPad mini — the fourth generation model is the one that seems to have caused the most commotion. It seems iPad 3 owners are feeling a bit burned. And you know what, I think it is absolutely hilarious. Reading the angry tweets from these users has more »

My iPhone sleeps next to me in bed

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If you read into the title you would most likely assume that my smartphone goes everywhere with me. That of course would be a correct statement. In fact, it is usually no more than 2-3 feet away. And when the phone is away, the most common reason would be to shower or a dead battery. more »

Review of Casio’s PX-350: “Lay Your Hands On Me!”

My fast, refulgent piano fingers, in concert with my pounding musical heart declares the new Casio Privia PX-350 delivers celestial sound excellence with incredible keyboard realism; as if I was playing in concert on a 6 foot 10 inch grand piano. As a spirited concert pianist performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City multiple more »

What is the best smartphone to buy RIGHT now?

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Here we have the latest theme post for TechnologyTell. This week we are covering ‘best of’ topics and given I often write about, and I am often asked about smartphones — I figured that would be a good topic to cover. But then I got to thinking. And well, I am not so sure there more »

Use your smartphone for something other than talking and texting, use it to work towards being a bit healthier

RunKeeper on the iPhone 4S

You may have noticed, or if you haven’t, the TechnologyTell group of sites have been doing theme weeks. The first was a few weeks back and covered back to school. The second came last week and was open for a how-to topic. And well, this marks the third week and the topic at hand is more »