Monthly Archives: July 2009

Sample The Web’s Top tech stories for the week of July 5th-11th, 2009

Posted on 7/12/2009 by C.K. Sample III

I have decided to do a weekly wrap-up of the previous week’s top bits of tech news, annotated bibliography style, with a link, a brief summary of the discussion, and my take on the news. This is largely culled from … Continue reading →

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How to prolong your Kindle 2′s battery life

Posted on 7/12/2009 by C.K. Sample III

To get the longest battery life out of your Kindle 2, there are several steps you can take. Keep the font settings at the smallest font size where you can read comfortably, as this decreases page refreshes when reading and … Continue reading →

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Review: Boxcar

Posted on 7/11/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Boxcar—$2.99 Released: July 9, 2009 Developer/Distributor: Jonathan George Genre: Social Networking Version 1.0 tested on a 16GB iPhone 3GS Boxcar isn’t a full-featured Twitter client, but rather a client dedicated to providing Push notifications of all Direct Messages, Replies, and … Continue reading →

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Google adds Creative Commons image search, sort of

Posted on 7/9/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Why would Google release Creative Commons image search and not call it Creative Commons?! And why hide it under Advanced Search? And why doesn’t it return a good result for a search for Google FAIL? Here’s what the Advanced Search … Continue reading →

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Review: Squash the $treet

Posted on 7/9/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Squash the $treet—$0.99 Released: April 17, 2009 Developer/Distributer: Last Legion Games, LLC Genre: Game—Rated 12+ Version 1.0 tested on a 16GB iPhone 3GS Squash the $treet is a violently bloody little $0.99 game for the iPhone or iPod touch from … Continue reading →

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