Cheap iPads sold on Craigslist to lure buyers into parking lots to be robbed | iMore.com

Posted on August 13, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Cheap iPads are being listed on Craigslist with a view to lure potential buyers to quiet car parks where they’re being robbed, sometimes at gun point. The latest scam comes from Uniontown, Fayette County and WTAE has the full story.Police said two people who tried to buy iPads listed for sale on Craigslist were robbed in Uniontown, Fayette County. In each case, an iPad was being offered at a low price, and the interested buyers were lured for an in-person meeting. “However, when they arrived in Uniontown, they were instead met by armed men who, at that point, robbed them,” Police Chief Jason Cox said. The incidents happened on Dunlap and Hickle streets.

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Chris Upgrades His Kitchen Cabinets with IKEA Drawer Pull-Outs Kitchen Improvement Project | The Kitchn

Posted on August 10, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

It is essential to be organized in the kitchen. Cooking can be stressful enough as it is. Who needs the extra frustration of shuffling through cabinets searching for the next ingredient? My wife and I solved our own storage dilemma once and for all by converting all of our lower kitchen cabinets — originally outfitted as cabinets with regular doors — into cupboards made of drawers. Now finding things couldn’t be easier.

My wife and I are big organizers in our home, always looking for ways to make the process of finding and using things more streamlined. We of course brought this philosophy into our kitchen—having a cabinet for the flours, and a cabinet for the oils and vinegars,and so on—but it wasn’t enough. The problem was the lower kitchen cabinets themselves, as they required you to crouch down and take the cooking ingredients through a few rounds of musical chairs before finding what you needed. There’s the sherry vinegar!

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Did You Know You Can Use a Tablet Stylus With the Apple MacBook? | Apartment Therapy

Posted on August 10, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

The Macbook Air and the Macbook Pro are both known for their best in class touch pad. Accurate and smooth to the touch, nothing really compares. Love your Macbook touch pad? Find even more reasons to love it and pick up a stylus, for tablet style pen input on your Mac.A little known fact about the Macbook touch pad is that it uses similar capacitive touch detection to the iPad and iPhone. This means that any stylus meant for use with the iPad or any capacitive tablet can easily turn your Macbook touch pad into a small, but effective drawing tablet. I was able to pick up a capacitive stylus from the local dollar store for cheap, but most computer stores offer decent rubber tipped stylus at an affordable price.

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iPhone 4S sale: Apple Store matches $149.99 price on iPhone 4S 16GB

Posted on August 10, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Apple (AAPL) Stores around the country will now match Sprint’s sales price on the iPhone 4S, according to a recent report. Earlier this week, Sprint slashed the cost of buying a new iPhone 4S under contract by $86. The deep discount includes $50 off the retail price of an iPhone and a waived $36 activation fee. Now, according to a purported screenshot of Apple’s internal system published by MacRumors, Apple Stores have been given the go-ahead to match Sprint’s discounted price when approached by customers and asked to do so. The discount can only be given in stores according to the report, and it drops the price of a 16GB iPhone 4S to $149.99 while the 32GB model will cost $249.99 and the 64GB version will cost $349.99.

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Samsung mobile web presence increases, still trails iPhone

Posted on August 10, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

While the Galaxy S III is helping Samsung (005930) grow its presence on the mobile web, the company is still well behind Apple (AAPL) when it comes to usage. Mobile ad firm Chitika has released new numbers showing that the Galaxy S III’s share of overall Samsung ad impressions in North America has risen significantly since its initial release, jumping from less than 3% on June 18th to over 11% on August 6th.

Chitika says that the Galaxy S III “has quickly surpassed the Galaxy Nexus in activity, and is hot on the tails of other Galaxy S models” and “is likely that adoption of the device will continue to increase in the future as the holiday season approaches and Android aficionados upgrade their phones.”

But even with the surge in Galaxy S III mobile Web use, Samsung as a whole still only generates roughly one-fourth as many mobile ad impressions in North America as Apple does with its assorted iPhone models. Despite this disparity, Chitika says that Samsung remains “the iPhone’s closest challenger for the coveted top spot” in mobile ad impressions, and says the companies’ rivalry will be “one of the most intriguing contests in the smartphone market this year.”

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iPhone 5 specs: 7.6mm thick, thinner than Galaxy S III and HTC One S

Posted on August 10, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Apple’s (AAPL) next-generation iPhone, a mock-up of which is pictured above, will reportedly be one of the thinnest smartphones in the world when it launches next month. According to a report from Chinese blog Apple.pro, Taiwan-based paper Apple Daily recently published a lengthy piece about Apple’s “iPhone 5″ including purported final measurements of the device.

The report states that the dimensions of Apple’s next iPhone will come to 58.47 millimeters wide by 123.83 millimeters long by 7.6 millimeters thick. That final stat would make the iPhone a full 1 millimeter thinner than the Samsung (005930) Galaxy S III, and 0.2 millimeters thinner than HTC’s (2498) remarkably thin One S.

Since iPhone housings and other components have been finding their way into the hands of various parts distributors and examined on video several times, it is likely that these specs are indeed accurate, though nothing is confirmed until Apple unveils the new iPhone during a press conference on September 12th. The sixth-generation iPhone is then expected to launch a week later on September 21st, featuring a 4-inch display, an integrated 4G LTE radio and NFC connectivity.

via iPhone 5 specs: 7.6mm thick, thinner than Galaxy S III and HTC One S.

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HTC One X+ release date, specs revealed? September release, quad-core

Posted on August 10, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

HTC 2498 isn’t letting the recent struggles of its One series keep it down, as the company is reportedly prepping a sequel to the HTC One X for an early fall release. An unnamed source has told Stuff that the new HTC smartphone — codenamed the “Endeavour C2″ and likely to be officially called the HTC One X+ once it’s released — will feature a 1.7GHz quad-core processor, an “improved” battery and full compatibility with all of the One X’s accessories. The “Endeavour C2″ has been tagged for a September release, meaning HTC will likely announced it around the same time that Nokia NOK announces its first Windows Phone 8 smartphones and Apple AAPL announces its next-generation iPhone.

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First Color 360-Degree Panorama Sent By Curiosity Rover Shows No Sailors Fighting In the Dance Hall

Posted on August 9, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Curiosity’s day 3 on the Gale Crater, Mars. All systems are running as expected. There is no sign of sailors fighting in the dance hall, cavemen or any freaky show, and here’s the first natural 360-degree color panorama image to prove it.

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iOS 6s New Wi-Fi Plus Cellular Will Keep You Connected

Posted on August 9, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

iOS 6s New Wi-Fi Plus Cellular Will Keep You Connected

(Believe it or not this is a big deal)

If you have an iPhone, hopping on a wi-fi network is good is you want to connect to an AirPlay device, or wi-fi based storage device, or save some battery. But if the actually internet connection is really crappy or non-existent, that means youre essentially cut off from the world unless youre trying to talk. But a new feature discovered by Apple Insider in the latest iOS 6 beta fixes that.Buried deep in the settings menu Settings > General > Cellular is a new option called “Wi-Fi Plus Cellular” thats turned on by default. It will probably be useful when connected to a public hotspot thats under major stress. And while not a major thing, its a much-needed addition that increases the functionality of the phone. [AppleInsidervia The Verge]

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9 Things You Absolutely Must Do to Keep Your Online Identity Secure

Posted on August 8, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

We’ve been reeling a bit ever since Mat Honan was the victim of that ruthless social hack that wiped all his devices. Sure, that was an extreme case. But it’s also one that could happen to anyone, at any time. So we put together a list of the best ways to make sure your internet self—your accounts, your cash, and your information—stays secure.

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