Mint iOS app refreshed, adds cool new features [REVIEW]

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Mint, the best service in the world for managing your money, just got better with an iOS 7 update. Besides its newly designed icon and overall sprucing up of its design, Mint’s developers added new features to the free iOS app that let you use two of the browser-based Mint’s most powerful capabilities. Let’s take the updated Mint iOS app for a spin. Continue reading

New pics reveal the inside of ‘Apple Spaceship’ HQ


Ever since the first renderings of the magnificent “Apple Spaceship” headquarters surfaced back in August, 2011, everyone’s been wondering what it will be like to work inside the four-story, 2.8 million square-foot ring-shaped “Campus 2.” Continue reading

Most awkward video of the year reveals phoniness of ‘fun’ photos


The perfect follow-up video to my smartphone photo madness rant of a couple of days ago suddenly appeared today, and it features people who thought a still photo was being taken — but it was actually video. It’s by far the most awkward video I’ve seen this year.

This helps prove my point that people are wasting their lives away taking pictures with their always-handy smartphones rather than actually living. Notice how these people are completely missing all the fun they’d like you to think they’re having. Continue reading

Top 8 hottest smartwatches, circa late 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC]

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The smartwatch market is heating up — you might not have realized that there are at least eight contenders for the title of smartest smartwatch, and Apple and Google haven’t even jumped into the fray yet.

This infographic catches you up, showing you the top 8 smartwatches in this nascent market, giving you a good look at the styling of each one, as well as its price, key attributes and compatible operating systems. Continue reading

Put down that smartphone and live your life [OPINION]

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We are frittering our lives away, heads buried in tiny screens as the entire world passes us by. Thanks, smartphones.

The smartphone is my favorite gadget, and it makes our lives better and easier in myriad ways. However, I think its omnipresent camera can separate its owner from directly and completely experiencing the real world. Armed with smartphones and ready to take pictures at a moment’s notice, many people are not really present at the most interesting events they’ll ever witness. Continue reading