So I was listening to Howard Stern on my way home from work the other night. Satellite radio came with my car and, whether you like him or not, Stern's a pretty good companion in LA traffic. I happen to like him. Anyway.
"You know Gary," he prodded, "I'm gonna use a horse and buggy instead of a car, just because it's cool."
Turns out he was giving Producer Gary Dell'Abate a hard time about his love for vinyl. Gary did his best to defend the hobby, saying it has been scientifically proven that analog sounds better than digital, that it's just something people do for fun and that it's a really interesting subculture.
Its been a long wait for whatever reason but from today, Real Racing 3 has finally shown up in the US App Store. Real Racing 3 was released to other countries over a week ago but for for some strange reason it never showed up in the US App Store. That has now changed and you can now get your hands on this amazing looking driving game.
Hyper-realistic. Pure fun. And FREE. Real Racing 3 sets a new standard for mobile racing games ? it really must be experienced to be believed. Trailblazing new features include officially licensed tracks, an expanded 22-car grid, and over 45 meticulously detailed cars from makers like Porsche, Lamborghini, Dodge, Bugatti, and Audi. Plus, racing with friends gets kicked into another dimension with the reality-bending Time Shifted Multiplayer (TSM) technology.
The game is free to download and play but has received a lot of criticsm for its fremium model. Once you have the game you are then faced with a plethora of in-app purchase options which if you are not careful can soon mount up and make Real Racing 3 a really expensive experience. Of course you don?t need to buy any in-app purchases but its hard to resist getting your car a spec bump to help you win more races.
Real Racing 3 is currently compatible with the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch 4th and 5th gen, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4 and iPad mini; you must be running at least iOS 4.3. The game has also been optimized for the iPhone 5?s larger screen as well as being a universal binary for iPhone and iPad full screen gaming.
It looks like an awesome racing game and the graphics really are outstanding. If you grab this one, make sure to let us know how you enjoy playing it! Also let us know what you think of the in-app purchases.
Leap Motion today announced that its innovative motion controller for PCs will start shipping to pre-order buyers beginning May 13, and will launch in the U.S. at Best Buy locations on May 19. Full retail price for the Leap Motion Controller will be $79.99, the company announced, $10 more than the pre-order asking price.
London is considered to be among the most exciting destinations in the world. It calls to those who want to see how one of the worlds oldest cities live. So, the fact that tourists flock to the city annually isnt surprising, at all.
Tourists who go to London, indeed, can expect to be treated to a lot of good things. But, they would find the experience even more amazing if they dont have to worry about anything when they get to London, such as getting a taxi to Heathrow airport, and a taxi from Heathrow airport.
If you are interested in seeing London firsthand and discovering more reasons to think that the planet is truly beautiful, youd do well to ensure that you would have a reliable taxi service. This way, youd be assured of navigating around London conveniently and comfortably.
Thankfully, doing that would be very simple. There are many taxi companies that offer services for taxi to Heathrow airport and other places in the city. Also, since the process of doing that is actually very comfortable, youre good to go. Through booking online, you would be able to have the motor you need to kick your trip into gear.
Now, if you dont know how online booking a taxi service in London works, check out the following:
Check online listings. There are so many choices that you can pick from when you take to the Internet to find taxi companies with taxi to Heathrow airport offerings. A simple search would be enough, too. It is suggested, however, that you spend a little time in researching your options. Doing this would enable you to make a better decision.
Talk to your friends and family. Aside from the Internet, you can also scout for recommendations and suggestions from the people in your life. Their personal experiences in the city would be excellent markers you can go by to make yours excellent, too. Theyd even help you plan your vacation well. And, they can warn you away from companies that would not do you good, as well as places that you would not like.
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"Samsung's Ill-Conceived Apple VoiceOver Suit Stayed in Germany"?AllThingsD?2/22
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"Exploring the Mac's sharing features"?Macworld?2/22
"MacMost Now 830: Exporting Contacts Using Numbers"?MacMost?2/22
"Emergency backups you didn't know you had"?Macworld?2/22
"How to Enable the New 'Composers View' in iTunes 11.0.2"?MacTrast?2/22
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"You're working too hard ? relax and try out these 10 amazing Mac easter eggs"?memeburn?2/22
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"Change The Default Font Size In Notes App On Your Mac [OS X Tips]?Cult of Mac?2/22
"How to Email Pictures from iPhoto Using Mail.app Instead of iPhoto's Built-in Email Feature"?Mac OS X Hints?2/22
"Use Lynx Browser with Image Support in X11 for Fast Low Bandwidth Web Browsing"?OS X Daily?2/22
"Have New Camera, Will Take Many Thousands Of Photos, Must Have Bulk Photo Editor For Mac"?TeraTalks?2/22
"Yet Another App To Control iTunes From The Mac's Menubar (and this one does Spotify, too)"?Mac 360?2/22
"When It Comes To Getting Things Done On A Mac, What's New Under The Sun? Eisenpower!"?NoodleMac?2/22
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"Why You'll Like Using A New Mac Database App That's Simple, Fast, Powerful, And Affordable"?McSolo?2/22
Op/Ed
"The Touch Screen That's Coming To The Mac And Why That's A Crazy, Brain Dead Idea"?PixoBebo?2/22
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"Mac Apps: MacTracker for Mac, iOS, SeaMonkey, DivX Updated"?FairerPlatform?6:57 AM
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"M-SIX introduces VEO for the AEC industry"?Architosh?2/22
"Essential Mac management tools: If you're trying to add Macs to a fleet of Windows machines, you'll want to check out these offerings" [Slideshow]?InfoWorld?2/22
"LEGO The Lord Of The Rings For Mac OS X Out Now, But Not On Steam"?Cult of Mac?2/22
"Weather Tab Pro available on the Mac App Store, already Top 10"?prMac?2/22
"These Are the Bacteria Lurking on Your Phone"?Gizmodo?2/22
"Apple's App Store, iTunes back online after outages: The company's online services all seem to be back in business now after hit by outages yesterday."?CNET News?2/22
"Samsung and Apple Slugging It Out in the Smart Connected Devices Market"?AllThingsD?2/22
"'Post-PC Era' Predicted By Steve Jobs Taking Hold as Samsung Tops Apple in Connected Device Market"?MacRumors?2/22
"Samsung has overtaken Apple in 'smart connected devices'"?Fortune?2/22
"Tablets Take Off In 2012 According To Millennial, With Kindle Fire And iPad Mini Seeing Rapid Growth"?TechCrunch?2/22
"Chart of the day: Apple tops Samsung in mobile ad share"?Fortune?2/22
"Apple supplier penalized for polluting nearby river in China: Apple is investigating the incident, according to an environmental group"?Computerworld?2/22
"Apple supplier faces sanctions over pollution"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?2/22
"Microsoft cooler than before, but Apple on top"?Reuters?2/22
"LG ad riffs on Apple's panorama commercial, and expands on it"?AppleInsider?2/22
"Google confirms Glass will work with iPhone"?TUAW?2/22
"Ferrari edges out Apple to become world's most powerful brand"?Digital Trends?2/22
"NYPD forms dedicated team to catch thieves who steal iPhones and iPads"?New York Post?2/22
"Apple now working with NYPD to curb iPhone thefts"?Network World?2/22
"NYPD creates special team to recover stolen Apple devices"?CNET News?2/22
"How a dedicated team of NYPD cops work with Apple to catch iDevice thieves, even in other countries"?9 to 5 Mac?2/22
"NYPD Team Working With Apple to Catch iPhone, iPad Thieves"?PC Magazine?2/22
"NYPD And Apple Team Up To Stop iThing Theft In NYC"?TechCrunch?2/22
"Locked iPhone Sales Challenged in Hong Kong"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?2/22
"Samsung takes on Apple TV with the HomeSync media streamer"?The Verge?8:42 PM
"Google Glass Part Two: Binocular Vision"?Patent Bolt?5:36 PM
"Sony's PS4 future lies in the cloud"?CNNMoney?2/22
"New video games mirror debates about data privacy, hacking"?Washington Post [Free Registration Required]?2/22
"No touch screen, no keyboard: enter Airwriting"?TG Daily?2/22
"Facebook engineers identify Graph Search's big data challenges"?IDG News Service?2/22
"Facebook to put old, rarely viewed photos into 'cold storage'"?NBC News?2/22
"Austrian research team develop a new flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet for capturing images"?DigiTimes?2/22
"Taiwan PC industry at a critical moment: An interview with Wistron chairman"?DigiTimes?2/22
"'Star Trek'-like tricorder available soon"?USA Today?2/22
"North Korea to offer mobile internet access"?BBC?2/22
"LivesOn: New Service to Let You Tweet When You're Dead"?ABCNews?2/22
"Amid Hacking Headaches, Twitter Begins Using Email Authentication"?FOXBusiness?2/22
"Google buildings exposed to toxic vapors left by chipmakers"?CNET News?2/22
"Google adds fee-based support services for cloud platform customers: Users of products like App Engine, Compute Engine and Big Query will be able to purchase access to a variety of technical support services"?IDG News Service?2/22
"Chrome 25 Adds Voice Support, Devs Get App Launcher"?PC Magazine?2/22
"Conan can't resist making an ass of Google Glass"?CNET News?2/22
"Nokia to fight rivals with cheaper models -sources"?Reuters?2/22
"Samsung Wants to Be a Media Giant. Meet the Guy in Charge of Getting Them There."?AllThingsD?2/22
"Samsung Copies the BlackBerry Playbook"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?2/22
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"Gene Steinberg meets tech writer Kirk McElhearn, and Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?2/22
"An Apple watch, PS4, security and bug fixes, cheap iPhone and slippers"?Insanely Great Mac?2/22
"Apple to launch completely redesigned iPad 5 tablet in September?"?T3?12:22 PM
"Smartwatch with Flexible Display; Apple Scores Patent"?DeviceMAG?7:04 AM
"Apple patent application hints at flexible touchscreen watch"?TG Daily?6:55 AM
"New iPad 5 Case Consistent with Rumored Mini-Style Redesign"?MacRumors?2/22
"Apple Hiring 'Maps Ground Truth Data Specialist' in Australia"?MacRumors?2/22
"iWatch-y Patent Greases the Gears of Concept Designers: There's been much ado about the possibility that an iWatch is in the works, and the buzz was fueled this week by the publication of a patent application Apple filed back in 2011. More than a few renderings of possible designs have been circulating on the Web as well: and one of them in particular seems more Apple-ish than the rest."?MacNewsWorld?2/22
"Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 beta with passcode bug fix in tow"?CNET News?2/22
"Smartphone by Manufacturer - FixYa Report"?FixYa?2/22
"iPad mini vs. Galaxy Note 8.0 hands on!"?iMore?9:29 PM
"It's Not Email That's Broken, It's You"?TidBITS?8:03 PM
"Google laptop shows Apple a thing or two: Google's Chromebook Pixel has two killer features that MacBooks don't. Maybe it's time for Apple to rethink the MacBook concept."?CNET News?5:29 PM
"How Google Stole Apple's Thunder And Became Everyone's Favorite Tech Company Again"?San Francisco Chronicle?5:28 PM
"Weighing In on Sensor Size"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?2:06 PM
"How Much Interest Is There, Really, in PlayStation 4?"?Forbes?7:01 AM
"Google Glass Isn't Very Good Yet, And It Gives People Headaches, Says VC Who Played With Them"?Business Insider?2/22
"I miss removable batteries"?ZDNet?2/22
"6 ways to speed an old computer"?USA Today?2/22
"Even Sony isn't sure what PS4 will look like"?Mashable?2/22
Leap Motion today announced that its innovative motion controller for PCs will start shipping to pre-order buyers beginning May 13, and will launch in the U.S. at Best Buy locations on May 19. Full retail price for the Leap Motion Controller will be $79.99, the company announced, $10 more than the pre-order asking price.
