App World Wednesday: 5 Spooktacular Apps For Halloween

By hanna_horwarth (Own work) [CC], via Flickr Creative Commons(http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanna_horwarth/266812701/sizes/z/in/photostream/) If you’ve been reading the blogs lately, you may have guessed I’m a gamer, and you know I love playing games on my BlackBerry ® smartphone or BlackBerry ® PlayBook ™ tablet. When it comes to gaming this Halloween, there are no tricks — only treats. From zombies to snipers to the evil Draky, here are...

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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Look for Longer

It's the Tube again, but not as we know it Before we start, we’re not obsessed with the London Underground, OK? It just so happens that two sites about it have come up in the same week. But if 150 Great Things was all about the Tube’s history, lookforlonger.com is more about its geography – namely its stations.? This is a brilliant and addictive online game from CBSOutdoor, the advertising people, and Virgin Media, where you have...

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Take fast notes on the go with Quill

I recently examined the complex (but incredibly handy) BeNote application and found it to be an outstanding tool to keep your life and business day organized. But what about those users who want to take simpler notes, say for meetings? When you need to quickly write out notes or sketch drawings, there’s a great solution called Quill. For only $1.00 (USD), the Quill handwriting/note-taking app offers the following features: Active pen...

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Nexus 7 Models and Prices November 2012

A quick round up of the Nexus 7 tablet models available. Google refreshed their offering earlier in the week, introducing the new 32gb version along with a 3G mobile edition too. Nexus 7 Editions and Prices Good new for anyone who waited to buy, the 8gb model has been discontinued and the 16gb now occupies this price slot. Two new 32gb models have been released, the more expensive of which will provide you with access to the mobile phone...

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Microsoft Surface RT Teardown Takes Place, It’s Actually Hard to Repair

iFixit is at it again, tearing down the freshly launched Microsoft Surface RT tablet and deeming it hard to repair. In order to disassemble the new toy, the experts had to remove 17 Torx screws from under the kickstand and the camera bezel. Inside they found a Samsung battery and motherboard that was squeezed in. The battery is actually pretty easy to replace apparently, with Microsoft gluing the battery to the inside, so you’ll need a spudger...

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Acer Iconia Tab A110 now available online for $230 with Tegra 3 processor, micro SD slot, and HDMI out

Good news for those who were enticed by the rock-bottom price of the Nexus 7 but didn’t want to have to go through life without an expandable memory slot. The Acer Iconia Tab A110 is now officially available online, and it gives you all the specs you crave — including an SD card slot — while keeping a wallet-friendly $229 price tag. Similar to the Nexus 7, the Iconia A110 features a more than capable Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor,...

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Time for a BlackBerry Device Cleaning

We strive to keep our BlackBerry ® devices free from dust, dirt and grime, but we live in a world where our devices demand our dirty fingers. Looking inside our mobile devices, unused apps and old data allow virtual “dirt” to take up our BlackBerry smartphone’s memory in the same way. With fall upon us and winter quickly approaching, our devices will soon be snapping festive pics and loading up on holiday emails. It’s time we did some fall...

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iPad 4 A6X Processor is Actually More Than Two Times Faster Than the iPad 3?s CPU

During last week’s Apple event, the Cupertino giant surprised us all when they went out and announced the iPad 4, aside from the iPad Mini. That happened just 7 months after the iPad 3 was released and it was seen as quite the shock for people attending their event and also iPad 3 buyers. An interesting aspect about the new slate is that it promises two times the performance of the Apple A5X CPU, since it uses the A6X processor. Let’s see how...

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NeoGeo X Gold Limited Edition coming to UK 6 December, priced ?175

Pre-loaded with arcade faves A limited-edition pack including the NeoGeo X retro gaming handheld, an old school joystick and base station styled like the original Nineties console, will be available in the UK on 6 December. It is being distributed here by Blaze Europe, a specialist in retro gaming equipment which has also announced that the set will cost a reasonable ?175. The NeoGeo X Gold Limited Edition pack will come with 20...

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LG Spectrum 2 announced for Verizon, available today for $99

The LG Spectrum 2 is available today from Verizon. The Android 4.0 smartphone will retail for $99.99 on a new two-year contract (after mail-in rebate). The Spectrum 2, which was outed on Best Buy’s site last week, packs a pretty decent feature set for its price point, including a 4.7-inch True HD Advanced High Performance IPS display, dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1.5GHz, and 4G LTE connectivity. One of the Spectrum 2′s more...

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Take 3 minutes to laugh at Apple with this banned iPad Mini promo [VIDEO]

It seems Apple is a gold mine for jokes in the techie world and the Cupertino company’s latest “innovation,” the iPad Mini, is no more safe than the likes of the Apple Maps debacle or Antennagate. The iPad Mini’s 7.9 inch form factor created quite a stir within the community for a couple of different reasons. For one, it proved Apple’s obnoxious tendency to act as if it’s always their way or the highway. The iPad can’t be 10.1 inches with a 16:9 aspect ratio, it has to be 9.7 inches. The iPad Mini can’t be 7 inches, it has to be 7.9 inches....

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Gameloft bringing 12 games to Windows Phone 8, with new Xbox features

Including Modern Combat 4 Gameloft is to release 12 of its top games titles for Windows Phone 8, all of which being optimised to use the new operating system's Xbox ecosystem. Each of the games titles will feature Xbox Leaderboards?compatibility, allowing players to see their performances rated alongside friends and others in the community. In addition, there will be Xbox?Achievements?support so completists have more to find within...

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Need for Speed: Most Wanted for Android now available

Today is the launch of Need for Speed: Most Wanted for consoles if you haven’t heard, but the game is getting a mobile rendition and it’s come out the same day as the retail version. If you can’t tell, that’s a bit of a treat considering most games tend to take a week or two to get to the Play Store following their bigger console brethren. That’s right, you can find Need for Speed: Most Wanted in the Google Play Store for download right now....

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Off With Their Heads! Apple Removes Scott Forstall and John Browett From the Company

Apple is doing some internal moves these days, with Scott Forstall being forced to leave the company next year, after 15 years of work at Apple. Forstall is the senior vice president of iOS software and seen by many as the iOS daddy. It appears that the decision to remove him came once Forstall refused to sign the apology letter for Apple Maps users, so Tim Cook had to sign it. Aside from Forstall, John Browett is also packing his bags,...

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