It Costs Just $1.36 a Year to Charge an iPad
NEW YORK (AP) — That coffee you’re drinking while gazing at your iPad? It cost more than all the electricity needed to run those games, emails, videos and news stories for a year.The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development group funded by electric utilities.By comparison, a 60-watt compact fluorescent bulb costs $1.61, a desktop PC...
How Would you Change ASUS’ Transformer Pad TF300?
By Daniel Cooper posted Oct 21st 2012 10:33PM ASUS’ Transformer Pad was tucked in beneath the Transformer Prime in the company’s range of hybrid Android tablets. The only problem however, was that the company forgot to really differentiate the two — with only a few hours less battery life the real distinction. But how has it been for you to live with? Did you get used to its slightly fiddly keyboard, have you been as...
Microsoft touts Skype for Windows 8, Windows RT launch on Friday
Microsoft today said that a free Windows 8 and Windows RT Skype app will be ready for downloading from the Windows Store on Friday, Oct. 26. The long-rumored app — bloggers have been posting leaked screenshots of Skype for Windows 8 for months — will also be pre-installed on new PCs and tablets from a slew of first-tier OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Devices from Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard,...
AMD Never Settle bundle gives Radeon HD 7000 buyers free games they’d actually care to play
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 22nd 2012 12:01AM Just about anyone who has bought more than one aftermarket graphics card knows that bundled games rarely matter. They’re usually year-old titles or neutered editions built only to showcase the GPU’s performance for a few hours. AMD thinks its Never Settle bundle might finally get us to notice. Buy any modern Radeon HD video card from the 7770 GHz Edition on up and you’ll get...
Foster the People Pumps Up with Logic Pro
For several months in 2011, the radio hit “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster the People was the song we couldn’t get out of our heads. For Mark Foster, who wrote the song, getting it out of his head — and into a demo — was no problem at all. Using Logic Pro, and playing all the instruments himself, Foster was able to write and record the single in just a day and a half. After the demo went viral on the web, the song climbed the charts and...
