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Penn & Teller’s Desert Bus Hits iOS and Android: the World’s Most Boring Game in the Palm of Your Hand

desert bus ios and android by amaateur pixels

Desert Bus is one of the mini-games from Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors…, an unreleased Sega CD game from the mid-90s. The game has players drive a bus in first-person from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada, a trip that takes about 8 hours, just to earn a

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November 25th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Gmail, Google Docs & Google Calendar Go Offline

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Some of these Google apps have been available offline at various times, and in limited release, but now they’re really available for everyone. You’ll need to use Google Chrome and an add-on that’s called Gmail Offline, but that’s one cool way of being able to use your Gmail pretty much…

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September 1st, 2011 by: Range

iOS 5 Notifications App Concept: Apple, Just Do Something About This Already

ios notifications app concept by andreas hellqvist

The notifications scheme on the iPhone and other iOS devices is one of the longest-standing, yet unaddressed complaints that users have. The current system is messy, distracting and obtrusive, which is ironic because Apple is all about designing hardware that gets out of the way. There’s a good chance that…

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May 6th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

DisplayPad Turns iPad Into a Second Monitor for Macs: Cheap Link for a Pricey Setup

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Small USB-powered monitors have become popular over the past couple of years, especially among laptop users who really need the extra screen space. Clean Cut Code’s DisplayPad app lets you use an iPad as a secondary monitor, but it only works with Macs running Snow Leopard.  Pretty stringent requirements. I’m…

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January 4th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Useful Apps Someone Should Make

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There are a million apps out there, but none of the do exactly what you want. Take a look at these ideas from College Humor and tell us what you think. All in all, the ex-girlfriend finder looks pretty promising!

Apps have become so commonplace, that Apple is even starting…

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November 11th, 2010 by: Range

IPad Gets Official Etch a Sketch HD App

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Remember that awesome Etch A Sketch Case that we talked about a few weeks ago that made your iPad look like the toy? I thought at the time what the thing needed was an app made for the iPad that would complete the illusion that the iPad is nothing more…

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October 20th, 2010 by: Shane McGlaun

IPad Launch Day Apps Leaked

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Thanks to the guys over a MacRumors, we now know a way to figure out a way to determine what iPad apps are on the horizon for launch day next week.

According to this screenshot, some of the games we can look forward to getting all fingerprinty over on April…

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March 26th, 2010 by: Technabob

Commodore 64 Vs. the iPhone 3gs: Guess Who Won?

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After the arguably unnecessary rejection of the Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone, Technologizer‘s Harry McCracken – whose last name would be much cooler if it ended with an exclamation point: McCracken! (and started with Zak) – decided to pit the iconic Commodore 64 with the future Hall of Famer,…

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June 26th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Hp Photosmart Printer has Its Own App Store: Print-a-Fart Apps Anyone?

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HP recently introduced their latest printer called Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web (henceforth called PSPWTSW), a name which if stripped of marketing speak actually reveals the printer’s capabilities: it’s a photo printer (actually it’s an all-in-one) with a 4.33″ touchscreen, and it can connect to the web via WiFi. What…

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June 23rd, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

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