As we all remember, Apple was giving out free iPhone bumpers back around the launch of the iPhone 4.  This was the result of a poor design flaw in the new product, causing users to "bridge" the antennas, or drop call service.  During the first few months, all iPhone 4 customers were entitled to a free bumper, or had the option of recieving a refund if already purchased. From what Apple has said now, they have long discontinued that promotion, but that's not so. It's actually fairly easy to obtain your from iPhone bumper whether it be a 4 or a 4s, on Sprint, Verizon, or AT&T, it doesn't matter. And I'm going to tell you how. For most iPhone 4 users, this process will be a lot simpler.  First off, your iPhone still has to be under the one-year warranty from Apple.  Second, you need to have a lot of free time on your hands.  Let ...

Over the past six months, I have had many problems with my Early 2011 MacBook Pro.  Initially, the Logic Board and speakers were replaced because of an issue with the 10.7.3 update.  That experience is detailed here. However, since then, it has been rock-solid.  Well, that was until about two weeks ago.  I noticed that the headphone jack was becoming quite loose and would not "grab onto" the plug when upon insertion.  If you moved the just a tiny bit, it would lose the connection and switch back to the internal speakers.  I took it into Apple, and they replaced the Logic Board.  All was well, or so I thought. That same night, I started to notice the system locking up and freezing.  I started getting the 3 beeps of death- signifying a RAM error.  I figured that the 8 GB of ram that I'd upgraded from 4 GB had been installed incorrectly.  ...

In a glittering launch event last week, we saw the official announcement of the Galaxy S3 after months of rumour and speculation.  Let's have a look at what was announced, and how the S3 compares to its nearest rivals from Android and beyond. We'll start off by having a look at the hardware that powers the Galaxy S3.  The first thing you'll notice is the massive 4.8" display — cheekily just 0.1" bigger than its nearest Android competitor, the HTC One X.  The Super AMOLED screen runs at HD resolution (1280 x 720), but still uses the Pentile sub-pixel arrangement that was criticized in the Galaxy Nexus.  The front of the phone has a 1.9 megapixel camera and the back includes an 8 megapixel shooter with LED flash and 1080p video recording. Inside, things get better.  There's a powerful quad-core chipset of Samsung's own design, the Exynos 4412.  It runs at 1.4 ...

The FTC is fining Google for tens of millions of dollars for exploiting a loophole in Apple's Safari web browser.  DoubleClick places some of the ads that you see throughout Google’s sites and services.  DoubleClick is owned by Google.  This loophole allows an advertiser to install a cookie if a user interacts with the ad.  A cookie is a piece of data stored by a website within a browser.  Apple enables third-party cookie blocking by default on all its devices, including iPads and iPhones. To get around Safari's default blocking, Google exploited a loophole in the browser's privacy settings.  While Safari does block most tracking, it makes an exception for websites with which a person interacts in some way—for instance, by filling out a form.  So Google added coding to some of its ads that made Safari think that a person was submitting an invisible form to Google.  Safari would then let Google ...

With so many music lovers, many people are looking for great headphones and the Turtle Beach X12 might just be the right ones for you!  These are over-the-ear headphones. The headphones are designed for gaming purposes such as PC gaming and Xbox gaming.  Unfortunately these headphones require a USB to power them so walking around with the headphones is out of the question. The design of the headphones is simple and clean with the theme colors of black and green.  Now, taking a look at the sound quality, these headphones sound great with great highs, mids, and lows.  I would prefer more lows thou in these headphones, but the lows still sound great.  These are wired headphones and offer a very long cord and durable even thou I did end up slicing the wire with a knife.  There is a small controller on the cord and it offers chat, volume, bass, and ...

Minecraft started out as a small indie game produced by Markus "Notch" Persson from Sweden.  The game is now produced by the company he founded, Mojang AB.  The game can be found over at minecraft.net. Now for my reasons why I enjoy this game: The Community The minecraft community is big, and never disappoints. I have seen replies on the minecraft forum within minutes of posting. In game is very friendly as well. Never Gets Boring Minecraft has many mods, texture packs and servers with different plugins, you can shape it so many ways it's very hard to get board of it! "Technical Side" If your more than a gamer, like more of a geek, you can program your own items or blocks and other mods in Java and give the to the community! Always Updating Mojang releases snapshots of minecraft every week. These are really fun to check out and will be incorporated in the next update! Supported: Linux, Mac or Windows. Not a ...

As smart television sets are becoming more popular one has to wonder if they're too smart for their own good.  I'm not talking about the smart TV taking over the world, but I am talking about smart TV becoming far too fragmented and ruining the entire user experience of watching TV. Before we get too far into this I want to explain to those of you who don't know just what exactly smart TV is.  Smart TV is a television set with built in features such as internet and social media built right in.  Most of these televisions have very different, fragmented UIs, and it's simply becoming a hassle.  With tablets and smartphones becoming smarter by the day, you start to wonder if we might simply want to go back to the days of "dumb" television. This may not be a popular opinion, but hear me out before you go against it. ...

Earlier today as pointed out by Macrumors and MacGeneration, the Mac App Store hit the milestone of 10,000 apps available for download.  This is a big milestone because the Mac App Store was just released to the public a measly sixteen months ago in the OS X 10.6.6 software update. The Mac App Store was first released to the public on January 6th, 2011 and has since grown to an incredible size at a very brisk rate.  Apple has claimed it as "The fastest growing PC software store in the world."  While I'm not sure I would go that far, I will give credit where credit is due.  The Mac App Store deserves some respect.  Where other app stores have failed, Apple's has seen great growth in a tough economic time.  The Mac App Store passed 100 million application downloads last December and with the way Apple computers are selling, I would ...

Simply put, Sparrow is a simple but powerful email client for OS X and iOS. The feel of it is very similar to the Twitter app for Mac. The default interface of Sparrow is much less cumbersome than that of Apple's default client, Apple Mail. Sparrow's interface has a few differentview modes. This is the default mode. Here are the pros and cons of Sparrow. Pros: Supports GMail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, Google Apps, and any other IMAP server Support for unified and priority inboxes Interface is adjustable to be as minimal as the Twitter app for Mac, or as robust as any other popular email client Powerful search features Integration with Cloud.app and Dropbox- no need to attach files if you don't want to! Supports native GMail features, such as spam filtering, labels, and archiving mail Excellent threaded conversation view Quick Look is supported with email attachments- no need to save them to your hard ...

Earlier this week, Intel announced their next generation processors named Ivy Bridge.  Intel announced 13 new quad-core processors which were designed around Intel's new 22-nanometer manufacturing process. This new manufacturing process allows Intel to increase the power of the processor while decreasing power consumption.  This will allow Ivy Bridge chips to run cooler, as well as be more energy efficient than their predecessor Sandy Bridge. The new chips incorporate greatly improved graphics and media performance on top of the increased clock speeds. So the question that many of you may be asking at this point is, does this mean it's not safe to buy a new computer at this time?  The answer is that it would be best to wait.  Most of the new Ivy Bridge chips will not be out into Macs and PCs for many months with only a few exceptions.  There have been manufacturing delays which have caused Intel ...