GizModo: Top Tech News and Reviews [March ‘11 Diet]

Started by GIZMODO, Mar 01, 2011, 12:05 AM

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    The official Twitter app for iPhone is fantastic! Or, well, was was fantastic until Twitter shoved all those promoted tweets into the top of your timeline. If you've been so annoyed with the dickbar that you want to ditch the official Twitter app, here are six of the best non-Twitter Twitter apps available for the iPhone.            More »

Source: The Six Best Unofficial Twitter Apps for iPhone [Apps]

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    The alternative app store for Android is now live—however much Apple doesn't like others using the term "app store,"—where US Android owners can download the new Angry Birds Rio game for free, along with 3,799 other apps. It's been years wandering the desert, but Android users finally have an app oasis of their own.            More »

Source: Amazon's Android App Store: Your New Android Market [Apps]

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    Times of global disaster are ripe for hyper-social networking. Friends sound-off on their walls, and vigorously tweet and blog of impending doom and gloom. And all these updates raise a tough question: How do you respond?            More »

Source: An Etiquette Guide to Tsunamis and Other Disasters [Etiquette]

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    The Thunderbolt 4G is the first honest-to-goodness 4G phone on Verizon, the first LTE smartphone you can buy in the US. In other words, it's the fastest phone—connection-wise—that you can buy right now. And holy crap, is it fast.            More »

Source: Verizon Thunderbolt 4G [Lightning Review]

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    Three Dees and Four Gees. That's the Evo 3D. But it's more than that: The screen's a killer 4.3-inch, 960x540 auto-stereoscopic display, meaning it's almost as high-res as the iPhone 4 and pulls off 3D tricks without glasses (like Nintendo's 3DS).            More »

Source: Sprint Evo 3D: The Ridiculous 3D Phone You Might Actually Want [Smartphones]

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    The Evo 3D shouldn't come as a surprise—we've seen the LG Optimus, and know the onslaught of 3D-everything is unstoppable. But inevitability of something doesn't make it good. In fact, 3D phones, fundamentally dumb, make us cringe.            More »

Source: Please Stop Making 3D Phones [Rant]

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    You know that special Mortal Kombat kick where there are, like, multiple Johnny Cages? Well, by firing a flash a bunch of times during one photo, you can create Johnny Cage kicks out of anything.            More »

Source: 19 Objects Cloned by Light [Photography]

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    Movies! We all watch them, we all love them, we all criticize them. My Daily Clip is an iOS app that plays one movie clip a day to tickle your eye. And to watch, love and criticize.            More »

Source: My Daily Clip for iPad [App Of The Day]


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    Bertrand Serlet, the guy who led the development of Mac OS X since the beginning, is leaving Apple. He was one of the heavyweights and a legendary figure at the company, even while he wasn't well known by the general public. But why is he leaving?            More »

Source: The Father of Mac OS X Is Leaving Apple [Apple]