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This. Is. Awesome.

Also, great trailer. Made my morning.

about 3 hours ago on On The Verge is coming back

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Wow, that’s shitty practice.

about 3 hours ago on Google may bid for Waze navigation app, blocking Facebook's attempt to acquire its crowdsourced maps

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Hopefully it won’t actually be gold :D

about 4 hours ago on HTC One 'Google Edition' with stock Android reportedly in the works

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OS X does have a notification center and Chrome ignores it. Just like it ignores almost all native UI elements in order to implement them again, similar but not quiet the same.

about 12 hours ago on Google rolls out revamped Chrome notifications, available in Windows beta channel now

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Because you can’t have no apps. The Chrome Web Store is always there and it’s ANNOYING. I don’t want about:blank, i want nothing. It works with every other browser, why does Chrome have to force bloat on me?

about 12 hours ago on Google rolls out revamped Chrome notifications, available in Windows beta channel now

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because waiting on a roof for 20 minutes it’s always something that can ignite this kind of hate against the world

Dude, you didn’t get the movie. They even explained that he was over it and moved on, he had other motives.

1 day ago on Iron Man 3 lets down the complete series!! 1 recommend

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It’s based on a COMIC (which you should read). Also it perfectly served to make the point of how we make our own demons. Unlike Bane and Talia al Ghul, who just served the purpose of making for a lame plot twist. And i like that the Marvel movies don’t take themselves too seriously. It’s much easier to overlook scenes that are ridiculously unrealistic as opposed to, again, Nolans Batman series, that tries hard to cater to a non-comic-loving audience and therefore needs to hold up to other standards. Iron Man 3 is the perfect superhero movie, i liked it even more than Avengers and Watchmen.

1 day ago on Iron Man 3 lets down the complete series!! 1 recommend

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I still remember when Apple did something similar with the “I’m a Mac” campaign. Funny how the times have changed.

1 day ago on Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad 1 recommend

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They run it on thin air instead of computers?

1 day ago on HP redesigns Envy and Pavilion laptops for 2013, including one with a 3200 x 1800 screen 3 recommends

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I don’t think it’s click-bait. I think they are just trying too hard to be clever and / or funny.

(Which is okay inside an article, but can be annoying in headlines. It makes skimming your RSS feeds for interesting articles harder, because you have to read a lot and very careful, the exact opposite of skimming. This leads to me missing a lot of interesting stuff and them getting less clicks.)

1 day ago on Google bringing its own voice search to Chrome for iOS, adds fullscreen mode to Android phones 1 recommend

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I don’t get it. There was a time when they promoted Chromes fullscreen mode even over Lions native fullscreen mode, with a really ugly, out of place looking button. But they don’t care about adding fullscreen to tablets, where it would actually be useful. Hell, i might have kept my N7, if Chrome had a fullscreen mode that hides the software buttons and menubar.

1 day ago on Google bringing its own voice search to Chrome for iOS, adds fullscreen mode to Android phones

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As long as you have to click something or press a key, voice search is useless. If i can use it from anywhere in my apartment (or at least room) no matter which app is currently open, then it will get interesting.

1 day ago on Google's latest voice search features now available in Chrome

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They could just make a service likee spotify

If the labels ARE blocking them, why would they block them from a Pandora like service but not from a Spotify like service? If you insist on bashing Apple, at least think first and come up with a real argument.

Google had no troubles to do so as well

Yeah, that’s why the whole article doesn’t make any sense. The labels are blocking Apple, the company that makes them the most money on music downloads, but let everyone else have their way? iRadio isn’t even a thing, it’s just a rumor, please stop making stuff up.

1 day ago on With downloads dwindling, music publishers throw a roadblock into Apple's iRadio plans 3 replies 1 recommend

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Okay, i’m going to invent a new file format. I’ll call it “.apples”, but please pronounce it “oranges”.

You get to name it, but if you want it pronounced a specific way you still need to follow the rules of your language.

2 days ago on Inventor of the GIF uses awards ceremony to remind us how it's pronounced 1 reply 1 recommend

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It’s the same with audio. It doesn’t have speaker outs, you have to hook the console up to an AV-receiver. If you want to watch TV with Xbox One, you’ll end up stacking at least 3 boxes with 2 remote controls. When i watched the presentation, my first reaction was “wow, they brought the computer from StarTrek to my living room” – I’m absolutely not interested in games, but i was ready to buy the Xbox One as a complete home entertainment system. But it’s pointless, because you will be juggling with traditional remotes anyway.

2 days ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes

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Am i the only one who liked Terra Nova? I am still disappointed it got axed, i thought it was great.

3 days ago on Microsoft announces live action 'Halo' TV series with Steven Spielberg as executive producer 6 replies 10 recommends

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No speaker outs? So i’d need an AV-receiver with a traditional remote control in addition? Doesn’t that break the whole point of having voice control and gestures?

3 days ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect 3 replies

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I hate the Spotify desktop app and having a web-app is great, because it’s true cross-platform. I’d still take a native standalone app over a web-app any day.

3 days ago on A month after launch, have we forgotten about Twitter #Music?

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Well, it’s kinda old. I mean, that’s exactly the problem with iOS mail: There even is an option that lets you move deleted mail to trash instead of archiving it, it just doesn’t do anything. At least for me. Did it work for you? Because i did exactly what you described, and weeks later i found out, that my mail was still there, and i had to go through my archive and delete it from the web interface. I’m using Gmail for iOS although i hate it ever since.

3 days ago on Deleting email on gmail from iOS Mail 2 replies

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“Using [Urban Dictionary] in court is a terrible idea; they don’t claim to be an authority or a reference,” said Tom Dalzell, senior editor of The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.

Yeah, let’s trust old people putting together a dictionary about how young people speak instead of young people who actually speak slang…

3 days ago on Courts are increasingly turning to Urban Dictionary to clarify modern slang language 1 recommend

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All this sudden movement in the RSS reader space is great and all, but i have yet to see one that comes even close to Google Reader. And i fear that’s exactly why no one “innovated” before: If they think they could surpass Google Reader, they would not have needed to wait until it died. But they can’t surpass Google Reader. They are just promoting the shit out of their sub-par alternatives to reach as many of Google Readers disappointed users as possible.

3 days ago on NewsBlur, flush with Google Reader refugees, rolls out redesign 1 reply 2 recommends

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Also i don’t get the fuss around Google Play Music All Access. It doesn’t offer anything i couldn’t get elsewhere before, it doesn’t have iOS or desktop apps yet and it’s currently US only.

3 days ago on A month after launch, have we forgotten about Twitter #Music? 3 replies 1 recommend

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Well, for me it didn’t even launch yet…

3 days ago on A month after launch, have we forgotten about Twitter #Music? 1 reply 1 recommend

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As long as it’s not ugly 3D animation like Clone Wars, i’m fine.

4 days ago on 'Star Wars Rebels' is Lucasfilm's first animated series under Disney, coming fall 2014 1 recommend

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upcoming S4 Mega, S4 mini, and S4 Active

S4 Mini = smaller, but still unreasonably large
S4 Mega = WTF? o.O

4 days ago on Ruggedized Samsung Galaxy S4 Active revealed in video (update) 3 replies 2 recommends

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I don’t listen to anything with my computer turned off. I’m a student and all i have is a one-channel tripath amp hooked up to my iMac, which holds all my music (Spotify, iTunes, CD lossless rips). I will one day get an actual hifi setup with tuner, CD player and record player, but for now this is a great sounding, cheap option. The speakers i use are the Heco Victa 200, which are as big as it reasonably gets in my small room (actually, i have already turned down the bass in the iTunes equalizer a little). Ever since i got them, i feel like i’m sitting in one of those live-audio-presentation rooms in a store.

I personally never got subwoofers. All they do is rumble and annoy the neighbours. But then again, i refuse to listen to plastic speakers, so my 2.0 setup has always had enough bass anyway. You don’t get all the effects when watching movies, but overall i find it a more pleasant way to listen to audio of all sorts.

Well, i’ve got a cheap-ass record player and a small collection of used vinyl records too, but it’s currently sitting on a shelf, because there’s no room for it. It doesn’t require an amplifier, it has built-in speakers that sound pretty bad, but it’s still fun blasting sizzling and cracking 1$ AC/DC records from the flea market through it.

I buy my new music digitally (CD, not compressed MP3/AAC. I don’t believe i could hear the difference in a blind A/B test, but i still like having an uncompressed source, just in case) or just listen to it on Spotify. Recently though, most music i buy are used records from a flea market or a local record store. It’s outdated, but it’s cheap, fun and looks good on your shelf. If you don’t know what to do next, something like this might be a way to find out if vinyl records are for you. It’s addictive, i tell you that.

4 days ago on How do you listen to music?

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If you don’t have a receiver yet, how about getting a pair of Heco Victa 200 (they are around only 80$ a pair on Amazon since they released the sucessor line, it’s like the best deal in audio ever) and getting a decent receiver (you might want to consider buying a good used receiver from eBay instead of a crappy new one. Audio technology has been pretty good for some years, you wouldn’t be missing out on edge-of-the-line features like it’s the case with computers) first? You can still add a subwoofer and / or center from the same line of speakers in the future. In the meantime you can already enjoy crystal clear, warm sound from wooden speakers. If you buy an active plastic system now, you might be dissatisfied in the future and want to upgrade again anyway.

4 days ago on Need a 2.1 system recommendation for my TV!

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Couldn’t they fix the Nexus Q with a simple software update? It’s already a great amplifier, it just doesn’t do anything. Let me stream my audio (and video) from my tablet and computer to it, and it’d be a great small and wireless alternative to an actual hifi amplifier. I always wanted something like the Apple TV with a built in amplifier and speaker outs.

5 days ago on Google's potential Nexus Q successor revealed in FCC filing 2 replies

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That’s great, but i still haven’t figured out the selling point of the PS4. It’s like everything the PS4 does, the PS3 does too.

5 days ago on PS4's 'play while downloading' feature arrives on PS3 first with 'The Last of Us' 2 replies

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Your country uses taxes to pay your education, health care, etc. If they steal money from your country, they steal money from you.

5 days ago on Former Google UK exec alleges company misrepresented sales to avoid paying taxes 1 reply 3 recommends