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Become a "TV Hacker" in 3 seconds.

Your watching your favorite TV show or movie, when suddenly the bad guy is 60 seconds away from blowing up the moon. There is only one thing your hero can do – hack into the mainframe of the villain and shut it down before its too late. They frantically type away, spitting out lines of code at 80 words-per-minute in an attempt to thwart this evil plot.

20 seconds left, and the impatience of the cast around the hero causes outbursts of “Dammit, dammit! I’m almost through the firewall!”

10 seconds. Your hero is in, writing the final lines of code to deactivate the moon-blower-upper. Beads of sweat drip from their brow.

3 seconds, 2….. Your hero hits enter, flawlessly executing the program with no debugging to save the day once again.

So the question is, do you want to be just like your hero in the show? Just go to http://www.hackertyper.com and start typing, soon enough and with enough practice you will be able to be just like your favorite actor or actress when they do it on the set.

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DODODCASE Essentials Unboxing

My new DODOCASE Essentials for iPad 3 arrived today and I did a quick unboxing video to share with everyone since I know so many people have been buzzing about this case online. I am really loving it so far, but I have one major issue. I was under the impression from the DODOCASE.com website that the Essentials case came with a magnetic strip that activated the iPad’s sleep/wake function, however, I think I am missing that magnet because mine is not working 🙁 I left a message for DODOCASE on their Facebook page so hopefully they will let me know if this was a feature or not. I should have a full review of the case soon, but in the meantime, here is the unboxing… enjoy!

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Backyard Home Office

Lately I have been obsessing a lot about the idea of a backyard home office, also known as a detached home office. For someone who works from home, I think it achieves the balance of convenience and professionalism because you are still working from home, but you are physically outside of your house so I think it gives that “at the office” mentality. In some scenes the extra space can be used for far more than an office and even function as a retreat in your own backyard. Either way I want one, but of course that would mean I would need to get myself a home and a backyard first. Well, we can file this under future plans! Below are some amazing backyard home offices I found from around the web. They are all so unique and peaceful, I would find it hard to pick just one.

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Angry Birds: Space – an in-depth review

Not even kidding, just buy it. Seriously stop reading this review and download the game now. Your still reading, why aren’t you downloading it? GET IT ALREADY!!!

Okay, okay – you want a real review, got it.
I happened to browse the app store today to see that the newest installment of Angry Birds has been released. Now, I haven’t played Angry Birds since the original, and I have avoided the updated games Seasons, Rio, and whatever else they might have come up with. I really didn’t like Angry Birds too much anymore, it was old and boring. That was before Space.

Maybe it has something to do with my weird taste in games where anything involving space and orbits makes me happy, but Angry Birds: Space has quickly become my favorite game on my iPhone. It takes the classic game play of flinging birds out of a slingshot and updates it to a whole new game play. Now your birds rocket out, effected by the weightlessness of space, and the pull of gravity due to planets. A helpful guide shows where your bird will fly and how it will be pulled by the new forces. Birds will orbit around planets, taking out pigs on all sides, Black bombing birds will asteroids in weightless space to rocket off in an array of directions depending on where you detonate. There is so much more that I haven’t even touched on, but trust me, the whole game is amazing! This game has completely re-worked the universe of Angry Birds and the game play associated with it. I am only on level 1-18 and I am hooked.

So why haven’t you bought it yet???

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The Commander and the Dodocase

Well, I am not saying that the Dodocase is the Presidents iPad case of choice, however, this visual evidence is quiet persuasive. Yes, President Obama totes his white iPad 2 in a classic Dodocase, which begs the question, what color is the interior lining? Inquiring minds must know!

{Image via HuffPost}

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iPad 3 Camera Test

In order to test out the quality of the iPad 3’s iSight camera, the other day I went around the house taking random pictures. Some of them, I ended up making minor adjustments to in the new iPhoto app, which I have to say from the short time I was in the app editing the photos it was very easy to use and surprisingly full featured. So here are the pictures I shot, which I think came out very nicely. Overall I am pleased with the quality of the photos, but what do you think?
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New Masthead!

I just revamped my masthead as you may notice above. It needed an upgrade and so did the desk itself. I don’t even use my iPod Touch very much anymore, so I replaced it with some iPad 3’s for a much more up to date look. I also changed the idea board a little by replacing an apple logo with a new logo that Cousy made for me a while back. I love elephants and so a pink elephant will be my official blog logo. I guess that means I’m the pink elephant in the room, but I am okay with that!
Let me know what you think!