SoundBender iPad Sound Amplifier review

I love watching video and listening to podcasts and books on my iPad. It's so much more portable and useful than my MacBooks have been over the years (which is to say it doesn't have a hinge and require me to figure out what to do with that keyboard while watching!) The constant drawback to iPads, however, is sound. Specifically, getting enough of it in all but the quietest of rooms. A new, non-powered solution has recently come onto the scene, and I was fortunate enough to get one for review. It's called the SoundBender from Simply Amazing, LLC.




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Intel CEO Supports Softbank's Bid To Acquire Sprint

We're sure you guys might have heard that Japanese carrier, Softbank, is looking to acquire a majority stake in one of the major US carriers, Sprint. At the same time it seems that American company, Dish, could be interested as well and seems to be thinking about making a counter-offer of their own. Dish even goes as far as saying that their acquisition of Sprint could be better for national security.

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Apple iOS 7 Will Get New Design

Under Apple's Jony Ive, iOS 7 will have a new look and feel mobile OS, and the interface will have a more flatter and simpler look.

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Color Play Plays Music From A Color Wheel

A group of students from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University who started off on a project has begun to explore the relationship between color as well as sound. The brainchild of Natasha Dzurny and Louie Foo, their final product is known as Color Play, which is a device that resembles a record player, although it will play back music from a color wheel instead of a music record. The color wheel itself comprises of plastic wedges in different colors and widths, where the different colors would represent various pitches, while the different widths would represent different rhythms.

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Evernote Food For Android Update Brings New User Interface

In the past few months we have seen Evernote Food for iOS receiving a number of updates. It seemed like Evernote had neglected the Android app, as it had not received any such update even when the iOS version was getting them. Today the update of Evernote Food for Android has finally been released, the update makes this app similar to its iOS counterpart as it comes with a significantly improved user interface which includes a new navigation drawer. The basic function of this app is to make it easier for users to remember the food that they love.

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HTC Has More To Say About The Future Of Their Microphones

The folks over at HTC must not have it easy for quite some time now, having suffered from worsening financial results with each looming quarter, not to mention that they are now going through a hiccup of sorts when it comes to the choice of microphones in their flagship HTC One smartphone. No thanks to ST Microelectronics' cock up which resulted in microphones meant to be used exclusively in select Nokia devices only seeing action in the HTC One as well, the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer would have to look elsewhere to replenish their stock of the HTC One microphone when the current batch runs out.

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Google Android 4.3 Spotted

It is more or less a given consensus among smartphone users of the Android world that the next version of the Android operating system would come in the form of the Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie. Having said that, does that mean we are no longer going to see any more iterations of Jelly Bean, which currently has its bus parked at Android 4.2. Perhaps not, as there were server logs discovered which pointed to the existence of Android 4.3, and even better yet, it uses the Jelly Bean moniker. So far, there has been servers which reported connections from various devices which were running on Android 4.3, build JWR23B.

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