Quick PSA: MacBook Air For $699? Don’t Fall For it

trapApple has just reduced the price of the lowest tier of refurbished MacBook Air to $699 — I've just seen it pop up on a couple news sites. One would think that the option of getting for such a low price what was a year ago an object of envy would make it a no-brainer. But it is the old version of the famously flat laptop, and although it may seem superfluous to point this out, I feel I should warn our readers that to take advantage of this deal is to buy yourself some grief. This version of the MacBook Air debuted in October 2010, and it has a Core2 Duo processor that has roots going back to 2008 and before. It was outdated when it first showed up, and it's a dog now.

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Sand Trap is a fun and difficult physics maze game

Sand Trap
Sand Trap is one of those games that at first seem too hard to bother with, but when you try to stop playing it you discover you're hooked.

The goal is to get as much sand as you possibly can out of the maze and into the bucket at the bottom of the screen. You need to rotate your maze every which way to get the sand rolling around it. You then try to direct the sand to one of the exits of the maze, and hopefully into the bucket. It took me several tries to actually get sand into the bucket, but that might be due to the fact that I didn't even realize the bucket was there at first. Things improved significantly after that.

As you level up, the mazes get more complicated, with moving parts and other things making your life more difficult. Once you manage to get through all these obstacles and get enough sand into your bucket, you can move on.

As I mentioned, this is not an easy game, but it's highly addictive. The graphics remind me of some long lost game from the 80s, but this just proves that you don't need super graphics and crazy sound to make a game work. There's a soothing guitar track playing in the background and that's it, as far as I could hear, and you can enjoy it just as much with no sound at all.

If you like a fun physics challenge, don't miss out on this one!

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The week in iPhone: Siri silly season, Apple topping charts, iOS vs. Android, AT&T crackdown, and more!

Missed a compelling piece of iPhone news, a great review, or a killer how-to? We’re not collecting absolutely everything in iPhone here — you can hit up TiPb.com/iPhone for that! — but we’re carefully picking what we think is the best of the last 7 days and presenting...

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Activity Book For Young Scientists Encourages Coloring Inside the Cellular Walls [Books]

Hot on the heels of yesterday's Introductory Calculus For Infants comes another book dedicated to introducing scientific concepts to kids in a fun way so the subjects seem less intimidating when they finally get to school. More »


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Comcast says no to tiered data for its broadband service, hardcore Netflix users rejoice

Looking for a cable operator that won't charge you for all of those Rescue Me marathons you're having? If so, Comcast says it has no plans of implementing tiered data plans for its subscribers, unlike its wireless brethren. Citing that the move wouldn't be advantageous for the company's blooming broadband sector, Comcast Cable president Neil Smit and CFO Michael Angelakis eased the fears of video streaming customers on Monday, at least for the immediate future. Smit went on to say that "we don't want to nickel-and-dime customers at this point" -- so your extreme downloading habits are safe, for now. Bear in mind, Comcast does put a cap of 250GB per month on data consumption, so the idea full-on unlimited broadband is still just wishful thinking.

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Behringer unveils 8-foot iNuke Boom iPod dock, goes consumer with Eurosound brand

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You can probably barely make it out in the image above, but there is actually an iPod touch mounted in that monstrosity. What you're looking at is the 8-foot wide, 4-foot tall, $30,000 iNuke Boom iPod dock from Behringer. At over 700 pounds and pumping out an inhumane 10,000 watts of deafening audio, the iNuke Boom is ready for its big public debut at the gadget circus that we call CES in January. We just hope that Everki shows up with that giant backpack from 2010's expo so we can lug home a review unit. Behringer will also be unveiling around 50 new products under its new consumer electronics sub-brand, Eurosound. But, we know you really just want more of the world's loudest iPod dock (to go along with your World's Largest Backpack) -- so head after the break for another pair of images and some PR.

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US Virtual Goods Market To Hit $2.9 Billion In 2012, With Facebook Games Maturing, Mobile Booming

Screen Shot 2011-12-07 at 2.02.16 PMThe business of selling virtual goods in games has been around for a decade, but it only came into its own in 2007 when developers started building social games on Facebook's developer platform. Since then, it has been one of the fastest-growing types of businesses online. But it may be maturing, according to a new report out today -- at least on Facebook. In the meantime, mobile virtual goods are taking off. The overall market for virtual goods in the US is headed towards $2.9 billion for 2012, according to the Inside Virtual Goods report. That's up from $2.2 billion this year, and $1.6 billion in 2010.

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Touchnote Postcard App for iOS Review

Touchnote is a free app for iOS devices that will allow you to create and send a postcard to anyone in the world. I’m not talking about an electronic postcard, but an actual printed card with a stamp on it. Let’s check it out. Note: Click the images in this review to see a larger [...]

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Verizon Confirms Widespread 4G Outage, Still Scrambling For A Fix

Image (1) 4G-620x269.png for post 45609Just in time to throw a wrench into people's wireless shopping plans, Verizon has announced that their much-vaunted 4G LTE network is experiencing a few hiccups. And by hiccups, I mean that their 4G network is currently undergoing a widespread outage that's affecting customers across the country. According to a recent release, "Verizon Wireless engineers have been working to resolve an issue with 4G LTE service that is affecting some customers’ 4G devices," and that "3G data and voice devices are unaffected." However, that doesn't exactly seem to be the case for everyone affected: reports are floating around on blogs and Verizon's customer forums that some people are without so much as a 3G or 1X connection. Stranger still, some customers are completely fine with everything working as it should.

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Fylus Capacitive Fingertip Stylus Review

Some people have trouble using capacitive touchscreens because they find their fingers are just too big for those tiny little keys on a smartphone screen.  Others don’t like to use touchscreens because they don’t like leaving oily smears on the glass.  Whatever the reason, some people want to use a stylus with their device, but [...]

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