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LG Dare (VX-9700) - Verizon Wireless - July 29, 2008

Ever since Apple released the “revolutionary” iPhone, competitors have been trying to imitate and create a better phone. LG has been fairly successful so far. They released the LG Voyager through Verizon Wireless last year, which we reviewed but weren’t too happy with. Fortunately their latest phone, the LG Dare, has surpassed our expectations and [...]

Tags: aac, bluetooth, camera, cdma, chat, dare, gps, html, lg, mail, microsd, microusb, mp3, touch, verizon, wma

Nokia N95 8GB Review - May 2, 2008

I recently got a hold of the brand new Nokia N95 8GB (N95-4) smart phone running the Symbian OS. This phone is the most powerful and feature packed phone I have used to date! It truly dominates the Apple iPhone on just about every aspect with features such as a 5 mega pixel camera, 3G [...]

Tags: 3g, bluetooth, camera, cdma, flash, gps, gsm, mail, mp3, mp4, nokia, phones, screen, sim, smartphone, symbian, wifi, wma

Skatter Tech: Get Your Own Gravatar - April 4, 2008

We recently upgraded Skatter Tech to WordPress 2.5 and along with it we decided to make some changes to the icons that go along with each comment. Previously, each commenter’s icon was based off the favicon from the provided url. Today, we have switched to using Gravatar, “the globally recognized avatar.” Starting now the associated [...]

Tags: favicon, gravatar, icon, mail, skatter tech

Apple Announces iPhone 2.0 And SDK - March 6, 2008

Earlier today Apple announced the iPhone 2.0 software and the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). A beta version of the iPhone 2.0 software will be available today, however the finalized version won’t be available to consumers until June. The phone will also be getting much demanded business features such as the compatibility to function with [...]

Tags: apple, firmware, games, iphone, ipod touch, june, mail, sdk, updates

LG Voyager (VX10000) - Verizon Wireless - November 19, 2007

The phone everyone’s been waiting for is finally here. The LG Voyager, which is also known as the LG VX10000, is an upgrade to the popular LG enV (VX9900), which we reviewed around this time last year. Skatter Tech was lucky enough to get a hold of this unit, courtesy of Verizon Wireless, and I’ve [...]

Tags: bluetooth, camera, display, gps, html, lg, mail, mp3, qwerty, screen, stereo, touch, tv, verizon, voyager, wireless

The Best Open Source Applications - October 13, 2007

Open Source applications are a great cost-free alternative to commercial applications. In many instances they are even better than paid versions of the same application. Today we bring you a list of a great applications from browsers to video players for both Windows XP/Vista and Macintosh OS X. All items on the list of course [...]

Tags: browser, chat, macintosh, mail, open-source, os x, rss, vista, windows, xp

Media Temple Grid-Server v1.2 - February 24, 2007

Media Temple (mt) customers are in for a treat. The recently launched GRID server is getting a second major upgrade, v1.2. All customers using the new Grid-Server (gs) will soon receive an update which will consist of many stability enhancements, “micro-updates”, user request implementations, bug fixes, and plenty of new features.
GMR v1.2 System Upgrade:

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Tags: ftp, host, mail, media temple, server, updates

Gmail Gets Buddy Icons - May 11, 2006

Google has constantly been adding new features to Gmail since it originally launched in 2004. Over the last two years they have added over 2GB of storage space, RSS feed reader, virus scanning, chat, and many more features. Their latest add-on allows Gmail users to associate images with each contact (email address), therefore making it [...]

Tags: gmail, google, icon, mail, photos

Google Calendar Released - April 14, 2006

On Wednesday (04/13/06) Google unveiled their latest product, Google Calendar. The new web-based application is open to the public, but is expected to remain in beta temporarily. Google Calendar, code-name CL2, helps track events, schedule appointments, and share them with others. This new service is completely intergraded with Gmail, allowing users to add events mentioned [...]

Tags: beta, calendar, firefox, gmail, google, mail, msn, outlook, safari, yahoo

NeWs Up^2-DaTe (31) - March 11, 2006

CL2 | Comedy Central on iTunes | MS Origami | MSN Live
1) Google Calendar screenshots have been revealed by TechCrunch, a popular Web 2.0 blog. (Yahoo! apparently fed them the info) Anyways “to be launched” service is an online AJAX based calendar service, which is suppose to be called CL2. The service has a gmail-like [...]

Tags: ajax, apple, bluetooth, calendar, central, comedy, daily, feeds, google, itunes, live, mail, microsoft, msn, office, pc, report, rss, samsung, season, show, tablet, tech, tv, web 2.0, wifi, windows