By day, Adam is a writer of over fifteen years with a love for all things tech (with a secret love of data and spreadsheets). By night, he's a gadget geek, 80's nerd, cord cutter, cook, husband, dad, and memory collector.
Wifi thermostats are making their way into more and more homes. Gone are the old mercury dials that simply turned your system on or off & adjusted the temperature, here to stay are new devices that you can customize and control from a mobile device when you're miles away from home. In our pursuit to find the best wifi thermostat of them all, we spent some time with the ecobee3 — a...
The good folks at Runkeeper have been taken in user feedback, and today are happy to announce that their iOS app now features Spotify integration. That means Spotify premium users can rock out to their favorite tunes on Spotify from right inside Runkeeper — no more jumping between apps. "Now, Spotify premium users can fire up Spotify music right from the RunKeeper start screen....
The long-awaited Apple Watch is still a few months away and, without knowing all the official specs for all different variations, rumors about everything from software builds to battery life are starting to make their way across the internet. 9to5mac: According to our sources, Apple opted to use a relatively powerful processor and high-quality screen for the Apple Watch, both of...
The popular app AllCast — which lets users stream from their phone to Chromecast, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku and more — is now available for iOS devices. AllCast has been available on Android for quite some time, and has now arrived for iPhone and iPad users as well. While it does carry over some of the features of Apple's AirPlay, it still proves a useful tool for those looking to stream...
The Hit List 2 for iPhone is hot off the press and available at an introductory price of $9.99. The first major release of The Hit List since Karelia acquired the Potion Factory, this version brings along sync with the Mac app, task cards, task list shortcuts, and much more. The Hit List aims to help you manage your daily tasks and to-dos — no matter how big or how small. Task cards...
Apple has just released iOS 8.2 Beta 3 as an OTA update for developers or anyone taking part in the iOS 8 beta program. This one has the usual round of "bug fixes and other improvements", but if you spot anything new be sure to drop a comment here and let us know. If you're in the beta but aren't seeing it yet, hang tight and it should be available soon.
Verizon is helping users give the gift of Starbucks this holiday season. Through the Verizon Messages app, users can send an Starbucks eGift card of $5, $10, or $15 to virtually anyone on any U.S. carrier. The cost of the card is billed to the senders account, and the recipient simply needs to scan the barcode at any Starbucks location, or add the gift to a Starbucks card. Whether...
The Fitbit Surge is heading out now to select early adopters, bringing the best of what Fitbit has to offer along with a 24/7 heart rate monitor and smartwatch notifications. This isn't your standard Fitbit — the Surge is supercharged and ready to take on whatever activities you can throw at it. Rather than just giving you the standard fare of options like step count, calories burned...
The good folks at Sonos have just released a new and improved Sonos controller app for both Android and iOS. The new version makes some beta features official, and just in time to help spread some holiday cheer. The notable inclusions in this version are multi-account support and various Playbar sound enhancements. Here's a breakdown of the goods: Expand your world of music with...
Former BlackBerry CEO, Thorsten Heins, is now CEO and chairman of wireless charging company Powermat. Founder Ran Poliakine will now take the seat of Vice Chairman but still be heavily involved in evangelism and other strategic partnerships. After about a year hiatus since leaving BlackBerry, Heins is once again ready to take charge in attempts to scale Powermat to a new level of not...
WhatsApp is now one of the strongest messaging apps you can find on Android — thanks to new end-to-end encryption for messages — and the features may soon come to the iOS version as well. That means messages send from your iOS device would be totally secure and not have the ability to be decrypted by WhatsApp at all — no matter what. Other apps offer similar end-to-end security, but...
Sprint customers looking to get some iPad action can now do so easier than ever before. Through their exclusive iPad for Life Plan, Sprint is offering customers the option to lease a new iPad Air 2 or iPad Mini 3 starting at $20/month and $17/month respectively with no out-of-pocket costs up front. The lease runs for 24 months, at which time users will have the option to continue...
Domino's and Pebble have teamed up, and that means you can now track your pizza right from your smartwatch. Using the Domino's app on Android or iOS, you can track your recent orders using the Domino's Tracker on your Pebble. Just fire up the app (it's tied to your Domino's phone number) and you'll be able to view your recent orders and status as your pizza goes from the oven to your...
Aviary has today announced their biggest update since joining forces with Adobe, bring a much improved Photo Editor by Aviary app to Android and iOS. The photo editing app — which allows users to edit on the fly with tools like one-tap enhance, color balance, and stickers — today adds over $200 worth of effects for free as well as Creative Cloud sync. Here's what's new in this...
Fitness bands are part of a rapidly growing category at the moment. We've been seeing bands from the likes of FitBit and Jawbone, both of whom have released several models over the years. We've also been seeing new bands from established names in the fitness space such as Garmin, Polar, and NordicTrack. Just with that there are already plenty of models to consider before making a...
The new Fitbit Charge has hit the streets and is ready for action. It was announced along with the Charge HR and Surge, both of which will be available for purchase in a few more weeks. The Charge is essentially a revamped Fitbit Force, so anyone that had (or still has) one should be very familiar with the Charge. We'll give it a full review soon after we play with it for a bit — but...
Today Facebook is rolling out a new feature that will give you more control over what you posts you see in your News Feed. You'll now see a list of the top people and pages in your feed, and you'll be given a one-click option to unfollow them if you chose to do so. You can also choose a filtered view for a specific person, group, or page, or hide the dialog completely if you like things...
If you have a lot of connected devices in your home, chances are you often look for ways to tie them all together. Most devices have their own specific smartphone apps or remote in tow, making it hard to get everything to work together as one big unit. That's where the Harmony Ultimate Home comes in. The system consists of just a remote, hub, and smartphone app, but it's what they can...
It's something you may have seen during your travels on the internet or a trip to the Apple Store. Anki Drive is one of the coolest connected toys on the market today. It takes the classic action of slot cars and brings it into the future with power-ups, weapons, battle mode and more. If you're on the fence about picking up Anki Drive for yourself (or have no clue what it even is)...
The all new, 5k Retina iMac if officially official and can be all yours, starting at $2499. Of course if you want bigger and better, it will run you quite a bit more than the base price. It's packing a ton of awesomeness, including a 5120x2880 resolution display, 1TB fusion drive, 8GB of RAM and a 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU (which is upgradeable) — so it's no slouch when it comes to the...