Justin Germino The iPad Mini was announced today as expected at the Apple Event and what probably was the most shocking for me was the starting price of $329 which puts it way more than the Google Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire 7 HD tablets, but is it really that much better to justify the extra cost? The iPad Mini sports the same dual core A5 processor as the iPad 2 (2nd generation) and the iPad 2 … Read more
Dark, devastating and exciting all at the same time! The Official Iron Man 3 trailer shows Tony Stark under attack emotionally as well as physically reeling from an apparent event/attack against New York. We see his Iron Man suits being destroyed in one scene, his home being bombarded by helicopter missiles and even one of his stolen suits (presumably) startling Pepper Potts and him awake in his own bed at night. Watch the Iron Man … Read more
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With Google clamping down on Feedburner API’s that left many widgets and services showing 0 subscribers a new notification about Google pulling AdSense for feeds has gone out to AdSense customers. So is the writing on the wall that Feedburner which we know was consumed by Google may be on the chopping block in the future like Google did for Friend Connect and other services. I actually remember talking with a company that used to … Read more
I saw this video and can’t argue against the coolness factor of what the Samsung Galaxy Note II is capable of. The stylus was integrated very well with the device and the ability to have 2 applications open side by side on the same screen just reeks of increased productivity. There is no denying that this is one impressive smartphone that combines many features of a tablet with a phone. Samsung makes some killer Android … Read more
I have been wanting to add more rich media here on DragonBlogger.com for a while and flirted with a podcast back in 2008/2009 only to get too busy and focus on video tutorials and other efforts. Well after talking with one of my recent staff members Brian Alford who used to run a video game podcast with his friend we have decided to put together a DragonBlogger Podcast called “The Dragoncast” this will be a … Read more
Digiarty Software has provided us with 5 copies of the WinX DVD Ripper platinum software to giveaway to readers in a flash giveaway contest! 5 lucky winners will be able to get a fully licensed copy of Winx DVD Ripper Platinum which will allow them to rip their favorite DVD’s and convert them to virtually any media format including allowing you to play your DVD movie on: Rip DVD Movies or ISO Images and convert … Read more
If you arrived here on DragonBlogger.com via Google Chrome, you may have been presented with the following error: This started happening yesterday and it is related to Google Safesearch flagging subdomains hosted on Bluehost (the parent company of HostMonster which hosts DragonBlogger.com) having some domains serving malware. If you dig further by clicking on the safe browsing diagnostics page you will see the following: Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for dragonblogger.com What is the current listing … Read more
I found a great giveaway contest going on over at Daily Techie where the owner purchased an Xbox 360 Kinect Bundle to giveaway to 1 lucky reader. They are also paying for shipping costs (including international) so anyone can enter the contest. Enter the contest from Daily Techie directly, or you can enter via the widget below. I decided to help co-host as well as enter the contest myself, heck if I won this bundle … Read more
In this laptop giveaway you could win a Lenovo z585 Ideapad Laptop from Dragonblogger.com in this Punchtab contest!
Small and medium sized enterprises generally use centralized servers and external hard drives for storing their data. But this technology is getting fairly old as new technologies are emerging in the market everyday. Small business should look into changing their storage solutions because hard drives can be easily stolen, are not so secure and can not cater to excessive data. A better option is to use online data storage services via cloud solutions. Cloud storage … Read more
My awesome friends over at Kingston Technology sent me one of the 64GB DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB drives to review and another one to give away to one of my readers in a contest. I want to tell you that I have reviewed USB 3.0 flash drives before, but nothing I have ever used match the read and write speeds of the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0. I put this USB stick in my system and started … Read more
Amazon announced 3 versions of it’s new Kindle Fire HD brand which include the traditional $199 7″ Version, a larger 8.9″ version for $299 and a 4G LTE Enabled 8.9″ version for $499. 8.9″ Kindle Fire HD Probably the most impressive is the $499 tablet comes with a $49.99 (1 year cost) 250GB per month 4G data plan package. So if you look at the savings compared to other tablets in the same size range … Read more
Our friends over at Visopix were interested in having me test out their just released MiniTouch Ivy Keyboard to see if it was worth telling my readers about, so for this article they sent me a sample version to put through it’s paces. What is the MiniTouch Ivy Keyboard? We are dealing with a full wireless mini keyboard that is about the size of a TV remote control! Seriously, this thing has a full QWERTY … Read more
I always like testing new software to help clean up and optimize performance on Windows PC’s so when Anvisoft contacted me and asked me to review a copy of Cloud System Booster Pro and then host a giveaway for my readers I was eager to put it to the test. The first step is to download and install Cloud System Booster, you can get a free trial version but you will really want the pro … Read more
I had an email from Google that they had pre-selected a custom URI for my profile and I was quick to accept it. My custom Google+ profile URL no longer contains that long crazy number string and Google Plus was far behind other services in letting you hand out a simplified profile URL you can just share with your friends that had your name or brand in the URL itself. (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and just … Read more
Here at DragonBlogger.com we have partnered up with Zyma Technologies to bring our readers a chance to win a free 1 year unlimited web hosting plan. This unlimited web hosting plan includes: Unlimited disk space Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited email accounts Unlimited SQL Databases Unlimited FTP Accounts Free transfer from existing account (and assistance) Free tech support CPanel Web Hosting and Free Google Vouchers If you are looking for another hosting provider, or currently running a … Read more
I have since switched my email subscriber list from MailChimp to SimplyCast and really like that SimplyCast has a free epic plan which lets you send unlimited emails per month to up to 2,000 subscribers of your mailing list. This is actually more than MailChimp which only lets you send 2,000 emails per month period, as you can send any number to the same set # of subscribers until you get over 2,000 subscribers. In … Read more
We have partnered with our friends over at FilmBook to give readers a chance to win a free copy of The Hunger Games on Blu-Ray. I thought the movie was very well done and saw it in theaters though I hadn’t read the books myself. We did a review of The Hunger Games here on DragonBlogger.com back when it came out in theaters. Contest Rules: All entries must be in by October 21, 2012 at 11:45pm … Read more