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Today on Shelly Palmer Digital Living: Hurricane Sandy flooded power stations, tunnels, took out power for everyone below 39th Street in Manhattan and wreaked havoc and unimaginable devastation from Atlantic City, NJ across the entire South Shore of Long Island.  Another “once in a hundred year storm” just a year after Hurricane Irene … and [...]

After Hurricane Sandy canceled Monday’s Android event in New York, Google took to its blog to announce its new tech. Apple’s iPad finally has a true challenger in Google’s Nexus 10, which packs a whopping 300 pixels per inch into its screen, nearly 20 percent more than the Retina iPad. It has a nine hour [...]

One of the inevitable effects of Apple releasing a new full-sized iPad alongside the iPad Mini is the waves of Apple diehards trying to unload their now “outdated” hardware. Hardware trading sites have announced that they’ve seen as much as a one-thousand percent increase in iPad swaps in the days following Apple’s announcements. While the [...]

Microsoft just unleashed Windows 8 on the public, which means corporate IT guys are tearing their hair out right about now. Windows 8 is unlike any other Windows operating system, as it’s designed for the portable device market, which Microsoft also dove into headfirst today with the launch of its Surface tablet. There are a [...]

If you’ve never been to the Grand Canyon, you’re missing out on one of Earth’s greatest sights. However, you may soon get a chance to see it from your computer like no one’s seen it before: through Google Maps. Google’s maps team is currently at the Grand Canyon, using the Trekker to map the Canyon’s [...]

Apple’s event yesterday not only unveiled the iPad Mini but a whole slew of new hardware. What’s new and worth your time? The Mini, as expected, has a 7.9 inch screen, with the same resolution and processing power as the iPad 2. The big surprise is that it also offers LTE on Verizon, AT&T and [...]

After what seems like months of leaks and rumors, the day has come for Apple to unveil the iPad Mini. While they have yet to leak any details, here’s an idea of what they’ll most likely reveal during today’s event. The screen is not expected to have a retina display but should be 7.85 inches, [...]

Several weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled Office 365. No longer is Office a suite of programs you buy and have forever. Instead, it is a subscription-based model that gives you the programs you know and love, like Word, Excel and Outlook, along with SkyDrive storage and Skype credits. Last Friday, Microsoft announced Office 365 University, aimed [...]

Maybe you got sick and tired of your BlackBerry, or maybe you just fell for the iPhone’s allure. Either way, now you’ve got this shiny new iToy on your desk, but all of your contacts are stuck on your old, clunky BlackBerry. How do you move all those names and numbers over? It’s easier than [...]

Back in January, Apple unveiled iPad textbooks, which they said would revolutionize classrooms and be what students of the future would use to learn. Fast forward nine months, and Apple’s dream hasn’t taken off. On Wednesday, Amazon unveiled Whispercast, which lets organizations like schools easily deploy Kindle content to students on Kindles and devices with [...]

Have you ever been out to dinner with someone, and before they do anything else, they just HAVE to take a picture of their food and upload it to Instagram? We all know those people. Whether you love the idea or whether it drives you crazy, one restaurant in New York City is embracing the [...]

If you’ve read anything on my site, there’s a good chance you’ve come across one of my blogs about the importance of strong passwords. If one man’s work at Texas State University-San Marcos proves successful, however, it would appear we’re nearing the end of secure strings of numbers and letters. Oleg Komogortsev is working on [...]

One of the most inspiring uses of technology is giving people the ability to do things they couldn’t do otherwise. One such example is how the blind community has benefitted from several new gadgets and apps over the course of the past few months. An app called Braille Touch was developed earlier this year, which [...]

E-mails are simple, right? Mostly. However, there’s a bunch of tricky things to worry about, like e-mail signatures. What, exactly, do you put down there? There are many opinions on the issue, but here’s my two cents: While having the disclaimer “Sent from my iPhone” could excuse weird typos or auto-corrects, it also seems like [...]

After years of mostly minor changes in the way they operate, Microsoft is about to rock the boat big time beginning later this month. They’re releasing Windows 8, a brand new OS with a steep learning curve. They’re continuing their mobile push with the launch of the Microsoft Surface tablets on October 26, and a [...]