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People have paid a lot of attention to two new features that arrived in the iPhone 4S: The much-improved camera and Siri, the new voice-powered digital assistant. But the 4S also snuck in another feature upgrade, one that’s a ticking time bomb of potential goodness: Bluetooth 4.0. The tech is also present in Apple’s most recent [...]

It’s an often-repeated time saving tip to marinate meat: toss the meat in a sealed bag and pour in a bottle of salad dressing for a cheap and easy marinade. Unfortunately, the high acidity in most bottled salad dressings do little to help the flavor of the meat, and instead break down the protein bonds [...]

I wrote a blog post the other day about CloudFlare’s globally distributed DNS infrastructure and how each ninja name server we give you when you signup doesn’t represent just one machine, but instead a whole cluster of machines in each of the data centers we operate worldwide. Several people in the comments wondered how that [...]

Just how good is the video camera on the iPhone 4S? If a short video from Benjamin Dowie is any indication, we’re going to chalk it up to “amazing.” Dowie shot the footage just after getting his iPhone 4S and as he writes on Vimeo, “Couldn’t believe it came out of a phone.” Looking at [...]

Among the big enhancements to iOS 5 is Apple’s new iCloud suite, which keeps your mail, contacts, calendars, documents, and other data stored in the cloud and synced to all your Apple devices. Most people currently use Google services for these features, so we played with iCloud for a few days and looked at how [...]