For September, we have three Lexar JumpDrive FireFly flash drive (16 GB) courtesy of Lexar Media that will serve as the first prize of our Monthly EXP Giveaway here on ZiggyTek. To win, all you would need to do is finish in the top 3 most active user list for the month of September. User activity is measured by our EXP system — basically anything you do on Ziggytek, be it leave a comment, promote articles on Newsstream, or suggest a user link will earn you EXP points. At the end of the month, the winner will be the person with the highest amount of EXP points. For more information about EXP, head here. Read on for more details! More »

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My new Sharp Aquos LCD TV had been working with no issues in the two months since I bought it. Without ever touching the settings or touching any of the cables, the TV stopped reconizing HDMI inputs. The cable, composite inputs, and components inputs worked fine - leaving me with no explanation as to why the HDMI inputs all of a sudden stopped working. Restoring the settings to factory default didn’t work. Flashing the bios - yes TVs have bioses now - didn’t work. Here’s what eventually did: More »

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About a month ago I was lucky enough to get a free iPad. I know this is somewhat a crime to say, but I really haven’t been using it much other than to review apps that I get. I believe one of those apps (which I suspect to be We Rule) caused my iPad to inexplicably just turn off and won’t turn back on. In the past when this glitchiness happens, holding down the power button for 5 seconds fixes it for me. If that doesn’t work you can connect it to your iTunes computer and have it restore your iPad. Fixed yet? My problem was a bit more severe and required some extra effort to fix. Here’s the step-by-step: More »

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Now that we’ve revamped the ZiggyTek website, we want to create some regular editorial features. Help us find stories to write about, submit them via our “submit a link” on the right hand side of the ZiggyTek page, and earn DOUBLE EXP for the next seven days! Read on to see what kind of stories we’re looking for: More »

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Since Newegg and AMD were kind enough to give Ziggytek an AMD Athlon II X4 processor, I was curious what kind of build we could make with that. Perhaps this would be useful to the winner of our current giveaway. I’m going to make a build that I would actually use for myself or in the Mixr Media office. I’ve also set a budget of $500 which doesn’t include a monitor. After the jump, a really good, all-purpose build for under $500 with the AMD Athlon II X4 processor. More »

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Since 2007, Apple has refreshed the iPhone in June-July. The Wall Street Journal suggests that Apple has two new models coming, one at the same time frame this summer, and that a fall version is for CDMA carrier Verizon. More »

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Russian programmers have managed to load Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 ROM onto the HTC HD2, which will never see an official WP7 update. So far, Wireless, GPS, Bluetooth, and nearly everything else is working except the graphics driver and lack of CPU optimization, leading to some lag. More »

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As expected, the 4G Android phone that many have been drooling over is the “Supersonic,” now officially named the EVO 4G. Sprint will be releasing this HTC made super-phone in the summer. More »

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As measured by the FCC, the top 20 cell phones producing the most radiation are replete with Blackberry and Motorola models. More »

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 presentation today unveiled nothing that has not been widely rumored for months: there will be no multitasking; Microsoft’s Marketplace store is the only way to obtain WM7 apps; HTC HD2 will not be upgraded to WM7. In a nutshell, Microsoft is following the strictly isolationist iPhone instead of open source Android (surprise!). In more cheerful news, Samsung, Asus, and LG all demoed WM7 devices. More »

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From Ningin:

Congratulations to Ningin again for the upset win over Wirebot in the inaugural MLG tournament. So far I like what I’m seeing with Mixr League Gaming. There has been many a tearful eye, much blood was spilled, and we even had a couple of babies exchanged hands. Yes, all this makes for a bright MLG future and something that we’re going to greatly expand. Pretty soon, we’re going to have users form their own teams and play for pins. prizes, and other glories in the MLG Ladders. Still lots of testing that needs to be done, but we’re getting there! More »

As part of the ongoing preview on CrazySingleLife, we’re going to introduce some of the dating stars before the site launches. Each dater on CSL will have an alias derived from a color. They also have to write two posts before they start dating, an introduction post and a Mr./Mrs. Right post. The introduction post is meant as a description of themselves, but not like height, age, occupation. It’s more a window into their soul and the journey that their heart has been on. The second post is an open letter to the future Mr./Mrs. Right so that he or she will know to come calling on our daters.

The following except is from the introductory letter of Cerulean, one of the two female bloggers for CSL. On Monday, you met Tenne and on Wednesday you will meet Steel. Enjoy! More »

As part of the ongoing preview on CrazySingleLife, we’re going to introduce some of the dating stars before the site launches. Each dater on CSL will have an alias derived from a color. They also have to write two posts before they start dating, an introduction post and a Mr./Ms. Right post. The introduction post is meant as a description of themselves, but not like height, age, occupation. It’s more a window into their soul and the journey that their heart has been on. The second post is an open letter to the future Mr./Ms. Right so that he or she will know to come calling on our daters.

The following except is from the introductory letter of Tenne, one of the two male bloggers for CSL. On Tuesday, you will meet Cerulean and on Wednesday you will meet Steel. Enjoy! More »

Sometime this week, we’re going to be opening the doors to our dating site, CrazySingleLife. It’s something we’re super excited about because we have a pretty novel concept and a some fantastic writers with interesting and sordid dating adventures. Here’s a tidbit to wet your appetite.

About CrazySingleLife:

CrazySingleLife is a reality blog following the crazy single lives of urbanites around the world as they search for love through various dating adventures. Join us as we setup blind date, after speed date, after group date for each of our dating stars. Maybe they just might find love after all…at least we hope they do… More »

From Ningin: This has been a tremendous year for Ningin and the parent company Mixr Media in general. We’re less than two years old and we’ve grown so much, in so many different ways. It’s all because of such wonderful, loyal readers like you. For that, the staff and I really want to show you our appreciation by doing our biggest giveaways yet, Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 game consoles! More »