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Intel hardware has been always regarded as the ‘most stable’ piece of electronics you could buy. After all, they’re the ones building Intel Microprocessors, so they really know what they’re doing.

As everyone knows, iPads have been dooming PC’s sales for the last couple years, since their introduction in 2010. Early this week, Intel announced that by 2016 they’ll stop building their own branded motherboards.

So, it seems, desktop PCs already have its days numbered. Will tablet-pcs be able to fully replace them?. Of course not. We, developers, need processing power that far exceeds the capacity of ARM chips.

At least in the near future, the common ground prediction is that… final users will rely on tablets for their daily tasks, while developers and it-professionals will still use old fashiones computers.

What do you think?

From time to time, Apple’s Review Team, for whatever reason, allows Apps that clearly violate the AppStore guidelines.

This time, Gridlee managed to got in. It’s free, and it’s somewhere around 85 megabytes. You can expect it to be removed sooner rather than later… so my recommendation would be… go and get it!.

You can install any ROMs you might have already downloaded. Playing Choplifter on an iPad Retina isn’t hi-tech, but i’ve always said, old school games are the best. You don’t need complex 3d algorithms, shadows, or near-perfect water effects to have fun.

After all, it’s all about getting rid of the bad guys… right!?

Today, a new iPhone Jailbreak solution, has been announced to be already on its way. iOS 6.0 and 6.1 beta 4 have been both jailbroken, and the team is waiting for iOS 6.1 final release to launch the goodies!.

If you have a previous iOS version, and you still wanna jailbreak your device, you should head to this site. They have a nice archive of every JB solution that got released.

By the way, Jailbreaking an iOS device is completely legal. However, downloading illegal copies of iOS Apps is not cool, and we recommend you do not engage in those activities.

Support the developers..!!

MongoDB is a NoSQL database, free of charge. The beauty of mongo relies on its schema-less design… you can add and remove fields, without doing ‘alter table’.

Your information gets stored in JSON, which is  seriously interesting, specially if you work with iOS / Android Apps, and the communications layer works in json.

So.. fire up a browser, and head to this urls. Assuming you’re running OSX (like me!), you’d need the mac binary, which is about 60 megabytes.

Preferrably, you’ll need to download the 64 bits executable. The 32 bits version can address only databases up to 2 gigabytes.

Once you’ve got the file, simply double click on it, to get it uncompressed. Assuming that the file is in the downloads folder, let’s move it to a more suitable location.

Launch terminal, and type the following:

sudo
cd ~/Downloads/
sudo mv mongodb /usr/local/mongodb

Mongo stores its databases in the "/data/db" directory, so… we’d need to create them:

mkdir /data
mkdir /data/db
chmod 777 /data/db

Now, let’s add a couple symbolic links, so you can launch mongo from anywhere in the system:

cd /usr/local/bin
ln /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod

That’s it! you’ve just installed mongo!. In order to launch the database, you simply need to type the ‘mongodb’ command.

If you wanna launch a command-line client, type ‘mongo’, which should connect to the server, right away.

Do you usually spend time waiting for a bus… without anything to do?. And how about when there is nothing on TV? what do you do?. Or… say… you’ve just finished that book you’ve been reading for months, and you have no clue what to do with your spare time!.

If you answer ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, then this short list of Top 5 iPhone Games is just for you!.

Fix-It Felix Jr. I fell in love with this title. It’s a simple old-shool videogame, in which you need to fix the building, while Wreck-It Ralph breaks everything. It took me about 5 minutes to get used to the onscreen controls… you should give it a shot!.

Grand Theft Auto, Vice CIty Ahhh… who didn’t get to play GTA 1 on an old Pentium PC?. And how about GTA 2?. Well… guess what… GTA has reincarnated as an iOS videogame. It’s about 4.99 dollars, but it’s worth every penny. Most definitely!

Talking Carl What can i say about this…. Red, as i call it, is my friend. He’s not smart as Siri, so.. he will just repeat whatever you say. But it’s really fun… and kids do love him. Download it, and tickle him. It’s worth it!

Tesla Toy Do you own a Tesla Coil?. Me neither. But i do have an app that looks the same way, so to speak. This app emulates the behavior of a Tesla Coil. You should see it running on an iPad, it’s pure eye candy.

Talking Ted (Lite!) This app doesn’t compete with Talking Carl, since Ted doesn’t repeat whatever you say. However, since Ted is a talking bear, this app has a couple recordings of the toy, doing several things (such as drinking alcohol). The lite version is free.. so… give it a shot!