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Seven Best Reasons for Generation X to Love 2012

I’m one of those annoying people who’s prone to complaining about this modern age—despite the fact that I’m in the Cult of Apple; despite the […]

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Pick a Side: Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet

If you think Black Friday was ugly, you haven’t been paying attention to the e-reader wars. The knock-down, drag-out that’s going down between e-tail giant […]

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Please Read This Post All the Way to the End

Here’s the thing. I noticed that all of my posts are pretty damn upbeat. Obnoxiously cheery. Insipidly rosy. One might even say nauseatingly perky. But those people who […]

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The Best Part of the Great 2011 Blackberry Outage

For three days last week, Blackberry users were pissed—and justifiably so. Last week, Blackberries all over the world stopped functioning. The outage surprised millions of […]

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Texting and Dating: How to Navigate Relationships in the Digital Age

Dear Monica, How do you know when texting is becoming too much? — O.S., Center City Texting can be a great way to enhance budding […]

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Self-Checkout Sucks!

The world is becoming a less civil place, little by little, day by day. We flip off drivers on the Expressway, bellow into our cell […]

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Looking for Philly’s Next Big Start-Up?

At Technically Philly we’ve written nearly 1000 posts covering the technology community here in Philadelphia. If you paged through our archives, you would come across […]

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Forget Snookis, Old City is Overrun with Techies

Philadelphia magazine’s September feature by Richard Rys documents an Old City in transition—and not a pretty one. A neighborhood once thriving with artists, entertainment and […]

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The Top 12 iPhone Apps by Philadelphians, For Philadelphians

Great news for all the iPhone-addicts out there: Philly’s ever-increasing number of techies has been up to more than just taking up all the seats […]

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Techgirlz Hopes to Bridge Gender Gap in Philly Tech

If you have ever been to one of the dozen weekly technology events around Philadelphia, you likely have quickly noticed that the room is often […]

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Philadelphia’s 10 Most Influential Twitter Users

Some people count how many friends they have, and some people count the value of their friendships. In the world of social media, it’s no […]

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Philly Is “Gigabit City” (with or without Google)

Last week, Google thanked the 1,100 applicants who entered its Google Fiber for Communities contest, an initiative to test high-speed, next generation broadband — known […]

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Philly 311: There’s No App for That

Last week, while the City of Philadelphia was busy celebrating the country’s 234th birthday, another anniversary passed by with little fanfare. July 5 marked three […]

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Tourism On Your Phone: Why It Matters To Philly

With tourism, it’s all about where you are. Exactly where you are. In Philadelphia, the past month has seen a wash of mobile geo-location tourism […]

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Tech Transfer: Why It Matters and How Philly’s Making It Better

As we approach our nation’s birthday this weekend, let’s give a nod to another Philadelphia first: The University City Science Center. It’s the nation’s oldest […]