Microsoft Surface RT to go on sale for $199 on Black Friday at Best Buy

$199 for a first generation Microsoft Surface tablet isn't a bad deal. Best Buy Canada's flyer for Black Friday features last year's click-happy tablet at $150 off the current selling price. The Surface RT is the 32GB version and it will have Windows RT installed but can be upgraded to Windows RT 8.1. Microsoft Office Home and Student (RT version) are also included. I remember when boxed versions of Office cost around $199.

Update on Monday, December 2, 2013 at 9:06PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

I actually bit the bullet and got one of these for myself. So far, it's been great. Ordered from Best Buy on Black Friday and was surprised to get my Surface delivered on Sunday! It took a few hours to update the OS and then install Windows 8.1 on ARM but since then it has been smooth sailing.

Pawn Stars troll Google's Chromebook in latest Microsoft 'Scroogled' ad

Here's a direct hit from the Pawn Stars who refuse to accept a Google Chromebook because, "when you're not connected, it's pretty much a brick." The Scroogled ad goes on to point out that traditional notebooks use applications like Office and iTunes which work even when you're offline. The kicker here is the line, "when you are online, Google tracks what you do so they can sell ads." Ow.

Strut Type available as free download from App Store on Cyber Monday

Strut Type will available for download for free on Cyber Monday in the App Store.

The photo app has a range of over 18 filters and approximately 530 editing possibilities (black & white, gray tones, sepia, greens and cyans) combined with period-specific canvases, textures, watermarking, foxing, vignettes, light-leak effects and frames.

New Apple patent focuses on Lytro-like refocusable camera

The Lytro camera was an exciting and novel device that allowed photographers and people viewing images online to focus their digital images after they were taken. Expensive and hard to find, the Lytro camera really failed to turn a great idea into a profitable business. Apple has recently secured  a patent for a similar refocusable camera that might give future iPhones the ability to shoot images and refocus later on depending on what aspect they'd like to highlight. Nokia's Lumia 1020 already has a similar application called Refocus which works very much the same way (i.e. images posted online can be refocused by viewers). Since iPhones have consistently been among the most used cameras, this feature will expand their functionality. Hope they make it to market sooner rather than later.

Source: Appleinsider