Now that you've had a few weeks to familiarize yourself with your new iPhone 5, it's time to think about giving it a makeover. We've rounded up several cases that absorb shock and keep your new smartphone safe and secure throughout the day.

Hardware An Interview With Josh Bechtel, The Inventor Of The Bicymple There’s been quite a bit of disruption in bikes recently and the Bicymple is no exception. Designed by Josh Bechtel, the bike aims to be easy to ride, trouble free, and less expensive than traditional gear and chain models. You can check out a video here but we got a chance to talk with Josh a bit about his new design. TC: What’

Recruiting talented people to join a startup is hard. Large salaries and stock options are a given, so sometimes the decision can come down to who has the best perks and sweetest swag. In startup land, T-shirts are everywhere, so smart startups are forced to look for new ways to differentiate themselves. , IFTTT is one of the 50 best websites of 2012, but their socks are at the top of the swag lea

Chrome Extension Protects Your Privacy on Facebook, Google [brightcove video="1897104021001" /] Maybe you're not keen to share details of your Internet activity with advertisers. A Chrome extension called PrivacyFix will walk you through your privacy settings and let you make changes so advertisers cannot track what you do on the web in order to make ad revenue. It also ensures that friends you're

Big layoffs are said to be in the works for chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). CNET is reporting the computer processor company could let go 20 - 30% of its employees within the next few weeks. AMD reports quarterly earnings on Thursday but it has warned that it's third-quarter revenue is down about 10%. If true, this would be the second big staff cut in the past year for the chipmaker. AllTh

Media & Entertainment U.S. Postal Service Plans To Launch Experimental Same-Day Delivery Service In November The United States Postal Service (USPS) just informed the Postal Regulatory Commission that it plans to launch an experimental same-day delivery service called Metro Post. The USPS says this test is specifically designed for e-commerce companies and will initially focus on a single (current

Postmates Is Updating Its App To Go After The Grocery Market With Deeper Supermarket Integration Postmates has always wanted to be the go-to app for on-demand delivery of local items. It took off thanks to the launch of its Get It Now app, providing hundreds of warm meals a day to lazy, hard-working,* hungry startup workers throughout San Francisco. But now it’s expanding to also help users feed t

Days after warning of a huge sales and earnings miss, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is close to announcing a significant reduction in its workforce that could be be made public as early as next week. According to sources familiar with the company’s plans, (they asked not to be identified), AMD will announce next week that it will cut between 20 percent and 30 percent of its employees, which, gi

Prepare to lose your weekend: Sega has released a pitch-perfect port of Crazy Taxi for the iPhone and iPad. As the lyrics in the game say, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" For the uninitiated, Crazy Taxi is a fast-paced arcade racing game where players are tasked with picking up clients and delivering them to their locations while driving around in a tricked-out convertible taxi cab. Take too much

Media & Entertainment If Instagram Were More About Words Than Things, You’d Have Whims for iOS Instagram is huge because it’s a network made of people who are passionate about taking pictures of things that they see and then dropping a cool filter on them to enhance their vision. It caught on immediately with everyone from geeks to Starbucks baristas. Since then, many companies have tried to dupli

Today the Apache Foundation released a major update to the open source search engine building tools Lucene and Solr. Version 4.0 adds several new features aimed at making Solr easier to use, more scalable and more customizable. Although they’re jointly developed, Lucene and Solr are actually two different things. Lucene is just a Java library, not a stand alone search engine. Solr is a search engi

Media & Entertainment Facebook’s Having Some Issues With Twitter Cross-Posting, But Nobody Cares. For Reasons. As The Next Web reported users are finding that their Facebook status messages aren’t being cross-posted to Twitter even though they’ve set up their accounts to do so. I first noticed this the other night, but thought nothing of it, since I’m not really a fan of cross-posting. We reached

Even though it’s taken for granted that you have to manage your own personal brand on the web, that still isn’t necessarily the case in the slower-moving world of academia. But it’s starting to happen, with individual brands beginning to eclipse the importance of being published in a well-known (and often exorbitantly expensive) journal. Academia.edu, a social network for professors and researcher

Apple's fifth-generation iPod touch is nearly everything the iPhone 5 is, with the notable exceptions of cellular service and a quite-awesome 8-megapixel camera. It's also a digital device that appears to lose more relevance with each passing year; when the iPhone surges, a standalone device seems silly, especially when it can do the same thing an iPhone does except make cellular calls. Yet, this

Billboard Alters Music Charts to Add Digital Sales and Streaming Data Billboard has shaken up the country, rap, rock, Latin and R&B/hip-hop music charts. The rankings now infuse Nielsen SoundScan's digital download sales numbers as well as streaming data from Spotify, Muve, Slacker, Rhapsody, Rdio and Xbox Music and other services. Charts still account for physical sales and radio airplay. While t

Enterprise Jive Software Drops Below Post-IPO Low As Enterprise Takes A Second Look At Private Social Networks Jive Software is hovering below its post-IPO low after an investment bank lowered its rating on the company, citing research that shows enterprise companies are taking a cautious view of private social networks that we see from Salesforce.com, Yammer and a host of other competitors. BMO C

Wikileaks, Desperate For Money, Erects Paywall And Angers Hacker Group, Anonymous This, dear friends will lose you all allies you still had. @Wikileaks, please die in a fire, kthxbai. — Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) October 11, 2012 Wikileaks, the infamous government document leak service, is now charging for access to some of its files. After the United States championed a global payment system embar

YouTube just announced that it is changing its search ranking algorithm to highlight videos that keep viewers engaged. The idea here, says YouTube, is to “reward engaging videos that keep viewers watching.” Because of this change, YouTube expects that the time viewers spent watching videos from search will increase in the near future. YouTube Search: Now Optimized For Time Watched Today’s announce

Enterprise Cloudscaling Opens Google Compute Engine APIs To OpenStack, Provides Alternative To Amazon Web Services Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google’s vast infrastructure. Cloudscaling, a San Francisco startup, is one of the pioneers in building open, distributed clouds in the Amazon

Canonical isn’t just the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, but with Ubuntu One, it also offers a cloud storage service with 5GB of free storage space, as well as a music locker, and support for Android, iOS, Windows and, starting today, OS X. The Mac version is officially in beta, but already includes all of the standard Ubuntu One features, though users of other cloud storage

Google to Discuss the Future of HTML5 at Mashable Media Summit Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, StumbleUpon VP of brand strategy, Teal Newland and New York Public Radio senior editor for data news & journalism technology WNYC, John Keefe will also speak at this year's Mashable Media Summit. They, along with many other dynamic speakers, will discuss an array of topics from online community moneti