A British judge ruled that Samsung's Galaxy tablets don't infringe upon the design for the iPad, and that consumers won't mix up the two because the Galaxy tablets are "not as cool." I know we just celebrated Independence Day, but really, would being a British dominion have been bad?

- Newer Technology's latest external hard drive is designed to match the design and footprint of the 2010 and later Mac mini. The miniStack has two FireWire 800 ports, a USB 3.0 port, and an eSATA port. Newer sells empty miniStacks if you have your own hard drive mechanism for $90 (without software bundle) or $98 (with software bundle). The miniStack is also available with a 7200-rpm hard drive mechanism, ranging in capacities from 500GB ($160) to 4TB ($480).