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The true meaning of mobile for me is pulling out my iPhone and getting something done quickly while waiting in traffic at a stoplight, in line to order fast-food, or in the morning after my alarm goes off. I use Triage for quickly checking emails, Pastie for pasting quick snippets to text, Swipy for quickly emailing myself, Reach Fast for quickly locating contacts, and Scraps for quickly writing notes and saving or exporting them somewhere else - and now I'm going to tell you why.
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After a rather thorough and taxing look at both Blogger and WordPress.com it's time to evaluate the possibility that some of you might want to switch from one service or the other. That or you floated in on a wave of search traffic, looking at whether this is possible. It's a rather simple operation, but one that requires a bit of testing to see how your content will look on a different platform.
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The business card is a ubiquitous sight in any business meeting. The first documented use of them can be tracked to Japan in the 15th Century. These formal royal announcements, known as 'meishi', were distributed amongst the local community as a sign of a potential visit. The use of cards as formal announcements was later adopted by aristocrats in 17th Century France.
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Google rolls out a bevy of new features for its Google+ iOS app. The update is the last part of 43 new features Google has released for Google+ across its various platforms. The new iOS app includes better photo enhancements and highlighting, integrated hashtags, enhanced comments, and more control over profile editing. In addition, the update allows users to copy a post's permalink to their device's clipboard.
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Wikipedia is packed full of content. At the time of writing there are over 4 million articles contained within the English language version, with more being added all the time. All of these pages are free to view, not lumbered with ads, and are edited by people like us. It’s a resource that everybody knows about, but which very few people truly make the most of.
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The more observant and astute of you will have noticed by now that we have made a big change to our RSS feed, and the title of this post reflects what I am now reading in my inbox every morning, when I get up for my cornflakes. What's the problem? Well, we have now moved from a full text RSS feed to a summary feed or a "snippet" feed. This means you will now only see a summary of each post in your RSS reader.
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Adobe released the popular color theme and design tool service Kuler last Thursday, as a free iPhone app. The Kuler app allows users to snap a photo of any object, e.g., a painting, flower, photo, or website, and the app will create a color theme palette based on the photo capture.
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Let's face it, touch controls are terrible for many games. Have you ever tried playing a platformer game on a touchscreen? It's an exercise in frustration. The good news is that you can connect a game controller to your Android device and play games the way they were meant to be played, whether they're controller-enabled Android games or old games played via an emulator.
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You should already be taking advantage of the built-in keyboard shortcuts and voice to text features if you're regularly typing on an iPhone or iPad. But if you happen to use your iOS device, particularly the iPad, for extended pieces of writing you might want to consider the iOS version of TextExpander ($4.99). We've already covered the Mac and iOS versions of TextExpander in the past but now Smile Software has updated the iOS versions of TextExpander to include more of the advanced features found in its Mac counterpart.
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The automation giant IFTTT has just announced that their users can now make their Gmail automations much more powerful and effective by deciding how their email attachments are handled. Now included in the automation list is the ability to have your attachments automatically saved to cloud storage, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, Box, and Evernote. One recipe will even automate sending attachments to a "backup Gmail account".
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Windows 8 uses a new "hybrid boot" feature to improve boot times. When you shut down, your computer doesn't actually shut down normally - it performs a sort of limited "hibernate" that stores a state with drivers, services, and other software loaded into memory. When your computer boots, it doesn't need to reinitialize all your hardware, load drivers, and load services - it simply loads the state from your hard drive and continues the boot-up process.
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Photography is an art form and pastime anyone can participate in. You can buy a cheap disposable camera, point it at random things, and be a photographer of sorts. But to be a really good photographer, one whose photographs demand to be studied for more than a few seconds, takes skill, determination, an eye for detail, and the right equipment. Though on that last point there are some ingenious camera hacks that don't cost the Earth.
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The folks at Tumblr are certainly having a busy couple days in terms of the platform's mobile lineup of mobile applications. After adding sponsored posts to its mobile apps just a few days ago, it has now released a fairly major update for its iOS application, and an official Windows Phone 8 app. On iOS, sharing posts is now easier, as well as saving them for later. App navigation has also been improved.
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