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How far have you gone with your Christmas decorations this year? I don’t know about you, but where I live the whole neighborhood goes all out with the Christmas lights and decorations each and every December. It can be a lot of work, sure, but it’s also a lot of fun to see what everyone [...]
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Text messaging is one of those technologies that people love to hate. Or hate to love. Although text messages are ‘trivial’ in terms of data to send, providers in the United States and elsewhere charge an arm and a leg for text messaging plans (by some calculations they cost approximately $1,310 per megabyte). On the [...]
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With hundreds of thousands of apps in Apple App Store, it can a little difficult to find free awesome applications that both work as described and are not laden with advertising. Over the last week or so, I’ve downloaded a handful of practical apps fully optimized for the iPad. This is not a definitive list [...]
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It’s hard to believe that it’s already December. But if the iTunes App Store is anything to go by, all the Christmas-themed apps can mean only one thing – the holidays are just around the corner. From games and stories for the little ones, to recipe and planning apps for the grown ups, there’s something [...]
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There are over a dozen RSS feed readers for the iPad and other mobile devices, but the one I keep returning to is Alphonso Labs’s Pulse News Reader. I’ve used several readers in the past including NetNewsWire, Gruml, and even Google Reader. But for reading feeds on the iPad, Pulse makes browsing and reading nearly [...]
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How many things do you touch in a day? The door to your office building? Money from buying your morning cup of coffee? The fuel nozzle at a petrol station? The door to a public washroom? And what about your phone? These are a few of the most common items that a person touches in [...]
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Now that it’s December, it’s time to begin shopping for the holidays. This can prove difficult at times, especially if you haven’t made an attempt to stay up with current trends. Browsing stores isn’t easy this time of year either, as they are often overrun by the holiday crowd, and if you don’t know what [...]
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While the free Kindle app and iBooks pretty much have the market cornered on eReaders, Copia is a new contender available for download for free from the iTunes App Store, that sets itself apart with a few key elements. Most significantly, Copia is more than just an eReader. It is part eReader, part social network, [...]
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If you’re a long-time Gmail user, you no doubt know about and/or use Google Voice — a free web-based platform that provides users with an online phone number for making calls online via an Android, BlackBerry, and now the iPhone. If you don’t have a Google Voice number set up, you’re missing out on a [...]
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Now that iOS 4.2 is finally available to iPad users, what new features does it bring to the table? Some of them are more than welcome like folders, Find My iPad and the Mail app’s revamp. A few of the other features, including the much lauded multitasking as well as AirPrint leave a little to [...]
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When the iPad Wi-Fi was released back in April, a significant number of users complained about problems with getting Wi-Fi connections with the device””including connection drops, issues with it not working with home networks, or getting a weak connection when visiting particular websites. Apple eventually released a system software update which addressed the problems, but [...]
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We recently covered the launch of the iOS version of VLC Media Player making life much easier for Apple users who don’t want to have to convert videos to watch them on their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. While VLC seems to have cornered the market with its multi-platform video player for Macs, Windows and [...]
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Up until the recent iOS 4.2 update of Apple”˜s mobile devices, if you wanted a way to locate your lost or stolen iPhone, you had to be an MobileMe subscriber, which means forking over $99 per year. But now every owner of a mobile device can get a powerful MobileMe feature called Find My iPhone, [...]
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They say that a picture says a thousand words. If that’s true, books are about to be written with all of these great photo-sharing apps coming out for our phones. I’m really big on daily photo sharing services right now, especially DailyBooth and ShutterCal, but I’m really liking these new phone apps that are coming [...]
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From Rade Eccles, the developers of MakeUseOf’s very own iPhone app comes a new and invaluable app that will help you keep track of your spending habits, and hopefully save you some money in the process. Just launched today in the iTunes App Store, Money Engine is free for the next three days, after which [...]
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