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Power Up Your Mac With Advanced BetterTouchTool Automations

I started using BetterTouchTool back in 2011, and since then it has become one of the top three Mac applications for boosting my productivity and streamlining my workflow. Though BTT can be used by any Mac user, it does require some time to setup and configure gestures that you can remember and are not awkward to use. The following tips will help users who are familiar with the app get more out of some of its more advanced features.

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Hate YouTube's New Layout? Try Out YouTube TV Instead

Enjoy a streamlined version of YouTube that's usable from your couch and lets you follow the channels you love, easily. YouTube's TV version just might be the best way to use the web's best video site, and most people aren't aware it even exists. It's controllable with just a few buttons, visible far from the TV screen and generally much cleaner than the standard site. And you don't need to be using a TV to use it – YouTube TV works great in your HTML5 compliant browser of choice.

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How Writing Amazing Emails Can Further Your Career

Sending professional emails gives an intangible boost to your online (and offline) reputation. The ultimate yardstick of artful emailing is if you can bag a job or land a gig with just an impressive email. Or I would say, even if you can score an interview and get your foot inside the door. If your career progress is at stake, it's time you learnt a few of the basic emailing tips that could even the odds for a career breakthrough.

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Pebble Smartwatch Review & Giveaway

Smartwatches are the new hottest trend in today's tech world, and the Pebble e-ink watch helped start the fire. The most successful Kickstarter project to date, the Pebble raised over $10 million during its 1-month campaign which ended in May 2012. It had almost 70,000 backers, and more than that in non-Kickstarter pre-orders, and still you don't see many people in the street wearing the watch. Why?

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 Review And Giveaway

The newly-launched Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 tablet is a very affordable tablet with modest specs. Will this device be the perfect companion for students as their summer comes to an end, or should they seek an alternative device to meet their needs? Keep reading the review to find out for yourself. Best of all, we are giving away a Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 to a lucky winner. Keep reading for directions to get your hands on Samsung's latest tablet.

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Roon Is A Slick, Easy-To-Use Blogging Platform You May Want to Try

While WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr dominate the blogging scene, there are a few minimalist platforms that strip down the blogging experience to focus entirely on simply sharing your writing. Roon keeps things simple, all blogs are responsive (meaning you can view blog posts on your smartphone, for example, and it adjusts to the reader's device), and couldn't be easier to use.

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6 Useful iOS Apps for Photographers

Let's face it: people can get some pretty great shots with their iPhones, and these same people don't even have a technical knowledge of how a camera works. Of course, this isn't to bash the photography profession. After all, iPhones realistically can't capture images akin to those which are made with high quality glass, right? Regardless of how you may feel about the iPhone photography trend, you too can use the device (and its tablet counterpart) to your advantage with the right apps.

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Give Your Ears A Treat: 5 Alternative Ways To Discover New Music Online

As we mature (or to put it more bluntly, grow old) our tastes in many things change. The movies that we loved as teenagers will no longer appeal, the food we turned our noses up at as kids will now set our taste buds on fire. And the music that shaped our formative years will give way to new genres, new tempos, and new bands. But where to find this new music our brains long for and ears crave?

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Don't Get Suckered by the Facebook Graphic App Hoax [Weekly Facebook Tips]

Remember the mass scare on Facebook a while back where almost everyone changed their status to "I want to stay connected to you PRIVATELY, but you need to uncheck this that and the other"? It has come around again, but this time it's a meme about Facebook's "Graphic App". And guess what? It's yet another completely pointless pile of rubbish tips that won't protect anyone from anything. The first giveaway is in the supposed "Graphic App", which doesn't actually exist. From there on it just gets more and more silly.

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Get Rid Of Facebook Annoyances With These 4 Great Firefox Add-Ons

Many users fumble around with Facebook’s ever-changing interface and many reject what Facebook has become: ad-ridden and spammy. Is there any hope on the horizon? If you’re on Firefox, there are a few add-ons you can use to change the Facebook experience. Whether you want a drastic change or a slight tweak is up to you, depending on which add-ons you select to use. If you're fed up with Facebook or you want to tweak some annoying features, give these add-ons a try.

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Open Source Matters: 6 Source Code Search Engines You Can Use For Programming Projects

Open source projects need all the help they can get. If not with funding, then with volunteers contributing to open source programming and free tools they can brandish. Search engines tuned with algorithms to find source code for programming projects are among the tools for the kit bag. While reusing code is a much debated topic in higher circles, they could be of help to beginner programmers and those trying to work their way through a coding logjam by cross-referencing their code.

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The Internet In 60 Seconds

Did you know that in just 1 Internet minute, over 72 hours of videos is uploaded to YouTube; 15,000 songs are downloaded from iTunes; over 500 new websites are created; and Amazon makes about $83,000 in sales. The Internet is a bustling place and various different things can be happening at the same time. To break it all down, Qmee designed this straightforward infograph depicting the various activities performed online in a single minute.

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5 Handheld Video Game Consoles You've Probably Never Heard Of

Do you know about some of the random, obscure consoles that came out back in the day and somewhat recently? Nintendo and Sony were not always the only game in town, it just happens that they are the ones to stick it out through the hard times. The original GameBoy may have been what truly blew the handheld market, but without some of these lesser-known handhelds, the market may have never exploded in the same way it has today.

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2 Windows 8 Swype-Like Touch Keyboards Tested

On more than one occasion, I've found myself attempting to drag my finger around the keyboard on my Windows 8 tablet, only to be disappointed when only a single letter is entered. Swype-like input is simple, intuitive, and fast. So why can't a Windows 8 tablet do that? Well, it can—sort of. There are a couple limited options you can choose from. They won't be a perfect replacement for your keyboard, but they can offer some good Swype-style relief for those days when you really don't want to lift your finger off the screen.

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