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TouchCast Enables You to Create Powerful Interactive Videos on Your iPad

In the tradition of video production apps like Videolicious, Video Star, and Socialcam, the recently released free iPad-only app TouchCast helps you create and post interactive videos from your iPad 2 or later. Those of us familiar with creating YouTube videos using desktop programs like iMovie, ScreenFlow, or Camtasia know how powerful non-linear timeline productions can be and TouchCast brings another solution to the table. The app uses the iPad's built-in camera, a useful collection of widgets and a timeline editor to help users produce video productions almost on the fly.

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Atom Launcher, Reviewed: Your Next Android Launcher?

I am not the kind of user who jumps to a different Android launcher every week. I've been using Nova Launcher for nearly a year now, I think – and before, I was using Go Launcher (and featured themes for it) even longer. That doesn't mean I don't occasionally become curious when an interesting contender shows up – and Atom Launcher is just such an alternative. What makes it interesting, to me, is that it's not another clone.

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Tips For Fixing Common Windows Phone 8 Issues

Windows Phone 8: a great platform that is fast, slick and responsive. Most of the time. Windows Phone 8 is an improvement over Windows Phone 7, but while I enjoy its responsiveness, the ease with which I can perform particular tasks quickly and the way the OS syncs with SkyDrive, I'm more than aware that this is a platform with a few notable bugs. I've already looked at improving battery life on Windows Phone 8 and here are several more fixes for the most common issues.

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How to Stay Organized With the World’s Simplest To-Do System That Works - Todo.txt

Here at MakeUseOf, we’ve covered plenty of to-do systems in the past. But if you’re like me, to-do systems can sometimes become too much work to maintain and end up costing you in productivity. I tend to procrastinate using my to-do lists because they can become cumbersome over time. I need to do a bunch of actions to add a single item. What if there was a system that eliminated all of that overhead and actually saved you time without skimping on the core features? Well, that system exists: Todo.txt.

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7 Ways to Bookmark Your Favorite Folders in Windows

Create bookmarks for your favorite folders if you need quick access to them in Windows. Here are a few methods you can try out.

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3 Great Android First Aid Apps For Emergencies

Have you ever found yourself in an emergency situation, suddenly wishing you could refer to a First-Aid guide to check if you were about to do the right thing? Many people in an emergency would panic in the face of a serious injury and second-guess any memories of first-aid training they may have from long ago. Just think about how much safer the patient would be, and how much more confident you would be helping them, if you had First-Aid instructions with you on your phone. This is a no-brainer - it's useful.

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Maintain Inbox Zero Daily With This Flow Chart

Personally, I try to maintain Inbox Zero despite receiving over 500 emails on a daily basis. That's zero unread emails -- that's right, I address every single email sent to me every morning. And trust me when I say, it's not easy. It takes me more than an hour to sift through them. All the while receiving even more emails -- can you believe it? Fortunately though, I get through them. With the help of this simple flow chart, almost anyone can achieve Inbox Zero.

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The Best Technologies That Will Drive Your Tablet In 2013

This year, the tablet market will become saturated with a variety of CPUs designed specifically for tablets. Many major computer manufacturers unveiled all manner of touchscreen devices sporting such chips, with dramatic increases in performance and battery life. This article covers the latest and best of these tablet chips scheduled for release in 2013.

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Make Your Own Tweet/Like/+1 To Unlock System with jQuery

Going viral used to mean a disease epidemic, but now it's something all content creators crave. You could rely on the quality of your content alone - if it's good enough, people will share it, right? Maybe. But you could also help things along by offering something extra of value to those who do share - a coupon, a download, or a smiley face sticker in the mail. Today I'll show you how to create your own like/tweet/+1 to unlock system with a little jQuery and the native APIs.

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Write Faster To Work Better: 5 Essential Tips To Improve Your Writing Speed Online

How do you write things at work without wasting the entire workday doing it? How do you pump out even more articles as a freelancer, without sacrificing quality? In this article, I’m going to draw from 7 years of paid freelance writing work, and 13 years of professional engineering technical writing experience, to answer those questions.

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Kinect Is Not The Only Game In Town: 3 Awesome Gesture Recognition Projects

The potential for gesture recognition seems massive, but so far, it's also an unknown. How should developers create apps for it, what's the best hardware, and how should the feature be standardized? These important questions are up in the air, so several companies are trying to answer them. Let's take a look at the front-runners.

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Super Zoom & Lens Tips for Your Smartphone

While our smartphones are equipped with better cameras than ever before, we're still stuck with the same digital zoom technology that's been around for years. That's because there's no fixing digital zoom - it's permanently broken, and has been all along. There are better ways of taking smartphone photos than to use digital zoom, avoiding blurry images and pixellated subjects. Today's article is all about getting more from your iPhone, Android or other smartphone lens.

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