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Bring Out The Fancy Side Of Your Droid With Android Fancy Widgets

As a newcomer to the real world of Android customization, I started looking for wallpapers, launchers, icon sets, and widgets. Fancy Widgets is one app I kept hearing about in the olden days (which ended yesterday), but could never try for lack of space and screen real-estate.Armed with a new device, I decided to give Fancy Widgets a try and see what I could come up with. Looking for customizable and fancy widgets for our Android device? Keep on reading, and give it a try!

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You Should Buy These: 5 Android Apps That Are Worth Every Penny, And Why

There is a vast ocean of Android apps on Google Play and it can be daunting to browse, especially if you're new to Android in general. Free apps are great and all, and there are tons of them available, but what about the paid ones? Are they worth the money? I found five Android apps that pack so much value, they're worth every cent. Best of all, even if you buy them all, they'll cost you less than a meal out.

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Learn How To Take Notes While Watching An Online Video With VideoNot.es

Some ideas are so simple that you are left wondering why anyone didn’t think of it before; especially Google which has YouTube under its large umbrella. The idea I am talking about here relates to taking down notes while you are watching a video. Anyone who has done an online educational course with video lectures, or let’s say, has taken the help of a video tutorial will vouch for the value of note taking while watching a video.

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Enjoy Breathtaking Panoramic Views With SphereShare.net [Android]

When the Google Nexus 4 first came out, one of the nicest new features it introduced was Photo Spheres. These are immersive 360-degree panoramas you can take with the phone's camera app, no extra gear needed. In the hands of a skilled photographer they create views that are the next best thing to actually being there. If you're looking for a service that's all about Photo Spheres, without any of that pesky "friending", "circling" and commenting that go on in a social network, look no further than SphereShare.net.

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10 Websites That Will Help Drown Out The Noise So You Can Stay Focused

Do you find yourself constantly distracted by everything going on around you and having a hard time concentrating on what you're doing? The solution is noise-cancelling headphones. Whether you're in a café with a crying baby two tables away, the office with noisy chatter in the cubicle next to you or at home with the dog constantly barking, headphones will do the trick. But headphones are only part of the solution.

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It's Not Facebook, It's You! 5 Ways To Fix Your Facebook Experience [Weekly Facebook Tips]

I joined Facebook because it promised to be an easy way to stay in touch with friends and family while traveling and living abroad. I stayed with Facebook even though many of the prejudices I had turned out to be true. What I learned, however, is that most of the things you do with Facebook, or allow it to do to you, are your choice. Facebook offers a lot of opportunities and it is up to you to customize your experience. It's a little like real life.

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Level Up - How To Improve Your Gaming Ability

For most gamers, sitting down with a controller means escapism and relaxation. There are others, however, who enjoy games for the competition they provide. A great game can offer an adrenaline rush unlike anything most people experience in day-to-day life. Of course, that rush can turn to despair when you’re repeatedly stomped. Losing a game time and time again isn't fun, and isn't instructive. The only way to solve the problem is to improve your skills.

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Nintendo Wii U Review and Giveaway

Despite the increasing shift to mobile gaming, consoles are still very popular devices for playing immersive, graphics-intensive games; and that won’t change anytime soon as long as the major console makers continue to improve with newer generations. Nintendo has been the first console maker to update its last-generation console, the Wii. As a result, we’re now greeted with the Wii U, ahead of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox (720). Luckily for us, we get to review this next-generation console; and for you, since you'll have a chance to win one at the end of the review!

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Reader Isn't The Only One - Alternatives For 3 Dead Google Services

Over its long course serving us as the overlord of the Internet, Google has had some good ideas and some bad ideas. However, Google has pushed out some pretty interesting and obscure projects on the side. Google PowerMeter, for example, was a way to keep tabs on how much energy you're using in your home from a web interface. Never heard of it? You're probably part of the great majority.

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The 5 Best Free Reddit Apps for iOS

Reddit is one of the most interesting websites on the Internet, and with such a mixed bag of users, it offers a massive variety of content. However, because each user is quite unique, their Reddit viewing preferences may all be a little different. While the browser-based version hasn't changed in years, iOS offers quite a few choices for viewing the website's content. Personal preference might be the decider here, but remember that all of these apps are of the highest quality.

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The Three-Way Battle For Online Shopping Supremacy! Google Vs Yahoo Vs Bing

I pitted Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing shopping search engines against one another to determine which of the three provided the best savings on five frequently purchased tech items - an Asus Nexus tablet, a TechNet subscription, a Microsoft Surface Pro, an iPhone 5 and a Galaxy Nexus S3. Here are the results.

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2 Tools For Converting Movies For Viewing On a Smartphone

Movie files are generally not optimized for the smartphone. They often take up too much space and may be encoded in a format that the smartphone can't play back very easily. If the movie in question is on a physical DVD, it will need to be "ripped" into a standard video file before you can play it. Video conversion isn't as essential as it used to be when playing videos on a modern smartphone.

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