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Why You Don't Need Third Party Apps To Manage Background Data Use In Android Jelly Bean

If you’re like most people, you don’t have unlimited data and you don’t want to go over your data cap. Phones with Android Jelly Bean contain powerful tools for tracking your mobile data usage, setting phone-wide limits, and identifying the apps that are sucking down the most data. You can prevent these apps from using data entirely to save your precious data allowance and avoid cell phone bill shock.

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The 10 Best Original YouTube Comedy Channels

Life can be depressing at times. I don't care who you are or how good your life is, there is always the chance that something or someone can knock you off your happy pedestal and bring you down for a while. That's why we all need to laugh. Uproariously. On a daily basis. After all, laughter is the best medicine. With the possible exception of antibiotics. With this in mind we all need to seek out sources of laughter each and every day.

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3 Ways To Speed Your Site Up With The Cloud

The Cloud is the answer to all the worlds problems, it would seem - a buzzword technology that sends computing full circle right back to where it started - with a thin client model and all the power in a remote server. Economic downturn? No problem - just put it in the cloud! World peace? There's a cloud app for that. I joke, of course - but there are actually some legitimate uses for this "new" technology.

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How Your Carrier Can Make Your Smartphone Dumb & What You Can Do

Looking for contacts on my wife’s Android phone this morning, I was astonished at how slow the process had become. After eventually creaking through the menu for the details I needed, I switched the device off and back on. A short wait ensued, followed by another. Ceri isn't a habitual app user, and her phone remains unmodded, so what could have been causing these performance delays. And then it struck me. The problem wasn't with Android.

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A Beginners Guide to Advanced iPhone Camera Features

A few weeks ago, we published a Beginners Guide To Using the iPhone Camera, which explains how to use the default features of the camera app, including the how to frame, expose and focus a shot, as well as how to use the flash, review your photos after taking them, and even how to snap a photo while shooting video. While there are lots of third-party photography apps for the iPhone, for many users the iPhone camera app is about as advanced as they want to get.

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Widgetsoid: Create Custom Widgets Full Of Single-Touch Switches

Stop digging through your Android's settings screen, just to switch that one setting on or off. Widgetsoid is a free Android app allowing you to create your own widgets, filled with switches that control otherwise obscure options on your phone or tablet. Whether you want to control your music, disable Bluetooth, lock your screen or unmount a USB connection, Widgetsoid allows you to create a toolbar for your homescreen with the controls you want – and nothing more.

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5 Unusual Uses of Google Image Search You Might Not Have Heard About

What’s your main use for Google Image Search? Do you use it to search similar images? Or do you put it to any of the uses I listed in my advanced Google Search for images article quite a while ago? All of them are still relevant by the way. Then there are some of the more unusual uses of Google Image Search…alternatives that takes it away from the beaten path.

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