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How Xbox Live Users Can Benefit From A Windows Phone

If you’re a fan of mobile gaming and also own an Xbox 360 console, you might well be aware of Xbox Live, Microsoft’s digital delivery service that also supports multiplayer and most importantly allows you to unlock achievements in particular games and improve your Gamerscore. Some say that it has redefined gaming.

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If You're Not Using Siri By Now, You Should Be

Most of the commercials, jokes, and media hype about Apple's iOS voice assistant, Siri, have subsided, but I still run into iPhone users who don't take advantage of this powerful feature. Just the other day I had to actually try to convince my 15 year-old daughter about how she could set a reminder on her iPhone, by simply raising her iPhone to her ear, and telling Siri to remind her to read chapter 12 of her philosophy textbook, on Thursday night.

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TextWrangler Just Might Be The Best Free Text Editor [Mac]

Use an advanced text editor on your Mac, free of charge. TextWrangler comes complete with code highlighting for most major languages and a whole lot more – and it's free. If you even occasionally edit any kind of code – even just HTML – this is worth having around. This is not a word processor – it offers no styling options whatsoever. This is a text editor, meaning it handles only plain text .

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10 Uses Of Google Translate To Cross The Great Language Divide

Language is such a cultural totem that its translation doesn’t cover all the corners. When we talk of machine translation, the name without surprises that comes to mind is of Google Translate. Perhaps, most of us don’t use the service so much because our comfort zone is English. But let’s realize that Google Translate can be put to many other interesting uses other than turning a love to an amour.

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Disappointed To See Google Reader Go? Use Twitter Lists Instead

With Google Reader on its way out, people have been scrambling to find alternatives to get their RSS fix. We've even come up with a list of solid alternatives to Google Reader to make sure you aren't left wondering where to go next. But what if you were to ditch the concept of RSS altogether? You could do that by opting instead to get your news and blog post fix using Twitter lists.

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8 Tips for Using Your Smartphone at a Music Festival

I have a friend who goes to multiple music festivals every summer, and he actually opts to leave his phone at home. He believes that it's a different world once you're inside the gates - that you should leave everything about "real life" on the outside. I commend him for that. Sometimes it's just nice to escape. However, it's obvious that there are quite a few benefits to bringing your mobile device into the festival.

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10 Twitter Accounts All Star Wars Fans Should Follow

In October 2012 Disney acquired Lucasfilm, the production company primarily known for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. For a fraction over $4 billion, Disney therefore landed the Star Wars franchise, and promptly announced that it would be making three new films to complete the nine-film story arc originally planned by George Lucas in the 1970s. Various spin-offs are also expected.

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Is Chrome Hogging All Your RAM? Make It Behave With These 2 Extensions

Chrome or Firefox? This might be the hottest question in today’s tech community, and one you’ll never find a straight answer for. Personally, I think both browsers are great, but have been using Firefox more often because my old computer cannot deal with Chrome’s RAM hogging. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Firefox is a lightweight browser, it’s most definitely not, but for some reason, Chrome was incredibly sluggish on my machine.

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How to Find and Install a Custom ROM for Your Android Device

Android is super customizable, but to fully take advantage of that, you need to flash a custom ROM. Here's how to do that.

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3 Fun Tools to Get More Out of Your Webcam

To be honest, I never understood the big fuss over webcams and video chatting. Sure, it’s nice to chat face to face every once in a while, especially when you haven’t seen your significant other or family members for long periods of time, but other than that, I've always thought webcams weren't a justified purchase. Until I learned you can use webcams for more than just chatting.

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Meet Greatness: 4 Ways That You Can Talk To Amazing People Online

There are hardly any Greta Garbo’s anymore. Today, if a celebrity is using Twitter and Facebook to extend their fifteen minutes of fame, some are also using it to spread awareness about their pet causes with the rest of the world. And we can catch them while they are it. Here are 4 ways we can talk to amazing people online.

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No More Space On Your SD Card? Try Clean Master For Some Quick Relief

Even with a capacious 16GB SD card, I sometimes find myself running out of space on my Android phone. That usually happens due to my penchant for backing up – I have lots of Titanium Backup archives taking up space on my device, not to mention two or three ROM images (also known as "nandroid backups") at any given time. Throw in the occasional 1080p video taken with the device, and things can get awfully crowded in a hurry.

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The Best Video Game Reboots In Recent Video History

Often, video game franchises will attempt a reboot. Essentially, this means they take an established franchise and move it in a new direction. Whether it be a major shakeup to the main character, a dramatic shift in setting, or a complete rethinking of the way the game actually plays, reboots can often inject new life into a beloved franchise. After all, a game franchise can only hang around in the same form for so long before gamers are going to move on to something else.

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9 Ways To Become More Popular On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips]

Facebook is different things to different people. It's used to stay in touch, play games, share news and stories, or promote brands. What unites almost everyone who regularly uses Facebook is the desire to be popular and Liked. The problem is that Facebook guards updates and doesn't automatically show everything to everyone. The algorithm that determines how many people get to see a post is called EdgeRank and it pretty much is a black box.

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