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10 Efficient and Minimal Android Apps That You May Not Have Heard About

Software bloat in the Android software ecosystem causes more problems than any other issue. Poorly written apps, particularly ad-supported apps, constantly draw on your handset’s wireless components, waking the kernel and overall diminishing performance and battery life. Uninstalling bad apps and replacing them with better apps provides the best solution.

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Mint.com On the iPad Makes It Easy To Track Your Spending

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to do better at budgeting your money and monitoring your personal finances, Mint.com is one of the best ways to meet these goals. This popular and well-established online and mobile service can help you keep track of your spending, and offer you advice about making better financial choices.

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Keeping Your Droid Safe and Secure With Advanced Mobile Care 2.0 [Android]

It’s a sad truth, but you do need an antivirus to securely use Android these days. Google Play is teeming with beautiful and interesting apps, but it also has its fair share of bad apples seeking to misuse your personal data, drain your battery life, or be malicious in other creative and surprising ways. Fortunately, there’s no lack of high-quality antivirus apps.

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How To Minimize The Cost of PC Upgrades

Just like a full desktop, a new PC build can be expensive. The best way to minimize the cost while focusing on the most suitable components is to upgrade your unit, rather than start from scratch. Various cost-saving options are open to anyone building a brand new computer or upgrading an existing device.

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What Is Open Source Software? [MakeUseOf Explains]

"Open source" is a term that’s thrown around a lot these days. You may know that certain things are open source, like Linux and Android, but do you know what it entails? What is open source software? How can you tell if a program is open source? And, really, who cares? How does the open source philosophy affect you?

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Everything You Need to Know About Managing Chrome Bookmarks

Chrome has a number of features to help you sync, easily access, manage, sort, and tidy your bookmarks. Some people manage just fine without bookmarks, but not most of us. If you use the Chrome browser -- and bookmarks -- we'll help you make maximum use of bookmarks in Chrome. Bookmarks are deceptively simple, but there's a lot you can do with them.

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Everything You Need To Know About Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts

No matter what operating system or program you're using, keyboard shortcuts are a tool you can use to make things quite a bit easier for yourself. Simply not having to take your hands off the keyboard can save you lots of time wasted by reaching for the mouse. This is why learning keyboard shortcuts for the systems you use every day is so vital to productivity.

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Anyone Can Doodle, Sketch, and Paint With Doodle Buddy -- Even Your Grandma! [iOS]

Doodle Buddy is meant to be fun first. A serious drawing application for sketching works of art, second. There’s no binding for the former; the latter needs the little thing called talent. Doodle Buddy is among the flotilla of creative apps that you find for the iOS platform. Doodle Buddy is simple and free. So, can it squeeze a place on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch?

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How To Build a Custom Barcode Application With Pic2Shop Pro & Wordpress

If you’ve got a company database full of product data, connecting that data to a barcode system can be incredibly useful. Perhaps your warehouse workers need a quick way of looking up the product location, or maybe they need to quickly find out the purchase price for a full box and not by unit. Whatever the situation, integrating barcode reading facilities can be an expensive and arduous task, but it doesn't have to be.

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Stop Treading Water and Make Progress in Life With the Big Picture

I'm sure many of you have thought about whether you're doing the right things every day, whether you're getting anywhere, and whether you're headed in the right direction. To-Do lists and organizational apps will help you keep all of those daily tasks and projects well-organized, but they don't really help as much with future planning.

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Switch On, Switch Off: Top Toggle Widgets For Android

Ask any Android enthusiast about why they love the operating system and they’re likely to reply “Widgets!” These homescreen mini-apps can display all sorts of information. They also allow users quick access to core system functions via toggles. Let’s look at some of the best toggles on Google Play right now.

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Are You SURE You Know How to Use Google?

Most of you are probably thinking "you bet!" or "what’s there to KNOW?" right about now. I believe you. The truth is, if you know how to enter a query and hit enter, you know how to use Google. At least in its basic form. And if you search often, you’ve probably also encountered Google’s OneBox results once or twice before. What are these OneBox results? While you may not have heard the name before, OneBox results have been around for years now

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