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How To Video Chat Between An Android Phone And A PC

Chatting with mobile phones is nothing new. Folks have been using instant messaging on their mobile phones almost as long as there have been mobile phones. When it comes to video chatting, you're looking at a whole different set of choices. I've run through about 5 different apps that promise to deliver video chatting well, but narrowed it down to two that actually do.

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3 Cool Ways To Get Visitors To Interact On Your WordPress Site

User engagement should be a top priority for anyone running a website, blog or any kind of online business. While there is a lot that should be done in terms of encouraging users to share your content on social networks, as well as encouraging them to leave comments, there are a few more unique ideas that can help visitors interact with your site, and in some cases keep them there for a bit longer.

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10 iOS 6 'How-to' Tips You Need to Know For Your iPhone, iPad, Or iPod Touch

When you install iOS 6 on your iPhone or other iOS device, you won't see any changes to the user interface, but there are a few new apps and several new features under the hood that will make your device a lot more handy to use. Apple claims over 200 new features are included in the new update. You can get an overview of them here, but let's explore some of the best tips for quickly getting up and running with iOS 6.

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Eating Only Dessert: Why Your Information Diet Is Probably Terrible [Feature]

Email. Social networks. Blogs. Online video. People today consume more information than ever before, and typically only consume the things they really, really like. Clay Johnson compares this to a bad diet. "If you only ate what you want then we'd probably put the dessert section at the top of the menu, rather than at the bottom," he says. "I think the same thing is happening with journalism: we're going straight to dessert every time." Tech-savvy people are no exception.

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Updating Your HP TouchPad: The Next Step

Over the past few months we’ve looked at how to get the most out of your HP TouchPad, something that invariably means installing Android on the device. This is made possible thanks to the development work of the CyanogenMod team, to whom the many TouchPad owners running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich are all eternally grateful. However, there are a couple of problems with the build as it stands.

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10 Excellent iPad Apps For School

We are seeing more and more iPads in schools. They offer all kinds of possibilities for new ways to teach students. Because they are so portable, it is much easier for students to bring them anywhere they go, and bring the learning with them. The iPad is even useful for young students because of its intuitive, easy to understand user interface. Almost anyone can pick one up and know exactly how to use it.

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How To Make Your Own Sticky Header Bar Like MakeUseOf

About a month ago, we introduced a new interface element to MakeUseOf – a floating navigation and search bar. The feedback we’ve been getting is almost entirely positive, internal search traffic has rocketed, and some readers having been asking about how to make one for their own site, so I thought I’d share.

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Is Java Unsafe & Should You Disable It?

Oracle’s Java plug-in has become less and less common on the Web, but it’s become more and more common in the news. Whether Java is allowing over 600,000 Macs to be infected or Oracle is sitting on their hands and only patching a serious Java vulnerability four months after it’s initially reported, news about the Java plug-in is rarely good. The reality is that you probably don’t need Java installed.

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The 5 Best Laptops You Can Buy This Fall

Fall is a big season for laptop manufacturers and retailers. It encompasses back-to-school purchases and much of the holiday shopping season. This means there’s a lot of stores offering deals to attract a crowd. It’s a buyer’s market. But what do you buy? Now that’s a tough question. There are a lot of good laptops on the market and many categories to choose from.

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