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Whitelines Links Combines Real Paper, A Quick Scanner & Digital Notes [iPhone]

I'll admit it, I download journal and notebook apps like some people collect baseball cards. Seems like nearly every new notebook or journal app offers something fresh or stylish that I want to try out. The latest offering is Whitelines Links, a notebook app which scans and captures notes you make on specially designed paper. Whitelines may prove useful for those who still like to write or draw on paper, but also want to save notes and drawings in a digital format.

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Create Your Own Gorgeous Text-Only Widgets For Free With Minimalistic Text [Android]

TWOTHIRTY, says the smartphone. Just like that -- with no space, all in capital letters, with the latter part bold. Yes, it's longer than 2:30, but it's somehow… swankier, too. But that's a matter of personal taste. Minimalistic Text, a free widget for Android, would let you create a widget that says "2:30" just as easily as one that says "TWOTHIRTY." Heck, you could have have one that says "TWO30" if you really wanted to go crazy.

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The Car Of Tomorrow - Today: Top Tools To Put a Computer In Your Car

It is becoming an increasingly popular pastime to add a new element to cars, a new hub for entertainment, GPS and communications. The carputer seems to have been inspired partly by TV shows such as Knight Rider and movies from the James Bond series as well as the progress of technology in the modern age. But now, anyone can build a car computer!

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Windows 8 Is Almost Here - Here Are 5 Reasons To Upgrade

The next version of Microsoft’s world-changing operating system is preparing to hit the shelves. I know what you’re thinking: "Already?" It seems like yesterday that Windows 7 was the newest and coolest, but yes, it’s true. Windows 8 is just around the corner and there’s only one question that should concern you. Is it worth the upgrade? There are a lot of new features that are coming in this iteration of Windows.

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What Is the Windows Host File? And 6 Surprising Ways to Use It

The Windows Hosts file allows you to define which domain names (websites) are linked to which IP addresses. It takes precedence over your DNS servers, so your DNS servers may say facebook.com is linked to a specific IP address, but you can have facebook.com go anywhere you want. The Hosts file can be used to block websites, redirect them, create shortcuts to websites, create your own local domains, and more.

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Seesmic - The Perfect Way To Use Twitter & Facebook On The Droid [Android]

If you're an Android user and you love Twitter and Facebook, you really should try using Seesmic as your go-to client for both. Seesmic for Android is a very comprehensive application, which allows you to do some really advanced organisation of your Twitter and Facebook accounts, leaving you free to just enjoy the fun stuff and ignore the rest.

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Give A Spot To The Uncomplicated Easy Image Modifier Among Your Portable Apps [Windows]

Why are we reviewing yet another image editing program? Isn’t there a forest of them out there? Sure…but don’t you think occasionally it pays to take a second look at some of the really good ones. After all, would you stop looking at a pretty girl just because there is a population of them in your town! Easy Image Modifier carries another advantage - it comes well recommended from our legion of readers, and that enabled it to find a place in our list of Best Portable Apps.

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Create a Social Updates Wall in Your WordPress Blog With Socialist jQuery Plugin

Socialist is an incredible new jQiuery plugin that aggregates your updates on various social networks and displays them beautifully in a grid similar to Pinterest. Socialist is a jQuery plugin. I’ll be giving full instructions on how to implement this in WordPress, but a working knowledge of jQuery would be helpful to identify typos or errors in your code.

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4 Disqus Widgets That Will Encourage More Comments On Your Blog

Blogging is really hard work. There's no getting around that fact. Between the technical work involved in designing and maintaining a website, producing regular content on a frequent basis, and editing the work of any writers that you have working for you, the effort is massive. That effort really starts to pay off once you have a regular, steady flow of lots of visitors every day.

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