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Professional Mail Search In Outlook With Lookeen [Giveaway]

Lookeen is a Microsoft Outlook add-on that introduces accelerated search to the email client and is also an integrated desktop search tool. How does Lookeen add to the Office experience? Try it for yourself! This week, we're giving away 25 copies of Lookeen worth close to $1000 in total. Read on to find out more about what Lookeen can do for you and join the giveaway.

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Take Your Fonts Out On a Date To See If They Match With Type Connection

Whether or not you take an active interest in typography, I’m sure you’ve seen something like this before. A document whose writer (or, worse still, its designer) tried to be overly creative, and did some horrible font matching. I don’t just mean "used Comic Sans MS" (the perennial "awful font" everybody loves to hate), but even if the writer or designer used "sane" fonts, they don’t always go together.

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Kickstart Your Summer Fitness & Weight Loss With FitBit

With summer approaching, many of us are starting to think a little more seriously about our weight. In particular, it's that time of year when people worry about how they'll look in those summer outfits. If this is you and you're looking for a new way to keep track of your health goals, then it's time to check out Fitbit. Fitbit is best known for their premium step-trackers and other such intelligent devices.

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Begin The Fight Back Against Toolbar Installer Bloatware! [Opinion]

Recently I had cause to install some free video conversion software and was amazed to find so many attempts to fool me into installing additional software, not to mention attempts to upsell at the end of the installation wizard. It’s getting to be beyond a joke now, with every other free (and sometimes trial) app or utility having these irritating options built in. But what is worse is the presumption that I want to install these options by default.

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9 Types Of Facebook Status Updates That Your Friends Will Like

One thing that I've noticed when I talk to friends that initially start using Facebook is that "nobody comments on my wall." Sometimes, I'll even try to help them out by letting them show me their Facebook wall and trying to help them understand what they're doing wrong, and why people may not feel encouraged to comment on their status updates. Sometimes, it's just a matter of reciprocating.

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Instagram - From Zero To A Billion [INFOGRAPHIC]

The big news on the net this week that has got everyone talking is Instagram's acquisition by Facebook for the absurd amount of $1 billion. Why absurd? Because Instagram has zero revenue, so how can anyone say that the company is worth $1 billion? It's as if Mark Zuckerberg suddenly felt like buying something. Other people buy a puppy or a sports car. Zuckerberg drops a billion on a company with no revenue.

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Transparency Grants You Another Level Of Control Over Your Icons [Jailbreak, iOS]

Jailbreaking your iPhone is awesome. It would be great if Apple offered a higher level of customization out of the box, but they do not, so we have to jailbreak in order to do cool stuff. It is an unpleasant fact, and one that jailbreakers have had to deal with since the dawn of jailbreaking. Since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, we have looked for ways to make our iPhone just a little bit cooler.

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