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Make Skim Your Ultimate Reading & Study Tool For PDF Files [Mac]

Though Apple's PDF reader and image correction application, Preview, is a highly used default program on the Mac, a third-party alternative reader, Skim, pushes Preview to the side when it comes to advanced study and annotation tools and features. A slew of additional annotation tools and document management features have been added.

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Liven Up Your Windows Console With The Portable App ColorConsole

Some time ago I wrote about an alternative console client for Windows called Console. These was a fairly lively discussion in the comments, so I figured I’d share another interesting console client I found; this one is called ColorConsole, and it’s tiny, portable and free. The premise is quite similar to Console.

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How to Customize the MS Office 2010 Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar has been a part of MS Office since the 2003 version, but it has come to the forefront since the introduction of MS Office 2007 and more prominently with MS Office 2010. You can enhance your productivity with two quick and easy changes to the Quick Access Toolbar.

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How To Migrate Your Locally Developed Wordpress Site To A Live Server

We’ve talked a lot in the past about running local web servers for development purposes or to try out software such as Wordpress without having to pay for hosting, but how do you take it live once you’re ready to launch? The principles remain the same for any CMS or web software.

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5 Cool Lesser Known Free Android Apps

When it comes to free apps on the Android Marketplace, I don't think we'll ever run out. Searching the "Just In" category almost always turns up some real gems. No matter what you need to do, what information you need to find, or where you need to go, the odds are good that there's an Android out there that will pretty much get the job done.

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5 Alternative Uses For An Old & Out Of Date Android Phone

If anyone were to craft a Toy Story homage based on smartphones, it would be a depressing tale. Smartphones are bought, loved, and then discarded – often all within two or three years. While these older smartphones can sometimes be sold or traded, they’re usually left to be forgotten in a bottom drawer or the bottom of a trash can.

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How To Stream Music & Video To Your iPhone, iPod Touch Or iPad From A Mac Or Windows PC [iOS]

An issue I encountered when I first received my iPhone was the inability to stream my fairly well-organised music and video collection direct to my new device. I don’t use iTunes other than on my iPhone for the odd podcast, mainly because I’m primarily a Linux user, so I thought I would try Air Playit for Windows and Mac OS X.

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Addicted To Google Plus? Here Are 4 Ways To Block Addictive Websites & Get Back To Work

The new player in the field may be addictive, but even before it came along there was no lack of websites that are way more beckoning than work. Be it Facebook, email, Google Reader, or just your favorite blog, the Internet today is distraction galore, with an incredible amount of willpower required to stop.

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More Reasons Why Grsync Is An Awesome Syncing Tool [Cross-Platform]

Use rsync, the ultimate syncing tool, without having to install Linux or learn the command line. That's the appeal of Grsync, a GUI version of the popular Unix/Linux command line program rsync. Grsync isn't just for Linux, though. It can run on Mac and Windows computers as well.

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Use Your WiFi Connection Setup On All PCs With WiFi Network Backup Manager [Windows]

Having multiple wifi access points isn't much of a hassle, because you can just configure all of them in your wireless network setup and then click to connect to whichever one you want. The hassle comes in when you switch to a new computer or if you switch computers often. You have to set up all of those Wi-Fi points again.

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