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Bakari Chavanu

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About Bakari Chavanu

Bakari is a freelance writer and photographer. He‘s a long-time Mac user, jazz music fan, and family man.

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New TweetDeck for Mac Includes Better Tweeting and Image Preview

Twitter has released a new update of TweetDeck, adding several improvements for writing and replying to tweets.

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MagicalPad HD: A Notebook For iPad Power Users

MagicalPad isn't just another notebook app, but a highly useful app for creating outlines, notes, mind maps, drawings and more as you would on sheets of printed paper.

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Power Up Your Journal Writing With These Day One Tips

Journal or diary writing is a great way to exercise and improve your writing skills, document what is going on in your life, and to stay in tune with your thoughts and feelings.

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Rdio Rolls Out Free Stations Feature on iOS and Android

Rdio.com has made its own stations feature available for free on its mobile iOS and Android apps in the US, Canada, and Australia.

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Write, Edit & Manage Blog Posts Faster With MarsEdit for OS X

While WordPress is the quintessential blogging service, writing blogs directly in its text editor is not always user friendly. That's why I use MarsEdit for composing and uploading all of my blog posts.

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Editorial Brings Powerful Text Editing and Automation to iPad

If the iPad is ever to become a viable replacement for the laptop computer, it will be because of mobile apps like Editorial.

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How To Remove Duplicate Photos From Your Mac

Thanks to some creative developers, there are a some great easy to use applications that can locate duplicate or similar images on your Mac and allow you to preview them before they are trashed.

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Move Over TextEdit, Simplenote Is Now Available For the Mac

If you just want to open a writing tool and get started writing without a lot of distracting bells and whistles, Simplenote may be just what you're looking for.

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How To Automate Your iPhone To Adapt To Your Routine

iPhone automation is not as robust as desktop operating systems, but there are some iPhone features and apps that can help you in your daily routine if you take the time to set them up.

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Getting to Know iTunes 11.1: From Radio Stations to Genius Shuffle

Along with the release of iOS 7, Apple has also updated iTunes with several new features including iTunes Radio, Genius Shuffle, Podcast Stations, and a few changes to managing iOS devices.

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Don't Forget You Can Make & Receive FaceTime Calls on Your Mac

Apple's FaceTime is seen in many of its commercials, but some Mac users may not realize that the application is also available for use on their desktop computer.

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10 Awesome Third-Party Apps & Their iOS 7 Updates

Our recently released iOS 7 guide will bring you up to speed on the shiny new things to check out, and today I will share ten of my favorite apps and their new redesigns and features.

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Amazon Instant Video App Now Supports Airplay and Apple TV

This week, Amazon updated its popular iOS Amazon Instant Video app for AirPlay support. That's right, now you can watch Amazon videos streamed via your Apple TV using your iOS device or Mac.

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Marvin E-Reader for iOS is Better Than Kindle & iBooks

If you want to see how much better Kindle and iBooks could be check out Marvin, an e-reader for iOS that doesn't sell e-books but makes reading them a better experience.

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Pimp Your iPhone for Photography Zen

The iPhone makes taking photos nearly effortless. It's a camera in your pocket and the massive number of apps and accessories make shooting photos with the device an art and culture of its own.

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Fargo Makes Outlining On The Web Clean And Easy

For outlining, a new HTML5 web application written in JavaScript called Fargo, just might be one of the best tools for creating, storing, and collaborating on outline documents.

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This Is How You Take Self Shots

There's nothing vain about taking photos of ourselves. In fact, we can often be our best subject.

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Circa Launches Online Version of iPhone News App

Circa have launched an online version of their iPhone news sharing service, keeping users updated on current news stories that are condensed down to the essential points, quotes, photos, and new developments.

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Can You Write A Whole Article Using Voice Dictation on the Mac? Well I Just Did (And This Is It)

What you're reading right now is an example of Apple's dictation and speech program in action. It may be useful for short passages, but can you write a whole article with it?

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Opera Releases Coast: A Web Browser Specifically for the iPad

For a different mobile browser experience, Opera released this week a new iPad app, called Coast (Free), that focuses on swipe-gesture controls, home screen bookmarks and internet search, featuring a cool, uncluttered design.

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