Tips, guides, and reviews about software, web apps, technology, mobile phones, and computers.
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How To: Import E-Books Into Aldiko for Android Using Dropbox
It’s been nearly a year since I last wrote about Aldiko, and while the E-book market on Android has exploded since then I still consider Aldiko to be the best reader out there. E-book powerhouses like Amazon and Barnes and Noble have both launched reader applications of their own, but they both lack a seemingly…
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April Fool’s Day: A Beginner’s Guide
As you very well know by now, either being the victim or the culprit, April Fool’s Day is today. Now, typically I would go on a rant as to why this is not a national holiday with mandatory paid time off, but not today. Why? Because what would April Fool’s Day be without an office…
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Office Pranking: A Photo Essay
Ah yes, April Fools Day. A cheerful (or nerve-wracking) time of false pretenses, tomfoolery, and a few good gags at the expense of others. And why not? This day is all about giving the laughs out and taking them in; a constant ebb and flow of pranking and being pranked. The April Fools veteran knows…
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Dealing with Workflow Failed On Start (retrying) errors in Microsoft SharePoint
I don’t know why I expect SharePoint to work without problems. In almost every project I’ve done, some unforeseeable problem pops up that seems to make little sense. Maybe, after beating my head against the wall so many times, I’ve developed SharePoint amnesia, but I always expect the project to be a pleasant experience. I…
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Clean up your Linux computer with Bleach Bit
No matter how careful you are, things like cached files, cookies, temporary files, packages, and log files build up over time. Bleach Bit helps remove this junk from your Linux PC.
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HP WebOS – What’s Coming?
The world of smartphones is both overpopulated and fiercely competitive. We have seen various platforms fail quite spectacularly while others have risen to incredible heights. That same market is happy to let smartphone operating systems like Symbian fall to the wayside and cheers in jubilation as Apple’s iOS dominates the scene. With Android and Windows…
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Forget the $41 million, could Color fail simply because of GPS limitations?
There has been an incredible amount of discussion about Color, a new – let me try to describe this – mobile-social-location-aware-photo-sharing app that recently brought in an eyebrow-raising $41 million of capital. Even venture capital group Sequoia Capital was surprised, saying: “Not since Google have we seen this.” That statement definitely caught people’s attention. Sequoia…
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Restore the old-style status bar in Firefox 4 with Status-4-Evar
If you want to restore the original status bar functionality from previous versions of Firefox, Status-4-Evar brings back some of the old features and lets you specify exactly how you want things to appear in the new Firefox 4 status bar.
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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia for Android Review
Written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors, the Britannica Encyclopedia is regarded as the most scholarly of encyclopedias (it even beats out Wikipedia!). This incredible gift to society has become mobile, hitting the Android Market in a full and trial version. Using the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia for Android for the…
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Share files the easy way with Ge.tt
Remember the old days of sharing or transferring files when you had to put them on a floppy disk or a USB flash drive to move them between computers, or to pass those files to a friend or colleague? The method worked, but only if you were moving files a few feet away. Even so,…