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Mobile Tech October 21, 2013 posted by

Tunebox – Stream Music Effortlessly from Your Dropbox Account To Your Ears

Dropbox is one of the more popular consumer oriented cloud storage sites. It allows you to store important files online and synch them across your various devices. One of the many things that you can store on there are music files, and now there is a simple app that allows you to stream those files directly from Dropbox.


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Tunebox – Stream Music Effortlessly from Your Dropbox Account To Your Ears
hmm..interesting October 11, 2013 posted by

SOS Stay Safe – the smartphone app which could save your life with a simple shake

Life is not always a bowl of ripe cherries. Sometimes we can find ourselves in situations which are unpleasant at least and downright hazardous at worst. Although we now live in a time when the world is safer than it has ever been, personal safety is never far from our minds, especially if we are to believe all the doom and gloom in the daily news.


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SOS Stay Safe – the smartphone app which could save your life with a simple shake
Awesome September 11, 2013 posted by

Winscape – escape from your dreary basement to the beach in an instant with this DIY kit

Virtual window displays for wall mounted high resolution flat screen televisions is nothing new, but the latest tech has sure made them pretty cool all of a sudden. It helps also that the price of really top quality screens has plummeted over the past few years, so where it was once too expensive, it now almost makes sense to get one of these, especially if you’re stuck in a basement with no natural light.


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Winscape – escape from your dreary basement to the beach in an instant with this DIY kit
software August 29, 2013 posted by

Gentle Mouse – takes away the pain of using your computer

Most of us spend many hours parked in front of a computer screen every week. If you’re one of the fortunate ones who don’t suffer from repetitive motion symptoms (yet) consider yourself very lucky. I’ve been battling carpal tunnel, tennis elbow and a host of other ailments for a couple of years. The worst part for me, the simple task of clicking a mouse, clicking a mouse for more than 10 minutes becomes painful. However, after scouring the Internet for…


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Gentle Mouse – takes away the pain of using your computer
Gadgets July 31, 2013 posted by

Jumpshot USB Drive will let you enjoy family time without having to fix a single computer

Having any kind of technological knowledge will automatically make you a guru. Well, that’s what your family thinks anyway. Every time you visit they ask you fix their computer, tinker with their tablets, or tell them how apps work on their smartphone.


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Jumpshot USB Drive will let you enjoy family time without having to fix a single computer
Bookmark This! March 25, 2013 posted by

Worried about Google? Here are 3 tools to help you save your Google data in case of emergency

There’s been a huge amount of fuss rasied about Google shutting down its free Reader service, and for good reason. Whichever way you cut it, this is a real wake up call for anyone who’s using online services to store their data. The reality is, these cloud services can shut down on a whim and there’s nothing we users can do about it.


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Worried about Google? Here are 3 tools to help you save your Google data in case of emergency
software March 22, 2013 posted by

Minuum Keyboard – making sloppy typing acceptable

After years and years of advancements, we have super smart computers, phones, and all sorts of other technological goodies floating around. Thankfully, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to operate these things, but at one point, a basic understand of your native vernacular was crucial. Sadly, it’s not quite the priority anymore as we have a whole new language that is surfacing based on numbers and letters: “g2g” and “lol” for example.


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Minuum Keyboard – making sloppy typing acceptable
Awesome November 20, 2012 posted by

Write The Damn Thing – the procrastination killer that has no mercy

We love writing with a passion, really we do. But even with massive amounts of motivation, some days it’s plain impossible to put anything down. The words just don’t come. The know it alls call this writer’s block, we call it a royal pain in the derriere. Whatever the cause it’s something that can really drive you nuts, made especially worse when you allow yourself to waste time on something else instead of knuckling down.


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Write The Damn Thing – the procrastination killer that has no mercy
Mobile Tech November 19, 2012 posted by

Jammer – keep your conversations private wherever you are

Sometimes you need your conversations to be private. Like those with your parole officer, or the ones you have with your boss when you’re pleading not to get fired or bargaining with your loan shark for just a few more days. You don’t want the whole neighborhood knowing your business, right? So what to do?


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Jammer – keep your conversations private wherever you are
Bizarre November 2, 2012 posted by

8 Bizarre Android Apps You Probably Shouldn’t Show Your Boss

One of the truly great things about smartphones is they can be used for literally everything. Yes really. You probably didn’t realize this but alongside the usual cluster of radios for GPS, wireless networking, GSM calls, FM radio et al, there are some hidden sensors which no-one talks about, and which confer extraordinary powers on your handset in amazing ways. Follow us inside as we explain all.


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8 Bizarre Android Apps You Probably Shouldn’t Show Your Boss
Free Software November 1, 2012 posted by

The Bizarre Reality of My Top 30 ‘Essential’ Android Apps

There are 365 Android apps installed on the Samsung Android smartphone sitting here in front of me…how on earth did that happen? And more to the point, what are they worth to my life? The fact is that most of us carry around an unfeasibly large number of sophisticated computer programs on our modern phones, but can we really say they’re useful or valuable? I recently sat down to evaluate which of my installed apps were important, and came to…


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The Bizarre Reality of My Top 30 ‘Essential’ Android Apps
Bookmark This! October 5, 2012 posted by

RetroUI – not happy with the new Windows 8 look? Then ditch it…

In the technology business you really know people are upset when developers start producing fixes for your product before it’s even been officially launched. And this is doubly true when the errant company is Microsoft and the product has anything to do with their Windows franchise. Remember the uproar when they completely altered the MS Office look and feel?


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RetroUI – not happy with the new Windows 8 look? Then ditch it…
but is it art? October 4, 2012 posted by

Memory Palace – store your memories in a video game, take lifeblogging to a new level

One thing the digital world has given us is the ability to capture and store our lives in a level of detail that was unthinkable a few years ago. Most people today have an archive of thousands of digital photos, and countless video clips from special events, most of which we don’t even have the time to enjoy. But it’s obvious that this is just the beginning, and a new generation of technology is going to provide even more tools…


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Memory Palace – store your memories in a video game, take lifeblogging to a new level
Bookmark This! August 30, 2012 posted by

Connectify Dispatch promises to turbo charge your Internet connection with a click

If you’ve ever been stuck in an airport terminal and struggled to get the WiFi to work properly, you’ll know just how frustrating public net connections can be. They never seem to work when you need them most (nor, for that matter, do GPS map connections, but that’s another story). But now one enterprising company has the answer and it’s a very cool bit of technology all round.


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Connectify Dispatch promises to turbo charge your Internet connection with a click