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Gorging on Data the WiFi Way

With Verizon's recent announcement that it intends to drop its grandfathered unlimited wireless data plan for existing customers who were around before tiered its pricing came into being, crackdowns are in the air ...

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SwiftKey Handily Unscrambles Sloppy Typing

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Smartphone

If your device is having difficulty completing tasks like file downloading, it's a dead giveaway that it needs some maintenance. ...

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Scalado Album’s Photo-Mapping Skill Earns It a Niche

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Leaving Your Mark on the Web

There are a lot of photographs out there. Photo sharing and album network Flickr alone reckons it hit the 6 billion image upload mark last year. If you consider Picasa, Facebook, and the current darling known as Instagram, we're talking gazillions of images floating around -- all freely downloadable ...

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Google Drive for Android: Just About as Good as the Rest

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When Wikipedia Vandals Attack

If you've been involved in a project that has been documented on Wikipedia and has earned its own Wikipedia page, it can be disconcerting to visit one day and see the page vandalized, as happened to an associate of mine recently ...

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Shazam Encore Pretty Much Nails ‘Name That Tune’

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Sorting Out the Image Format Jumble

Have you ever wondered what the differences are among the scores of digital image formats out there? Some of the more common ones we see are GIF (CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format) and JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF Format) but what does it all mean, and why are there so many? ...

Smart TV May Be Too Smart for Its Own Good

If you've been anywhere near a consumer electronics retailer lately or have leafed through the consumer electronics circulars and ads that supplement Sunday newspapers, you've no doubt noticed the words "Smart TV" shouting out at you. ...

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Instagram: Fun but No Threat to the Art World

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Ramping Up Your Laptop’s RAM

One of the simplest ways to improve performance on a laptop is to add more RAM, or random access memory. ...

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Look Before You Make the Leap to Hulu Plus for Android

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Finding Your Way Around a Router

Have you ever accessed your home or small office router configuration settings and been bombarded with a mass of incomprehensible, cryptic computer-eze and senseless acronyms and abbreviations? ...

Entertainment Device Convergence: The State of Play

The tumultuous convergence of entertainment devices, greater interaction with the television-viewing experience, and increased involvement of social networks were all in the Klieg lights at the IP&TV World Forum, the Internet television show I attended recently in London. ...

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Phonedeck: This Manager’s Half Asleep at the Dashboard

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Run Your Software From a USB Stick for Security and Speed

Historically, freelancers have carried their software tools as compact discs, or as copies of the discs on a portable hard drive. Both have needed to be installed on the library, or client's computer. ...

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Smart Diagram Effortlessly Produces Professional-Looking Results

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Making the Most of Chrome in the Cloud

The more devices that I accumulate, the more I'd like to move seamlessly from one to another. I'm finding more and more that I'm hopping from one device to another, and one Web browser to another ...

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PDF to Speech Stumbles a Bit but Sounds Nicer Than Android

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