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MyWi App: Save Money on iPad 3G, Buy a Wi-Fi iPad and Tether to your iPhone

iPhoneiPadModem

If you want an iPad with 3G but don’t want to pay the extra money then you can tether it to your iPhone and use your iPhone’s unlimited data plan. The app to do this is MyWi and allows you to use your iPhone as a 3G modem for your iPad. If you hadn’t guessed [...]

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PowerGramo Offers Business-Grade Skype Solutions

PowerGramo

PowerGramo is an enterprise-level Skype call recording suite. There are a few different versions of the software, costing between $15 and $45 for the license, and all can record Skype-to-Skype calls. The basic version will allow you to record conference calls and export to OGG and WAV formats, but as you go up the software [...]

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Will Microsoft Spoil the Skype Home User Experience?

Microsoft and Skype

So what will Microsoft do with Skype now that they’ve paid a staggering $8.5 billion for the Internet-based communications company? Are you worried that your free video conferencing service will die at the hands of Bill Gates’ former empire? The Internet is rife with our patents and rumors regarding what Microsoft plans to do with [...]

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Review: Nighty Night! HD iPad Bedtime App for Kids

Nighty Night! HD iPad app

As the dad of a one-year old who seriously dislikes going to bed, I thought I would take this bestselling app for a spin. Nighty Night! HD is essentially an interactive bedtime book for toddlers aged 1-4. The app built especially for the Apple iPad helps kids learn about your run-of-the-mill farm animals as well [...]

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How to Clean Up Your Mac

Mac keyboard

Like any computing platform, Mac computers have their share of cleanup needs. While the Mac does not have a windows registry like PCs, there are other file burdens that hog disk space over time necessitating a Mac cleanup operation. You will know it is time to clean your Mac when you notice appreciable slowing of [...]

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Dropbox Hits 25 Million Users

Dropbox Online Backup, Sharing and Syncing Service

Dropbox announced today that they’ve hit quite a milestone – 25 million users which is up tremendously from the 4 million they had last year.

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Wired Magazine’s iPad App Issues are now Free

Wired Magazine iPad App

Good news! Wired’s iPad app just got free! Well, technically, the issues going forward are free. The older issues (April 2011 and older) still run about $3.99 each. These issues are not small though – May’s issue is 380MB, so don’t forget to delete when you’re done with them. You’ll also know why your syncing [...]

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EgoBook – Create a Book Based On Your Facebook Profile

Egobook Facebook Profile book

Remember Social Artworks that lets you create a poster of your Facebook friends mugshots? Well, EgoBook is a similar idea, except they create a book — yes an actual book — of status updates, published pictures, messages and comments from your Facebook profile. Probably the neatest feature is that your friend’s profile picture is the [...]

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Top iPhone Apps to Help You with Your Taxes

iPhone tax Apps

Hooray, tax time is here again! I know you are thrilled, I can see it in your face. Before you fall off your seat in excitement, let me help you out with some tips that might make this tax season just a bit easier than last year. With the constant influx of new portable computing [...]

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Windows 8 SmartScreen is a Step in the Right Direction, but Needs a “Warn” Setting

Windows 8 SmartScreen

Windows 8 will have a new feature common to the entire OS and not just IE called SmartScreen that will dynamically prevent programs that have been deemed illegal, fraudulent or malicious from running (assuming you have it turned on).

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