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How To Properly Import Instapaper and Readability Articles to Your Kindle
Instapaper's "Read Later" bookmarklet serves a novel purpose in the Internet age: it gives us the opportunity to be better readers. The web offers limitless distractions, but Instapaper lets us queue up long and partially read articles for the right moment. As it's grown more popular, Instapaper's taken on a ...
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How To Back Up Apps and Data from Your Galaxy Nexus—No Root Required
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) has sufficient developer options to make your head spin. So many, in fact, that we have only recently managed to investigate all of them. One curious entry asks the user to make a passcode for protecting desktop backups. Last we checked, there was no ...
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25 Essential Tweaks to Perform on Your New Android Phone (Updated for 2012)
With any new smartphone, there is a bit of setup to be done. With Android, users can tweak every minute detail of the device to get the best experience. There’s no reason to go hunting around the Internet for all the best tip and tricks for your new Android phone. ...
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How To Buy the Right Memory Card for Your Camera: SD Card Speeds Explained
Even compared to the rest of the tech world, memory and storage evolve quickly. Once-pricey USB drives are now given away like candy, SATA III hard drives and SSDs are faster than ever and camera memory cards are providing 32 and 64 gigabytes of storage for hundreds of high resolution ...
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How To Find the Right DSLR Lens For Your Needs
Photographers are a funny bunch. One day, they tell you that it’s not the gear that matters, it’s the photographer, so you should be able to get great photos out ...
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The 5 Tweaks Every New Galaxy Nexus Owner Should Do Immediately
So you picked up a shiny new Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Verizon over the weekend? Well, its important to get off to a good start with any new smartphone, and ...
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How To Sideload Android Apps on the Amazon Kindle Fire in 3 Steps
So, you’ve got a shiny new Kindle Fire, but your favorite app isn’t in the Amazon Appstore? Since the Fire lacks access to the Android Market, you’re just out of ...
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The Best Password Managers for Your Android Phone
It only takes one epic disaster to make you take password security seriously, so why not get out ahead of that calamity? A password manager can generate complex passwords and ...
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How To Make Full Use of Your Android Phone's Voice Control
Android has had voice commands for quite some time, but like many of Google’s services, there are some easter eggs hidden beneath the surface. Voice Actions is part of Google ...
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How To Easily Stream Your Own Live Podcast On Windows or Mac with Mixlr
Our 24-hour Oktobercast marathon went out over a live video stream, but as an alternative the day-long podcast was simultaneously streamed through a service called Mixlr. Mixlr's audio streams--accessible on ...
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How To Choose the Perfect Bag for Your DSLR
Bags come in all sorts of varieties. Some are designed to contain all your gear — from your biggest lenses, to your cache of spare batteries. Others are slim and ...
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A Link to the Past: How To Add CRT Filters to 16-Bit Games on PC
Almost 90 million people worldwide own Nintendo Wiis. Millions of those Wii owners spent money on classic games on Nintendo's Virtual Console to replay classics like Super Mario World. And ...
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How To Properly Upgrade to iOS 5 in Five Simple Steps
We've been putting the iOS 5 beta through its paces for the past few months. But today, the final release is available to all. Any device capable of running iOS ...
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How To Shoot Better Photos on Your Android Phone with 4 Apps
The iPhone 4S and iOS 5 are really taking Apple’s cameras up a notch, but existing Android phones often have fine sensors of their own. With a few software compliments, ...
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10 Clever Ways to Automate Your Online Life with ifttt
You want to automate your life. So do we. And while there’s still no way to feed the cat and do the dishes in one fell swoop, we can at ...
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How To Buy and Test a Third-Party Battery for Android Phones
Android is designed in such a way that users that really want to go out of their way, can customize a device eight ways from Sunday. it can be easy ...
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How To Download Kindle Books from Your Local Library Website
Library fans rejoice! The Kindle Lending Library service, announced in April of this year, has spread from its limited launch in Seattle to a far more accessible range of 11,000 ...
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Best Practices for Securing Your Online Accounts
When you think about it, a username and password are just two strings of characters. A measly handful of letters, numbers and symbols are all that stand between your digital ...
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How To Make Better Use of Dropbox on Android
Without a doubt, one of the best cloud services in town is Dropbox. For the unaware, Dropbox allows users to sync files between their cloud storage and as many devices ...
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How To Simulate Five Popular Lens Effects in Photoshop
There's photography, and then there's photography — that is, all of the impressive lenses, filters and techniques that can make a good photo great. But while many popular image effects ...
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How To Use Filters to Teach an Old Camera Lens New Tricks
DSLR owners, both new and old, take note: it's not all about the lenses. An extra piece of glass can be a great way to expand your camera's abilities — ...
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How To Properly Patch and Repair Your Network Cables
Network cables are the arteries and veins of the Internet. A cabled network is the most reliable of the available options for setting up network infrastructure as it provides the ...
