Samsung Optical Smart Hub SE-208BW Review - Watch CNET's Video Review

Samsung Optical Smart Hub SE-208BW Review - Watch CNET's Video Review: "The good: The compact and stylish Samsung Optical Smart Hub SE-208BW makes it possible to stream digital content (including DVDs) to multiple Wi-Fi-connected mobile devices at a time, and wirelessly backs up mobile devices' data."

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Firefox Web Browser — Plugin Check & Updates

Firefox Web Browser — Plugin Check & Updates:

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Choosing More Secure Passwords | How to | Firefox Help

Choosing More Secure Passwords | How to | Firefox Help:

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Best budget tablets - CNET Reviews

Best budget tablets - CNET Reviews: "Sometimes "the best" just isn't in the budget. We've collected our favorites of the tablets priced substantially less than the iPad and its high-end competition. For parents, if your kid is obsessed with getting an iPad, be sure to consider the Apple iPod Touch. Its screen may be small, but nothing comes closer to matching the iPad's "fun factor," and the price is tough to beat."

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your First Guest Post

A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your First Guest Post: "One of the best ways to bring readers to your blog is to write guest posts on larger, related, blogs. This not only gets your name and writing in front of people, it also helps your Google rankings (because you’ll get a link to your site from a high-pagerank blog)."

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How to Search Google Like a Pro: 11 Tricks You Have to Know - How-To Geek

How to Search Google Like a Pro: 11 Tricks You Have to Know - How-To Geek: "Google is a powerful tool, but you’re missing out on a lot of that power if you just type words into it. Master Google and find the best results faster with these search tricks."

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3 Premium Online Services that Are Affordable and Worth their Cost

3 Premium Online Services that Are Affordable and Worth their Cost: "There are thousands of online services and service based websites out there that are just plain awesome, but a lot of these websites come with a monthly fee, which is something that most people simply do not want or need. However, there are some gems out there that offer quality services that the majority of people would simply use. In today’s post, we will review 3 of the best, premium online services."

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Smackdown: Google TV vs Apple TV vs Boxee vs Roku vs…

Smackdown: Google TV vs Apple TV vs Boxee vs Roku vs…: It’s looking like 2012 will be a watershed for “cord-cutters” seeking to replace expensive cable TV services with low-cost gadgets that stream movies and TV shows from the Internet via free, subscription, and pay-per-view services. Accordingly, this DeviceGuru “smackdown” pits five popular streaming media player devices against each other, based on their features, functions, specs, and quality of implementation.

Comparing today's computers to 1995's | Relatively Interesting

Comparing today's computers to 1995's | Relatively Interesting: I recently stumbled upon a computer science project I did in high school (way back in 1995) entitled “Technology in Society”. We were tasked with finding newspaper articles that demonstrated technology in various work spaces. Discovering a gem like this – especially after a decade and a half has gone by – is eye opening and mind boggling.

Remove Your Google Search History Before the New Privacy Policy Takes Effect - How-To Geek

Remove Your Google Search History Before the New Privacy Policy Takes Effect - How-To Geek: "Starting March 1st Google’s new privacy policy takes effect, so you may want to do a quick bit of web history cleanup work ahead of time. This tutorial from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will show you how to do it and will only take a few minutes to finish."

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How to Republish Your Old Posts Without Upseting Google

How to Republish Your Old Posts Without Upseting Google: "On Monday Ali published a post about getting value out of your archives, and one of the points mentioned was to re-publish your old posts, especially the popular ones, as many of your new readers might not have seen those."

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Browser Add-On Stops Google (and others) from Tracking You Online | PCWorld

Browser Add-On Stops Google (and others) from Tracking You Online | PCWorld: "Concerned about Google and others snooping on your online activity? Then you might want to install a free browser add-in called Do Not Track Plus that can tell Google (and other marketers) to mind their own business."

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The Truth About the March 8 Internet Doomsday | PCWorld

The Truth About the March 8 Internet Doomsday | PCWorld: "Like many memes before it, this dire warning is floating around blogs and sites. It even names a date: March 8 as the day the FBI might "shut down the Internet." But relax, that’s not really the case."

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Completely Delete Data from Your Hard Drive

Completely Delete Data from Your Hard Drive: "It is no big secret that emptying the Windows recycle bin does not actually delete data from your hard drive—it simply marks the space on the drive as re-writable. Data is there until it is written over with new data… and even then, sometimes fragments of data remain."

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Security Tip: Never Type Your Passwords

Security Tip: Never Type Your Passwords: "One of the most common ways to gain control of a website, email account, bank account and what not is to have a key logger installed on the computer of the victim. After that everything you type will be saved into a hidden file, and if you are used to typing your passwords to logging into your website, email and bank the attacked will have access to all of them."

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Best free texting apps - Komando.com, Website for The Kim Komando Radio Show®, Komando Downloads

Best free texting apps - Komando.com, Website for The Kim Komando Radio Show®, Komando Downloads: "ext messaging is emerging as one of the most popular methods for mobile communication. And why shouldn't it be? It's fast, you can hold multiple conversations at once, and it's not distracting in quiet or crowded places."

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Watching: The most popular iPhone passcodes in Kim on Komand @ TVKim

Watching: The most popular iPhone passcodes in Kim on Komand @ TVKim:

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Why Blind Obedience is Killing Your Business | Copyblogger

Why Blind Obedience is Killing Your Business | Copyblogger: "Picture three men racing through a tall hedge maze.
The first man runs off and begins following paths randomly, hoping to stumble upon the exit."

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How to Create a Password Protected Folder without any Extra Software - How-To Geek

How to Create a Password Protected Folder without any Extra Software - How-To Geek: "There are a lot of methods that you can use to create a password protected folder, most of which require the use of some third party software. Using this neat method you can hide your folders with a quick batch script."

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Fully Migrate or Change Your Email Address

Fully Migrate or Change Your Email Address: "Your email address is your primary source for of course sending and receiving emails, but also the main point for many other web services that you may use also. You use your email address to sign up for pretty much all service based websites. In doing so, your email quickly becomes linked to many other accounts also, including your Facebook, YouTube, and even online banking account."

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22 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue [Infographic] | Copyblogger

22 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue [Infographic] | Copyblogger: "Yep, we’re introducing the first-ever Copyblogger infographic. It’s about our favorite topic — creating great content."

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The Survival Station - 51 Free Tools to Stay Informed and Invisible on the Internet

The Survival Station - 51 Free Tools to Stay Informed and Invisible on the Internet: If you value your rapidly disappearing privacy while surfing the Internet you need to know about these tools. Whether you want to protect yourself from snoopers, want to spy on those out to get you, or want to be able to track trends that you know will lead to something big, then these tools will help you get the job done. The best part about them is they are FREE!

25 Apps That Can Make You More Productive | PCMag.com

25 Apps That Can Make You More Productive | PCMag.com: "The highly productive individual these days leads a blended life. We want to be more productive in our "downtime" (a word that formerly referred to the time when machines were not functioning) and more efficient while we're at work so that we can have more downtime. "

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Fences - Download.com

Fences - Download.com: "Fences lets users clean up their desktop icons in moments. Users draw "fences" on their desktop which enables users to drag and drop icons into them. Users can have fences show and hide by double-clicking on the desktop. In addition, users can control which icons show and hide when the desktop is double-clicked on allowing for easy desktop clean-up."

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Desktop Fun: Nebula Wallpaper Collection Series 2 - How-To Geek

Desktop Fun: Nebula Wallpaper Collection Series 2 - How-To Geek

The Best Articles for Tweaking and Customizing Windows 7 - How-To Geek

The Best Articles for Tweaking and Customizing Windows 7 - How-To Geek: Do you love to tweak your Windows 7 system, customizing it to fit your personality and the way you work? We have shown you many ways to customize the Taskbar, Start Menu, Desktop, Windows Explorer, and other parts of Windows.

How To Combine All Your Email Addresses into One Gmail Inbox - How-To Geek

How To Combine All Your Email Addresses into One Gmail Inbox - How-To Geek: Gmail isn’t just a typical webmail system — it’s a full-fledged email client that can consolidate all your email addresses in one place. Get all your emails in a single Gmail inbox and send emails from any address.

5 Tips for Affiliate Marketing Beginners | Copyblogger

5 Tips for Affiliate Marketing Beginners | Copyblogger: "Problem is, there’s a lot of bad (and unethical) advice out there on how to approach it. So, I’ve invited Sonia Simone and Jessica Commins to jump on the line today to counter that bad advice, and offer their best strategies for effective, ethical, and profitable Affiliate Marketing."

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WordPress Optimization Tip: Close Comment on Older Posts

WordPress Optimization Tip: Close Comment on Older Posts: "If your site is responding quickly and rarely suffers downtimes then I wouldn’t recommend you to turn comments off on older posts, as this removes some of the visitor interaction and also makes your older posts more static."

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Faster Chromebooks to leapfrog today's slowpokes | Deep Tech - CNET News

Faster Chromebooks to leapfrog today's slowpokes | Deep Tech - CNET News: "Even for those who buy into cloud computing, the first-generation Chromebook can be painfully pokey. But faster next-gen models are on the way, Google tells CNET."

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App users: iPhones are for days, iPads for the nighttime | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

App users: iPhones are for days, iPads for the nighttime | Geek Gestalt - CNET News: "The upshot? People use Zite on their iPhones pretty much any time they have a few spare minutes during the workday and when they're in bed late at night. But in the evening, they settle in on their iPads for longer, more relaxed stretches of time."

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AdSense Profits Interview: TheCraftyCrow.com

AdSense Profits Interview: TheCraftyCrow.com: "First of all an announcement: the AdSense Profits Course was supposed to go live today, but I am still adding some bonuses and more material to the members area, so I postponed the launch to next week. The official date is February 21, next Tuesday."

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56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest | Copyblogger

56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest | Copyblogger: "In case you’ve been living in a mountain cave in Bhutan for the past couple of months, Pinterest is a relatively new social networking site that allows users to create online image collages, then quickly and easily share those collages — called “pinboards” — with other Pinterest users."

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One Simple Template for Crafting Great Titles

One Simple Template for Crafting Great Titles: "You know that blog post titles have to grab attention – but how exactly do you go about that, especially when you’ve got the rest of the post to write?
Here’s one way to craft a great title in a hurry:"

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A Windows 8 tablet offers hope as potent iPad foe | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News

A Windows 8 tablet offers hope as potent iPad foe | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News: "With Windows 8 now on a clearer path to release, expect the big device makers to try to crash the raucous Apple party with Microsoft leading the way."

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CNET TV | Video Product Reviews, CNET Podcasts, Tech Shows, Live CNET Video - CNET TV

CNET TV | Video Product Reviews, CNET Podcasts, Tech Shows, Live CNET Video - CNET TV:

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DOWNLOAD Using YouTube: From Consumption To Production

DOWNLOAD Using YouTube: From Consumption To Production: "Want to get the most out of YouTube? We’ve got the guide for you, then: “Using YouTube, from Consumption to Production”, the latest free manual from MakeUseOf. By author Matt Smith, this guide goes over everything you need to know about YouTube, whether you’re an enthusiast or a budding director."

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Google Paid $410,000 for Chrome Bugs

Google Paid $410,000 for Chrome Bugs: "Since November 2010, when Goggle began offering cash for bug reports, the company said it paid more than $410,000 to more than 200 individuals who found more than 1100 "legitimate issues" and 730 that qualified for a reward. An additional $19,000 was paid to charities chosen by bug reporters."

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Convert a PDF to an Excel Spreadsheet

Convert a PDF to an Excel Spreadsheet: "We often use PDFs to share data in report form. Once data is in a PDF, though, it is stuck there. We cannot organize it differently, add it to existing data or alter it in any way unless we have the original source document."

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The Best Articles for Learning How to Virtualize Operating Systems - How-To Geek

The Best Articles for Learning How to Virtualize Operating Systems - How-To Geek: "Have you always wanted to try Linux but don’t have a spare machine or don’t care to dual boot your main computer? Well, thanks to virtualization technology, you can easily install one operating system inside another on one machine."

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Have Any Website Read to You in Chrome

Have Any Website Read to You in Chrome: "Ten years ago, text-to-speech conversions were awful. Robotic voices tripped over words with more than two syllables at maddeningly slow paces. Today, text-to-speech conversions are smoother, with a variety of human-sounding voices from which to choose."

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7 Worthwhile Content Marketing Links | Copyblogger

7 Worthwhile Content Marketing Links | Copyblogger: How George Lucas Would Write a Blog Post
Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients of Success
How to Make Your Content Go Viral
The Difference Between Good and Great Content Marketing

HP Pavilion dm1z Review - Watch CNET's Video & Read Our Review

HP Pavilion dm1z Review - Watch CNET's Video & Read Our Review: "The good: A solid upgrade to one of our favorite laptops, the new HP Pavilion dm1z adds Beats Audio, a better touch pad, and an updated AMD processor."

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How much better will the iPad 3 be? | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews

How much better will the iPad 3 be? | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews: "I was talking to a friend and tech enthusiast the other day--let's call him "Chuck"--and he sheepishly admitted that he'd taken the iPad plunge."

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Amazon readying 9-inch Kindle Fire for 2012, analyst predicts | The Digital Home - CNET News

Amazon readying 9-inch Kindle Fire for 2012, analyst predicts | The Digital Home - CNET News: "Bartley told investors in a research note this week that the 9-inch Kindle Fire could launch by the middle of the year. He didn't provide further details on the tablet, but did say that the 9-inch model should increase Kindle Fire sales this year from an expected 12.7 million units to 14.9 million."

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How the two flavors of Windows 8 will be different | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News

How the two flavors of Windows 8 will be different | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News: "One thing was made crystal clear today by Microsoft. Windows 8 on ARM will not be the same experience as Windows 8 on Intel-AMD--despite a big effort by Microsoft to be consistent."

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Google said to be readying cloud-based storage service | Digital Media - CNET News

Google said to be readying cloud-based storage service | Digital Media - CNET News: "The service--called Drive--is in response to the growing use of mobile devices to access personal files stored on the Internet, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cites unidentified people familiar with the matter. Drive will allow users to upload photos, documents, and videos to Google servers for sharing with others and later retrieval, the sources said."

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Apple's iOS 5.1 update rumored to launch March 9 | Apple - CNET News

Apple's iOS 5.1 update rumored to launch March 9 | Apple - CNET News: "Digging into profiles sent by Apple to various iPhone carriers, blog site YourDailyMac found a pointer to 09Mar2012 in one of the text strings. Aimed for operators in Japan, France, Greece, Finland, and Sweden, the profile files are designed to ensure that network connections will continue to work after iOS devices are updated to the latest version. The files are also said to be compatible with iOS 5.1, according to YourDailyMac."

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Apple will reportedly unveil iPad 3 in early March | Apple - CNET News

Apple will reportedly unveil iPad 3 in early March | Apple - CNET News: "Apple may unveil the next iPad at an event scheduled for the first week of March, AllThingsD reported today."

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The “New” SEO Secret Weapon | Copyblogger

The “New” SEO Secret Weapon | Copyblogger: "If you have a web site, you may have noticed one of two things about the traffic you get from search engines."

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How To Transfer Files, Web Sites, Comics, and RSS Feeds to Your Amazon Kindle - How-To Geek

How To Transfer Files, Web Sites, Comics, and RSS Feeds to Your Amazon Kindle - How-To Geek: "Although Amazon would be pleased if you only used the Amazon Kindle Store to put documents on your Kindle, there are many other ways to put content on the popular device. Read on as we show you how."

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Organizing Ideas with the Scratch Pad

Organizing Ideas with the Scratch Pad: "Tired of wall-to-wall bulletin boards, miscellaneous pieces of paper, a filing cabinet stuffed with odds and ends, calendars, and more?"

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German police use Facebook pictures to nab crooks | Reuters

German police use Facebook pictures to nab crooks | Reuters: "Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook "friends" to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state's interior minister."

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Orangutans Use Tablets To Chat With Friends In Other Zoos | Disinformation

Orangutans Use Tablets To Chat With Friends In Other Zoos | Disinformation: "Bored orangutans enjoy using iPads to video chat with their fellow kind in other zoos – it seems that we’re all just monkeys poking at the glowing screens we’ve been given by our handlers. Via Popular Science:"

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8 Quick Tips for Writing Bullet Points People Actually Want to Read | Copyblogger

8 Quick Tips for Writing Bullet Points People Actually Want to Read | Copyblogger: "Blog posts, Tweets, quick videos, Google+, the Facebook Timeline, and tens of thousands of images pinned to digital boards are flying past us faster than we can read them."

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Why Apple's A5 is so big--and iPhone 4 won't get Siri | Deep Tech - CNET News

Why Apple's A5 is so big--and iPhone 4 won't get Siri | Deep Tech - CNET News: "Apple's A5 processor includes noise-reduction circuitry licensed from a start-up called Audience, and a chip analyst believes that fact resolves an iPhone 4S mystery and explains why the iPhone 4 lacks the Siri voice-control system."

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7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Wildly Successful Guest Post | Copyblogger

7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Wildly Successful Guest Post | Copyblogger: "Most bloggers I see pump out these articles while reciting the mantra “quantity over quality”; there’s no real strategy and there are no real long-term benefits."

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100+ Wallpaper Collections to Spice Up Your Desktop - How-To Geek

100+ Wallpaper Collections to Spice Up Your Desktop - How-To Geek: "Are you bored with the wallpaper on your desktop PC? In the past we have posted links to over 100 different collections of wallpaper images. Download your favorites and switch them out from time to time to provide some variety."

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100+ Wallpaper Collections to Spice Up Your Desktop - How-To Geek

100+ Wallpaper Collections to Spice Up Your Desktop - How-To Geek: "Are you bored with the wallpaper on your desktop PC? In the past we have posted links to over 100 different collections of wallpaper images. Download your favorites and switch them out from time to time to provide some variety."

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5 Reasons To Choose Android Over iPhone [Opinion]

5 Reasons To Choose Android Over iPhone [Opinion]: "If you’re looking at buying a smartphone, you’re probably going to buy an Android device or an iPhone (sorry, Microsoft). What’s the difference, and which should you choose?"

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Things you should never do on a cell phone | CNET TV | Video Product Reviews, CNET Podcasts, Tech Shows, Live CNET Video

Things you should never do on a cell phone | CNET TV | Video Product Reviews, CNET Podcasts, Tech Shows, Live CNET Video:

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Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet: How to choose | Android Atlas - CNET Reviews

Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet: How to choose | Android Atlas - CNET Reviews: "Now that the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet both have a few months under their belts, we're taking another look at these two budget-price tablets."

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Your complete guide to the Kindle Fire | How To - CNET

Your complete guide to the Kindle Fire | How To - CNET: "Home How To
Your complete guide to the Kindle Fire
by Sharon Vaknin February 1, 2012 6:30 AM PST

Editors' note: This post was updated and republished on February 1, 2012, to bring you more awesome tips and tricks.
Grab your Kindle Fire, because to get you started with your new tablet, we've put together our best tips and tricks.
Begin with the basics (like transferring documents), then work your way up to tricks like streaming videos to the Kindle from your computer desktop. And bookmark this page, because we'll add more tips as we discover them."

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Keep your gadgets charged on the go with Powerbag | How To - CNET

Keep your gadgets charged on the go with Powerbag | How To - CNET: "Carry a bag with you everywhere you go just to carry every device and required charger? Find yourself traveling and constantly looking for an outlet to charge your phone or tablet? You may want to consider a Powerbag."

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How to reduce and keep track of your monthly data usage | How To - CNET

How to reduce and keep track of your monthly data usage | How To - CNET: "As we gradually move toward a cloud-based mobile experience with services such as iCloud, Amazon Cloud, and Google Music, going over your data limits will be easy. Naturally, service providers like AT&T and Verizon don't mind--they'll gladly hit you with a $10 to $30 overage charge whenever you exceed your allotted bytes."

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Turn Your Facebook Photos into PDF Albums

Turn Your Facebook Photos into PDF Albums: "Sharing your Facebook photos with non-Facebook users (yes, there are still people who do not use Facebook) often means downloading the photos, saving them in a zip file, then emailing them. For the technologically naive, a zip file can pose a challenge, since it must be extracted to fully enjoy the photos."

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Pogoplug Series 4 Review - Watch CNET's Video Review

Pogoplug Series 4 Review - Watch CNET's Video Review: "The good: The Pogoplug Series 4 is an adapter that lets you access any 2.5-inch hard drive, USB storage device, or SD card from anywhere online. It's easy to set up, attractively small, and smartly designed. Files can be accessed via browser or apps, and automatic backup of photos and videos from a phone or iPad using the Pogoplug app works surprisingly well, too."

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Firefox simplifies add-on updates; no native Android interface--yet | The Download Blog - Download.com

Firefox simplifies add-on updates; no native Android interface--yet | The Download Blog - Download.com: "Web developer site-building tools are only sexy to developers, but they get a big makeover in today's update to Firefox and that will affect how developers connect to the people who use their sites"

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