Jot eWriter joins Boogie Board lineup

Jot eWriter joins Boogie Board lineup: "eWriter maker Improv Electronics has unveiled the latest addition to its Boogie Board LCD eWriter lineup. Like the Boogie Board Rip released last year, the new Boogie Board Jot boasts a Reflex LCD writing surface that doesn’t draw any power to write on and retain an image but, unlike that model, doesn’t pack any onboard storage for your digital doodles."

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Pivothead Video Recording Eyewear Review & Rating | PCMag.com

Pivothead Video Recording Eyewear Review & Rating | PCMag.com: "In the late 1990's, Warren Ellis wrote a comic book called Transmetropolitan. It was about a gonzo journalist who covered politics in a cyberpunk future."

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Google Chrome and Drive come to Apple iOS devices | Internet & Media - CNET News

Google Chrome and Drive come to Apple iOS devices | Internet & Media - CNET News: "SAN FRANCISCO -- Google announced at its annual developer conference Thursday that its Chrome browser and its Google Drive, a Dropbox-like storage service, are coming to Apple iOS devices."

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How To Add Your Own Background Images To Your Gmail Account

How To Add Your Own Background Images To Your Gmail Account: "t’s finally possible – you can now set any image as your background in Gmail. Two new themes give you complete control over the image behind them, allowing you to use your own picture or pick your own from a wide selection."

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Kindle Fire 2 may hit as soon as July | E-book readers - CNET Reviews

Kindle Fire 2 may hit as soon as July | E-book readers - CNET Reviews: "Well, a credible source has told CNET that Amazon will unveil a second-generation Kindle Fire this summer and that it's targeting July 31 for a launch event."

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Google Nexus 7 - Tablets - CNET Reviews

Google Nexus 7 - Tablets - CNET Reviews: "Overview User ReviewsSpecs
CNET Editors' Take June 27, 2012 10:19 AM PDT

Today, during Google's opening day keynote at Google I/O 2012, the company announced a new Asus-branded tablet called the Nexus 7. It was hardly a surprise given the flood of leaks over the past few days, but I was eager to pick up a unit and tear open the box. Here's what I've found so far."

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Sync Gmail Contacts with iPhone, iPad, and iCloud - Online Tech Tips

Sync Gmail Contacts with iPhone, iPad, and iCloud - Online Tech Tips: "I use my Mac a lot and one of the annoying problems I’ve always found is that when using the Mail app, I don’t get the autocomplete for my Gmail contacts. I have a bunch of Gmail contacts and unfortunately, none of them show up when I start typing a new email in Mail. Mail uses the Mac Address Book and if the contacts are not in there, then you won’t have access to them in Mail."

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The Best Google Chrome Extensions 2012 | PCMag.com

The Best Google Chrome Extensions 2012 | PCMag.com: "Once again, Google Chrome is our Editors' Choice for Web browsers. Version 19 features an amazingly responsive browsing experience, security to prevent crashing, synchronization of bookmarks and preferences between Chrome browsers on other computers, great HTML5 support, and built-in Flash and PDF readers."

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The Best Websites for Listening to Podcasts and Learning How to Create Your Own - How-To Geek

The Best Websites for Listening to Podcasts and Learning How to Create Your Own - How-To Geek: "Podcasts, or webcasts, are shows about many different topics that are broadcast over the web and broken up into parts, or episodes.  You subscribe to podcasts and new episodes are automatically delivered to you as they are released."

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Fix Slow Computer - with SpeedMaxPc

Fix Slow Computer - with SpeedMaxPc: "Notice: Sometimes computer problems happen when your computer's system becomes overloaded or important files become missing, deleted or broken. These types of problems occur from not properly maintaining your computer regularly, leading to critical errors and system malfunctions."

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Soda Bottle Water Rockets for Summer Fun | GeekDad | Wired.com

Soda Bottle Water Rockets for Summer Fun | GeekDad | Wired.com: "Yes, you can buy a really cheap version for $5 and it works fine. But real geekdads show their kids how to hack one using discarded soda bottles. It will take longer to launch, but the possibilities and variations are endless."

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CircuitLab Offers Easy Circuit Building on the Web and iPad - How-To Geek

CircuitLab Offers Easy Circuit Building on the Web and iPad - How-To Geek:

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Why is my download speed not what it should be?

Why is my download speed not what it should be?: "Leo, I've got an older desktop – about 10 years old which I maintain well. As I'm 89, I can't see buying another one. I have 2 GB of memory, running XP 3, Pentium 4 motherboard, 80 GB hard drive, only 45% use. Using Firefox as my browser. Verizon is selling me speeds of 15 down and 5 up. Lately, I'm getting only 4 down and 3.5 up which means I can't do Skype or watch streaming video without getting unbearably irritated"

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EnerPlex could be slimmest solar case for iPhone yet

EnerPlex could be slimmest solar case for iPhone yet: "In comparison to some of the bulkier solar panel-packing iPhone cases we’ve seen, such as the AQUA TEK S and Solar Surge, the EnerPlex solar charger case is positively Kate Moss-like. Made by Colorado-based Ascent Solar using its ultra light, thin and flexible CIGS solar panels, the EnerPlex for iPhone 4/4S adds just 72 g (2.53 oz) to the weight of the phone, while providing the ability to top up the battery from the sun’s rays."

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Online user manuals - Cool Sites from The Kim Komando Radio Show® & Web site

Online user manuals - Cool Sites from The Kim Komando Radio Show® & Web site: "You shouldn't ever be embarrassed to use a manual for your machines. They are packed with useful, and oftentimes crucial, information about how to use your product."

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How to Make Your Laptop Choose a Wired Connection Instead of Wireless - How-To Geek

How to Make Your Laptop Choose a Wired Connection Instead of Wireless - How-To Geek: "Have you ever connected your Laptop to a wired network point in your house and continued to get wireless  network speeds ? Here’s how you can quickly fix that, the easy way."

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7 Great Google Spreadsheet Gadgets | PCWorld Business Center

7 Great Google Spreadsheet Gadgets | PCWorld Business Center: "nside Google Docs' spreadsheet component, you’ll find gadgets that endow the app with powers that even Excel users will envy. Included are tools for creating animated pie charts, producing QR codes, generating organizational charts, and more. You can also plot data in color by country on a map, and you can publish a map with your office location marked on it. All of these tricks are easy to pull off--I’ll show you how."

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How to Create Smart Microsoft Word Templates | PCWorld Business Center

How to Create Smart Microsoft Word Templates | PCWorld Business Center: "With interactive documents, you can choose from a range of predefined options for data, instead of typing the data from scratch each time."

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Best Deals Today | PCMag.com

Best Deals Today | PCMag.com: "Our best deal of the day will give your PC a much-needed speed boost at a huge savings. A solid state drive offers huge performance gains over a standard hard disk drive and is the perfect upgrade for your desktop or laptop"

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The Must-Have Social Media Tool Every Content Marketer Needs | Copyblogger

The Must-Have Social Media Tool Every Content Marketer Needs | Copyblogger: "What if we told you about an ultra powerful, infinitely flexible social media tool that allowed you to publish business-building content — text, audio, or video — without holding you to any arbitrary rules?"

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Does having too many files on my computer slow it down?

Does having too many files on my computer slow it down?: "Lots of files on your computer is not going to slow it down. There are several other factors to look at that may be causing your performance issues."

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DIY HDTV Antenna Sticks To Your Window without Blocking the View - How-To Geek

DIY HDTV Antenna Sticks To Your Window without Blocking the View - How-To Geek: "This DIY fractal-based HDTV antenna is cheap, easy to craft, and can be stuck unobtrusively on your window for better signal gains."

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Twelve ways to customize your Android device | How To - CNET

Twelve ways to customize your Android device | How To - CNET: "From setting a ringtone, setting a live wallpaper to setting the audio quality on your device; Android devices allow for a great deal of customization. Here's 12 ways to customize your device today"

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11 Ways to Bore the Boots Off Your Readers | Copyblogger

11 Ways to Bore the Boots Off Your Readers | Copyblogger: "Eh? What was that you were saying? Of course you don’t ramble on like that boring old history teacher in high school."

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PC Building Best Practices: Hardware | PCWorld

PC Building Best Practices: Hardware | PCWorld: "Building a PC can be a frustrating endeavor. In the first installment of a two-part series on PC building best practices, we outline hardware-related pitfalls to watch out for when you're assembling your dream system."

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How to Buy a Cell Phone | Roundup | PCMag.com

How to Buy a Cell Phone | Roundup | PCMag.com: "There's no sense in denying it: For most of us, mobile phones are at the center of our universe. The typical feature set of these things is astounding. "

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Booster Brolly: The solar-powered, signal-boosting umbrella

Booster Brolly: The solar-powered, signal-boosting umbrella: "To really get the most out of the summer you have to head out of the city and into the country. Whether it be for a camping trip or a festival outing, the great outdoors is the best venue for sunnier days. Unfortunately rain can ruin a great day, as can a lack of mobile reception and the inability the charge your mobile phone. Vodafone thinks it has the answer to all three of these problems with the Booster Brolly, a humble umbrella turned all-in-one tool."

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How to share your iTunes music library on a home network | How To - CNET

How to share your iTunes music library on a home network | How To - CNET: "iTunes' built-in sharing tools make it easy to listen to a music library on several machines on your home or office network. But to control that library throughout your home, you'll need to take some extra steps."

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Can Western Digital fix your wireless network woes? | Fox News

Can Western Digital fix your wireless network woes? | Fox News: "Is your home network slow? Does that streaming Netflix movie look blocky and digitized? It’s not your ISP. It’s you.

After all, Time Warner or Comcast merely provides the straw -- you bought everything on your home network that drinks from it, said Western Digital (WD), the world’s biggest hard drive maker. And not everything sips fairly, at the exact same rate."

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10 Terrible Tech Laws That Have You in Their Bull's-Eye | PCWorld

10 Terrible Tech Laws That Have You in Their Bull's-Eye | PCWorld: "Child pornography, cyberbullying, online piracy--these are real-world problems that need solutions. But does legislating them away work?

You may think what your state capital or what Capitol Hill is up to is boring and not worth keeping tabs on. But see if you don't get your juices flowing after reading how your tech freedoms could be reined in by some of the dumb bills we've pinpointed in this story."

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8 Key Tips for Building Successful Website

8 Key Tips for Building Successful Website: "If you offer well written, original, easy to understand information, spiced up with good imagery, the chances of getting quality links, social media exposure and high spots in SERPs are bigger. "

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How to Make Money Blogging: The Dating Divas Home Business Profile

How to Make Money Blogging: The Dating Divas Home Business Profile: "The blogging industry is booming, and those bloggers who have perfected their craft are generating sizable monthly returns. Ever wonder how to make money blogging? Is it as easy as writing a simple blog and miraculously receiving checks in the mail? Not that simple, but close. Meet The Dating Divas. Their story could be your home business story. Learn how they took a simple blogging idea and started generating revenue and lots of visitors."

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Free Blog Traffic - 15 Free Ways to Increase Blog Traffic

Free Blog Traffic - 15 Free Ways to Increase Blog Traffic: "Generating traffic is the lifeblood of your online business. Without sufficient traffic your site and blog will never accomplish their purpose. And while there are numerous pay options to generate traffic, there are an equal number of effective and free tools and approaches. Here are some great traffic generators:"

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Expensive HDMI Cables Make No Difference - How-To Geek

Expensive HDMI Cables Make No Difference - How-To Geek: "While we’re no strangers to spreading the news that expensive HDMI cables are a ripoff, we’re happy to share yet another study that shows there’s zero difference between a $5 cable and a $95 one."

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The five handiest smartphone apps ever | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews

The five handiest smartphone apps ever | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews: "Technology advances so rapidly these days, it's easy to become jaded, to take for granted the minor miracles we can now accomplish using our phones."

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Add an extra monitor to your computer | How To - CNET

Add an extra monitor to your computer | How To - CNET: "I hesitated writing this How To. Compared with the olden days of installing and configuring video cards and giant CRT displays, the process of adding a secondary monitor to any modern computer is practically plug-and-play."

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Internet Trends 2012: Awesome Presentation

Internet Trends 2012: Awesome Presentation: "As you probably know, being able to foresee and understand what’s coming ahead is one of the most valuable skills you can have, regardless of the industry you work. For this reason I am always interested when I see presentations about future trends, and last week I came across an awesome one."

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Email Hacked? 7 Things You Need to do NOW

Email Hacked? 7 Things You Need to do NOW: "It seems like not a day goes by where I don't get a question from someone that boils down to their email account having been hacked."

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Hotmail - sgpease@msn.com

Hotmail - sgpease@msn.com: "When you type in a URL and the web page loads, everything seems so simple. Peel back the layers, however, and you see a complex delivery system built around data packets. Watch this informative video to see how your web requests actually work."

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How Lasers Work [Video] - How-To Geek

How Lasers Work [Video] - How-To Geek: "Lasers are used in everything from disc drives to surgical suites; watch this quite thorough video to see exactly how laser light works."

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Overview of Google 3D for Maps and Earth, Offline Mode and Fly-over View

Overview of Google 3D for Maps and Earth, Offline Mode and Fly-over View: "Google’s Maps and Earth programs are by far some of the best navigation and exploration apps available for consumers. Recently, Google held a press conference where they debuted some new technology that will be incorporated into their Maps and Earth apps. These technologies mainly effect street view and a new fly-over view, but updates such as offline mode and 3D are also some great things to look forward to."

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HTG Explains: What Is RSS and How Can I Benefit From Using It? - How-To Geek

HTG Explains: What Is RSS and How Can I Benefit From Using It? - How-To Geek: "If you’re trying to keep up with news and content on multiple web sites, you’re faced with the never ending task of visiting those sites to check for new content. Read on to learn about RSS and how it can deliver the content right to your digital doorstep."

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8 Twitter Tools You MUST Try

8 Twitter Tools You MUST Try: "Twitter is a fast-paced social media outlet designed around 140 characters of content. Many businesses use Twitter to advertise new items, sales or even topics facing the business. Despite Twitter's simplicity, the barrage of constant information from followers may be overwhelming. It can also be tough to keep up on the content you plan to send out to your followers. This is where Twitter tools come in. Many third-party providers offer excellent ways to manage your Twitter feed, creating greater efficiency and effectiveness. Check out these MUST Twitter tools for any size business user:"

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70+ Online Home Business Tools

70+ Online Home Business Tools: "A home business requires a lot of bootstrapping. There isn’t much cash to outsource tasks like accounting or marketing. Which means, the business owner takes it all on. But with the vast array of online home business tools available, this isn’t such a bad thing. Check out these 70+ home business tools designed to save you time and money:"

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How to Write and Publish Your Own eBook

How to Write and Publish Your Own eBook: "Books and digital books have been around for quite a while, but with the great success of the tablet industry, the eBook industry has also expanded. Now, more than ever, people are acquiring their books digitally. eBooks are awesome for people who care to purchase books quickly and simply by downloading the content to their favorite devices, but these digital books are also great for authors and aspiring authors."

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How to Copy/Transfer Files to iPad

How to Copy/Transfer Files to iPad: "I love my iPad ever since I got it a year ago, but one thing that really sucks majorly is transferring files. You would think that Apple would have thought about this and made it seamless either via iTunes or via iCloud, but they didn’t. As far as cloud services go, iCloud is the worst cloud service ever. You can’t sync any of your personal content other than photos, contacts, bookmarks, and documents only from Keynote, Pages, and Numbers."

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16 Tips to Boost Your YouTube Marketing Strategy

16 Tips to Boost Your YouTube Marketing Strategy: ". Have a meaningful channel name with target keywords. Use capitalization in the channel name so that it is clear. If you are starting a YouTube channel about cats, CuteCatsDaily is a better channel name than catschannel1987"

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The 35 Best Tips and Tricks for Maintaining Your Windows PC - How-To Geek

The 35 Best Tips and Tricks for Maintaining Your Windows PC - How-To Geek: "When working (or playing) on your computer, you probably don’t think much about how you are going to clean up your files, backup your data, keep your system virus free, etc. However, these are tasks that need attention."

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42+ Text-Editing Keyboard Shortcuts That Work Almost Everywhere - How-To Geek

42+ Text-Editing Keyboard Shortcuts That Work Almost Everywhere - How-To Geek: "Whether you’re typing an email in your browser or writing in a word processor, there are convenient keyboard shortcuts usable in almost every application. You can copy, select, or delete entire words or paragraphs with just a few key presses."

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The 10 Best GPS Devices | PCMag.com

The 10 Best GPS Devices | PCMag.com: "The death of the dedicated GPS device has been greatly exaggerated. Sure, today's mobile devices integrate talented—and sometimes free—navigation apps, but not everyone wants to use a phone or a huge tablet for driving directions. With a standalone GPS, you can just leave it in the car and forget about it, until, of course, you're lost in an unfamiliar place."

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The 35 Best Tips and Tricks for Maintaining Your Windows PC - How-To Geek

The 35 Best Tips and Tricks for Maintaining Your Windows PC - How-To Geek: "When working (or playing) on your computer, you probably don’t think much about how you are going to clean up your files, backup your data, keep your system virus free, etc. However, these are tasks that need attention."

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Google launches its first Chrome OS-based desktop - the Chromebox

Google launches its first Chrome OS-based desktop - the Chromebox: "Google and Samsung have expanded the Chrome OS family of devices with the introduction of the first desktop computer based on Google's cloud-based OS. The Chromebox features the same cloud-centric focus of previous Chromebooks, but in a compact desktop configuration – meaning you'll need to provide your own mouse, keyboard, and monitor."

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Sony releases world's first 4K home theater projector

Sony releases world's first 4K home theater projector: "While 1080p has barely had time to establish itself as the standard for high definition video in the home, its replacement is already making its presence felt. Panasonic provided a glimpse of our ultra high resolution future with its 152-inch 4K resolution plasma TV at CES in 2010, but now Sony has become the first company to release a 4K home cinema projector that offers four times the resolution of existing 1080p displays."

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