Review: Musique is the simple and beautiful music player you've always dreamed of | PCWorld

Review: Musique is the simple and beautiful music player you've always dreamed of | PCWorld: "When listening to music on your computer, you can go several different ways. The first is to use a huge, well-known music player such as iTunes or Windows Media Player; the second is to opt for streaming using Spotify, Pandora, Last.fm, and others; and the third is to go for a smaller, lesser-known player that suits your exact needs. Musique (€8.99/$12 after 20-day free trial; Linux, Mac, and PC) is just such a player, and one that is definitely worth your attention."

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Why Using a Registry Cleaner Won’t Speed Up Your PC or Fix Crashes

Why Using a Registry Cleaner Won’t Speed Up Your PC or Fix Crashes: "We’ve said it again and again: Registry cleaners don’t speed up your PC. At best, they’re a waste of time — and often money. At worst, they can cause problems by removing registry entries they shouldn’t."

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Forget The Gimmicks: Here’s the Best Way to Organize Your Gmail Inbox

Forget The Gimmicks: Here’s the Best Way to Organize Your Gmail Inbox: "Email inbox gimmicks keep popping up. First Google introduced Priority Inbox, and now it’s using category tabs. Dropbox purchased Mailbox, which turns your inbox into more of a to-do-list. Microsoft’s Outlook.com has a Sweep feature that automatically cleans your inbox."

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Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 is bigger, faster, thinner, and lighter, but is it any better? | The Verge

Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 is bigger, faster, thinner, and lighter, but is it any better? | The Verge: "Samsung's made an annual tradition of introducing a new Galaxy Note at Berlin's IFA trade show and this year's no different. The Galaxy Note 3 sticks close to the winning formula: it enlarges the Super AMOLED display of the Note II to 5.7 inches, adds a bombastic 3GB of RAM and a 2.3GHz quad-core processor, raises the camera resolution to 13 megapixels, and simultaneously trims the fat so it can be a millimeter thinner at 8.3mm and a shade lighter at 168g. Those incremental upgrades all point to a better device, but only marginally so — Samsung's hopes for attracting new buyers to its Note platform rest on a suite of new stylus-friendly software features and a physical redesign aimed at making the Note 3 look that extra bit more glamorous."

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Pocket : HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11z review: An entry-level laptop that doesn't feel cheap

Pocket : HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11z review: An entry-level laptop that doesn't feel cheap: "For a long while, one of our favorite laptops was the HP dm1z, a now-defunct ultraportable that proved you can get decent performance and decent looks for under $500. Two years later, the spiritual successor to that very popular system (seriously, people around here still speak of it in reverential tones) is here, but does it offer the same stellar value?"

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Pocket : 8 Really Geeky But Creative Ways To Use QR Codes At Home

Pocket : 8 Really Geeky But Creative Ways To Use QR Codes At Home: "The plain-Jane QR code had a hi-tech beginning – Toyota used them in their manufacturing process for scanning automobile components. From there, QR codes have made the journey to even fashion ramps. That demonstrates their popularity, but not quite their usefulness. We need to give more examples. Tim gave a few when he talked about some great uses for QR codes. QR – Quick Response – codes have three noteworthy features. QR codes transport URLs very well. You can make them yourself easily, and you can read them just as easily with the many barcode scanning apps available for smartphones (e.g. Barcode Scanner for Android)."

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Pocket : How to Install Microsoft Office on Linux

Pocket : How to Install Microsoft Office on Linux: "Linux users can use LibreOffice, Google Docs, and even Microsoft’s Office Web Apps, but some people still need — or just want — the desktop version of Microsoft Office. Luckily, there are ways to run Microsoft Office on Linux."

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Pocket : 8 essential mobile apps for college students

Pocket : 8 essential mobile apps for college students: "These days a tablet or smartphone is as essential for college students as a backpack, a meal plan, and extra long twin sheets. But it’s not the hardware that’s so important—it’s the apps. Load up your mobile device with handy apps for taking notes, sharing files, recording lectures, managing your tasks, and (of course) reading books, and your road to the Dean’s list will be a little less bumpy."

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How to recover your lost or stolen phones, tablets, and other devices | How To - CNET

How to recover your lost or stolen phones, tablets, and other devices | How To - CNET: "Your camera is stolen. Drag an image you shot with the device into a Web page and a free service searches popular photo sites for other images taken with the camera. If the thief posted a picture taken with the camera to his or her personal account, he or she is busted."

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How to control your PC from your iPad for free | - CNET Reviews

How to control your PC from your iPad for free | - CNET Reviews: "Last week, the folks at Parallels unveiled Access, a remote-control utility for Windows and Mac that lets you access either of those desktop environments via an iPad app.
The program earned gushing coverage from the likes The New York Times and was reviewed favorably right here at CNET."

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