Coming soon to a Google Play store near you: More tablet apps | TechHive

Coming soon to a Google Play store near you: More tablet apps | TechHive: "Yesterday's Twitter for Android tablet update reminded us that there actually aren't that many tablet apps available in the Google Play store. Those that do exist are buried under other categories, and even then there is no way to differentiate between which apps are actually tablet optimized and which are meant for your phone."

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How to Use Windows’ Advanced Search Features: Everything You Need to Know

How to Use Windows’ Advanced Search Features: Everything You Need to Know: "You should never have to hunt down a lost file on modern versions of Windows — just perform a quick search. You don’t even have to wait for a cartoon dog to find your files, like on Windows XP.

The Windows search indexer is constantly running in the background to make quick local searches possible. This enables the kind of powerful search features you’d use on Google or Bing — but for your local files."

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10 Windows Tweaking Myths Debunked

10 Windows Tweaking Myths Debunked: "Windows is big, complicated, and misunderstood. You’ll still stumble across bad advice from time to time when browsing the web. These Windows tweaking, performance, and system maintenance tips are mostly just useless, but some are actively harmful."

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How To Create A Windows 8 Recovery Disk

How To Create A Windows 8 Recovery Disk: "The days of reinstalling Windows whenever your PC runs into trouble are long since gone. All you need to fix Windows 8 is a recovery disk, either on CD/DVD, USB drive or an external hard disk drive."

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Windows Update: Everything You Need To Know

Windows Update: Everything You Need To Know: "Is Windows Update enabled on your PC? If you don’t know the answer to that, you should — Windows Update keeps Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office up-to-date with the latest security patches and bug fixes, ensuring your computer is as secure as possible. However, Windows Update can also cause problems — particularly by nagging you to reboot when you’re trying to use your computer and automatically restarting your computer overnight."

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5 Other Video Sites Like YouTube - Slideshow from PCMag.com

5 Other Video Sites Like YouTube - Slideshow from PCMag.com: "It has more than one billion unique monthly visitors, who collectively upload 100 hours of video every minute and watch more than six billion hours of video each month—nearly one hour for every person on the planet."

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21 Inspirational Natural Light Portraits - dPS

21 Inspirational Natural Light Portraits - dPS: "One of the most effective pieces of lighting gear ever invented is available to almost every photographer in the world… unless you’re living in a cave (and even then you might have one)."

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10 Windows Tweaking Myths Debunked

10 Windows Tweaking Myths Debunked: "Windows is big, complicated, and misunderstood. You’ll still stumble across bad advice from time to time when browsing the web. These Windows tweaking, performance, and system maintenance tips are mostly just useless, but some are actively harmful."

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Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works - Liz Gannes - Enterprise - AllThingsD

Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works - Liz Gannes - Enterprise - AllThingsD: "It was the former Google employee’s first day out in the real world. He removed the enterprise security settings from his iPhone, and installed the apps he wasn’t allowed to use at the mothership: Dropbox for storage, Fantastical for his mobile calendar. Back at Google, he had tried using both, and had his account authorization wiped remotely, with an accompanying nastygram from company security operations in his inbox."

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Pocket : Tablets Compared: Why You Shouldn’t Spend Money on Cheap Chinese Android Imports

Pocket : Tablets Compared: Why You Shouldn’t Spend Money on Cheap Chinese Android Imports: "Many of the tablets sold in Asia, particularly China and Southeast Asia, suffer from serious design and quality-control issues. On the other hand, some China-designed tablets actually compare quite well with well-known manufacturers. For example, the popular Hyundai (not Hyundai of Korea) T7 tablet pound-per-pound, beats the first generation Nexus 7 in specifications and in price. However, do the best tablets from China compare to the latest tablet, such as the 2013 Nexus 7 in terms of value?"

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