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Pollux for iTunes

Pollux for iTunes will help you to stop worrying about organizing your music library again ✹ Completely automatic and easy to use ✹ Tags name, artist, album, album art, genre, year, and lyrics ✹...

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Acknowledgment when sending SMS with an iPhone

To do this here is a little tutorial to guide you there 2 methods, I suggest the easiest (note it seems that in some cases, not mine in any case, the notification SMS from unknown then put you the...

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Fonera 2.0n: How to upgrade to latest DEV firmware

I have been enquiring in the fonera forums on how to install the latest release candidate in my fon 2.0 as wifi for the iphone in the current version is unusable and in the 2.3.5.0 the drivers have...

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Brainstorming online tools

I have blogged in the past about prezi, and I think is one of the coolest presentation tools out there. I would like to share a couple of other brainstorming tools that might be useful for your...

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Paste without formatting by default on a mac

Here’s something I know affects plenty of users out there. Have you ever pasted text in a document or email message, only to have it formatted differently than all the text around it? Irritating,...

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iTunes alternative for android… and the rest

doubleTwist is a iTunes clone to sync your android, palm pre, blackberry or in fact up to more than a hundred devices. It looks like iTunes, and you can buy music directly from amazon. If you have a...

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10 Fantastic Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube

Photoshop has been a mainstay of the design software pantheon for over 20 years, and it remains a great tool for pro artists and social media customizers alike. But the sophisticated image editor has a...

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Mac latest update of the timemachine

I updated my mac and one of the new updates was the timemachine. I am running my time machine backing up in a Samba server (linux machine). This new update is deletes your old time machine in order to...

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Manage your tasks (ToDos)

How do you manage your tasks? This is how I manage mine: I use google apps (you could use gmail tasks) and I use the tasks there. You can create a calendar with the tasks with due date. In my iPhone I...

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How I do organize my ToDos or task lists

I have read extensively about how to organise yourself. One of my favourite authors for this is David Allen and his “Getting Things Done” book and now philosophy. It does not fit my needs 100% but you...

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Products I can’t live without

Here a quick list of the products I can’t live without: Gadgets: Macbook pro iPhone 3GS (as soon as the 4G is out… then … ;-) ) Nikon d300 with nikkor 18-200 and  sigma 10-20 (I wish it was a nikon d3s...

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2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address

I recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address that can give you greater control over your inbox and save you some time and headache. When you choose a Gmail address, you...

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How To Use Google Wave for Live Blogging

This an article you can find at ReadWriteWeb. They had been Live Blogging during Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook privacy press conference. They decided to put this theory into practice and live blogged the...

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Google alerts

Google has a service you might never have heard of: Google Alerts. Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds new results — such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs — that match your...

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Task Management in the Cloud

I just finished reading the 37signals book reWork. It is a very interesting book that I recommend. Remember The Milk If you are one of these guys living in the cloud, using google docs, or zoho, online...

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Annotate web sites and pdf. Keep organized.

Nowadays we spend more time surfing the Internet than sleeping. Some of us work hooked in a browser, searching for information and managing it, and believe me, to keep track of relevant information is...

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Mac OSX 10.6.4 is out

Mac OS X 10.6.4 is out and with it, Mail 4.3 which breaks GrowlMail, Letterbox, Letter Opener and DockStar. All but DockStar fixed though. To fix Growl Download a pre-patched GrowlMail.bundle and drop...

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How to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS with iOS4

Well, two days ago iOS4 was out. Two days later dev-team has released Pwnage Tool 4.01 to jailbrake your iPhone 3GS. First make sure that: If you have a Jailbroken iPhone 3GS with the OLD BOOTROM and...

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My iPhone 3GS runs iOS4

Two days ago I upgraded to iOS4 (jailbreak) and I am a happy man. The best: Folders: I used to have 7 or 8 screens, now I have only 1. All inboxes in 1: I keep my inboxes to zero messages. I love to...

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Wiki with all pay as you Go plans around the world

Going out on a trip? Would you like to have a web with all the prepaid phone plans around the word, which, by the way, you can contribute to? It is there, in a wikimedia way: Pay as you Go

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Online free converter for video, audio, images and documents

If you’re looking for a one-stop web-based tool for converting media from one format to another Online-Convert supports dozens of conversions including obscure formats often overlooked by other...

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12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here. Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector...

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Some tips to manage email

Are you drowning in your inbox? I try to keep keep all my inboxes to zero. Whatever I have in my inbox requires action. Once the action is taken, and action could be just answer quickly, then I archive...

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Dear Diary. Ohlife give you a free online diary in an innovative way

When I was a kid I used to write a diary. I had tons of pages. Ohlife is a free online diary, compleatly private. They even log you off from the site often, which is good. So, what is what makes ohlife...

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Mac tip: Save PDF to Web Receipt folder

This is a small tip that can be helpful for those buying stuff via internet. When you are done with the transaction and you have the receipt on the screen, what do you normally do? Well in most cases...

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Build Project Management Gantt charts with Gantto

Anybody who’s ever managed a project, whether online or off, knows how invaluable a Gantt chart can be. For project managers looking for a Web-based alternative to the industry standard Microsoft...

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International Taxi Fare Calculator

Do you travel often? I do, and I always wonder how much is going to cost me the taxi from the airport to the hotel, always afraid if I would have the right amount or if the taxi is going to try to...

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Windows 7 Keyboard shortcuts

This article is taken from the Windows 7 official page. How to be fast in windows 7 by using the keyboard shortcuts. Keep reading… You can also create new keyboard shortcuts to open programs. For more...

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Do you hate conversation threads in Gmail? You can switch them off now

Many of us have hated for ever that all the emails are clustered in conversations, and it is true that after a while you get use to it and in fact you see that it is good to bring back to focus a...

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Print from your mobile using Dropbox

Wirelessly Print Anything from Anywhere, Anytime While mobile phones have become a lot more capable in the past few years, the connection between the printer and your phone is still very weak. For...

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Travel tips for blogging

Those of you who know me, know that I love traveling and that I am a technofreak. I would like to share with you some tips in order to have a great trip diary, using the latest techonologies. Checklist...

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11 Tricks to Cutting Travel Costs in 2011

BARGAIN hunters will need to be craftier when booking a trip if they want to get the best prices this year. It’s no secret that airfares are up and added fees for everything from checked bags to...

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snow tyres for your bicycle

Do you have snow where you live? Would you like to use your bicycle but it is too slippery? Well, here you have a DIY tip: SNOWPOCALYPSE! No matter how much we swear we’ve learned our lessons, Seattle...

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domai.nr

Most of the domain names are already taken. For the .com .net and .org, the first ones to appear, any combination of 6 or less characters is nearly gone… so you either buy in the resell market or you...

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Chrome tip

Accidentally closed a chome tab? Reopen your last tab with Ctrl+Shift+T (PC/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+T (Mac).

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Win and Mac

ACCENTED VOWELS Á (Aacute) — shift-opt-y (Mac) — alt-0193 (PC) — & Aacute; (html) À (Agrave) — opt-` + A (Mac) — alt-0192 (PC) — & Agrave; (html) Â (Acircumflex) — shift-opt-m (Mac) — alt-0194...

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iPhoto duplicates

Since I have my iPhone 4 I have noticed that iPhoto sometimes imports things twice from my iPhone, so I end up with some duplicates. I don’t know if this is due to the fact that I have tons of photos...

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Google Search Chrome tips

If you have made the switch to Google Chrome, as I did long time ago, then this tips are is going to save you some time: Did you close by mistake a tab? Click Command+Shift +T and there you have it...

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Lanyrd Keeps Your Conference Life On Track, Via Twitter

Lanyrd,  via Twitter, track event sessions and keep up with favorite speakers — at all stages in the conference lifecycle. Some newlywed couples work to produce an offspring on their honeymoon. Most...

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Room 77

This website offers you a very cool service (in the US so far). Room 77 is a site (and iPhone app) that helps you choose the right room in a hotel. Normally you go online and book a room, and in the...

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280 daily diary

280daily is quite possibly the future of consistent journaling and the easiest way to create a searchable archive of your life. Secure, completely private, encrypted and safe. How could you put...

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How To Embed Practically Anything On Your Blog or Website

If you want the hands-down, easiest way to embed practically anything on your blog or website, have we got a tool for you! The nature of the web is such that sharing and republishing content is common...

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Mini Stove

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Travel tips: who needs hotels anymore?

Traditionally when we go on holidays, we used to go to a travel agency where they could either help us build a trip with their limited options, or sell us a package (something still interesting). Now...

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Remote desktop made easy

We’ve heard about tons of solutions to share the desktop. From commercial solutions such as gotomypc to share the screen using skype. In a recent long term consultancy I had to give training to users...

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Peer to Peer banking

If you are tired of the high interests of borrowing money or if you are not happy with the return on your investments or savings accounts then you should consider borrowing money directly to people...

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Cost of going full frame full equipped: nikon vs canon

Thinking about going full frame (FX)? If you are a DX (not full frame) user, probably you have to start from scratch as probably most of your lenses would not work in a full frame camera. This is the...

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Photo tips

I had to prepare a brochure on photo tips for my current client. The idea is that anyone leaving on mission would take one of the organization’s cameras and take photos. This brochure should help them...

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WordPress problems?

One of the most amazing features of WordPress self hosted is the automatic updates of plugins and core with a single click. On the last update, all of a sudden when accessing the admin back end, I got...

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