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6 Options for Free Cloud Storage
Need a way to keep your files synced and accessible from pretty much any computer, including your mobile computing devices? Want to do it on the cheap? Here’s six options that can help you out:
20 Things I Learned from Lifehacker (this week…)
It never ceases to amaze me what you can learn online. From the interesting psychology reflected by the average user to the most basic of instructions for the tiniest task that may simply have eluded you, the worldwide web is that bit of tech that just keeps on giving. There are several places you [...]
Save Your Work or Just Your Sanity With Giggles
If you have a curious toddler — either your own or just a frequent visitor — then you know how much they truly enjoy pressing the buttons on your computer. Secretly, you are probably certain that the child is bent on pressing just the right combination of buttons at just the wrong time so that [...]
11 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Tech Geek, From $3 to $400
With the holidays just around the corner, the time has come to start scrambling for gift ideas. If you have a tech geek on your shopping list, you actually have it easier than most shoppers, for there are many gifts out there that will make a tech geek’s eyes light up. To help you [...]
How to Use Twitter Lists
Bobby Travis also author’s the Bluetoque Marketing Tips blog. This post is a first in a Twitter Series cross-venture with 40Tech and is featured on both sites.
Earlier this month, Twitter finally launched Twitter Lists, a groups feature that helps you to easily organize and share the people you follow (or are just interested in), [...]
7 Tips for a Smooth Upgrade From XP to Windows 7
Due to the crap that was the Vista operating system (at least without 4 GB of ram and a few tricks up your sleeve), many people have skipped the OS altogether and stuck with XP. Many of those same people, however, are excited to try out the much vaunted Windows 7 operating system, due [...]
Be a (HTC) Hero — Android-ilize your Windows Mobile Phone with PointSense
HTC has been knocking the socks off of the Windows Mobile universe for a while now with increasingly beautiful and functional UI (user interface) designs for their Windows Mobile phones. Now they have done it again with the release of the HTC Hero and the very spiffy Sense UI design. The only problem is, [...]
10 Pain-Reducing Steps to Take Before Upgrading to Windows 7
If Windows 7 presales are any indication, many of you will be upgrading from Windows XP or Vista in a few months. Many of you will likely choose the “clean install” route, completely wiping your hard drives and starting fresh. Although reformatting usually can make for a more solid installation, it can cause headaches [...]
Mmmm, Bacon. Protect Your Email Address, and the Addresses of Friends
This tip will be so unnecessary for many of you that I almost hesitate to write it. I am always amazed, though, at how freely some people give out their email addresses, and the email addresses of others. My wife knows that this is a pet peeve of mine. When I see an item [...]
7 steps to using a non-U3 portable app on a U3 flash drive
If you’re using someone else’s computer and an application that you need or want isn’t available, you are in luck if you have a portable version of the application on your flash drive. SanDisk is a flash drive manufacturer that installs its own proprietary software launcher, U3, on flash drives. Some portable applications are [...]
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