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Like most iPhone users, I’ve struggled to find the right settings to keep my battery from dying halfway through the day. Recently, my phone was dying and I had no way to charge it. Per the much-repeated suggestions, I turned off Bluetooth, Wi-Fi (since there […]
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Run iOS Apps in Android? Meet Cider, an operating system compatibility architecture that allows users to run iOS apps on Android devices. The Cider architecture has been developed by computer science students at Columbia University. The project essentially makes iOS apps compatible with Android, regardless
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It is no secret that I love gadgets. My first gadget was a Palm Pilot that my husband, Richard, gave to me as part of my 20th anniversary present. At first, I was taken aback, figuring what in the heck was I going to do
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Microsoft Completes Nokia Acquisition Microsoft has completed its acquisition of the Devices and Services division of longtime Windows Phone advocate, Nokia. Stephen Elop, who served as Nokia’s president and CEO, will be reporting directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as executive VP of Microsoft’s Devices Group. In his new role,
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Apple rolled out an update to its mobile OS, iOS 7.1.1. Included in the update are: In the App Store app, disclosure when an app offers in-app purchases. For apps that offer them, ‘In-App Purchases’ is displayed under the price box in Top Charts
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Apple’s Operating Systems Heartbleed Free The HeartBleed bug affects the encryption technology designed to protect email, instant messaging and e-commerce related to online accounts. The problem affects only the version of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) known as OpenSSL. Unfortunately, this happens to be
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Microsoft’s Office for iPad Wildly Successful Microsoft’s Office for iPad has had more than 12 million downloads in the week since its release. Each of the apps —Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — are free but require an Office 365 subscription to be able to
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Announcements regarding Microsoft’s future direction have been emanating from the Build 21014 conference at a prolific rate. Facts can sometimes get blurred and rumors abound, but here are the three top stories which appear to be valid: Windows to be Free for Devices with Screens
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Facebook Getting Into Virtual Reality After recently purchasing Whatsapp, Facebook bought a virtual reality company, Oculus VR, this week for $2 billion in stock and cash. Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for Oculus include having it provide “completely new kinds of experiences”, of which gaming will obviously be
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New Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, announced that Microsoft Office apps are now available for iPads. Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint are available for free in the App Store. In order to create and edit documents, however, customers will need subscribe to Office 365. Eligible subscriptions
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What Was Your First Tweet? Twitter celebrated the eighth anniversary of the first Twitter message this week by providing a tool to look up your first tweet. If you are on Twitter, you can look up your first tweet (or anyone else’s) with this
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Warning, rant follows!! If your household is anything like mine, you have numerous devices which either require connecting to the PC occasionally or charging regularly, and each device’s cable comes with a different connection on one end or different power adapter. For example; in our
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This week, Apple released iOS 7.1, the latest version of its mobile operating system. While this is not a major release, it is more than just the usual bug fixes, hence 7.1 instead of 7.0.7. So exactly what is in iOS 7.1? The most significant
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Samsung Rolls Out Milk Music Samsung is now offering a free radio-streaming service in the U.S. The service, Milk Music, combines content from Slacker Radio with exclusive music deals from artists. Milk Music joins the somewhat crowded music streaming field along with Pandora, Spotify
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