Category: Web
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Becoming a daring beer explorer with BrewGene for iOS and Android
Have you ever felt overwhelmed at a liquor store when you’re faced with literally an entire wall of beer? On one hand, you can grab the old standby you’ve grabbed 100 times before and know you’ll like it. But on the other, there are 20 or 30 other kinds you have yet to try that…
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GIVEAWAY: Win a $25 Rdio Gift Card
If you’re an avid Rdio user or are considering jumping ship from another music streaming service, you just might be pleased to know that we have a $25 Rdio gift card with your name on it (if you’re the lucky winner, that is). The $25 gift card is yours to use however you see fit…
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Simplify list making and note taking with WorkFlowy
There’s another free productivity tool that harnesses the power of simplicity. WorkFlowy is probably the simplest, most powerful web app you will find. Basically it’s a list maker that can be used as a task organizer and project management tool. To use it, just start typing. Automatically you’re creating a bullet point. Press “return” and you…
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QR Codes for Smartphone Users: An Introductory Lesson
Over the last 3 years, Quick Response (QR) codes have gained popularity. These two-dimensional horizontal and vertical data storage codes have begun to attract use by web developers, marketers, and major corporations to boost their business. The QR coding system has opened a new smartphone market for content creators who can use them to interact…
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“Focus on the User” inserts competing social network links into Google search results
When Google launched “Search Plus Your World” (SPYW) it took a big step toward becoming the company that everyone loves to hate. By integrating search results from the Google+ network into your regular search, plenty of people cried foul. And not just the ones working for Twitter and Facebook. By excluding results from other social…
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How to create, format and self-publish your own eBook
When Apple rolled out iBooks 2, it also released a tool to create interactive ebooks called iBook Author. It’s free and supposed to be easy to use. The catch is that you can only use it to sell books via Apple’s iBooks store, although you can use it to create ebooks that you can distribute…
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HTML5 and the Future of Mobile Apps and Gaming
HTML5 will change the way we view mobile apps, and will change the way we think about how software has to be viewed on a mobile device. It will even change the way we view desktop applications. HTML5 is the biggest game changer since Apple’s App Store. But if what I am saying is right,…