Kindle for Mac now available on the Mac App Store
Amazon has published a Kindle app in the new Mac App Store, thus adding a new reading platform for all your Kindle titles: your own Mac.
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New version of Google Goggles solves sudoku puzzles
Google has announced the release of a new version of one of their most innovative mobile apps, Goggles. The new Google Goggles 1.3 is now smarter than ever: it can not only read barcodes faster, but also recognize print ads on popular U.S. magazines and newspapers, and even help you solve sudoku puzzles.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Facebook
Being a sucker for keyboard shortcuts, I was surprised to read on The How-To Geek that Facebook has its own set of keyboard combinations – and I didn’t know about them!
How to: make your WP blog iPhone friendly
As one of my New Year’s Resolutions, I’ve recently created a WordPress-based website to get more familiar with this awesome blogging platform and try out themes, plug-ins and other goodies.
How to: Create a calendar for 2011
Last Christmas I wrote a tutorial on how to create calendars for 2010 with Calme. This year I wanted to follow that tradition, but using a different program – so here’s a tutorial that will teach you how to create a custom 2011 calendar with Photo Calendar Maker.
LastPass acquires syncing service Xmarks
Xmarks, the bookmark syncing service that announced a permanent shutdown in January 2011, has been saved in the last minute. The popular syncing tool has been acquired by LastPass, as announced on its official blog. LastPass, in case you don’t know, are the developers of a powerful cross-platform password manager.
Five essential apps for the iPad
So you got an iPad for Christmas? Congratulations! It’s really a state-of-the-art gadget, wonderfully designed and with lots of apps available to customize it. Talking about apps, this may be the first question that pops into your head when you start using your iPad: which apps should I download? There are literally thousands of them on the App Store, so let us recommend just five – the five essential apps you should install on your brand-new iPad.
More Christmas sales on the App Store
There are many good things about the Holiday Season, and one of them is the amount of sales and special offers you find on the App Store these days – from paid apps being considerably cheaper, to top games available for free for 24 hours.
Google helps you with family tech support
Christmas is the time when many of us go back home – an opportunity relatives usually make use of to invite us over to have coffee… and fix those computer problems that have been dragging on for months. If you want to save yourself the pain of being the family’s official tech support during this Holiday Season, take a look at Teach Parents Tech.
How to: Backup your Tumblr
After the massive outage sufferered by Tumblr at the beginning of December, many Tumblr users began looking for backup solutions for their blogs. Unlike other similar services like WordPress or Blogger, Tumblr doesn’t have an built-in exporting or backing up feature yet. This means that if you want to have your posts backed up in case of another 2-day long outage, you need to look somewhere else.
6 alternatives to Delicious
I learnt about it on Twitter, yesterday evening: Yahoo! is shutting down Delicious (formerly known as del.icio.us). I never was a heavy user of this online bookmarking tool, but I was surprised to see a service that has been around for more than 7 years go down so suddenly. Delicious will always be remembered as the first service to use the term ‘social bookmarking’, and one of the first ones featuring tags to organize bookmarks.
How to: Create a custom template for your Facebook profile
With the new profile design rolled out by Facebook a few weeks ago, pictures have become specially relevant. The top image bar that displays thumbnails for the images you’re tagged in can be easily tweaked to match your main profile picture and create a more original Facebook profile.