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How to install mobile web apps on your phone

Related: Where can I get a good QR code scanner app? Mobile web apps are never downloaded from an app store but are accessed via the smartphone’s browser. The installation process for the app involves...

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Three Things You Must Have to Use Google’s Project Fi

Project Fi is Google’s new offering in the wireless space. The service provides unlimited talk and text from any device for $20/month, along with data at $10/GB. It has a ton of interesting features...

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Think Creatively with These Apps (video)

Need a creative boost, or just something to jog your thinking? These apps, reviewed by Kit Eaton of the New York Times, may do the trick!

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Mobile ad blockers and why they matter

Recommended for you: Google Apps, The Missing Manual Will it ever load? Photo by: Jasondenys It’s the performance, stupid! The vast expansion of mobile computing has actually taken users “back to the...

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Cognitive Ergonomics, anyone? Why we load apps and then ignore them

By: langfordw Annie Murphy Paul recently posted about the way that we design things in the physical world to promote efficiency and productivity, like an ergonomic chair, for example. But when we...

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Screen Rotation No 180 on iPhone 6

By: katrien berckmoes If you are like me, sometimes I get better cell reception when I invert my iPhone to fully engage with the Verizon network. Unfortunately, a lot of apps don’t like it when I turn...

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Wi-Fi-First Phones Are a Good Bet (and so is wi-fi backup calling)

Photo by: Chris Oakley On a call with Verizon I mentioned that my service at the house wasn’t great, often just a single bar of service. Often people tell me they missed the last thing I said. A bit...

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Apps For Securing Your Financial Future

Digit Do you “live” on your phone? If so, you can take advantage of a new set of apps devoted to squirreling away money like little acorns while you go about your daily business. Because your phone...

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New Tools to Combat Hackers Who Take Over Your Computer

Photo by: James Case I hope that no one you know, yourself included, has been afflicted with “ransomware,” that scourge of the internet wherein bad guys in some other country (Eastern Europe comes to...

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How to find your list of skills you enabled on Alexa for Echo

Simply Googling this question didn’t really help me very much, so here is the answer I discovered by trial and error. Get logged into Amazon on your laptop and navigate your browser to alexa.amazon.com...

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