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    10 Best Paid Apps for Android Phones

    10 Best Paid Apps For Android Phones There are hundreds of thousands of free apps available for Android phones so with all the wonderful free apps that will never cost you a penny, why would you want to pay for an app? Because they’re worth it. I don’t purchase a lot of apps, but there…
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    Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich vs iOS 5

    I know I do a lot of comparisons of specific smartphones and many of them pit Apple’s latest iPhone to the latest and great Android phones on the market. While hardware specs, screen sizes, and resolution all do have an effect on the user experience, the biggest differences are in the operating systems themselves. So…
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    10 Coolest Android Apps For Showing Off What Your Phone Can Do

    It’s been a while since I’ve done a post on the best Android apps or must have Android apps. Today, I thought I’d change things up a little and do a post on apps that aren’t necessarily essential to any Android owner, but these are some of the coolest Android apps out there that really…
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    10 Best Android Apps – Top Free Apps For Your Phone

    10 Best Android Apps Updated 1/9/12 Since I did my last list of must have android apps, a lot has changed – we’ve gone from Android 2.0 to Android 4.0, the Android Market has gone from 70,000 or so Apps to over 400,000 so I thought it was time to make a new 10 best…
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    7 Best Apps for Rooted Android Phones

    There are thousands of great apps on the Android Market and it seems that if you think your phone should be able to do something, there’s already an app for that.

    Unfortunately, there are still a few apps that you can’t get on the market that will only work if you have a rooted phone. Here’s my list of 7 best apps for rooted Android phones.

Apr
13

New to Financial Planning? Check Out these Mobile Apps

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Responsible financial planning includes contributing to savings, retirement and money market accounts; preparing a will and obtaining life insurance. Each of these daunting tasks requires special financial knowledge that anyone can obtain. The trouble is that we never make time to learn that knowledge. The good news is that mobile phones make it easier than…
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Apr
12

How to Send SMS Text Messages From Your Computer

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It is a fact that as long as you have access to the Internet, you can easily send texts or SMS messages from your computer to other users on their phone. In some cases, you are not charged anything by the provider offering you these services. This is one of the benefits people are able…
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Apr
10

Google Announces Augmented Reality Glasses

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For years augmented reality has been a term being thrown about, and has created some real excitement. Now, it seems the term has gathered even more momentum, as Google announces it is planning and researching into launching its own augmented reality glasses in the near future. Project Glass, as the new Google project has been…
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Apr
09

Best Road Trip Apps For The iPhone and iPad

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The Apple iPad and iPhone have taken the consumer technology world by storm. Their capacitive touch screen interface, intuitive operating system and abundance of applications and accessories have made the previous generation of consumer products largely obsolete. One of the most exciting and practical uses of the new Apple products is entertainment on long car…
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Apr
02

6 Best iPhone Apps for Hikers

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There are thousands of useful apps for hikers, but before listing the best of them it’s worth taking a moment to think about what iPhones shouldn’t be used for. Navigation is high on the list, and mountain rescue services around the world are finding that inexperienced hikers trying to find their way with a phone…
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Mar
27

Three Parenting Tips for the Digital Age

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Three Parenting Tips for the Digital Age Parents need to take pervasive technology into consideration because it is now a part of our everyday lives and children are exposed to it immediately.  Sometimes parents are particularly instrumental in hooking their children up to the internet and technology without considering the impact it could have on…
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Feb
02

Is Texting Damaging our Grammar?

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If you consider little or no punctuation, mad house spelling, absolute lack of sentence construction, talking/writing in bottom-line-ese detrimental to our language, then the only answer to this question is a resounding yes! However, thankfully there remain those purveyors of our language who do covet a sensible communication. Even the latest technological devices used for…
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Jan
31

Which Android Apps Do You Need – 10 Essential Android Apps

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When you get your first Android phone, just learning how to use your phone can be quite the learning experience. Once you start trying to figure out which of the over 400,000 Android apps you actually need, well, let’s just say that can get overwhelming. Unfortunately, you’re also in a position where you can be…
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Jan
31

Top 5 Applications for Learning

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The digital revolution has made its way into teaching and learning, and students are discovering that smartphone and tablet apps are the latest learning tools. From reading to productivity, apps can help students stay on track and discover new ways to study.   E-Books Having an e-book at your fingertips gives you the opportunity to…
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Jan
25

LG Spectrum vs Samsung Galaxy Nexus – Android LTE Phone Showdown

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If 2011 was the year the LTE powered phone with the 4.3″ screen became common, 2012 might be the year of the HD display. First the Galaxy Nexus, then the LG Spectrum, and more Android phones with HD displays are on the way. In this post we’ll take a look at each phone and how…
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