Dropbox is on online storage service that lets you synchronize files between computers and access them on the go on mobile devices. Most users get 2GB of free space to start, but you can get up to 18GB through bonuses from referring friends, or even more space if you pay for it. But there’s another way to get more space…
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Microsoft has spent a lot of time over the last few months showing off the new Metro user interface for Windows 8. This is a full screen UI designed for apps that are “chromeless,” meaning there are no title bars, borders, or other items surrounding them. They take up the full screen and look great on tablets, all-in-one PCs, and…
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Miro is a cross-platform media player for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. It started out its life as Democracy Player, an app aimed at helping users organize and view video podcasts. But over the past few years it’s grown into a pretty capable audio and video player with support for local and online media playback. It also features integration with…
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GIMP is an open source, powerful image editing application that’s often compared with Adobe Photoshop — although long-time Photoshop users may find GIMP to be less user friendly and less capable in some ways. But for basic image editing tasks (which about all I’m capable of performing), GIMP pretty much blows away the competition. And if you know what you’re…
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Mozilla Firefox is taking another page out of the Google Chrome handbook. Not only does Mozilla’s web browser now include tabs at the top of the screen and a rapid release schedule. It also installs updates in the background without asking you to do anything — assuming you’re running Windows. Firefox 12 hit the streets today, and like the past…
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Google has rolled out an updated version of its Chrome web browser which lets you access a list of currently open browser tabs on any device. In other words, you can surf the web while eating breakfast at home, and when you get to work you can fire up your web browser and see a list of all the web…
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BlueStacks is a utility that lets you run a number of Android apps on a Windows PC. You don’t need to reboot your PC or exit Windows at all — Windows apps and Android apps can run side-by-side. Out of the box, BlueStacks allows you to copy applications from your phone to your PC or you can download some apps…
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Amazon is rolling out a software update for the Kindle Fire. Software version 6.3 includes a number of new features and improvements. It’s mostly good news, but as usual, if you have a rooted Kindle Fire the over-the-air update will remove your root access unless you’ve installed a custom ROM or taken other action to block updates. Update: Now you…
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BlueStacks makes software that allows you to run Android applications on a Windows PC without rebooting your computer or switching operating systems. Last year the company launched a public alpha of its software, and today BlueStacks went beta. The latest version of BlueStacks adds support for apps it couldn’t previously run including Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds. BlueStacks also now…
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There are more than a dozen great video players available for Google Android, but most are designed for smartphones. Sure, you can use them on tablets, but few actually take advantage of the extra screen space to show you cover art or video details. And then there’s mVideoPlayer HD. It might not be the most versatile video player for Android…
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One of the key features of Windows 8 is the new Start Screen which provides nice big shortcuts to your apps, settings, and other features using the new Windows Metro user interface. But it’s not just reserved for apps installed on your computer. You can also add shortcuts to web apps. The folks at Chrome Story noticed that it’s easy…
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Google has released a new tool that lets you send any web page you’re reading on a PC with the Chrome web browser to a mobile device running the new Chrome browser for Android 4.0. It’s called Chrome to Mobile Beta, and it has a few advantages over the older Chrome to Phone tool. Like Chrome to Phone, you can…
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