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  • Mobile Weight Loss Technology – Latest Fitness Apps

    Mobile Weight Loss Technology – Latest Fitness Apps

    Have you ever tried to keep healthy by exercising often and changing your diet by yourself? Many men and women have tried and have left midway feeling demoralized, not knowing if what they were doing, really worked at all.

    Not everyone has the time or money to go all the way to the gym and hire a professional trainer who will suggest a proper and effective workout and diet.

    Fortunately for us, third party developers are now making health-related apps that are available on our mobile devices. Choosing these new apps is a new option for weight loss and staying fit. There are three noteworthy apps that have caught the public’s attention.

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  • Microsoft Partners With Barnes & Noble

    Microsoft Partners With Barnes & Noble

    Both Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced a strategic partnerships in a new subsidiary of Barnes & Noble called Newco. If you own a Nook, Barnes & Noble’s e-reader, or an e-reader in general, then this partnership may interest you. This partnership is looking to accelerate the transition from print media to e-readers, especially for Windows users.

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  • A Guide to Traveling Abroad With Your Mobile Device

    A Guide to Traveling Abroad With Your Mobile Device

    When traveling abroad with your mobile device there is so much to do and organise before you jet off on holiday. Have you remembered the passports? Travel insurance? Checked your phone is enabled for international roaming? No? Oh dear.

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  • 6 Tips to Increase Your Productivity Using Siri

    6 Tips to Increase Your Productivity Using Siri

    One of the features that Apple fans love about the new iPhone 4S is Siri. Siri is the voice-activated personal assistant that comes with the new iPhone 4S. Siri uses the technology of artificial intelligence to take voice commands and then simulates the commands to find the best possible way to execute it. With Siri, you will be able to set calendar appointment, send email or text message, search the Internet, use location-based services and more all with just a simple voice command.

    Siri does extend the functionality of your phone and it helps to make iPhone users’ life very convenient. But to be able to maximize the full feature and increase your productivity using Siri has to offer, here are some tips.

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  • 5 Free Video Editors

    5 Free Video Editors

    Movies have been a long time favorite pastime for millions of people. With the launch of YouTube many amateur filmmakers have popped up and uploaded their most recent films. Along with independent films gaining a cult following, amateur film creators are contributing their visions to the movie viewing community.

    If you are one of these filmmakers, a YouTube video creator, or even just like editing video files in your spare time, you need good software that is easy to use and cheap. There is no better price than free and there is plenty of free easy to use video editing software available. Here are just a few.

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  • How Social Networking Becomes Easier with iPhone Apps

    How Social Networking Becomes Easier with iPhone Apps

    The most common social networking sites are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Orkut. These sites have become a part of daily life mainly for the present generation, where youngsters to business tycoons make sure they update their status every minute a day. The advantages of social networking sites include, it holds instant messaging services, you can connect with new and old friends, post blogs, share pictures, email, send greetings, and you can text short messages directly to your friend mobile phones. The networking sites play a great role to connect with new friends and consumers.

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  • Mercalli Easy Video Stabilizer Review

    Mercalli Easy Video Stabilizer Review

    Mercalli Easy Video Stabilizer is an application that I hadn’t heard about until recently when I was asked to have a look at the software. While I have done video editing in the past, I haven’t actually tried to stabilize any of my videos – at least the videos that aren’t shot using a tripod.

    From experiences with video editing applications in the past, I know that many of such applications can be complex and at times they could have a fairly steep learning curve. I wasn’t sure what to expect from Mercalli Easy Video Stabilizer in terms of difficult the software would be to use, or how well it would perform. With that in mind I downloaded, installed, and launched the application.

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  • Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 Review

    Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 Review

    While I have always been an advocate for using free anti-virus, I decide to give Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 a try. I have had bad experiences with paid, large security software that included an anti-virus, anti-spyware, and software firewall in the past, so I installed Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 onto my computer with great trepidation.

    I have seen good reviews for Bitdefender in the past, so I was curious at how the security software would perform compared to not only free products that I have used, but also those larger paid security packages. Perhaps Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 can finally bring me over to the pay-for-security-software group that I have avoided for the past 10 years or so.

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