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DIY-IT Project Guide
The DIY-IT Project Guide is the comprehensive guide to all our DIY-IT projects, from the DIY video studio to super-slick Google Voice hacks to small business tips, plus a lot more. If you’re working on a DIY project of your own, this is a good place to start.
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Did you know you can use Palm Desktop with your Android phone?
This $49 piece of software provides a sync conduit (remember conduits?) from your copy of Palm Desktop to your Android phone.
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Taking Google Voice to the extreme with Ooma
After a year with Google Voice and about three months with the Ooma solution working smoothly, I’ve finally stopped hearing complaints about our phones.
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The HDMI cable ripoff and why retail is really dying
Would you spend $100 for something when you can get it for $10? Of course not. What about $500, when you can get it for $2.50? No way. But chain retailers think you will.
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8 things Microsoft needs to do to save Windows 8
The real world runs on real computers doing real work and those computers run Windows. Microsoft needs to remember that as they introduce Windows 8 to the real world.
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A quick-and-dirty way to speed up Firefox (a lot)
Browsing speed will improve from intolerable to moderately tolerable. And that’s about all you can ask from Firefox these days.
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Five ways companies use social media and look like jerks
Let’s take a look at five ways companies use social media and end up making themselves look like complete and utter fools.
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Dear Google: we need a quality reverse phone number lookup for Google Voice
Since Google is the oracle of all information, it seems strange that it can’t tell you who owns a given phone number.
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We’ve come a long way, baby: the iPhone 4 vs. the IBM PC (Infographic)
Check out this amazing infographic. You’ll be astonished and amazed. You’ll laugh and you’ll chuckle. You’ll tell all your friends. Look how far computing has come.
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The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is a little … odd
While it’s nice to be able to “borrow” books on the Kindle, our impressions are that the service is a little early for prime time, and — frankly — a little odd.
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How to decide: should you buy a new iPad or a Kindle Fire?
With all the buzz these days about tablets, it turns out some folks are still trying to understand which device to buy. This article will help you decide.