June 2011 archive

Use Google Docs on Your Android Device

Google Docs Document List

Here’s a quick tip for Android users out there. This slipped under my radar but last month Google released an Android app to use with its Google Docs service. The layout is fairly simple and you can get at your documents with a simple tap or you can get at your starred documents in a …

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Google Music – An Unexpected Invitation

Google Music Invitation

After I criticised Google for making it difficult for us folks outside of the USA to get into the beta of its new music streaming service I received an invitation to join the Google Music beta. I had also tried the client software on my phone which didn’t go very far even when I was …

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Why an Official Facebook App for iPad is Nearly Useless

Over the last few days there have been murmurs of an official Facebook app for the iPad which has been noticeably absent given high expectations when the iPad was launched last year. As time wore on, people came to accept that an app was just a fairytale and that using the full website in Safari …

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Native PDF Rendering Coming to Firefox

Whilst I might hear a collective groan from the Google Chrome supporters out there (as Chrome has had native PDF rendering for a little while now) it should come as no surprise that Firefox is going to be offering the same functionality in the future. The good part about providing such functionality is that regular …

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Join the CyberLink PhotoDirector 2011 Beta

Here’s a heads up for the photo enthusiasts out there. CyberLink is on the verge of releasing a new piece of software in the form of PhotoDirector 2011 which, as the name might suggest, allows you to do all sorts of stuff with your photos from the original import, adjustment, enhancement and final output. Of …

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Restore Missing Toggles in MIUI for Android

Oiriginal MIUI Toggle Screen

On the weekend, I upgraded the version of MIUI on my Samsung Galaxy S to Version 6.13.1  from an earlier version and noticed that the fantastic toggle drawer had disappearing leaving something that closely resembled the standard Android drawer and toggles.   New MIUI Default Toggle Screen For me, this was a bit of a …

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Rosetta Support Disappearing in Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

Just a heads up for those Mac OS X users out there that may be using older applications from the PowerPC days (so those G3 and G4 CPUs that powered the Powerbooks and other Apple machines of that generation) – Rosetta support is being removed from the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) operating system. …

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Learn More About Command Line Applications

These days, most people won’t have much reason to fall back to a command line in Windows given that most functions have a corresponding graphical interface. However, for more serious things like network diagnostics (like ping, traceroute, pathping, nslookup etc) there is often no avoiding the command line window. Anyway, one tip that I always …

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Snap Your Applications into Place in Windows 7

Last year I covered a stack of keyboard shortcuts for Windows including some specific to Windows 7. I covered the keyboard shortcuts for snapping windows the the left or right half of the screen 9and hopefully that has come in handy for you). In true form, Microsoft provides another way to do the same thing …

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Front and Rear USB Ports – Use Them Wisely

Just a quick one for tonight. One thing that gets my gripe is how people use USB ports on their computer, particularly front and rear USB ports on desktop computers. When USB ports first hit the scene they were relegated to the rear of the computer along with all of the other faithful ports including …

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