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The obvious choice isn’t always so obvious

Imagine you’re at a baseball game, waiting for it to start. At the conclusion of the singing of the National Anthem, everyone cheers and applauds….

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Will smart watches lead to larger phones?

I have a pretty large phone. With a 5″ screen, the Droid Maxx can’t be called “small”. Offhand, I don’t think I’d want anything bigger…

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Tools of Our Trade: The Apple Side of Things

Desktop I cross the great hardware branding divide by using both a PC and a Mac. I have a Lenovo laptop, with Windows 7, almost exclusively for running FileZilla….

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Get 12 gifts for Christmas from Apple

Few things are as over as Christmas, however, this year, Apple has decided to keep on giving.  Apple Inc. is celebrating the 12 days of…

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Gimmicks vs Features

The new line of iPhones was recently unveiled (the 5S and the 5C) and included a feature I wasn’t sure about; a fingerprint sensor to…

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How to easily keep up with 538 blogs

Imagine for a minute that you had to personally request each email that you wanted to receive.  Each morning you’d get up and go through…

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Foursquare launches new Business app

While Foursquare isn’t a necessary tool in the social media arsenal of most businesses, if you run a brick-and-mortar location it’s certainly something to be…

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Best apps for your new phone or tablet

If you just received a new phone or tablet as a gift, you’ve probably been digging in and downloading lots of great apps for it….

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Be free to change your mind

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, recently made a powerful statement that has a lot of people thinking.  According to Jason Fried at…

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Yelp is more important (and scary) than ever

Yelp has been around for a long time, but over the past few years it’s really been growing.  We recently showed you some ways to…

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Cool new iPhone app to allow the blind to “see” money

This is just cool.  An new iPhone app called the “LookTel Money Reader” allows blind users to point the app at any piece of American…

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Seriously, your church isn’t made of bricks

I talked about this four years ago, but feel it’s worth mentioning again. If you ask most someone: “Tell me about your church“, they’ll usually…

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Organize Your Digital Life 8 – Take advantage of the small breaks of time

This is the eighth in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series. I’m finding one of the keys to being productive…

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Organize Your Digital Life 7 – Organize your tasks

This is the seventh in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series. Without a doubt, task management is one area of…

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Organize Your Digital Life 3 – Calendar management

This is the third in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series. Calendars are one of the areas that most people…

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