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• Cool Websites & Tools – Cloud Business Cards, Google AuthorRank, & See Your Folks More Often
• 11 Awesome Google Nexus Accessories You Wished Were Real
• The Best Reddit AMAs Of All Time [Weird & Wonderful Web]
• Schedule Your Messages Inside Gmail With Boomerang
• Line Launches Whoscall Caller ID For Android To Block Pesky Companies
• What Is A Nandroid Backup and How Exactly Does It Work?
• Any Google+ User Can Send You Emails On Gmail Now (And Here’s How To Disable It)
• Google+ Sign-In: Is It Bad Or Good For You?
• Guardian Media Group Launches Collaborative Writing Platform Called Contributoria

Cool Websites & Tools – Cloud Business Cards, Google AuthorRank, & See Your Folks More Often Posted: 11 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST YouSnap – is ideal to capture notes from meetings and presentations, and to make sure any photos you take of notes are clear and legible. You can save your corrected image as a PDF or JPG, or share it via email or directly to Facebook. The powerful camera app for your Android phone and tablet isolates and precisely selects the important areas in your photos. QRname.me – allows you to easily and securely create and share beautiful business cards in the cloud. After creating an account and logging in, you will be prompted to enter your details, including name, address,... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Cloud Business Cards, Google AuthorRank, & See Your Folks More Often

11 Awesome Google Nexus Accessories You Wished Were Real Posted: 11 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST Designed by MINIMAL in Chicago,IL, these accessories expand the Nexus ecosystem with a beautiful line of cases, earphones and charging platforms. View their profile on Behance for detailed descriptions of each product. Pillow Case Family N4 N7 N10 Crease Case Family N4 N7 N10 Audio Charger Read the full article: 11 Awesome Google Nexus Accessories You Wished Were Real

The Best Reddit AMAs Of All Time [Weird & Wonderful Web] Posted: 11 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST Reddit is a fascinating place full of interesting content. True n00bs need to tread carefully, but once acquainted with how the site works should find it as entertaining as the oldest old-timers. One of the most intriguing, and always highly readable, subreddits is IAmA, which uses Reddit’s conversational UI to conduct informal interviews with interesting people, whether famous, infamous, or just everyday folk. What follows is a list of the best AMAs conducted to date. Barack Obama, though unarguably the biggest name to have ever agree to appear on IAmA, is missing, simply because his AMA was boring and predictable.... Read the full article: The Best Reddit AMAs Of All Time [Weird & Wonderful Web]

Schedule Your Messages Inside Gmail With Boomerang Posted: 11 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST Baydin (the company behind Boomerang) has just announced that users can reschedule messages inside Gmail once they have already been scheduled. Boomerang is simply indispensable, especially if you are dealing with a huge number of emails every day. In a nutshell, you can tell it to remove emails from your inbox and return them to the inbox at a certain day and time in the future. You can also request read receipts from the recipient and send the email at a later date. Perfect for fooling the boss into thinking you’re working late. So, what does this new update mean? Basically once... Read the full article: Schedule Your Messages Inside Gmail With Boomerang

Line Launches Whoscall Caller ID For Android To Block Pesky Companies Posted: 11 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST Line, the messaging app that’s an alternative to the likes of Whatsapp, has boasted of an install base of 300 million users. And it’s now stepping into a new market by launching Whoscall exclusively for Android, which serves as a caller ID for company numbers. The app differentiates from Truecaller by being only about commercial phone numbers. Truecaller also works with any individual’s phone number, which Line is avoiding. Line Whoscall claims to have a database of over 600 million phone numbers from around the world, but they state that it works only with company and store number—individual users aren’t... Read the full article: Line Launches Whoscall Caller ID For Android To Block Pesky Companies

What Is A Nandroid Backup and How Exactly Does It Work? Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST Did you know that making backups of your Android device can be just as important as making backups of your computer? It certainly is if you tend to mess around with it, such as by installing third-party ROMs. What if you install a ROM, and something breaks during or after installation? You need that backup at the ready. Long story short, you need to make a “Nandroid” backup. What’s a Nandroid Backup? Nandroid, sometimes written as NANDroid, is a portmanteau for NAND flash memory, the type of permanent storage memory that your device uses, and Android. A Nandroid backup is... Read the full article: What Is A Nandroid Backup and How Exactly Does It Work?

Any Google+ User Can Send You Emails On Gmail Now (And Here’s How To Disable It) Posted: 11 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST After integrating Google+ in YouTube for your comments, the search giant is now turning towards Gmail to give its social network some more visibility. From today, any Google+ user will be able to send you a message on your Gmail. To send a message, all you need to do is add that person to your Google+, whether they’ve befriended you or not. The actual email address isn’t yet visible to the sender. You’ll only see that person’s Google+ profile, but if you are the one sending an email, they will get to see your email. However, if they reply to... Read the full article: Any Google+ User Can Send You Emails On Gmail Now (And Here’s How To Disable It)

Google+ Sign-In: Is It Bad Or Good For You? Posted: 11 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST Ever since Google+ became required to comment on YouTube videos, there’s been a huge wave of backlash spreading across the Internet. The backlash, however, has slowly died down. Users are beginning to accept the fact that Google may not be rolling back the changes regardless of how much people hate them. But is it really as bad as you think? Depending on who you ask, Google is either a saint company that’s revolutionizing the world towards prosperity and interconnection, or a demon company that’s led by a mixed abomination of Satan, Hitler, and the Illuminati all wrapped up in one.... Read the full article: Google+ Sign-In: Is It Bad Or Good For You?

Guardian Media Group Launches Collaborative Writing Platform Called Contributoria Posted: 11 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST Guardian Media Group has recently set up a new site called Contributoria to encourage better collaboration between writers, and to ensure they get paid for their work. Contributoria has been described as a cross between Kickstarter and Medium, and the aim of the site is to ensure that stories which wouldn’t normally be picked up by mainstream media get published and paid for. This is precisely the sort of thing the Guardian is well known for – disrupting the well-trodden way of doing things, and going against the grain. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The concept of the site... Read the full article: Guardian Media Group Launches Collaborative Writing Platform Called Contributoria

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