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Showing posts with label evernote linux. Show all posts

Monday, May 20, 2013

What Are Your Recommended Apps For Android phones?

Q.

A. Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.

What are the Best iPhone apps?
Q. I got my iPhone 4 a few weeks ago and I'm bored of all the same apps, what are the best free apps available? Useful or not useful it doesn't really matter, I just want to make the moat of my phone.

A. The list



1. Google Voice



Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.



2. Advanced Task Killer



One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.



3. Dropbox



Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.



4. Evernote



Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.



5. DroidAnalytics



For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.



6. Documents To Go



The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.



7. Amazon Kindle



I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.



8. Places Directory



This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.



9. Tripit



I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.



10. Seesmic



Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.



11. FCC Speedtest



Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.



12. Astro File Manager



Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.



13. Got To Do



There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.



14. Gist



Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.



15. TED Mobile



TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.

Evernote program for linux?
Q. Is there an evernote program that runs on linux?

A. How to install Evernote 3.0 on Ubuntu
http://abbysays.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/how-to-install-evernote-30-on-ubuntu/

Evernote on Ubuntu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/decko/2755252834/


LUg.



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Saturday, May 11, 2013

looking for a good and free todo/task manager/tracker, any suggestion?

Q. I'm looking for a ToDo/task manager with the following features:

Mandatory:
- Free
- Works offline.
- Able to sync between computers/devices.
- Cross or multi platform. Must work on Linux and/or Windows (as long as some others)
- Task can be marked as completed.
- Hierarchy, projects and or subtasks.
- Tags, contexts, or any way to classify tasks in the same context.
- Alarms or time notifications or calendar

Desirable:
- Open Source
- Task completion percentage.
- Task priority.
- Share task lists, collections or projects with others.
- GTD or Kanban related.

I'm looking for apps different than TaskCoach (hard to sync), Chandler (seems the project is dead, and not working in the latest Ubuntu), Remember The Milk (no subtasks, no real clients and depends on Internet), Evernote (hard to track tasks just at sight, not working on Linux), not a geek command line task manager (no and no).

A. Check out Teamlab.
Sure, it will meet your requirements .
It`s a really nice PM web-app, free, opensource, based on the cloud in Amazon.

wuts a good Iphone app?
Q.

A. The list

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.

problem with backing up files before restoring computer?
Q. So my computer has like tons of malware/viruses. I figured reformatting would help a little bit ...
I'm trying to back up my computer so some personal documents wouldn't be lost in the process of restoring my computer but a pop-up keeps appearing every second saying "The drive cannot be written to please label the dvd-r "owner pc august 16, 9:58pm drive one" My dvds are completely clean its a maxwell dvd-r with 4.7 gb. I used theses CDs previously for making my own restoring CD's for another computer. I have no choice but to reformat because my security is down and dead whenever i try to turn it back on its unable to.

A. You can always use alternative methods to back up. Purchase a USB flash drive or external hard drive, which just requires you to copy and paste the files you want to save.

Or, you can upload the documents to the internet with a secure storage facility. I like to use Evernote: http://www.evernote.com/

===

Colanth - I'm sorry, but for a living, you easily give up and tell people "sorry, all is lost"? How unreliable and unprofessional. You can actually scan external media to remove the viruses before placing documents back onto a freshly restored computer. Or, you can boot the computer from a Linux Live CD and retrieve the documents, resave them in a different format on Linux using virus-free, open-source software, and then back them up.



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Friday, April 19, 2013

I really want a new phone,?

Q. Basically i have the iPhone 3G and i don't want another iPhone and i've been using my dad's old BlackBerry Bold 9700 and im not impressed, so what phone can i get that's comparable to the iPhone and won't disappoint? And preferably touch screens please (:?
I was thinking about the Palm Pre Plus, anybody know anything about it?

A. I'll answer by asking: are you a *very* technical person?

If so, the Nokia N900 is amazing ... but it's surely not for the faint of heart. Sure, very few of its apps cost money, but with kernel editing and beta software being the rule instead of the exception, there's the room for danger. I love mine -- I can FTP, DLNA, edit word docs with Abiword, check my wife's cycle on MaeGirls, blog with MaStory, edit images with Ansel-A, use Evernote and have root access. I even started using it as an MP3 player, keeping 30 GB of MP3 on it (did I mention it has 32GB of space built in and will take a 16GB Micro-SD card?). However, I'm very experimental.

The Palm Pre platform is gorgeous, with amazing multitasking and user interface. The hinge on the phone was a problem for my co-worker, who sent his back, saying it felt "fragile." If HP updates the OS (they bought Palm recently) and supports it (and the deal with the privacy concern -- Palm was collecting user data that was so not cool, but then again so do many Android apps), I could see myself being swayed back that way with decent productivity software. For now, though, I love the freedom of my Linux phone and don't mind the risks (I back up everything all the time).

Good luck!

looking for a good and free todo/task manager/tracker, any suggestion?
Q. I'm looking for a ToDo/task manager with the following features:

Mandatory:
- Free
- Works offline.
- Able to sync between computers/devices.
- Cross or multi platform. Must work on Linux and/or Windows (as long as some others)
- Task can be marked as completed.
- Hierarchy, projects and or subtasks.
- Tags, contexts, or any way to classify tasks in the same context.
- Alarms or time notifications or calendar

Desirable:
- Open Source
- Task completion percentage.
- Task priority.
- Share task lists, collections or projects with others.
- GTD or Kanban related.

I'm looking for apps different than TaskCoach (hard to sync), Chandler (seems the project is dead, and not working in the latest Ubuntu), Remember The Milk (no subtasks, no real clients and depends on Internet), Evernote (hard to track tasks just at sight, not working on Linux), not a geek command line task manager (no and no).

A. Check out Teamlab.
Sure, it will meet your requirements .
It`s a really nice PM web-app, free, opensource, based on the cloud in Amazon.

wuts a good Iphone app?
Q.

A. The list

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.



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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Evernote program for linux?

Q. Is there an evernote program that runs on linux?

A. How to install Evernote 3.0 on Ubuntu
http://abbysays.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/how-to-install-evernote-30-on-ubuntu/

Evernote on Ubuntu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/decko/2755252834/


LUg.

Minecraft launcher wont download on Macbook?
Q. When my mom upgraded my computer to Mountain Lion, minecraft got deleted from my computer. When I had the launcher before I didn't download it from the actual minecraft site, I put it in a file in evernote from my iPod (because my computer has parental controls on it and I can't get to minecrafts site.) My mom realized it wasn't actually downloaded to my computer so I tried downloading it (from minecraft.net) but every time a pop up came up saying it was a damaged file and couldn't be opened so I needed to move it to the trash. When I looked at the file in downloads it said the file was 149 KB when online it said it was supposed to be 270 KB. I turned off pretty much all of the parental controls and firewalls and it still isn't working so I just played through that evernote file like before. When I logged in my world's weren't there. I'm so frustrated and I'm not sure why it isn't working. Any ideas? If you need any more information let me know

A. I'm not sure if the problem is that yuor launcher is not loading orthat your worlds are not there, but forthe launcher, make your you downloaded the mac/linux version, and for thewrlds, its normal that your world worlds are not there if you changed pc. you had tosave your worlds on a USB key and then put themback in /.minecraft. Hope i helped!!:D

what are some AWESOME apps for android?
Q. I download the most convincing;)

A. The list

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.



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Saturday, March 23, 2013

I really want a new phone,?

Q. Basically i have the iPhone 3G and i don't want another iPhone and i've been using my dad's old BlackBerry Bold 9700 and im not impressed, so what phone can i get that's comparable to the iPhone and won't disappoint? And preferably touch screens please (:?
I was thinking about the Palm Pre Plus, anybody know anything about it?

A. I'll answer by asking: are you a *very* technical person?

If so, the Nokia N900 is amazing ... but it's surely not for the faint of heart. Sure, very few of its apps cost money, but with kernel editing and beta software being the rule instead of the exception, there's the room for danger. I love mine -- I can FTP, DLNA, edit word docs with Abiword, check my wife's cycle on MaeGirls, blog with MaStory, edit images with Ansel-A, use Evernote and have root access. I even started using it as an MP3 player, keeping 30 GB of MP3 on it (did I mention it has 32GB of space built in and will take a 16GB Micro-SD card?). However, I'm very experimental.

The Palm Pre platform is gorgeous, with amazing multitasking and user interface. The hinge on the phone was a problem for my co-worker, who sent his back, saying it felt "fragile." If HP updates the OS (they bought Palm recently) and supports it (and the deal with the privacy concern -- Palm was collecting user data that was so not cool, but then again so do many Android apps), I could see myself being swayed back that way with decent productivity software. For now, though, I love the freedom of my Linux phone and don't mind the risks (I back up everything all the time).

Good luck!

looking for a good and free todo/task manager/tracker, any suggestion?
Q. I'm looking for a ToDo/task manager with the following features:

Mandatory:
- Free
- Works offline.
- Able to sync between computers/devices.
- Cross or multi platform. Must work on Linux and/or Windows (as long as some others)
- Task can be marked as completed.
- Hierarchy, projects and or subtasks.
- Tags, contexts, or any way to classify tasks in the same context.
- Alarms or time notifications or calendar

Desirable:
- Open Source
- Task completion percentage.
- Task priority.
- Share task lists, collections or projects with others.
- GTD or Kanban related.

I'm looking for apps different than TaskCoach (hard to sync), Chandler (seems the project is dead, and not working in the latest Ubuntu), Remember The Milk (no subtasks, no real clients and depends on Internet), Evernote (hard to track tasks just at sight, not working on Linux), not a geek command line task manager (no and no).

A. Check out Teamlab.
Sure, it will meet your requirements .
It`s a really nice PM web-app, free, opensource, based on the cloud in Amazon.

wuts a good Iphone app?
Q.

A. The list

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.



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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Recommendations for mac apps?

Q. So i got my imac 3 months ago
i'm interested in mac apps
so far i have the following apps that i have downloaded


Adium (use this and microsoft messenger)

Alarm Clock (use it before i go to bed)

Anxiety (use it almost everyday)

AppCleaner (handy)

AppFresh

Blender for mac (learning)

Bodega (has some apps but it feels like it's missing alot)

Boxee (love how it looks)

Bullet (fun)

Comic life (fun to use, play with it alot)

Evernote (handy)

Expod (free and better than senuti)

FastIcns (haven't tried yet)

Fetch Art (use it b/c its free)

Firefox (but primarily use safari)

Focus Booster (love the pomodoro technique)

Framebyframe (Stop motion to the max!)

Genius (Love useing this and it's free use it often for school)

Hydrogen (fun to play with, i think it was originally for linux)

I Love Stars (easy way of rating my songs)

iCurser (fun to use, play with it sometimes)

iFlash (don't use as much as genius)

iGetter (boosts my downloads by alot, use it often)

iProcrastinate (don't use it as often as i should)

iReadFast (interesting app, sometimes helpful, sometimes not)

iStache (love putting mustaches on my friends pics)

iWisdom (handy especially because i need to memorize quotes and stuff for improv speeches)

Lezioni - never used it

NewsFire (my prefered rss reader of choice right now)

Notational Velocity (interesting app, don't think i'm using it properly though)

Notebook by Circus Ponies (like it)

OmmWriter (use it, dunno why)

Paintbrush (my first download app its ok nothing special i don't use it)

Pencil (fun to play with)

Phun (helpful for physics, and just fooling around)

Poladroid (fun to play with)

pomodoro (i support the pomodoro technique!)

RAAViewer (not as helpful as it should be)

Schoolhouse (stoped using it, too lazy)

SelfControl (use it religiously)

Senuti - don't use b/c have to pay so use expod (works great)

sixtyforce (i love it n64 ftw)

Skype (don't know if that's already in my mac when i got it)

Smell-O-Mints (use it b/c havn't memorized the periodic table)

Spark

Split & Concat (use it religiously)

SunFlower (use it often)

Sweet Home 3D (fun to play with)

Task List (don't use it, i use anxiety)

The Hit List

Things (interesting to use, trying to get the hang of it)

Think (use it often)

Tidy Up! (useful, use when i have to)

Tunatic (doesn't always work for me)

VideoMonkey (Love this!)

VisualHub

VLC (Nice, but want something that just looks better with my mac if it's possible)

Voice Candy (fun to play with)

WeatherDock (useful)

WriteRoom (my demo is over :(

xVideoServiceThief (use this b/c none of the mac ones i could find worked, this works, and yes i know firefox has a plugin for this)


So yeah i didn't mention anything that was included in my mac
If anyone has some ideas of what i should download (preferably free apps but paid is also fine)
please tell me thx :)!!!

And i'm also searching for some apps for my dashboard thx again:)!

A. I use Handbrake to rip DVDs for my iPod. Stanza is a good ebook reader app, and Calibre is good for organizing ebooks and converting between formats. I also use apps like Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus and NeoOffice.

looking for a good and free todo/task manager/tracker, any suggestion?
Q. I'm looking for a ToDo/task manager with the following features:

Mandatory:
- Free
- Works offline.
- Able to sync between computers/devices.
- Cross or multi platform. Must work on Linux and/or Windows (as long as some others)
- Task can be marked as completed.
- Hierarchy, projects and or subtasks.
- Tags, contexts, or any way to classify tasks in the same context.
- Alarms or time notifications or calendar

Desirable:
- Open Source
- Task completion percentage.
- Task priority.
- Share task lists, collections or projects with others.
- GTD or Kanban related.

I'm looking for apps different than TaskCoach (hard to sync), Chandler (seems the project is dead, and not working in the latest Ubuntu), Remember The Milk (no subtasks, no real clients and depends on Internet), Evernote (hard to track tasks just at sight, not working on Linux), not a geek command line task manager (no and no).

A. Check out Teamlab.
Sure, it will meet your requirements .
It`s a really nice PM web-app, free, opensource, based on the cloud in Amazon.

Must have android thing?
Q. So I got the HTC Desire HD yesterday, and I would like to know some apps or features that I must get. I just got Swype and I don't know what else to get. Any help?

A. The best way to view my list of the top Android apps is in the screenshot gallery. However, you can also view my top 25 in the list below.
The screenshots


The list

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.



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B&A Poll: What program do you writers-who-type-on-their-computer use?

Q. I use Microsoft Word, but I've just recently discovered this really cool program called Evernote (http://www.evernote.com) which is pretty effective, since you can save and update from anywhere - your phone, the Internet, your program downloaded on the computer, etc... :) You can download it or use it online.
Just wondering.

A. For my fiction, I use OpenOffice, as it's free and does everything I need in a wordprocessor. (My main computer runs Linux, so MS Word wouldn't run on it anyway.)

For anything that's going on my website (which admittedly isn't much these days) I handcode the HTML and CSS in XEmacs (fancy-pants programmer's text editor). In the days of dialup, this resulted in small webpages that loaded very quickly, but now that most of my visitors are on broadband, I'm not convinced this is the best use of my time...

I work as a software developer, so I'm usually quite near to a computer in the event that I have a brilliant idea and need to write it down. If I'm at work, sometimes I email it to my home account. Otherwise, I trust myself to remember it for a few hours. If I can't, it probably wasn't such a brilliant idea after all.

Evernote looks like a cool idea, but I would be wary of storing anything confidential in it. In their privacy policy, in the section on data security, it says that their staff aren't *normally* allowed to access the information you've stored in your account, but can do so if they have reason to believe you've breached their terms of service, or if they "otherwise determine that we have an obligation to review it". So if the staff can read your notes, presumably so can a hacker who breaks in. How likely is it that a hacker will get in? You have no idea, because you've only got their word for it that they're secure. I'm not saying don't use it; I'm saying don't use it for anything you wouldn't be willing to have splashed across the entire Internet.

What Are Your Recommended Apps For Android phones?
Q.

A. Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.

What are the Best iPhone apps?
Q. I got my iPhone 4 a few weeks ago and I'm bored of all the same apps, what are the best free apps available? Useful or not useful it doesn't really matter, I just want to make the moat of my phone.

A. The list



1. Google Voice



Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.



2. Advanced Task Killer



One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.



3. Dropbox



Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.



4. Evernote



Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.



5. DroidAnalytics



For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.



6. Documents To Go



The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.



7. Amazon Kindle



I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.



8. Places Directory



This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.



9. Tripit



I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.



10. Seesmic



Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.



11. FCC Speedtest



Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.



12. Astro File Manager



Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.



13. Got To Do



There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.



14. Gist



Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.



15. TED Mobile



TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.



Nec Projector Review

Plastic Shed Reviews

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Cabochons Reviews

Inflatable Water Slides Reviews

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

what are some AWESOME apps for android?

Q. I download the most convincing;)

A. The list

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.

I really want a new phone,?
Q. Basically i have the iPhone 3G and i don't want another iPhone and i've been using my dad's old BlackBerry Bold 9700 and im not impressed, so what phone can i get that's comparable to the iPhone and won't disappoint? And preferably touch screens please (:?
I was thinking about the Palm Pre Plus, anybody know anything about it?

A. I'll answer by asking: are you a *very* technical person?

If so, the Nokia N900 is amazing ... but it's surely not for the faint of heart. Sure, very few of its apps cost money, but with kernel editing and beta software being the rule instead of the exception, there's the room for danger. I love mine -- I can FTP, DLNA, edit word docs with Abiword, check my wife's cycle on MaeGirls, blog with MaStory, edit images with Ansel-A, use Evernote and have root access. I even started using it as an MP3 player, keeping 30 GB of MP3 on it (did I mention it has 32GB of space built in and will take a 16GB Micro-SD card?). However, I'm very experimental.

The Palm Pre platform is gorgeous, with amazing multitasking and user interface. The hinge on the phone was a problem for my co-worker, who sent his back, saying it felt "fragile." If HP updates the OS (they bought Palm recently) and supports it (and the deal with the privacy concern -- Palm was collecting user data that was so not cool, but then again so do many Android apps), I could see myself being swayed back that way with decent productivity software. For now, though, I love the freedom of my Linux phone and don't mind the risks (I back up everything all the time).

Good luck!

Recommendations for mac apps?
Q. So i got my imac 3 months ago
i'm interested in mac apps
so far i have the following apps that i have downloaded


Adium (use this and microsoft messenger)

Alarm Clock (use it before i go to bed)

Anxiety (use it almost everyday)

AppCleaner (handy)

AppFresh

Blender for mac (learning)

Bodega (has some apps but it feels like it's missing alot)

Boxee (love how it looks)

Bullet (fun)

Comic life (fun to use, play with it alot)

Evernote (handy)

Expod (free and better than senuti)

FastIcns (haven't tried yet)

Fetch Art (use it b/c its free)

Firefox (but primarily use safari)

Focus Booster (love the pomodoro technique)

Framebyframe (Stop motion to the max!)

Genius (Love useing this and it's free use it often for school)

Hydrogen (fun to play with, i think it was originally for linux)

I Love Stars (easy way of rating my songs)

iCurser (fun to use, play with it sometimes)

iFlash (don't use as much as genius)

iGetter (boosts my downloads by alot, use it often)

iProcrastinate (don't use it as often as i should)

iReadFast (interesting app, sometimes helpful, sometimes not)

iStache (love putting mustaches on my friends pics)

iWisdom (handy especially because i need to memorize quotes and stuff for improv speeches)

Lezioni - never used it

NewsFire (my prefered rss reader of choice right now)

Notational Velocity (interesting app, don't think i'm using it properly though)

Notebook by Circus Ponies (like it)

OmmWriter (use it, dunno why)

Paintbrush (my first download app its ok nothing special i don't use it)

Pencil (fun to play with)

Phun (helpful for physics, and just fooling around)

Poladroid (fun to play with)

pomodoro (i support the pomodoro technique!)

RAAViewer (not as helpful as it should be)

Schoolhouse (stoped using it, too lazy)

SelfControl (use it religiously)

Senuti - don't use b/c have to pay so use expod (works great)

sixtyforce (i love it n64 ftw)

Skype (don't know if that's already in my mac when i got it)

Smell-O-Mints (use it b/c havn't memorized the periodic table)

Spark

Split & Concat (use it religiously)

SunFlower (use it often)

Sweet Home 3D (fun to play with)

Task List (don't use it, i use anxiety)

The Hit List

Things (interesting to use, trying to get the hang of it)

Think (use it often)

Tidy Up! (useful, use when i have to)

Tunatic (doesn't always work for me)

VideoMonkey (Love this!)

VisualHub

VLC (Nice, but want something that just looks better with my mac if it's possible)

Voice Candy (fun to play with)

WeatherDock (useful)

WriteRoom (my demo is over :(

xVideoServiceThief (use this b/c none of the mac ones i could find worked, this works, and yes i know firefox has a plugin for this)


So yeah i didn't mention anything that was included in my mac
If anyone has some ideas of what i should download (preferably free apps but paid is also fine)
please tell me thx :)!!!

And i'm also searching for some apps for my dashboard thx again:)!

A. I use Handbrake to rip DVDs for my iPod. Stanza is a good ebook reader app, and Calibre is good for organizing ebooks and converting between formats. I also use apps like Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus and NeoOffice.



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looking for a good and free todo/task manager/tracker, any suggestion?

Q. I'm looking for a ToDo/task manager with the following features:

Mandatory:
- Free
- Works offline.
- Able to sync between computers/devices.
- Cross or multi platform. Must work on Linux and/or Windows (as long as some others)
- Task can be marked as completed.
- Hierarchy, projects and or subtasks.
- Tags, contexts, or any way to classify tasks in the same context.
- Alarms or time notifications or calendar

Desirable:
- Open Source
- Task completion percentage.
- Task priority.
- Share task lists, collections or projects with others.
- GTD or Kanban related.

I'm looking for apps different than TaskCoach (hard to sync), Chandler (seems the project is dead, and not working in the latest Ubuntu), Remember The Milk (no subtasks, no real clients and depends on Internet), Evernote (hard to track tasks just at sight, not working on Linux), not a geek command line task manager (no and no).

A. Check out Teamlab.
Sure, it will meet your requirements .
It`s a really nice PM web-app, free, opensource, based on the cloud in Amazon.

wuts a good Iphone app?
Q.

A. The list

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.

problem with backing up files before restoring computer?
Q. So my computer has like tons of malware/viruses. I figured reformatting would help a little bit ...
I'm trying to back up my computer so some personal documents wouldn't be lost in the process of restoring my computer but a pop-up keeps appearing every second saying "The drive cannot be written to please label the dvd-r "owner pc august 16, 9:58pm drive one" My dvds are completely clean its a maxwell dvd-r with 4.7 gb. I used theses CDs previously for making my own restoring CD's for another computer. I have no choice but to reformat because my security is down and dead whenever i try to turn it back on its unable to.

A. You can always use alternative methods to back up. Purchase a USB flash drive or external hard drive, which just requires you to copy and paste the files you want to save.

Or, you can upload the documents to the internet with a secure storage facility. I like to use Evernote: http://www.evernote.com/

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Colanth - I'm sorry, but for a living, you easily give up and tell people "sorry, all is lost"? How unreliable and unprofessional. You can actually scan external media to remove the viruses before placing documents back onto a freshly restored computer. Or, you can boot the computer from a Linux Live CD and retrieve the documents, resave them in a different format on Linux using virus-free, open-source software, and then back them up.



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