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How to Make Windows and Mac OS Play Nicely Together All of the PCs in my house run Windows, but I carry a Macbook Air on the road. Here’s how you can integrate the disparate worlds of Microsoft and Apple.
5 Essential iOS Apps for Photographers The latest crop of photo and camera apps for the Apple iPhone are awesome.
How to Create a Bootable Mac OS X Flash Drive Creating a bootable thumb drive that will run Lion and fit in your pocket is easy. This simple guide walks you through the necessary steps.
32 iPad Tips and Tricks Master your new iPad with these quick tips and handy iOS shortcuts.

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Apple iOS Devices Have Trouble Gaining Confidence of Some IT Security Pros Despite calls for more information about how Apple stores and analyzes the voice data it may be collecting through its Siri feature, Apple hasn't offered much explanation.
iPad Accessories for Music Lovers You love your iPad 2. You love music. Now, if only there was some way to marry the two. Here are some new and exciting iPad accessories out there. All of the accessories listed are compatible with both the iPad and iPad 2.
Discover Hidden Features in iOS's Built-in Apps You've probably mastered your favorite built-in iOS apps, like Camera, Mail, and Safari. But other apps come preloaded on your iOS device, and they include some features you just might not have discovered yet.
Reveal the Hidden Features in iOS's Built-in Apps You've probably mastered your favorite built-in iOS apps, like Camera, Mail, and Safari. But iOS comes with other stock apps too, with some handy and hidden features.
Apple Wins Battle Over Nano-SIM Standard UPDATE: Apple has won a battle over the standard for a smaller SIM card, use of which would leave more room for other components in future phone designs.

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MWC 2012: Huawei Challenges the iPhone With the Ascend D Huawei bills the Ascend D as the "world’s fastest" smartphone. The phone comes with a Hauwei-made quad-core processor, Dolby sound technology, an 8-megapixel camera, and a 4.5 inch high-resolution screen.
The Byte: Chrome OS Update, Tablet Race Results, Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Amazon's Kindle Fire is catching up to Apple's iPad. Google hopes to fixed dropped WiFi on its Chromebooks. Researchers think that SSDs have a bleak outlook. Android 5.0 Jelly Bean might be on the horizon.
iPad 3 Announcement, FBI Wants Data From Social Network, and Google-Motorola Deal is Approved On World Tech Update this week, Apple announces when they will debut the next iPad, the FBI wants to mine data from social networks, a Yahoo shareholder challenges board picks, US and Europe approve Google-Motorola deal, and President Obama launches marshmallows.

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TechHive: Mobile Surfing Moves Beyond Your Phone's Default Browser Third-party browsers can deliver many useful features. You just have to free yourself from the shackles of your default smartphone browser. Here are some alternatives.
Two World War II Reference Apps for the iPad Both World War II Interactive and Timeline World War 2 do an admirable job at using iPad features to present facts and figures about the war in an engaging way. But it's the latter app that excels at putting its own unique stamp on presenting history.
Windows 8 vs. Mountain Lion: Which OS Succeeds at Bringing Mobile to the Desktop? Apple and Microsoft are both trying to bring mobile features to their new desktop operating systems, but their approaches differ greatly.
The Gamer's Guide to the iPad Tablets are for more than just browsing the web and answering email; they are also great for playing games. Here are a few tips and games to get your started with your new iPad.
Apple iPad Review: The Retina Display Redefines the Tablet With a better-than-HDTV display, the third-generation iPad advances tablets to the next level.

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