5 great apps to customize your Android home screen experience

Nova Launcher Prime There are a number of launcher applications that let users override the standard look and feel that comes with the phone's out-of-box experience, but Nova Launcher Prime ($4.00) is one of my favorites. Don't like the preset shortcuts across the bottom of your handset? Not a fan of the app drawer setup? You can change all that. In a nutshell, Nova Launcher alters the way your phone behaves when tapping the Home button....

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Windows 8.1 to let you secure folders with your fingerprint

  Windows 8.1 will have a couple of tricks up its sleeve for people who use fingerprint readers. One of Monday's sessions at Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference highlighted the support that Windows 8.1 will offer for fingerprint recognition, as described by The Verge. Prior versions of Windows handled fingerprint readers through third-party software. But Windows 8.1 will be the first edition of Windows to natively support the technology. Users...

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ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter

If you really need to watch your Internet bandwidth, you need ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter. Unlike online bandwidth meters, ShaPlus monitors your Internet bandwidth instead of testing your connection speed. ShaPlus is designed to stay open in the Windows system tray, with a more detailed (but still compact) display for the notification area or anywhere on the desktop you care to drag and pin it. This free tool keeps track of your bandwidth use for the current session, the day, and the month. You can set it to track your billing period and even...

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Panna

Panna is the first-ever video, cooking magazine for the iPhone, iPad and iPad mini. You receive one free recipe inside each issue, whether or not you choose to buy the full issue. A year subscription gives you access to our current issue as well as the next five bi-monthly issues. An entirely new resource for the home cook, Panna merges beautiful high definition video technology with the expertise of established master chefs including Rick...

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How To Try Google Chrome OS On Your PC

In this article, I’m going to walk you through how you can run a free version of the Google Chrome OS on your PC using Oracle VM VirtualBox. I’ll also highlight a little bit of what Chrome OS will look like on an older PC if you decide to use it. Installing Chrome OS Inside VirtualBox Chrome OS is open source, so you can find a number of flavors out there to play with. The one that I’m going to use in this “test” version on VirtualBox is actually a Chromium OS build from Hexxeh.net that you can get for free. It isn’t identical to the fully-fledged...

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How To Install Multiple Bootable Operating Systems on One USB Stick

Fellow reader  asked us, “How can I run multiple operating systems from a single USB?” He goes on to specify some different operating systems (OSs) that he would like to run and a few of them are Windows OSs. He adds that he would like to be able to boot into Windows on a USB and then install Windows from that same USB. In theory, it could be done, but I’m not sure why a person would want to do that. First, you would be breaking...

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20 Ways To Increase Laptop’s Battery Life

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WindowsFx by Staredocks

WindowFX™ in action Stardock’s WindowFX is a one-of-a-kind program that lets you super charge your Windows® experience. Today’s modern computers have video cards that are powerful enough to create amazing gaming experiences. Yet, when you leave the game, your desktop is basically the same desktop you’ve had for decades. WindowFX brings you polished and reliable window enhancement capabilities. Add an amazing assortment of features to Windows, which can be applied in a subtle way to give Windows a little umph. See WindowFX...

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Top 8 Download Manager Apps for Mac

1. Folx – Downloader for Mac Folx is the best download assistant for Mac.  Folx is a free download manager for Mac OS X. Its friendly interface will help you take the most of your downloads. It’s not overloaded with tons of unnecessary features and is extremely easy to use. All you have to do to download files is click the link in your web browser and Folx will catch it. By the way, Folx is a 2-in-1 app: you don’t need one program...

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Best Download Managers for Windows

The need of a download managers is vital when we stuck with the default download managers, integrated within the browser. most of browsers such like Internet explorer, Firefox, Chrome, or Apple Safari.. they, themselves not giving a user friendly service for down loaders. Therefore different 3rd party tools has been created for fulfill  the gap between traditional browser integrated download managers and user's preferred DM. The following are the most used and most popular Download Managers in nowadays. I will give you details information...

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