#609
/ March 10, 2010 / 2:55 min.
How to use PixelPipe on your iPhone
PixelPipe is a cool site that lets you share photos, videos
and more with over 100 other sites. Upload once and send your photos and videos to a bunch of different social networking and blogging sites. This saves you updating hundreds of different social media, photo or video
sharing pages individually. Now you can use PixelPipe right from your iPhone
with this awesome free iPhone app
.
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- Creating a
PixelPipe account is free.
- You can
get PixelPipe for free from the Apple App Store.
- Once installed, just tap on the icon.
- You can take a picture from PixelPipe by tapping on the camera icon.
- The picture then becomes part of the Media tab.
- Tap Upload All to upload your photo(s).
- You also tap Queue to see what may be in your queue.
- Tap on Post to enter text for your Blog.
- Tap on Settings to do things with your PixelPipe account.
- You can add destinations, edit destinations and edit your account.
- You can change a number of settings to suit yourself.
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#766
/ July 29, 2010 / 3:12 min.
If you're looking for a
new browser for your Android
you might want to try
Skyfire
. You can
download Skyfire for free
and it's a fun little browser that allows you to easily
access video
,
explore online content
and
share what you like
with your friends through
Facebook
and
Twitter
.
#765
/ July 28, 2010 / 1:50 min.
By default,
Windows operating systems
will hide certain files from you and this includes
Windows 7
. There are ways to
view hidden files
but it requires a little tweak in
Windows Explorer
. This will allows you to view, modify and delete these files, but use caution! These files were hidden for a reason and are often
necessary for Windows operation
.
#764
/ July 27, 2010 / 2:22 min.
If you need to
share files on the go
, there's few better ways then
Dropbox
. Recently made
available for free on Android
, Dropbox lets you
create a free account
where you can share up to two gigabytes worth of files. These files are immediately synced with your
Dropbox account
and can be accessed from nearly anywhere.
#763
/ July 26, 2010 / 1:50 min.
There is a way to get
visual previews of websites
you have open using
Firefox 3.6
. You just need to change one value in the
browser configuration
in order to activate this feature, then use it by pressing CTRL+Tab. It's a feature similar to Windows 7's Flip 3D where you get a
preview of the windows
you have open.
#762
/ July 23, 2010 / 2:22 min.
If you like
listening to music
on your
Android phone
then you no doubt have some music on your storage device. Of course, if you get sick of listening to that, it would be nice to
listen to the radio
for a change. Well if you've got a wired headset, chances are you can
listen to FM radio
so long as you have the app. We'll show you
how to get FM radio
on your Android in this episode.
#761
/ July 23, 2010 / 1:38 min.
If you
use Google Maps
, you'll notice that
zooming in
can sometimes be a chore. It's hard to
pinpoint an exact location
to zoom to and you'll often find yourself scrolling around more than usual. Now that
Google Labs
has released
Drag 'n' Zoom
, it's easy to
zoom to an exact location
. We'll show you how to use it in this tutorial!
#760
/ July 22, 2010 / 2:28 min.
Vlingo
is a popular tool for BlackBerry and iPhone that is now available for
Android phones
. Vlingo is a
free application
that will
turn speech into text
and can be used for a great deal of functions such as doing an
Internet search with speech
,
reading texts or emails
to you and more.
People can talk faster than they type. They can also talk faster than their thumbs can move. Vlingo is a popular tool for BlackBerry and iPhone that's now come to Android. You can talk and Vlingo listens and acts.
#759
/ July 22, 2010 / 1:28 min.
If you like to
customize your software
then you'll be pleased to know that you can
create color schemes
for your
Office 2010 Suite
. Each program can be given it's own
unique color scheme
so that
Microsoft Word
could be blue,
Excel
could be black and so on.
#758
/ July 20, 2010 / 2:30 min.
Those of you who find yourselves constantly
sending text messages
may want to check out
chompSMS
. It's available as a free application for your Android, but has a paid version with ads removed. With the application, you get your choice of two widgets that will always show you
how many messages you have
waiting.
#757
/ July 19, 2010 / 2:02 min.
Even if you don't know
what CAPTCHA stands for
, you've more than likely run into them while browsing the Internet. They're those jumbled up letters and numbers that you're often told to type back in before creating a new email address. It turns out that this exercise is actually a test to
differentiate between humans and computers
. These
CAPTCHA tests
have evolved quite a bit since their creation.
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