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Open source for the win
ON Christmas Eve, I cobbled together a network-attached storage (NAS) at home to enable everyone in our house to have a shared directory for school, work and personal files. This shared directory is also accessible from outside the house – like a rudimentary personal “cloud” for our family. It wasn’t complicated — you can go…
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To do: Install to-do apps on phone
(I wrote this for an article on digital to-do lists for the Sun.Star Cebu Weekend) I arrived home to the ding of my phone reminding me to run 5K and finish writing this article on to-do lists and a blog post on Inbox Zero. My phone flashed the reminders because it detected, through global positioning…
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Tabula rasa
What better way to start the year than with a clean e-mail slate? I went through my e-mail accounts on New Year’s Day to process it back to Inbox Zero – the state it was in weeks ago, which I wrote about in a blog post here. It took me less than a day to…
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App-y New Year
Mobile exploded in 2012. US consumers now spend 1.8 more times in mobiles apps than on the Web, according to Flurry, a mobile analytics company. Flurry said that between December 2011 and December 2012, “the average time spent inside mobile apps by a US consumer grew 35 percent, from 94 minutes to 127 minutes.” Closer…
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Did you get a smartphone, tablet as gift? Some tips on how to set it up
HAVE you been particularly nice or especially naughty this year and got a smartphone or tablet as Christmas gift? Lucky you; you’re in for hours of fun setting up your device tonight. Here are some tips on setting up your smartphone or tablet. The first thing you should do after unboxing your device is to…