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by Kevin Purdy

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Freelance writer, author of The Complete Android Guide, former Lifehacker editor.

Your weekend homework: review the apps you love, fight the jerky types

Posted Apr 26, 2013 - 05:27 pm

Fight the system that listens to hair-trigger angry reviewers but allows quietly happy users to be unheard. Write a good review for an app you use, unprompted.
Google Now arrives on iPhone/iPad. So how do you make it useful?

Posted Apr 29, 2013 - 11:26 am

Google Now promises "just the right information at just the right time." But how do you "use" it?
The big list of Chromebook work-arounds and caveats

Posted Dec 12, 2012 - 12:54 pm

Let's try to list the most common needs of a modern computer, such as they arise when trying out a Chromebook.
How to sync and edit plain text files from anywhere, mobile or web

Posted Sep 06, 2012 - 03:40 pm
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- .txt, browser
Make Gmail on Android even better with these helper apps

Posted Aug 22, 2012 - 09:53 pm

The Gmail experience on an Android device is one of Android’s greatest selling points—probably most Android fans’ Top 5. But that’s not to say it can’t be improved with a few quick fixes and app downloads.
The most useful posts from Mobilize! in 2012

Posted Jan 01, 2013 - 05:07 pm

May I present, in list form, the most helpful and useful things I wrote at ITWorld in 2012.
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- Android, best of
Get phone notifications about actually cool things with IFTTT and Pushover

Posted Apr 19, 2013 - 04:57 pm

Your phone dings all the freaking time. Why not have it tell you cool stuff? WIth these two tools, that's very possible.
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- Android, howto
Where can I sell my old iPhone that isn't eBay?

Posted Sep 19, 2012 - 05:42 pm
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- Android, gazelle
How to do something about the phone unlocking fiasco

Posted Jan 30, 2013 - 06:44 pm

Announcing that people now faced fines of up to $500,000 and imprisonment of up to five years for trying to use their phone on a competing cellular network certainly stirred the pot.
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- DMCA, legal
The iPad Mini—how you can possibly deal with it

Posted Oct 12, 2012 - 12:27 pm

Someone “familiar with Apple’s plans” told AllThingsD today that Apple will bring out an iPad Mini at a invite-only event on Oct. 23.
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- Apple, hype

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