MetroTwitMetroTwit: Twitter, Metro style

A little while ago Microsoft released the Developer and consumer preview of Windows 8 this new version of Windows featured a new interface called the Metro Interface. An interface bought over from Windows phone. And now, the guys at Pixel Tucker make a new Twitter app for Windows featuring the same interface. The App named MetroTwit is one of the first Windows app featuring the new Metro interface and is a nice replacement for TweetDeck. Here are my thoughts on this app

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AirDroid iConAirDroid : Wire-free Android Management

Typing on your phone has never been easy, nor has been moving and transferring files. Wasn’t there a moment when you wanted something on your Computer clipboard to be present in your phone’s clipboard ? Or maybe you have to type a long text message and find it cumbersome to type on your screen with that virtual keyboard. Well, these are problems AirDroid will solve and much much more.

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email_iconThoughts on Email in Today’s Times

Back then in the days, before social media, before Twitter, before Facebook, the best way to communicate via the internet was email, in today’s world however, email isn’t the large communication medium it was back then. It would be safe to say that email played an important role in the early days of the internet. But, email, to today’s consumers is “hard” and “slow”, while in truth it is neither. Email is “too formal”, just like how letters were “too formal” and email how was “cool” back then, while today, email is “too formal” and Social Media and IM is “cool”. And that is the bitter truth.

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51220Desktop20LeopardTop 3 Screen Casting Apps for Mac

Recording your screen is one of the essentials of making tutorials or software demos. They are more expressive than screenshots. Most of all they are invaluable for E-learning, and how-to’s. You can show exactly what’s happening on your screen and directing your audience to do the right thing. In this post we’ll be looking at three screencasting apps for the Mac.

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xp_logo5 Reasons to dump Windows XP

In 2001 Microsoft released their newest operating system ( At their time ) XP short for experience. Little did anyone know this would go on to be the most popular operating system on the planet and even now its market share is just below 50% which is great but as we go deeper into new tech its time we move on from the 12 year old OS. Here are a few reasons to migrate away from XP :

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speedometerTop 10 ways to boost Windows 7

Windows 7 is a great operating system from Microsoft and is being considered as a great addition in terms of features over Vista, but as you know that once the features are added to your system then they will definitely consume some resources too. You can optimize Windows 7 by allowing only those features which are needed and disabling all unwanted features. Also, getting better hardware might also be the solution.

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gettGe.tt : Simple and Instant File Sharing

It’s a familiar situation : You have this file that you have to share with everyone, but the problem is that it’s really large and you don’t have time to upload such a large file. Your audience wants that file now. You’re screwed. Or are you ? Enter: Ge.tt. Gett is a file sharing service that makes sharing files instant. Literally. All you do is select the file and boom ! Your sharing it with the world.

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Password-SecuritySet up Windows 8 Picture Password

Picture password is a cool new feature in Windows 8. The logic of this feature is instead of logging-in with a traditional text and number based password you can log in by clicking or touching specific parts of the picture to login. Any picture in your library can be used as a reference to help you remember where the three parts of your picture password are located. Basic gestures such as dragging your finger or mouse along a specific part of the picture can also be used in your password.

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mail-iconTop 3 mail clients for Windows

Email is an essential part of digital life in the 21st century, some people hate it some can’t live without it, either ways it is something that is necessary for having an identity in today’s world. While previously we had reviewed a wonderful email client, Sparrow for Mac OS X, this time we are gonna look for alternatives for Windows

Note: These are the best according to us, and you have to make the final decision on using the one you like.

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