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From Snapshot to Masterpiece: Photo Editing Apps Help You Take Pics Like a Pro
Chances are you’re taking a lot of photos lately with your smartphone and a growing number of apps can help you make those quick snapshots look like they were taken by a professional photographer. Polarr has been a popular Web-based program for a while now, but an app made just for iOS-based devices is now available. Claiming to be a “pro photo editor for everyone,” users can tweak and edit photos using all kinds of available settings. A number of almost endless edits can be made to a photo with even more options using a $4.99 in-app purchase. The basic version is free. Photo Editor by Aviary benefits by now…
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Don’t Have A Green Thumb? Get One Using These Gardening Apps!
It’s garden planting time! But planting the wrong greenery or garden in the wrong place and at the wrong time can ruin anyone’s chances at making the best of the warm, summer growing season. Fortunately, a number of apps are available to help plan ahead of time, potentially save users lots of time, money, and trouble. Eden Garden Designer lets users virtually plant greenery and “see” what their yards could look like before a shovel is even taken out of the shed. Take a picture of your yard and select from 40 of the most common plants to “plant” virtual greenery in your real space. Users can search for plants…
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Quick Guide: How to Get to “Inbox Zero”
E-mail. It’s the bane of our existence. We all get too much and it is too easy to get too bogged down in it. That’s where we can help. Let me show you a couple of helpful ways to cut through the clutter and make your inbox an efficient thing of beauty. A service called Sanebox does some pretty amazing things with your email. It filters it and arranges it in folders making it easy to unsubscribe to unwanted mail and even easier to organize, defer and categorize your mail based on how important it is. It works on all platforms and devices and gives you a free two week…
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PCM005 Podcast: Drones, Wearable Tech and Driverless Cars
Robots and powerful sensors are everywhere. And they are able to track your every move, measure your every action. That’s probably the biggest development we’ve seen from the big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where we learned that drones — soon to be a billion dollar a year industry — as well as robotic cars and wearable tech gizmos that monitor and track your body movements are about to become hot personal technology trends. [spp-player]
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Apps: The Best in Digital Magazines
The phrase is “news on demand” and with the Internet and new refinements in smartphone and tablet apps, the way Americans consume news these days would be almost unimaginable to previous generations. Here are must-have apps that you’ll want to have to stay in the know… on whatever you want to know.