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Would you like a new, elegant theme for your Tumblr blog? One of my favorite WordPress theme sites, Elegant Themes, has just started porting their new Tumblr-style WordPress themes to Tumblr. Let’s look at their first Tumblr theme, DailyNotes, and how to set it up on your Tumblr blog.
In the past several weeks, I’ve written a number...
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Like it or not, humans are forgetful. Admit it; even the best of us have forgotten lots of important information over the years. Ask me; I managed to forget to make hotel reservations three days in a row this week, even though people reminded me each day! I’ve often envied cameras and phones; they run out of storage space, and we...
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Remembering information from day to day can be a strain on even the smartest. From your license plate number to the song you heard on the radio a moment ago, we’re constantly struggling to remember and recall information. Evernote is a very useful free tool to help your, in their words, Remember Everything. Although there are many...
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Are you just getting started with desktop virtualization? Let’s look at the new book VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner’s Guide, which is a book that may be a great help getting started with desktop virtualization quickly and easily.
Computers today can be very complicated machines. Even though popular mobile devices are being pointed out as...
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Being a college student can be awful at times … between homework and rising tuition costs, it seems like you never get a break. But guess what? There are still some great advantages to being a student, and one of the biggest is the discounts you can get on software. Microsoft gives very generous discounts to students on their most popular products, and even gives away their developer tools with the Dreamspark program. College...
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Would you like a new, elegant theme for your Tumblr blog? One of my favorite WordPress theme sites, Elegant Themes, has just started porting their new Tumblr-style WordPress themes to Tumblr. Let’s look at their first Tumblr theme, DailyNotes, and how to set it up on your Tumblr blog. In the past several weeks, I’ve written a number of articles at How-to Geek on Getting Started with Tumblr. I’ve really enjoyed using Tumblr, and...
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Like it or not, humans are forgetful. Admit it; even the best of us have forgotten lots of important information over the years. Ask me; I managed to forget to make hotel reservations three days in a row this week, even though people reminded me each day! I’ve often envied cameras and phones; they run out of storage space, and we simply stick in a new, larger SD card. Evernote claims it can help you Remember Everything, but...
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Read MoreWould you like some free tech eBooks to read? O’Reilly Press is one of the world’s largest tech publishers, and today the majority of their books are available for purchase as DRM-free eBooks in PDF, mobi, epub, and Android app formats. Their eBooks are often substantially cheaper than the print books, but still often cost between $9 and $30. If you’d like some free books to read, though, O’Reilly has some that...
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Want to design standards-compliant websites, beautiful modern Windows applications, or even create beautiful vector icons and graphics? Expression Studio 4 is a nice suite of applications from Microsoft that lets you do all this and more, and it shows that Microsoft has been paying much more attention to design and standards compliance in the last several years. Creative Suite Web may offer similar features and more, but it is still...
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Techinch is, as our tagline says, dedicated to "making tech simpler ... inch by inch!" Technology is too often too hard, so here at Techinch I aim to make it as easy and accessible as possible. And fun, too! Read More here...
