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Lifehacker Pack for iPad: Our List of the Essential iPad Apps
It took a little while for the apps to come into their own, but we’re at a place now where the iPad has nearly as good of a selection of apps as the iPhone. Now, it’s harder than ever to find apps...
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Weather for Chrome Puts Your Local Forecast in a Chrome Toolbar Button
Chrome: Weather is a simple Chrome extension that gives you the local forecast with a single click on the extension’s toolbar button. You’ll see the temperature and current conditions on the button...
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To-Do App Tasks Gets Location-Based Reminders and Tasker Integration
Android: Tasks, the near-perfect Astrid clone we love so much, now has a plugin that adds integration with Locale or Tasker—which means support for location-based reminders and...
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The Best Weather App for iPhone
The iPhone has a remarkable number of weather app options, and you’ll find a ton that suit different needs depending on what you want. That said, one shines brighter than the rest, and Dark Sky is one...
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Disable the “Evaluation Copy” Watermark on the Windows Insider Preview
If you’re running the Insider Preview of Windows 10, you might be annoyed by the little watermark that shows up in the bottom right corner of your desktop. This handy little utility will get rid of...
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CloudPull Automatically Backs Up Your Google Account to Your Mac
OS X: You already make sure to back up your computer (right?) but what about your Google accounts? If something happened to it, you might not have time to get to Takeout to download your data before...
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Numi Is a Simple, Plain Language Calculator for Mac
OS X: Numi is a calculator that can handle multiple operations at once but still give you the answer you intended. For example, if you’ve wondered what five days from next Tuesday is, or what a 15%...
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Fix Blurry Fonts in Windows 10 with This Utility
If you have a high-resolution display, you’ve probably noticed that some apps have blurry fonts when scaled up. Even stranger: some apps that used to scale well are blurry in Windows 10. Here’s a fix....
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Burner, the Disposable Phone Number App, Updates with Plugins and Premium...
iOS: Previously mentioned Burner, the app that lets you generate disposable numbers for dating sites, selling stuff online, or anything else you’d need private calls or texts for, just unveiled a new...
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Too Gives You a Semi-Permanent Second Number for Your iPhone
iOS: Lots of apps provide disposable numbers for selling stuff, dating sites, or anywhere you need talk or text but want to protect your privacy too. Too is a new service that makes that second number...
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Usable Privacy Shows You What Privacy Policies Actually Mean, in Plain English
Privacy policies are notoriously dense and written in legalese—mostly to protect the company behind them—but Usable Privacy wants to distill them into something you can actually read and understand....
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MyPermissions Gives You Total Control Over Which Apps Can Access Your Data
Android/iOS: The apps on your smartphone each have tons of permissions, some of which are necessary, others not so much—MyPermissions helps you manage them all, and cut off the ones that like to snoop...
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Seer Brings Mac-Like Preview Views to Windows
Windows: In OS X, you can select a file and press Space for a quick preview of it. You can’t do that in Windows—at least not without Seer, a free utility that gives you the same power. Tap the space...
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Quotationr Saves Quotes or Other Text from Around the Web With a Few Clicks
Web/Chrome: Whether you’re saving inspirational quotes for later or doing some light research, Quotationr is a fast, free, and flexible way to grab bits of text from around the web and save them to...
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Drivemode Responds to Texts with Your Voice in Hangouts, Facebook Messenger,...
Android: Previously mentioned hands-free driving app Drivemode has a lot of great features, but it just added a great one—the ability to respond to messages in almost any texting app with your voice....
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Windows Encryption Showdown: VeraCrypt vs Bitlocker
When you really need to keep your files safe and secure, you need encryption. We’ve covered the basics before, and even rounded up your favorite encryption tools, but today we’re putting two of the...
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This All-In-One System Rescue Toolkit Has Just the Right Tools to...
There’s no shortage of system rescue and repair discs you can download and keep handy for when your PC gives you problems, but this one, from reader Paul, is streamlined, simple, and has only a few...
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