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Android
Fitness App For Serious Training
As the name implies RunKeeper is another app that tracks running and other distance activities. The app uses GPS to record your progress and report distance, speed and time. It also has some social features but is geared toward...
iOS
Shopping App Designed Just For Women
Shopping online may save money, but it doesn’t replace the fun of spending the afternoon with friends going from store to store. Flit’s app may be the closest to having that shopping experience on your iPad. How exactly d...
iOS
Redeem Paper Coupons With Your Phone
It happens all the time when you walk into a store and start shopping. You see an item on the store shelf and realize you have a big discount coupon at home for that very item -but it’s at home (face-palm). Worse, you’re at the...
Android
Digitize Your Offline Coupons
It happens all the time when you walk into a store and start shopping. You see an item on the store shelf and realize you have a big discount coupon at home for that very item -but it’s at home (face-palm). Worse, you’re at the...
Tips
Don’t forget to pack some apps for your next trip
Gone are the days of checking several sites like Orbitz, Expedia and Priceline and comparing travel deals. There are apps that can check all three and many other sites for the best deals in flights, hotels, car rentals and more...
Productivity
A better way to read non-mobile webpages on your phone
Tapping links on your phone that lead to non-mobile sites is extremely annoying. You see an intriguing headline, tap the link and then… WTF! You’re hit with a mosaic of tiny text and boxes you can’t make sense of. It’s th...
Tips
Accurate way to find the best local food
Of all the local apps I’ve used to discover new restaurants and find other services, the Foursquare database, or “discovery engine,” has some of the best local information. Compared with Yelp, Google+ Local and others, I’...
iOS
The Most Useful App Ever?
Those of us who are still tied to our laptops and desktops come across websites and content that would make perfect reading and viewing material for our tablets and phones. Every day I find new articles or colleagues send links...
iOS
Better Than Gift Cards
Store gift cards make nice gifts, but year after year of gift cards to the same people can get old. It’s like saying, “I couldn’t put any time into getting a real gift for you, so I’ll just give you some cash in the form of gif...
Android
The Best ‘Read-It-Later’ App
Those of us who are still tied to our laptops and desktops come across websites and content that would make perfect reading and viewing material for our tablets and phones. Every day I find new articles or colleagues send links...
Create Your Own Features For Your Android Device
Blog From Anywhere
Google Hangouts better than Skype? Not so fast…