Category: Reviews
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Flipboard for Android leaks
So Flipboard for Android was supposed to be an exclusive on Samsung Galaxy S III but it didn’t take long for an intrepid S III owner to pluck the APK from it’s comfortable surroundings and throw out into the wild for all to enjoy!
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My backup ate my password (or did it?)
Imagine the situation, I’m hurtling down the highway and I’m walking through the Carbonite iPhone app with my wife, looking for data we know is sitting on a password encrypted file back at home. Carbonite offers the options to log into your filesystem via a computer browser, or to access your files directly via the…
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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 3 of 5
News Outlets News papers and syndicates that deliver the news; in particular the outlets that have a business focus we expect to have a robust portfolio. We all typically have a news outlet we go to first for our news, and we might even log-in so we can leave comments. Most likely the newspaper offers…
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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 2 of 5
In this installment I’m going to take a look at what the big web portals have to offer. But first I want to review how returns are calculated and what you should be looking for from those numbers. Calculating Your Returns There’s a lot of ways to calculate your returns, but unfortunately all these web…
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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 1 of 5
Whether it’s just the curiousity for your favourite companies or fantasizing about what you’d do if you were Warren Buffet, or monitoring your RRSP, TFSA, and children’s RESP having an on-line portfolio manager and an offshore gambling guide for your investments is fun and convenient. Introduction Probably one of the best reasons to have your…
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Instagram vs. Lightbox vs. PicPlz vs. Aviary and More…
Ever since the bombshell dropped, that Instagram had sold out to Facebook, a lot of us have been looking for an alternative. Now the sell-out may not be the end of the world as we know it, but we expect in a very short time that Instagram will change their terms of service to read…
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Instagram for Android is here
We’ve all seen the cool retro pictures on Twitter (and elsewhere) generated by Instragram. And it’s fun to play with the filters when sharing some nonsense on Twitter, and seeing the effect immediately appear on the screen. There are other apps that do this but Instagram definitely makes it quick and fun to do. So…