First Retina-Ready Mac App Hits the App Store Ahead of WWDC

While the purported specs of MacBook Pro have suggested that it will come with only minor improvements and won't come with Retina Display, the first Retina-ready app has just arrived in the Mac App Store.As reported by The Next Web, Brothers Roloff - developer of FolderWatch has released an update for their app, which includes support for "Retina graphics".It is possible that Apple has informed some developers about the upcoming upgrade so that there are enough apps available when it launches the new MacBook Pros with Retina Display at the...

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Facebook Launches App Center; Makes it Easier to Discover Social Apps For iOS And Android

Facebook has announced the launch of App Center, an app recommendation portal that takes advantage of Facebook's social graph in delivering suggestions to users. The App Center features native iOS and Android apps, as well as web apps, including the ones that run inside Facebook's website. Facebook's doing quite a bit to ensure that the apps that are showcased to users are of high quality, as described on its developer blog: Success through the App Center is tied to the quality of an app. We use...

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Cool Websites and Tools [June 8th 2012]

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool website round-ups delivered to your daily email, subscribe here. Add Your Website Here! ManualsLib – This is a free to use web service that includes user manuals for various user products. These products range from electronic appliances to other user products. You can either browse the manuals listed on the homepage or search for a product...

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Sony bumps up Xperia Mini Pro to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

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Apple to make Baidu the default search engine on Chinese iPhones

As Apple and Google continue to remove the “fr” from the word “frenemies”, Apple has taken another step to help themselves at the expense of their main former ally and biggest competitor; according to Bloomberg, Apple is set to announce that they will drop Google as the main default search engine in China, switching to the more popular home-grown Baidu. Baidu is already the most popular web search engine in China, having gained market share hand over fist after Google decided to abandon the Chinese mainland and move its search servers to Hong...

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Are Your iPhone Photos Refusing To Rotate In Windows Explorer? Here Is The Solution

I love my iPhone but there are a couple of pet peeves that I have had with it from day one.  One of them was something which I managed to miraculously solve this morning, which was the strange enigma of iPhone photos refusing to turn around the right way, when transferred to the PC and viewed with the default Photo Viewer in Windows Explorer. If you have an iPhone and a Windows PC, I’m sure you’ve encountered the same problem.  You’ve connected your iPhone to the computer, transferred your photos over to a folder on the PC, and then you’ve...

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How Do You Deal With Windows PC Crapware? [We Ask You]

While I’m no Windows or Microsoft fanboy (believing fanboys of all persuasions to be as bad as one another) I do use Windows more than any other operating system. It has had its ups (XP, 7) and its downs (ME, Vista), and it’s set to be tested when Microsoft re-imagines it with the new Metro UI in Windows 8, but it’s still the Windows we know and love. Or hate, depending on your point of view. One thing that annoys every Windows user is the crapware that comes pre-installed on new computers. This isn’t actually Microsoft’s fault, despite what some...

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4 Reasons Windows Phone Needs To Succeed [Opinion]

It’s very easy to hate on Microsoft and all of its products. This is the company that started as the nerdy cousin of Apple, has made some really bad decisions over the years, and has one Mr. Steve Ballmer as its CEO. But Windows 7 is fantastic, the Xbox 360 gives joy to millions, and Microsoft has at least been consistent. And then there is Windows Phone, Microsoft’s operating system for smartphones that replaced the disappointing Windows Mobile. There is iOS, there is Android, there are a host of other contenders, but Windows Phone deserves a...

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What Is The Best Backup Solution? [Geeks Weigh In]

Ten years ago an external hard drive – or even a physical disc such as a CD-ROM – was the only practical way to back up files. Consumer-grade network storage solutions were primitive, expensive and hard to use. Cloud storage? What’s cloud storage? More choice is great, but it also brings a dilemma. What should you choose to handle your backups? Is there one solution that’s clearly the best? Let’s apply some thought to this problem and see what comes out ahead. Before we can gauge backup solutions we first have to decide the metrics we’re judging...

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The Top Free Ways To Stream Video From Your Computer To Your Mobile Or Tablet

One of the things I like most about modern tablets and other portable devices as opposed to laptops is that you can watch videos in your bed, on the sofa, or in the garden without feeling like there’s a fevered walrus sitting in your lap. Then again, there’s the slight inconvenience of having all my media stored on my computer, and the tedious process of manually adding videos to your iPad through iTunes. It’s worth it, but not all that fun. That’s why I started streaming my videos...

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To-Do List App Any.Do Comes To iPhone & Chrome [Updates]

Any.Do, the popular to-do list Android app, has just launched two exciting new additions to its arsenal. The first is the long awaited iPhone app, which brings the app’s simplicity to iOS, and the second is the Any.Do extension for Google Chrome. Any.Do first launched for Android at the end of last year, and since then has been downloaded by millions of users. If you’ve been hearing about Any.Do’s features and capabilities but did not own an Android device, you can now use it...

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New OtterBox Armor case will protect your Apple iPhone 4/4S from water

The OtterBox Defender series is one of the better selling cases for the Apple iPhone 4 and Apple iPhone 4S. Now, the company has raised the stakes and will be soon offering the OtterBox Armor series. Unlike the boxy style of the Defender, the Armour is more of a protective shell. While OtterBox hasn't released that much info on the product outside of a video and web site, the Armor is expected to be a "waterproof, thermo-plastic shell, precision fit to 1/3000th of an inch in accuracy, and...

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How To Make Your Own Little Polarama Planet With Photoshop

Technically called a Polarama (because it uses the Polar co-ordinate system), you can end up with a little “planet” when you wrap around a panorama photo – like you can see on the thumbnail to the side there. Today I’m going to show you how to achieve this effect in Photoshop. This is a quick and easy tutorial anyone can follow; even easier if you already have some panoramas to play with. No Panorama? Use Photomerge Start by taking lots of pictures that you’ll stitch together into...

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Get Paid To Shop Smarter With Smoopa [Android 1.6+ & iOS]

If you’re a frugal shopper or just someone who is conscious of the prices of the items you buy, you more than likely compare prices of items between stores. Others, on the other hand, don’t do it because it takes a lot of time and energy to check the prices of everything to find the best ones. It would be great, however, if there was a much easier way to find the best price for an item. Or something that will keep you from having to become a coupon addict. About Smoopa Smoopa is...

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