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How to Create a Visual Speed Dial Folder on Your iPhone

iPhone: Visual speed dial is a nice idea, but when you have to launch a separate app to make a phone call it’s a little annoying. Here are two ways to add visual speed dial to your home screen. There’s an app called Custom Dial 6 ($1) that lets you add six custom speed dial icons to your iPhone home screen. There’s also a free version that lets you ..read more

How to Transfer Files Over Wi-Fi with Dropbox

We recently went through some of the best ways to share files with a nearby computer, and many of you noted that Dropbox can still be a viable syncing method, even over Wi-Fi. Here’s how to set it up.In our rundown, we noted that Dropbox, while one of our favorite services ever, isn’t ideal for sharing with your friend sitting right next to you. While you can use Dropbox to share files with ..read more

Office for Mac 2011 Releases October 26

If you’re a Mac user who relies on Microsoft’s Office suite to get things done with your Windows counterparts, the newest release of Office—Office for Mac 2011—will officially hit shelves on October 26. According to the folks at Macworld, the new Office (or at least the new Word) has a lot of promise.

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Remains of the Day: Jailbreaking and the New Apple TV

The new Apple TV may be the next device you jailbreak, bans on texting while driving aren’t working as well as we might hope, and Forbes looks into how private is your social networking activity in the face of a lawsuit.

Apple TV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken Apple TV’s just began shipping and already users are reporting its iOS underpins should allow for easy jailbreaking and potentially app installations. [Wired] Gingerbread: The confirmed, the ..read more

Taskbar Items Pinner Pins Anything to the Windows 7 Taskbar

Windows 7: Free utility Taskbar Items Pinner adds pre-defined or user-defined folders, files, and even web pages to the Windows 7 taskbar.

Adding one of the pre-defined folders (like, say, your Recycle Bin) is easy enough: Just run the app and tick the checkbox next to the folder. Adding other folders, files, or webapps requires a little more work, but is still pretty simple. Browse to the path of the item you ..read more

How to Show More Sites On the Internet Explorer 9 New Tab Page

The new version of Internet Explorer finally adds a new tab page that shows your most recently used sites, but sadly you can’t customize the display from the options panel. What you can use, however, is a registry hack.To make the change for yourself, you can simply head over to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NewTabPage key in the registry editor, and then change the value of NumRows to the number ..read more

Create Synchronicity Is a Tiny, Portable Backup and Sync Utility

Windows only: Portable, open-source backup utility Create Synchronicity is a tiny but powerful way to run backups or synchronize folders on your system, an external drive, or to another PC on your network.Once you’ve launched the utility, you’ll need to click on the New Profile icon and type in a name for the profile, which will open up the settings window where you can choose the source and destination folders and ..read more

Make Sure TRIM Is Enabled for Your Solid State Drive in Windows 7 for Better Performance

One of the best way to take full advantage of your solid state drive (SSD) is to use the performance-maintaining TRIM command. Technology blog GHacks shows us how to make sure TRIM is enabled in Windows 7.While using something like Intel’s previously mentioned Toolbox application to TRIM your drive is extremely useful, you need to make sure Windows 7 has enabled it first. And, while ..read more

The Gaia ‘10 Desktop

Reader Mango Sango’s desktop uses the Gaia customization set to completely revamp the Windows interface into a work of art, complete with visual styles, icons, wallpaper, and Launchy skins.The desktop is comprised of the following elements, all of which can be downloaded from the Gaia 10 web site:

OS | Windows 7 x64 VS | Gaia 10 by ~neiio LS | Gaia 10 by ~mangosango Wallpaper | Gaia 10 “When it falls” by Siebe Warmoeskerken Miranda | Gaia 10 by ~novoo Icons | ..read more

Apple Finally Approved a Native Google Voice iPhone App (Again!)

Ever since GV Mobile was pulled from the App Store, we’ve been hoping for its return. And while Apple has not approved that particular third-party app again, they did approve GV Connect. It’s three bucks, available now, and looks great.The app includes just about all the features you could want from a native Google Voice app, save for push notifications:

•Place calls using your Google Voice number rather than your mobile number ..read more