Valentine’s Day is one of, if not the, most romantic day on the gregorian calendar. It is the day when you must impress your most loved one with a special dinner or anything that will make them feel special and loved. However, this pressure can be deemed too stressful for us guys out there who don’t want a disastrous Valentine’s Day where our loved one feels their day wasn’t the best. But when given the advantage of having our iPhones with thousands of applications that help with our daily lives, many are also available to help on this day. Today, we will look at three main situations we encounter during Valentine’s Day and an app that can help with each one of them.
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4 Apps To Make Your Valentine’s Day Special [iOS]
By | February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Become An Acclaimed Author With iBooks Author For Mac
By | February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Apple had an education event in late January in New York that allowed any company to dip their foot in the textbook industry. This was through the release of iBooks 2, a more textbook focused iBooks app than the previous version, for the iPad. In addition, Apple released iTunes U for iPhone, allowing individuals to enjoy the college course videos and podcasts they know and love from iTunes, on their iOS devices. Last but not least, Apple made it possible for every individual to have a chance to get into the publishing field with iBooks Author for Mac. Today, we will crack open the application to see what it offers us.
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Giveaway of The Week: Toggl Time Tracker [Update: Contest Closed]
By | February 7, 2012 |
For our giveaway of the week, I am glad to announce that we have 3 licenses of three months worth of Pro credits for Toggl Time Tracker.
Toggle Time Tracker is a great web based time tracker app that allows you to track the time spent on projects. It is cross-platform compatible and comes with desktop client for the different OS (Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android).
The PRO account allows you to add tasks, track billable rates and you can integrate with Basecamp, Quickbooks, Freshbooks, and many other third party software. The best thing is you can share reports with your clients so they can have a real-time overview of the time you spent on the projects.
Update: Contest Closed.
Here’s what you need to do to win:
Tweet to Enter
All you have to do is click the link below and send out the resulting tweet (or just copy and paste), then leave a comment below with a link to your tweet. That’s it!
This giveaway begins now and ends Friday, 10th February 2012 at 2359hrs Pacific Time. The winners will be selected at random and announced via email.
Share and enjoy!
MakeTechEasier would like to thank Toggl for their generosity while participating in this giveaway. Interested in sponsoring? We’d love to hear from you. Get in touch with us.
Search Images Safely and Quickly With Google Image Ripper
By | February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Finding images for articles and presentations can be a nuisance. Unless you’re an expert in creating your own images, you probably use Google Images to find pictures that will fit the theme of your project or article. Most people use Google Images because there’s a huge selection of high quality images there, but visiting unknown sites to open full size images is risky. You could get yourself a nasty virus, and what about when you are looking for images with children? Do you cringe as much as I do at what might pop up? When searching for pictures, half the time, you find the image wasn’t even what you were looking for, or it was a broken image and you have to start over again. There has to be a better way!
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Five Top-Secret Windows 7 Features
By | February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
With Microsoft’s new interface adjustments in the Windows franchise, the company put a lot of features into Windows 7 that it might have forgotten to mention. After having a really close look at the infrastructure of the operating system, I’ve noticed a couple of things that might startle you a bit about the operating system, including features that make you wonder where they’ve been your whole life. While you might know some of them, I doubt you knew them all, so let’s get started and discover together what Windows 7 had in store for you but wasn’t in a hurry to let you know about.
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How to Keep Data on iOS Device Private
By | February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment
One of the problems with iOS devices is that they are so universal and can do so many different things that they often aren’t used by just one person. Yet sometimes you have pictures, notes, and websites that you might not want the whole family privy to. That’s where My Secret App comes in handy.
Sure, you can put a lock on on your device, but if you do end up loaning it out for someone to make a quick call or watch a quick video, the device is already opened up, meaning they could be privy to everything on your device. This app helps keep keep the most private things private.
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Easily Create A Facebook Timeline Cover From Your Android Phone
By | February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment
For those of you who use Facebook, I am sure there are one or two of you who have an Android phone. If you fall into this category, there is an application that lets you make new cover photos from pictures you take from your phone. You can add Facebook Cover Art to the list of Android apps on your device.
The short explanation of the Facebook Cover Art is this: when you are out someplace and you take a really great picture, you can create a new Cover picture and upload it right to your Facebook Timeline. Below is the specifics of how it works.
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Ask The Reader: How Do You Like The MTE Newsletter to Be Served?
By | February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
We have recently migrated our newsletter service to Aweber so we can have more control on it and provide a better (and more beautiful) experience for all of you.
Now, for all of you who have subscribed, or going to subscribe to our newsletter, here is a question for you: How do you like the Make Tech Easier newsletter to be served?
Currently, our newsletter is sent daily with all the articles (full length) that were published on that day. Here are a few choices:
1. Continue as it is: a daily newsletter with all the articles published on that day.
2. A daily newsletter with only the best article of the day.
3. A weekly newsletter with a summary of the 5 best articles of the week.
4. Other choices.
Cast your vote now.
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Toggl: A Web Based Time Tracker For Everyone
By | February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Being a developer, it is important and necessary for me to track the time spent on a project so I can bill my client accordingly. I have tried several desktop Time Tracker apps and TimeSlotTracker seems to be the best for Linux desktop. The problem is, while it is cross-platform compatible, the data is not portable. If you switched between OS, you can’t get access the time that you have tracked on another desktop. The next solution is to get a web-based time tracker software, and Toggl is the first one that I come across. It is simply good.
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How to Recover Your Windows Product Key
By | February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
Losing your product key is something that happens to the best of us, especially when you’re as accident-prone as I am and misplace the box your Windows CD came in. Many people think about calling Microsoft tech support to resolve this issue, only to realize that they’re hitting a brick wall and wasting time. Instead of ruffling through tons of different CD/DVD cases you’ve kept over the years, you might decide to purchase a new product key or an entirely new license of Windows. Don’t make that mistake and keep that debit card in your wallet! You can use the registry to fetch the product key for your particular Windows license only if you use an older version of Windows, but Vista/7 need another procedure.
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