Thursday, August 27, 2009 - Page 2
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Snaptu Packs Dozens Of Social And Information Apps Into A Phone-Friendly Platform

Java-enabled phones: Hate the interface on your phone when it comes to wrangling social sites like Facebook and Twitter? Wish the layout gave the info you wanted like movie times and weather? Snaptu is a Java-based phone interface that does.


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DIY Cameraphone Tripod Mount

If you’re using your iPhone camera more than your point-and-shoot these days (it is the most popular camera on Flickr), chances are you’ve got a fair amount of shaky shots to show for it. This DIY iPhone tripod mount can help.


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Make Gmail Check Your POP Accounts More Frequently

If you use Gmail’s Mail Fetcher tool to grab email from other POP3-enabled email accounts, you may have noticed that it sometimes checks for new mail on very slow intervals—particularly if you’re importing from a mostly inactive account.


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Lock A Deadbolt From Outside The Door

Ever needed to lock the deadbolt behind you but didn’t have a key to the door? Admittedly, this isn’t a problem you’ll get into every day, but Instructables user Hextor has a clever solution should you ever find yourself in this situation.


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Turn A DVD Lens Into A Mobile Phone Macro Lens

Enjoy macro photography and wish you could snap macro pictures more often? If you have an old DVD player or drive laying around, you can recycle parts from it to make a tiny macro lens.


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Prep Your Mac For Snow Leopard

An operating system update like this Friday’s release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard is a perfect time to clean up your computer and start fresh. Let’s prepare your Mac for this weekend’s 10.6 upgrade.


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Opera 10 Release Candidate Firms Up Speed Boost And Features

Opera’s march toward its tenth major release, set for September 1, with a release candidate download that’s feature complete, majorly bug-fixed, and containing the tabbed browsing, Speed Dial, Turbo and Mail updates we’ve seen in previous betas.