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Supercharge Your Lock Screen With DashClock Widget And These Add-Ons

If your phone is running Android Jelly Bean (4.2), you owe it to yourself to pick up DashClock Widget. The app itself already powers up your lock screen with useful notifications and tools, but dozens of great apps and other widgets hook into it to display useful information and give you control over your phone — all without you having to unlock first.

23 April 2013

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Monotony Adds RSS Feeds To Your Mac’s Notification Center

Mac: If you want to be notified as soon as your favourite web sites are updated, Monotony is a simple, free solution for your Mac. The app will check your specified RSS feeds every minute while it’s running, and feed you a pop-up notification with the title and description of any new posts.

22 April 2013

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Supercharge Your Notification Shade With These Android Apps

Android’s notification drawer isn’t just for boring emails and texts. You can use it to launch apps, change settings, and lots more. Here are some of the best apps that turn notifications into powerful tools.

19 April 2013

Productivity

Five Creative Uses For Google Alerts

Google Alerts is one of Google’s hidden gems. It’s a really powerful tool to keep track of trends, interesting topics or anything really new that appears on the web. If you’re not using it already, here are a few creative ways to get started with it.

16 April 2013

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Luper Reminds You To Regularly Stay In Touch With Important Contacts

Android and iOS: It’s hard enough to remember to get in touch with people in one-off situations, but when you have to remember regularly — whether it’s your mother once a week or a monthly phone meeting — reminders are useful. Luper is an app that makes it easy to follow through on those reminders.

13 April 2013

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The Dryer Messenger Sends You An SMS When Your Clothes Are Dry

If your dryer is tucked away in a corner of your house that makes it impossible for you to hear when it’s finished a load, it’s easy to forget that you have clothes in there. DIY enthusiast Thomas Taylor was bothered enough by this that he created a system that alerts him via text message when the dryer is done.

2 April 2013

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Intelligent Ringer For Android Adjusts The Ringer To Match The Noise Level Around You

Android: Intelligent Ringer is a free utility for Android that listens to the ambient noise level in the room around you, and sets your phone’s ringer to match. That means you won’t scare everyone around you with a loud ringtone in a quiet room, or miss a call because the ringer is set too low and you can’t hear it over the noise around you.

19 March 2013

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AnyReminder Adds A ‘Remind Me Later’ Option To The iPhone

iOS (jailbroken): Sometimes you simply don’t have the time to deal with the incoming emails, messages and other notifications of your iPhone when they first arrive. If you don’t want to forget to reply, AnyReminder adds a “remind me later” option to incoming notifications so you can deal with them at a better time

18 March 2013

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Push Notifications, Battery Life, Developers And The Self-Licking Ice Cream

Smartphone battery life is a constant challenge, and something developers need to bear in mind when creating apps, especially ones which constantly poll for data. How can using push notifications avoid your apps turning into a battery hog?

13 March 2013

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Notify Me For Android Adds Notification Banners To Your Lock Screen

Android: The pull-down pane at the top of your Android phone’s screen is a quick way to get to your notifications. If you’d also like to see pop-up alerts over your lock screen, Notify Me gives them to you and lets you control which notifications you see.

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