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Pidora Is An Alternative Operating System For The Raspberry Pi

For the most part, Raspberry Pi users have only had one or two really strong operating systems to work with. If you’re looking to try something different, Pidora is an OS built on the Linux system Fedora.

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Stop Windows From Restarting Your Computer After Updates

Sometimes, Windows downloads important updates and decides it’s going to restart your computer, whether you like it or not. Here’s how to disable that behaviour.

24 May 2013

Productivity

Fix The Biggest Google+ Annoyances With These Userscripts

Last week at Google I/O, the company’s social network received a facelift. In some ways, it looks great, but it also introduced a slew of new problems. Enter userscripts to clean things up.

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Keep Windows’ Blue Screen Of Death From Automatically Restarting

In the event of a serious problem with Windows, a blue-screen error code can help you figure out what’s wrong. If your system reboots too quickly to see what the code is, disable automatic restarts.

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How To Use Intuition More Effectively

We often rely on our intuition, but is there any scientific explanation for a concept which puts instinct ahead of conscious reasoning? And how can we use it better in our everday lives? Ben Newell, Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of New South Wales, investigates and explains.

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Amazon App Store Is Live For Australia

As promised last month, Amazon has finally launched its App Store in Australia. What does that mean for you? An additional source of discounted Android apps, including a daily free app. (Today it’s Fruit Ninja; not too many points for originality there.)

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Mailbox, One Of The Best Gmail Apps We’ve Seen, Is Now On The iPad

iPad: Mailbox, the Gmail app that’s made to help you get to inbox zero, is now available for the iPad. Like its iPhone counterpart, it sports a clean design and gesture-based interface that makes flicking through emails easy.

23 May 2013

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From The Tips Box: Fixing PowerAMP Crackling, Opening Envelopes

Readers offer their best tips for stuff.

Productivity

Create New Directories And Subdirectories With One Terminal Command

If you know your terminal basics, you know that mkdir creates directories, but it can do much more. If you add the -p flag, you can create a directory with subdirectories in a single command and save yourself the trouble of quite a bit of extra typing.

Productivity

Not Just Another Notes App: Why You Should Use Google Keep

When Google Keep launched, it never got the fanfare it deserved. The people that did review it compared it to all the wrong apps, like Evernote or Microsoft OneNote. That’s a shame, because a surprisingly good note-taking app went under the radar, underrated for coming up short against contenders it wasn’t designed to face. It’s about time to give Google Keep a fair shake, see where it shines and how it fits in with the competition.

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