Adam Pash
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Forget About Push Notifications For Your Email
15Two weeks ago, the popular Mac-only desktop email client Sparrow released the iPhone app, and it is really, really good. It does, however, have one catch: It doesn’t (yet) support push notifications. To that I say: Who cares?
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Ad-Supported Mobile Apps Are Killing Your Battery
Filed under “you get what you pay for”: Researchers at Microsoft tested the energy consumption of various apps on Android and Windows Mobile (iOS restrictions kept them from testing the iPhone) and found that up to 75% of an app’s energy use goes to power the advertisements in free, ad-supported apps.
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How To Migrate Your CrashPlan Backups
You back up your computer, right? (If you’re not, you should be — you can get started here.) So you know that the most painful part of off-site backup is the initial backup, which takes forever, requiring you to upload gigabyte after gigabyte of data to your service’s servers. If you’ve bought a new computer…
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Khan Academy For iPad Puts The World-Class Lectures In Your Hand
iPad: The Khan Academy provides over 3000 free educational videos, exercises and lectures covering the span of everything from maths, physics, finance and history. It’s one of our favourite places to get a free education online, and now its complete library is available on-the-go on your iPad.