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The Google Play store offers many useful apps that can help users increase productivity on the go. ColorNote for Android is a rather simple yet amazing application that takes sticky notes to a whole new level. It allows the user to create notes, lists, and calendar events and stick them to their home screen.

Download and installation of ColorNote for Android seems instant. Once the program opens, a red highlighted box directs the user to create their first note. Further use of this app is very intuitive and users should find it very easy to create, edit, and post several … Read more

If you use your computer daily, you might have thought about how much time you spend doing the same things over and over again. Mouse Recorder is a tool designed to automate tasks you perform with your mouse by letting you record the steps and replay them easily. While it worked for some tasks, others weren't so easily reproduced.

The small interface holds only a few options, including the two main buttons, Record and Repeat. We liked that each button includes a keyboard shortcut to start the processes, as well. The rest of the interface lets you fine-tune how … Read more

The default keyboard on Android gadgets seems to get better and better with each update. Jelly Bean's keyboard is sleek, fast and even comes with SwiftKey-like predictive texting. Jelly Bean Keyboard puts that keyboard on gadgets running Donut (Android 1.6) and later. It's a seamless port, but it doesn't suddenly make the keyboard better than third-party keyboard apps.

Setting up another keyboard on Android gadgets comes with all sorts of scary disclaimers. Your phone or tablet will tell you that this app can track and log everything you type. That isn't true of this keyboard, … Read more

The App Store has created a number of interesting crossover games in the last few years. From branded iOS games to crossovers between Angry Birds and various films, existing brands are seeing the wisdom of investing in fun, short spurts of gaming on the iPad or iPhone to reach their audience. The Price is Right Slots is just such a game, marrying the compulsive game play of other gambling and coin-operated games with the classic price-guessing games and imagery of the long running TV show.

This game is similar to many others in the niche. After installation, you can choose … Read more

MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition is a free file- and data-recovery tool for Windows. It bundles several tools that together can recover lost and deleted data from hard drives, USB drives, and nearly every kind of disk or directory that can hold (and lose) data. Of course, not all lost data can be recovered, and there's no guarantee that recovered data will be intact or still usable. But MiniTool's modules are focused on specific data-recovery tasks, giving you a good chance of getting your data back. Its wizard-based operation and simple interface make it easy enough for … Read more

"Picto" refers to pictograms, which are visual symbols that represent things, such as "table," "chair," and "men's room." Pictograms convey meaning quickly and intuitively, and they're used in many areas, including design, transportation, and education. Picto Selector is a free tool that makes it easy to choose and create pictograms for any purpose. You can choose from thousands of free "pictos" and combine them by theme, style, or usage into picto sheets, or create new pictos from your own images and text. It offers print overlays for speech … Read more

A few Mac users who have installed the latest OS X 10.6.6 update have found that a few applicaitons, especially iLife applications like iPhoto, will no longer launch. The programs may bounce once or twice and then quit with no indication of a problem. Affected people have tried repairing permissions and starting in Safe Mode, but have not been able to get the programs to work with these methods.

There are a couple of things people can try if their applications are not working.

First check in the Mac App Store to see if the program is available … Read more

The new Mac App Store can be a useful way to find software for OS X, but a few people have expressed their dislike of the store and prefer to not have it on their systems. Some have even avoided updating to OS X 10.6.6 to prevent the store from being put on their systems. While this is one way to avoid the store, doing so will also prevent you from benefiting from the latest security and bug fixes that future OS updates will bring.

The requirement of OS X 10.6.6 for the Mac App Store … Read more

In addition to having some downloads pausing and hanging when users attempt to download them, the new Mac App Store is also giving users an "unknown error 100" when they attempt to navigate.

This problem is likely another "break in" issue, and so far has been addressed by users in the following ways:

Restart the Mac Some people have found that simply restarting their computer makes this problem go away. You might try rebooting into Safe Mode and then restart normally again to have the system run a few diagnostics and cleanup routines that may also … Read more