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Office 365 Home Premium, the 2013 Windows 8 version of Microsoft's latest version of its Office product, amusingly remains a suite of applications that run under the Windows desktop -- as in earlier, non-tiled versions of Windows ...

Forget software, applications and programs. While you're at it, forget utilities -- they'renow called "tools." ...

Hurricane Sandy, which struck the U.S.' Eastern seaboard last October, exemplified the use of socialnetworks in disaster communications. Millions of residents were affected. For many, real-timeinformation was provided through independent, citizen-generated Facebook pages like Jersey Shore Hurricane News and Twitter ...

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The Last Mile has been the challenge of industries immemorial ...

The introduction of the smartphone can be credited with inspiring many so-called lifestyleimprovements -- not the least of which stems from its ability to multitask. Junk that alarmclock and makeup mirror, and gear up for fashion, shopping and art ...

There's a little-known electronic gadget -- one that's generally not available alongside the colorful big-screen TVs and bass-pounding sound systems in seductive, sparkly urban consumer-electronics mega-stores -- that can be a life-changing device, nonetheless ...

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If there's one area of complication in any direct-current, hobbyist tech project, it's wire. What gauge of wire should you use? How should you terminate it? How can you join wire on a budget? ...

Here's a look at some of the must-have apps for your kitchen. ...

This story was originally published on Nov. 28, 2012, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. ...

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about building a simple, home backup power system forcharging phones during extended electricity outages -- like that which occurred during storm Sandy ...

Reference is the perfect genre for app and extension exploration. Web page pop-upsand on-the-fly search results are all possible. ...

Facebook Graph Search is coming, and now -- before it hits -- is a good time to tweakyour Facebook privacy settings ...

One of the ways apps and plug-ins contribute to our computer-driven lives is in providingutilities that streamline the optimization and configuration necessary to get thebest out of our machines. Firefox, the Mozilla browser, has a formidable set of utilities ...

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The United States Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency ReadinessTeam has recently been advising computer users to update or switch off Java in browsers ...

Welcome to All Things Appy. We scour the app stores and bring you thedefinitive top five available free apps in a particular genre for a particular platform ...

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