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30+ Super Secret iPhone Features and Shortcuts. If you’re reading this, you will probably agree that the iPhone is one of the most useful devices currently on the market.

30+ Super Secret iPhone Features and Shortcuts

But there’s a lot more functionality than initially meets the eye. The iPhone is simple on the surface, but packed with hidden features. Here are over thirty iPhone tips and tricks that aren’t widely publicised – I’m sure you’ll have encountered a few before, but some are bound to be brand new to you. Read on to join the ranks of an iPhone ninja! If you like this, be sure to check out our more recent roundup of 40 Secret iPhone Features and Shortcuts! Tap the Status Bar to Scroll to the Top Status Bar Maybe you haven’t checked your tweets for a few hours or you’ve just read a lengthy article. The latest version of Instapaper lets you return to where you were if you didn’t mean to tap the status bar. Press the Home and Sleep Buttons Simultaneously to Take a Screenshot Ever wonder how software reviewers take pictures of the apps without screen glare? Caps Lock Shorter URLs. Windows 7: 77 Windows 7 Tips.

Windows 7 77 Windows 7 Tips Edited by Keith Ward At a Glance: Make Windows 7 faster Get more done with Windows 7 The best Windows 7 shortcuts Securing Windows 7 Windows 7 may be Microsoft’s most anticipated product ever.

Windows 7: 77 Windows 7 Tips

And whether or not you're upgrading from Vista or skipping it altogether and moving up from Windows XP, you'll need to know how to make the most of it in your environment. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Figure 1 The Problem Steps Recorder dramatically speeds up troubleshooting. The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows! Apple News, Reviews and How Tos. Roundup: 15 Must-Have Free Software Programs for Your PC. Over the last three years, the writers here at MakeUseOf have profiled thousands of software apps on the website.

Roundup: 15 Must-Have Free Software Programs for Your PC

With all these thousands being presented to you, it’s hard to decide which apps to use and which ones to discard. To make it easier for you, we have managed to compile a list of the top 15 absolute must-have tools for everyday tasks. These are the essential programs that we recommend you install and keep on your arsenal. 1. Firefox / Chrome (Web Browser) 2. 1. Both Firefox and Google Chrome are excellent browsers. You can see all add-ons for Firefox at There are extensions for Google Chrome as well, but the choice is rather limited. 10 Cool Extensions for Google Chrome 10 Cool Extensions for Google Chrome Read More 2. AVG Free Anti-Virus is the most popular free anti-virus software in the world. Most of the MakeUseOf authors use AVG and we highly recommend it to others. Download AVG Free (Platform: Windows only) 3. Download Auslogics Disk Defrag 4. Highly recommended! This $25 computer (yes, computer!) also runs Quake 3.

Remember that $25 computer about the size of a flash drive game developer David Braben unveiled in May?

This $25 computer (yes, computer!) also runs Quake 3

According to a video posted on Saturday, it can run games in high-definition, too. The Raspberry Pi computer is a single-board computer that’s capable of rendering video games like Quake 3 at a 1920-by-1080 pixel monitor resolution. The game cruises along at around 20 frames per second with the lighting and geometrical details cranked up to maximum quality. It’s also running at a 1920-by-1080 pixel resolution, which brought the frame rate down slightly, Raspberry Pi foundation’s Eben Upton said. Considering the limited horsepower on the Pi, it’s still pretty impressive. The computer has a 700-megahertz ARM processor and 128 megabytes of RAM. (It’s also tiny — you can see it just under the monitor in the picture above.) The Quake 3 version running is an open-sourced version of the game compiled for the Pi’s Linux build. You can check out a full video of the demo below. iPhone 4 – Everything you need to know. Free Mac Downloads.

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