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Free phone calls – computer to phone? Yes!

May 10, 2012

In this day and age, financial crisis and all, not everybody has the luxury to not think twice when spending money, one might as well try to save a few bucks here and there and try to cut down on unnecessary expenses. One such thing you can cut down on, and save a little bit [...]

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Giveaway for Mac users: CleanGenius 3.0 from EaseUS

April 16, 2012

CLOSED! THERE ARE NO MORE LICENSES LEFT! Pay attention, Mac users! TechPatio has been given 14 licenses for the new CleanGenius 3.0 from EaseUS, that we want to give away to our readers – for free – each license is worth $29.95. CleanGenius 3.0 As the name implies, the app is a genius at cleaning. [...]

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Why Avast Antivirus Is So Popular?

March 23, 2012

Avast Free Antivirus is a computer security application for registered home and non commercial users. The antivirus package is known to perform effectively. This evaluation is based on the tests carried out by independent efficiency testing agencies like AV-Test.org, AV-Comparitives.org and Dennis Labs. Avast has a large user community with 129,286,127 active members and 160,577,928 [...]

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Top 5 Free Apple Applications for Managing your Finance

March 22, 2012

Managing your finance is very essential. But when you are on the go it becomes almost impossible to track and manage your finance. However, for most iPhone and iPad users there seems to be a solution. Apple applications come for various categories. The category finance is one of the most important categories. Though Apple apps [...]

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iPhone 4/4S accessories giveaway – enter for free – win 1 of 21 prizes!

March 11, 2012

UK mobile phone comparison website Best Mobile Contracts are very generously giving away over 20 prizes to iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S fans, wherever you may live. These prizes include: 5 premium leather Master Series cases 5 Element Formula 4 cases with Carbon Fibre back 5 Skullcandy Smokin Buds with Mic 5 Groov-e GV9900MB Retro [...]

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Locate Free Wi-Fi With Free Zone Wi-Fi Android App

February 20, 2012

With the advent in technology, Wireless internet is on a roll these days. Whether it be a school, college, or a cafe, all these places are well equipped with Wi-Fi networks. So why not locate free Wi-Fi and use them to save our 3G internet bills. Isn’t that a cool idea. Here’s an Android app which will help [...]

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Top 5 Free Business Card App

February 19, 2012

The world keeps on evolving and the process can be attributed to the advancement of technology. Smart devices have simplified how people access information and organize their lives in general. Business card Apps are amongst the latest list of applications which have been created to enable smart phone users to simplify the storage and organization [...]

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Top 3 Android Apps for Healthy Weight Loss

January 28, 2012

What apps do you usually download from the Android Market? Maybe games? Social apps? Book readers and music apps? I guess you do, since those are the most famous apps with the biggest download number on the Android Market. But did you know that Android Market has much to give those who’re trying to lead [...]

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“Making the Print”: Printing Techniques for the Digital Photographer

January 17, 2012

New eBook Available! Making the Print: Printing Techniques for the Digital Photographer by Martin Bailey is the second eBook in our Masterclass series and it’s the perfect primer regarding all things related to fine-art printing. No stone is left unturned as Martin explains in-detail everything you need to know about making beautiful, frustration-free prints. This [...]

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“Vision is Better 2″ by David duChemin – photography ebook, discount code inside!

December 14, 2011

New eBook Available! VISION IS BETTER II is a collection of 44 of the most recent essays about the photographic life and craft from David duChemin’s wildly popular PixelatedImage Blog. His insights on the how and why of photography, visual story telling, and life-lessons learned along the way make for a compelling and inspiring eBook [...]

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11 Ways to Improve Your Photography – a FREE ebook by Craft & Vision

December 12, 2011

Craft & Vision recently launched this FREE ebook titled 11 Ways to Improve your Photography. The ebook consists of several authors within the Craft & Vision community, including world-renowned David duChemin, explaining in detail about some of the things they wish they had learned earlier in their career, which would have improved their photography. Well, [...]

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4 Reasons to Use Commercial Antivirus over Free Antivirus

November 15, 2011

Antivirus vendors today faced a very tight competition when there are more than 20 well-known vendors out there competing with each other. Each of them produced a very quality product where at times, it gives the consumer a big headache when it comes to selection. Situation got worse when most of the antivirus vendors start [...]

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10 Apps for the Avid Artist

October 30, 2011

This article was written on behalf of CultureLabel.com ñ the online creative department store for affordable art and unique gift ideas. Here is a rundown of ten of the must-have creative drawing and painting apps for artists and art aficionados alike. This definitive list of great painting and drawing apps out there will help you [...]

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MobileMe Gallery & iDisk alternative when MobileMe shuts down

October 28, 2011

With the launch of free iCloud on October 12th, it also meant the end of paid MobileMe. MobileMe was Apple’s paid version for having a @me.com e-mail address, folder online (iDisk), a gallery online, some synchronization between Mac apps etc. It came at a fee of around €79 a year (if I remember correctly). For some [...]

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Steve Jobs tried to buy Dropbox in 2009

October 19, 2011

According to Forbes, Steve Jobs invited Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowski on a visit back in 2009, where Steve surprised them with a very generous offer to purchase Dropbox. It is rumored that Steve Jobs was willing to pay a nine digit-digit price. At that time, Dropbox had only existed for two years [...]

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Using Internet TV to learn Languages

October 8, 2011

Most people do know that Internet TV provides a choice of channels, cable or satellite viewers can only dream of, while also being free, but few of them are aware that watching free Internet TV can actually help to improve their language skills. Language students around the world use foreign language channels to help them [...]

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Tools to Building a Better Website for Your Business

August 31, 2011

Gone are the days of business websites hosted by Geocities and other easy to use web based site creation services. If you want to make a real impact with your customers, you need to have a well built and effective website. Most people are going to discover your company by searching for it online before [...]

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Microsoft warns against using Gmail from Google

August 1, 2011

In a weird advertisement from Microsoft (for their new Office 365), they warn users against using Google’s free e-mail solution, Gmail. Probably all Gmail users have noticed ads when you’re using the free web-based version of Gmail, but not all might know that the ads are actually based on the content of your e-mails. Google [...]

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Get your free Google+ invite here! [Google Plus]

July 13, 2011

CLOSED!! After sending out almost 200 Google+ invites over the past few days, I’ve decided to close the giveaway for now, as I’ve already spent so much time doing this Hopefully Google+ will be made available to the public soon enough, so stay tuned! I did a few invitation-giveaway posts back in the Google Wave [...]

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4 Tips for How to Develop a Perfect iPad Magazine App

July 12, 2011

The revolutionary iPad 2 has reached an interesting point and companies are enthusiastic about working on iPads and developing apps for their products, websites, blogs and magazines. Digital magazines for iPads are becoming quite popular in US and UK and people love the new enhanced reading experience. Digital and iPad magazines are popping up everywhere [...]

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Did you know you can manage your money using an iPhone?

March 11, 2011

For some of us, managing money is not as fun as spending them, am I right? But if there’s no money to spend, the fun suddenly disappears. And to have money to spend, you need a budget to manage your money carefully to make sure you can afford to spend money while also keeping a [...]

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Play Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest etc. on your iPad – for free!

January 14, 2011

I’m guessing if you’re around the age of 30, you’ll remember playing Leisure Suit Larry and Police Quest on your (or your dad’s) PC back in the days. Remember, where you had to type commands and such? It was awesome! Well, now you can do it again – on the iPad. And it’s free, thanks [...]

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Quick Tip: Free Mac data recovery software

November 9, 2010

Just a quick tip for Mac users on how to recover deleted or lost data, such as pictures or documents. CleverFiles has just released Disk Drill, which is a new free Mac data recovery software. Disk Drill recovers damaged and deleted data from external or internal hard drives, memory cards, etc. and allows protecting data [...]

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Free online game: “56 Sage Street” – can you make it?

October 8, 2010

Barclays’ 56 Sage Street is a free online single-player game that aims to challenge players, especially those belonging to the younger generation, on how to manage money wisely. The story is about a dying millionaire, Mr. C, who resides at 56 Sage Street, hence the title of the game. Mr. C is searching for a [...]

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5 iPhone apps that can save you money

October 3, 2010

On June 11, 2007 Apple announced that the iPhone would support third party applications and since then, their rise has been phenomenal. As of July 2008, there were only 500 applications available from the Apple iStore but that number soon rapidly grew. As of this month, September 2010 there are over 250,000 apps in circulation [...]

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Free giveaway: Daniusoft “Video Converter for Mac” – 3 Licenses ($35 each)

September 16, 2010

TechPatio is happy to announce the first free giveaway draw in the history of this blog. Thanks to Daniusoft for providing three licenses that we may give away for free to our readers! Daniusoft Video Converter for Mac is a full-featured piece of software that will convert video and audio in excellent quality. Obviously it [...]

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