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by George Heymann

March 23, 2012 • 8:58 am 0

Keeping your information safe/private online.

By George Heymann | @techeadlines

technology-headlines.com

I wanted to share an interesting info graphic containing online security tips, and fun facts regarding security. The graphic was provided to us by Jim Borland of reversephonelookup.org.

As an example here is one of the tips, citing NASA guidelines, it is recommended that all passwords be at least eight characters, and contain a mix of four different types of characters. A safe password should include:

  1. UPPER CASE LETTERS
  2. lower case letters
  3. 1234567890 (numerals)
  4. !@#$%^* (special characters)

The info graphic in its entirety is available after the break.

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January 30, 2012 • 9:42 am 0

Screenshot It for Android allows you to capture, crop, draw and annotate your screenshots.

by George Heymann|@techeadlines

technology-headlines.com

Screenshot It is a Android application developed by Edward Kim that enables users to take a screenshot of their phone’s screen. Once the screenshot is captured you can crop, draw and annotate screenshots then save as a .jpg or .png to the phone or share on your favorite social media site.

The application works on all rooted Android phones and many phones and devices including my Honeycomb HTC Flyer tablet without root access.

Other features include:

  • Screen shot status bar button
  • Screenshot widget button
  • Shake to screen shot
  • Delayed screenshot timer
  • “Share” menu integration
  • Custom save directory

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January 5, 2012 • 8:45 am 0

Quick Look: Shush! Ringer Restorer for Android

by George Heymann|@techeadlines

technology-headlines.com

Shush! Ringer Restorer by Public Object does one thing and does it very well. Once its activated Shush restores the ringer at a preset time and volume once you turn off the ringer using the volume button on your smartphone.

There are many situations we need to silence the ringer on our phones, work meetings, church, class or movies are good examples. I seldom remember to turn my phone off, I frequently forget to turn the ringer back on. This application fills that need and it does that in a very unobtrusive way.

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November 2, 2011 • 1:26 pm 1

10 words that describe my home internet service

By Christine Kane

internetserviceproviders.org

Boiling down the description of an internet connection to a single word means distilling thought and emotion to bare essences. It is much easier to convey negative feelings, which our language makes easy, with it’s plethora of interjections. Good feelings, on the other hand, are more difficult to express. Below are some examples of terse commentary as they apply to the nebulous world of internet connections.

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August 23, 2010 • 3:23 pm 4

Zune Home for Android

Any Zune fans out there craving a simple text based interface for their Android phone? Well if you answered yes, your wait is over. The Zune Home app is $0.99 in the Android Market.

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April 4, 2010 • 9:40 am 0

RocketDock application launcher for Windows:

RocketDock is a program launcher that lets you organize your favorite applications by dropping their shortcuts onto a “dock”. The dock is hybrid floating launcher/task bar. The highly configurable and nicely animated dock presents a clean interface that is preferable to “hunting and clicking” desktop shortcuts or having to navigate through menus and sub-menus to launch an application.

If you work on a mac at all you’ll recognize the bar as it works similarly to the application launcher in OSX.

See how it works here:

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March 26, 2010 • 10:42 am 0

“Snipping Tool” free and surprisingly versatile screen capture utility.

Wanted to share an accidental discovery I came across last night while looking for a quick way to do some quick screen captures on my home pc to post with a little preview story I was working on.

On my office mac this is quite simple Apple shift 3 for a full screen grab or Apple shift 4 for the rectangular marquee tool for the partial screen grabs.

On the pc this has always been a more laborious process, usually either resorting to using a paid

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March 24, 2010 • 12:53 am 2

Thickbuttons: virtual keyboard replacement for Android

Thickbuttons is replacement virtual keyboard for the Android platform that is available for download from the Android Market. Thickbuttons uses a predictive text algorithm to anticipate what you are going to type next then re-sizes the appropriate keys. It works surprisingly well. It also has a couple of unanticipated but welcome features. Within the Thickbuttons settings menu you can select to include a contacts and sms dictionary so that proper names and your special sms shortcuts can be learned. It also has a ” growing dictionary” that learns new words typed and can optionally share the dictionary with other programs.

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