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From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Blackberry teams with Kindle to compete with iPad

by Hugh O'Carroll on February 23, 2010

in Apple, Blackberry, Mobile Internet, iPad

Tech tipsComputer Tricks

If you own a BlackBerry, live in the US and like to read, you’re in luck. The world’s largest online retailer Amazon.com has announced “Kindle for BlackBerry”, an app for select BlackBerrys. The app will enable users to access over 400,000 Kindle books on their phones. And what’s more? The app can be downloaded for free from Amazon.com.

Just like its online version, this mobile app automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices using Whispersync technloogy. You can also create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle, computer, or other Kindle-compatible mobile device.

The BlackBerry models that support this app include Bold 9000, Bold 9700, Curve 8520, Curve 8900, Storm 9530, Storm 9550 and Tour 9630.

However, the sad part is, Kindle for BlackBerry is available to U.S. customers only, at least for now.

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Is Google indexing all the pages on your website?

by Hugh O'Carroll on February 20, 2010

in Google, SEO, Search

Tech tipsComputer Tricks

Need to check if Google is indexing any or all of your webpages? Here is a simple method of checking. Simply type “site:www.yourdomain.com” into Google’s search field and you will see a complete list of all the pages that Google has indexed for that domain.

It’s that simple.

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5 Reasons to Use Twitter for Business

by Hugh O'Carroll February 19, 2010 Business

Before you start reading the text below, watch this short video about Twitter:

1 – Drive Traffic: You can use Twitter to let your ‘followers’ know you have a new blog entry on your website, or that you have a new product offering (always include a link to your website or the article you are relating [...]

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Why the iPad will not use Adobe’s Flash

by Hugh O'Carroll February 19, 2010 Apple

At a recent iPad demonstration to Wall Street executives, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs claimed that running Flash video on the iPad would slash its battery life to 1.5 hours. (Apple are claiming the iPad will have an impressive 10hrs of Battery life)
While these claims may be correct, it ultimately boils down to which version of [...]

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