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5 Steps To Ensure a Clean Software App Launch

The time is right for professional software developers to get their ideas out into the world, as there is lots of money to be made and success to be had. However, one of the most disastrous things that could happen to you is to have a bad software launch, where all that momentum gets lost because of bugs.

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So, there are ways to prevent this misadventure by taken certain steps, including getting your software professionally tested, using early adopters and beta versions to get rid of bugs, learning everything required through the app providers, getting social media in order, and being prepared to scale. [Read more…]

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The Skinny on Computer Viruses

Though it’s not rocket science, sometimes it’s rather hard to tell whether or not your computer has a virus. Often, some viruses lurk in the depths of your computer’s hardware, their only plan to bog your computer down, while others have a much more malicious agenda.

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Some software viruses corrupt or erase data from your computer and others find a way in through your email or instant messaging. A very common way to get a virus is by downloading things from the internet. It is critical to anyone with a computer to make sure they have the proper antivirus tools. Let’s talk about the threats of certain viruses and ways to get rid of them or avoid them all together. [Read more…]

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How to Automate Your Life in 2014

Automation is making people’s lives easier. It is making lives easier at home and at work. Many people cannot even imagine a world without technology. Take a look at these five areas to determine how automation can change you life for the better.

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1. The Automated Home

When people see automated smart homes, they usually stand in awe of what technology can do for them. The new devices are being introduced to connect to smart phones and make people’s lives easier. These devices can allow residents to control the temperature, turn on or off the lights, turn on the sprinklers, monitor the home video surveillance, or even turn on and off appliances. It’s amazing what home automation can do for you. [Read more…]

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5 Powerful Tools & Websites Bloggers Should Never Do Without

A successful blogger is a productive and efficient writer, leader, marketer and manager of time. Its no use reinventing the wheel and there are tons of websites and tools online to help you get the most out of daily blogging and marketing tasks. Its all about working smarter and not harder and as the years progress we learn to achieve more at earlier ages with less effort but that doesn’t mean reduced quality.

Here are 5 powerful tools and websites to get you going with your daily tasks at blazing speeds with superior productivity.

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Amazon Drones: Automated Convenience That’s Energy Efficient?

When Amazon.com announced recently that it was planning to make deliveries by drones by 2015, it created quite a stir. How will it work? How will the drone find my apartment? Will my e-reader get left out in the rain? How much power would it take to carry large packages?

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The details on how drone automated delivery would work are somewhat sketchy right now. The proposed vehicles have a range of 10 miles and can carry weights up to 5 pounds, which includes 86% of Amazon’s packages. But the 10-mile range would no doubt limit deliveries to big cities. And even then, an MIT professor pointed out that the drones don’t have enough battery life to go 10 miles with a 5-pound package. While the idea suggests energy efficiency, the current numbers suggests otherwise. [Read more…]