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App Smart Extra: Create Grocery Lists
Grocery Gadget, while costing $5, is one of the most useful apps for managing grocery lists.
Q.&A.: BlackBerry Out of Sync
Syncing Microsoft Outlook 2010 with a BlackBerry.
Pogue’s Posts: The Size of the E-Book Library Matters Less
Because both Amazon and Barnes & Noble offer excellent e-book reading apps for the iPad (for their own proprietary e-books), the small size of Apple’s e-book library is essentially irrelevant.
Tip of the Week: Turning Smartphones Into E-Readers
How to change the screen settings to reduce the glow while reading books on smartphones or tablets.
Netflix Now Playing on an iPhone Near You
Netflix has been allowing instant viewing of videos on the Web, the iPad or via a game machine. But now it is on the iPhone as well.
App Smart Extra: Photo Editing on the Phone
Hipstamatic, Pano, and Photoburst give your iPhone’s camera new abilities.
Phone Calls From Gmail
If you use Gmail, you can move to having only one Web page and one address book that combines e-mail, IM-style chat and phone.
Customizing Facebook Places
How to set up Facebook Places so you can maintain some control over your comings and goings.
Color Comes to an E-Reader
A new low-cost e-reader hopes to grab market share n part to its use of a full-color LCD screen.
An iPhone Workout, Barbells Optional
The Body Fate app from celebrity trainer Christine Hazelton gives you a workout whether you have a gym or not.
Q. & A.: Dealing With Apple App Lemons
It is pretty hard to get a refund for buggy iPhone or iPad apps. Here’s the best method.
App Smart Extra: Write Like a Poet of Old
A number of good apps allow you to write in longhand on an iPad. Cover the iPad in a booklike case and you’ll feel as if you are living pre-silicon.
