Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Face it — cloud storage services have made our lives way more convenient. There’s nothing quite like being able to save a file in a folder and then instantly have access to that file from a completely different computer. But what if you forget to save an important file in your cloud …
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18 August
Microsoft trims $200 off a Surface Pro 3 tablet, but only for one day
You can save $200 of the price of a Surface Pro 3 tablets, but only for today. Sarah Tew/CNET Microsoft has again lowered the price of one of its Surface Pro 3 tablets. In a sale good only for today, August 18, Microsoft has reduced the price of its i5 128GB Surface Pro 3 by $200 to $799 from $999. …
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18 August
Check Uber fares with a tweet
Normally if you’d want to get a price quote for a Uber ride, you’d need to have an account on its website and use it, or its app, to check the fare. If you don’t want to sign up, you can use a tweet to check the fare prices via Twitter. The Digital Inspiration blog has created a Twitter bot …
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18 August
Vodafone plan ‘shake
Vodafone is looking to add perks to its plans. Vodafone Vodafone has rolled out a raft of new features across its prepaid and post-paid plans in a bid to win over customers, calling the changes its “biggest ever plan shake-up.” As part of the raft of new inclusions, all new plans will get unlimited national calls and text, selected plans …
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18 August
A quick peek at Intel and Fossil’s first Android Wear watch looks very familiar
We’ve finally gotten a glimpse of what Fossil’s long-awaited Android Wear watch will look like. And, it looks like a lot of other Android Wear watches. Intel already has already made several splashes in wearable tech, from Barneys jewelry to the still-unreleased Android Wear-powered Tag watch. Fossil has made smartwatches before, too. But now Intel and Fossil are planning a …
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17 August
How to sideload apps in Windows 10
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Not all apps make it into the Windows Store. And if you want to install an app that isn’t in the Windows Store, well, you’ll have to sideload it. Sideloading apps in Windows 8/8.1 was a hassle — Microsoft, for some reason, really wanted to lock down devices so that they were only running apps from the …
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17 August
Why Apple Pay faces an uphill battle in Australia
Apple Pay has already rolled out in the US and UK. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Since Apple CEO Tim Cook first announced the launch of Apple Pay in September last year, iFans have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the contactless payments system in Australia. But it hasn’t been smooth sailing for the iPhone maker, as new reports suggest Apple may been …
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17 August
Three new Canon inkjets print Instagram pics directly from feed, comments included
Canon Pixma MG7720 Canon Imagine you just just got back from a week-long holiday vacation with friends and you’re browsing through all the Instagram photos of your time together. If you start getting nostalgic and decide to save your favorites, it’s pretty easy to just take a screenshot for safekeeping in your photos folder, but most people don’t go through …
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17 August
India relents on Internet porn ban
The previously banned websites are now once more free to visit. CNET The 857 porn sites blocked by the government of India in order to preserve “morality and decency” have been unblocked following a strong public backlash. India’s Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday decreed that Internet service providers (ISPs) would be asked not to block …
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17 August
How to restore your iCloud files, contacts, calendars and reminders
CNET If you’ve ever accidentally deleted a contact or an important file, you undoubtedly know the amount of dread and panic it can cause; especially when you realized it wasn’t backed up and there’s no way to get the important data back. Late last week 9to5Mac reported Apple had enabled a new feature for iCloud users. The feature enables the …
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