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Internet News Reading Down 80% Due to Unreliable April 1st Trends

People who are used to getting their daily news from online news sources and blogs have finally given up on reading anything on the web, as the yearly trend to post fake stories to the internet on April 1st continues. The online statistics service AdNumbers stated today that ad revenue from online marketing and banner […]

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Updates: BootCamp, Compressor, and more

There have been a number Apple software updates recently, as well as a few others you may be interested in. Here’s a brief list of what’s new. GraphicConverter 9.1 added “Browse Google Drive” menu item to browse local copy drive (if cloud client is installed) added “Extract Images from PDF” as function to convert & […]

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Facebook launches Paper app on Feb 3rd

Facebook announced that come February 3rd, its new iOS app called Paper should be hitting the US AppStore for iPhone only. So what is Paper? It seems that it is intended to be a number of things, although Facebook seems to be emphasizing the angle that is for news reading, not just from your friends, […]

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New service turns RSS feeds into Safari Push Notifications

If you read yesterday’s post, I wrote about Safari’s new Push Notifications in Mavericks, and promised some news about a service that helps you use this feature while all those web sites toil to get it implemented. The name of the service is ProntoPush, and what it does is pretty simple. You create an account, […]

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Mavericks Feature Highlight: Safari Push Notifications

We all know about Notification Center in OS X, one of the many iOS like features that has crossed over to the desktop, but what are Safari Push Notifications? While it was mentioned in the Mavericks keynote, it hasn’t received too much fanfare or attention, probably because hardly anybody is using it yet, and by “anybody” […]