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5 Gadgets, Apps, And Software Tricks To Help You With Dating

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Dating has never been easy. But with the way social norms are flying all over the place these days, it can seem more complicated than ever. That’s why you need to use all of the resources at your disposal to give yourself the best chance of meeting the right person. And that means technology has to be on your side.

To help with that, consider five gadgets, apps and software tricks to help you with dating, including starting with basic search techniques, trying Tinder-style apps, creating your own pro-con dating profile, using photo apps to help you present yourself, and remembering to use spelling and grammar correctors in your profiles. [Read more…]

Can You Trust Skin Cancer Detection Apps?

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Skin cancer is one of the most common kinds of cancer, and if caught early it’s also one of the most treatable. Unfortunately, however, many people ignore signs of a problem, refusing to head to the dermatologist for a skin cancer screening. Well, now there may be an alternative to the doctor: skin cancer detection apps.

Fitting neatly into a culture that loves fitness wearables and other health trackers, skin cancer detection apps like SkinVision have been publicized as matching dermatologists when it comes to identifying melanoma. Though the technology is still in its early phases, we may be seeing the first signs of a diagnostic revolution that puts more power in the hands of patients. [Read more…]

Gadgets, Wearables, and Clothes: Fitting In Time For Fitness

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If there’s one type of gadget that nearly everyone can enjoy to some degree or another, it’s a fitness gadget. These can come in the form of wristbands, sensors, apps for your phone, or any combination of those together. And you don’t’ have to be a health nut to appreciate the data that these devices give you.

With a small cost and a tiny bit of effort, you can track how much you move, how much you exercise, how many calories you’re burning, and/or how well you’re performing certain physical functions. Pretty much sounds like a win for everyone! [Read more…]

Ways to Use Your Phone To Aid in Living A Healthier Lifestyle

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With all the options that are available in the world, it can be hard to make the right decision on anything. Life used to be a lot simpler. If you needed milk, you went out and milked the cow. You didn’t have 20 grocery chains to choose from, you didn’t have 10 different brands to choose from, and you didn’t get to choose between full fat, nonfat, 2%, 1%, organic, almond, rice, hemp, or soy.

Choice in life is a beautiful thing, but when faced with too much choice, many people decide not to choose at all. They think that they can have it all. In some ways this is true, but in other ways, not so much. One part of life where this is evident is personal health. Health and food was straightforward once upon a time. You grow the wheat, you grind the wheat, you make bread and you eat it. [Read more…]

How To Get The Most Out Of Music And Entertainment On Your Gadgets And Devices

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If you like TV shows, music, and movies, then you will want to get them on your gadgets. Heck, more people are skipping out on actual cable and satellite services these days, since you can watch all your favorite shows through Netflix and more.And when it comes to music, you have radio apps galore, as well as music streaming services.

If you haven’t been taking advantage of all of these great opportunities, or didn’t know they existed yet, here are some of the options you have for getting more into your favorite entertainment, through your smartphone, tablet, or even your notebook. [Read more…]

Anyone Can Be An Artist: Great Creativity Apps

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Adults often forget the great lesson of elementary school art class, that – as the famous artists that work with Turnaround Arts and Park West Gallery always teach – anyone can be an artist. Instead, work and daily responsibilities tend to dull the creative tendencies, resulting in an attitude that art is best left to kids and “real artists.”

Luckily, the increasing popularity of adult coloring books is bringing a little creative energy to those who thought their days of arts and crafts were behind them, and apps are even letting us take those projects on the go. Here are 5 of our favorites, for both the serious artist and the margin doodlers among us. [Read more…]

5 Places To Search For Inspiration For Your Next Mobile Game Creation

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If you’re into mobile gadgets, and potentially games as well, then at some point you may have considered what it would take to create your own games. Does it require programming skill, or connections within the industry? Can you submit game ideas to companies or do people usually go it on their own?

But before you make it too far into those types of logistical questions, you need to search for the inspiration for the games themselves. You can’t create something without a core idea, so where might that idea come from? A few possibilities include collected game sites, best-selling books, revisions of classic games, putting gameplay into the idea of character development, or even just approaching gameplay from the idea of psychological simplicity. [Read more…]

Business On the Go: Mobile Tips For Work Management

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When it comes to doing business, there’s a huge benefit to having the availability to do it on the go. And with the power of mobile processing and the speed of wireless communications, you can get an incredible amount of work done at remote locations that used to require you to be in front of a computer at a desk in a central office.

So if you want to remain competitive in today’s business environments, you need to understand how to work the mobile world, and that means understand mobile access to sales, order, and billing, using stock market analysis tools, installing communication tools, utilizing the convenience of GPS, and working with the ideas of buying and selling on the go. [Read more…]

Three Ways To Make Mobile Part Of Your Marketing Scheme

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When it comes to business marketing you want to reach the most people with the smallest amount of effort, although marketing is an effort filled strategy. Without marketing how would people find out about businesses, new and old?

From content management systems to having a system that manages your marketing structure, there is help out there. You just need to get your plan worked out and on paper, and then it can get put into motion. But what does that marketing plan need to include? [Read more…]

Gadgets You Can’t Go On Vacation Without

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Once you get to where you’re going, the fun can start. However, getting there can often be grueling, boring, uncomfortable, and long. Imagine the days of the Oregon Trail, or even beyond then in other countries. Journeys that would take a mere couple of hours today with modern technology took months and months. Imagine how bored and uncomfortable people must have been being squeezed into a covered wagon with all of their belongings and whatever livestock they had.

Granted, people might have had longer attention spans and a greater tolerance for hell as people today, but the thought of what they had to go through in addition to the traveling conditions that people all over the world in third world countries have to deal with on a day to day basis is enough to hopefully make you thankful that you have some cool gadgets to play with, a comfy Lincoln MKZ hybrid to sit in, and a view as you take off from coach class on the plane that is taking you across the world in a matter of hours. [Read more…]