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Facebook Chat lets you disable messages from specific friends

15 May 2013
David Chartier
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Facebook, Facebook Chat, Facebook Messages, messaging apps
In addition to letting you mute conversations until tomorrow morning or forever, Facebook also allows you to filter friends from sending messages
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Change your iPhone’s brightness with a quick swipe in Riposte

10 May 2013
David Chartier
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brightness, gestures, iOS 7, Riposte
In Riposte for App.net, you can change brightness with three-finger swipes up and down. Note that this doesn’t change brightness in just
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Use Photo Stream instead of emailing photos to yourself

06 May 2013
David Chartier
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Photo Stream
If you have an iPhone or iPad and a Mac, and are sick of emailing photos to yourself for work, blog posts, or other uses, there are two much
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Finer News: Updates to RSS feeds, main sections

02 May 2013
David Chartier
3
Finer Things Business
Google’s been shutting down services in an effort to focus, and one clearly not long for this world is FeedBurner, the service I (and many,
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MATTER lets you add paid articles to Pocket

02 May 2013
David Chartier
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iPad apps, iPhone apps, Kickstarter, MATTER, Pocket
Matter, a journalism project that nearly tripled its goal on Kickstarter, is the first paid publisher to officially adopt Pocket as a read later
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KitCam for iPhone can share the original photo or your edited masterpiece

01 May 2013
David Chartier
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iPhone apps, KitCam, photo filters, photography, social media
KitCam for iPhone, my favorite photo and video app by a mile, keeps a copy of your original photos even after you edit and apply lenses, film,
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Windows 8 has Airplane Mode

01 May 2013
David Chartier
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Airplane mode, PC Settings
It’s pretty easy to turn off WiFi, Bluetooth, and any mobile networks your PC or tablet might have in one fell swoop. Just go to PC
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Tips for changing brightness on MacBook, external displays

29 Apr 2013
David Chartier
1
brightness, MacBook, shortcuts
If you have an external display hooked up to a MacBook, using the Macbook keyboard’s brightness keys will change the laptop display. The
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Shake the Xbox SmartGlass app and your avatar falls over

27 Apr 2013
David Chartier
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avatar, iOS polish, polish, Xbox, Xbox SmartGlass
If you shake Microsoft’s Xbox SmartGlass app, your avatar falls over.
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Disable remote images in Mail for iOS to fight spam, bandwidth bills

27 Apr 2013
David Chartier
4
Apple recently added the option to stop Mail from automatically loading remote images when it opens a message. This is a good way to fight spam
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