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5 Fun Apps To Kill Time On Your Android Honeycomb Tablet

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Tablets are a lot better at being entertaining than at making you productive. Hence, this article is all about filling dead time with fun and entertaining apps. Now if you ever find yourself bored or stuck waiting, get out your tablet and kill time with the following fun Android Honeycomb apps.</div>
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Browse The News</h2>
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The good thing about news is that there are new ones every day. So whenever you have some free time to fill, there will be a new story for you to discover. A really great way to do that on your Android device is Pulse.</div>
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Pulse is an application that turns articles from your favorite websites into streams of little tiles. The tiles can either contain an image and the headline or the headline and a brief summary. With Pulse you can browse the strings of articles from different sources.</div>
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Articles you want to read will open in a slide-in window to the right-hand side. It allows you to both keep the present article open and browse other news stories at the same time. You can either view the posts in a compact text view (shown below) or load the website within the same window.</div>
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We also covered Pulse for Android and iOS in the MakeUseOf Directory.</div>
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For fans of old school newspapers, Pulse may be a little too flashy. If that’s you and if you got a tablet nevertheless, maybe PressReader for Honeycomb will make you a little more content.</div>
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Listen To Music</h2>
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Just want to zone out and listen to a few tunes? TuneIn Radio is one of the best apps to browse over 50,000 channels, including local presets and national networks from around the world.</div>
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Entertain The Brain</h2>
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News can be heavy stuff and maybe you’re not in the mood for audio centered entertainment. If you’re looking for some less serious and quiet entertainment, there are a couple of Android Honeycomb apps to stimulate that grey matter in a fun way. My favorite is Funny Facts, an app with random facts sorted into various categories, such as science, celebrities, or sex. It also includes famous quotes.</div>
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Another great way to waste some time and do something for your education at the same time is reading Wikipedia. Wikipedia for Honeycomb Tablet actually is a Wikipedia browser in which you can store your favorite pages as bookmarks.</div>
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Play A Game</h2>
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There aren’t a lot of cool free games optimized for Honeycomb out there. You will find a few basic ones, for example Minesweeper. One that is much more fun is Cordy, a 3D puzzle platform game. A little robot called Cordy runs through its world, collecting zap drops and once he has collected enough energy, he can power up the level, which will open the exit door.</div>
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The first four levels are free. To play the full 27 levels you need to buy the game for $4.99.</div>
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In the event that you have to entertain a bored toddler, get DrawFree, a basic drawing Android Honeycomb apps. It may also be useful to illustrate something or make a quick note when pen and paper are not handy.</div>
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5 Fun Apps To Kill Time On Your Android Honeycomb Tablet

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Evri Turns The News Into A Colorful & Well Organized Experience [iPad]

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There are some pretty attractive, fun and personalized ways to read news on your iPad. However, many news apps, even the very best ones, tend to overwhelm me. Many of them are comprised of endless squares that I need to customize in order to not get immediately lost. Evri is a news reader for the iPadwhich makes it all a bit more organized. While not being very customizable, it makes it easy to zoom in directly on your favorite topics and still be able to broaden your interests whenever you feel like it.</div>
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Browsing, Reading & Sharing</h2>
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Evri turns news, no matter what they are, into candy. The app is very well designed, and everything you look at just beckons you to read it. When you first load the app, you’ll see a top bar with some topics you can choose from (News, US & World, Entertainment, Sports, Business and Technology). Tapping any of these will show you a list of hot sub-topics on the left and some hot news on the main screen.</div>
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When you focus on one sub-topic, you get a glimpse of the very top news, a list of featured articles and some related topics. For each and every topic you browse, no matter how broad or how specific, there’s a “<em>Follow</em>” button. Tapping it will add the topic to your <em>Now Following</em> list, and you’ll be able to read everything under it easily as it’s published.</div>
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You can easily access your <em>Now Following</em> list from this notice or from the main app page. From there you can also delete topics you are not longer interested in.</div>
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Evri gathers news items from all over the Web. When browsing a topic, you’ll get a preview (or sometimes the full article, if it’s short) of all the hot stories from different sources. There are several things you can do with these:</div>
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<li>“<em>Read</em>” opens the full original article in the app’s internal browser.</li>
<li>“<em>Save</em>” lets you save this article for later using Read It Later or Instapaper (requires login).</li>
<li>“<em>Share</em>” allows you to share this piece of news with friends via Facebook & Twitter (requires login) or via e-mail. You can also use this button to open the article in Safari.</li>
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Finding & Learning</h2>
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You might not be very interested in the somewhat limited topics Evri provides for quick browsing. But don’t worry, Evri provides a quick, live search for topics. No matter what page you’re on, tap the search box and start typing. Evri will immediately start loading a list of topics which might be a match for your word. It will not limit by broad topics, so a search for “<em>Horse</em>”, for example, yields the animal, a military person, a plant, a film and so on.</div>
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When you’ve found your specific topic, simply tap on it and you’ll be taken to a page dedicated to everything that has to do with this topic. The connection can be somewhat loose, especially if your topic is a bit broad.</div>
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At any point when browsing, you can tap the “<em>Info</em>” icon to learn more about whatever it is you’re reading about. Evri provides an excerpt from Wikipedia with some important information, and a list of related topics, which can be very related or just somewhat related (George Clooney and Coffee?).</div>
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Another convenient thing you can do is go through your entire browsing history. On the top topics bar, scroll all the way to the right and look for the “<em>History</em>” tab. Here you’ll find a list, complete with times of the day, of all the topics you’ve browsed today, in the past week and in the past month. If you were browsing something really interesting and forgot to follow it, you can use the history to find it again.</div>
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Bottom Line</h2>
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All in all, Evri provides a fun news-reading experience which you can use to find a specific news item, or to dive into the world of news and explore it deeply by jumping from link to link. The way Evri works, you’ll always get a list of related stories or related links, so you can pretty much go on browsing and reading news all day long.</div>
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I do wish they’d add some more ways to customize it, such as letting the user choose which topics appear on the left-side list, but even as it is, Evri is a polished iPad app and it helps you find your way through the news, instead of getting you lost.</div>
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Do you know of some more good news apps? What did you think of Evri? Share in the comments!</div>
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Searcheeze: A collaborative alternative to Evernote

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Searcheeze is a new search curation tool that has just come out of private beta. Co-founded by Stefano Passatadori and Flavio Gambardella, the Italy-based startup was originally unveiled a couple of years ago as Ibrii.<br />
With two years worth of feedback under their belts, the co-founders took Ibrii and reformatted it to create Searcheeze,  a service which made it as a finalist in European Demo Day in San Franciso this past July.<br />
Searcheeze allows you to collect images, text and video from around the web, and save them to an online account, much like Evernote does. The difference between Evernote and Searcheeze is the fact that the latter is focused on giving users a collaborative experience when it comes to searching for and saving content from the web.<br />
After signing up for a free account you can begin to create new topics. You have the choice of making these topics public or private, as well as inviting other users to contribute. Invitations can be sent via email or Facebook.<br />
To actually populate your topic, you can install the handy bookmarklet which allows you to drag text, images, audio clips and video into the Searcheeze sidebar.<br />
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You can also add text of your own through the web interface, as well as add captions to each item you save.<br />
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Just as you can drag and drop items into the Searcheeze sidebar, you can also drag and drop them within the sidebar to rearrange their order, as well as in the web interface.<br />
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The final page, which you can share publicly or keep private will feature all of your shared items in a sleek, clean grid, which is very easy to read.<br />
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Each text item will have it’s own box, accompanied by the link where the text came from and the date it was saved. Videos are each displayed in their own box on the page. In our experience YouTube videos didn’t play nice with Searcheeze, but we had no trouble adding Vimeo videos to our collection.<br />
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<img alt="searcheeze7 Searcheeze: A collaborative alternative to Evernote" data-mce-src="http://www.new-technology-news.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/d2e86a1aafheeze7.png.png" height="378" src="http://www.new-technology-news.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/d2e86a1aafheeze7.png.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" title="searcheeze7" width="461" />Once you’re ready to share your collection to the world you can publish it on Searcheeze and, if you’ve connected your Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and WordPress accounts, you can autopost the collections to these services with the click of a button.<br />
So why would you use a tool like Searcheeze over Evernote? While Evernote allows you to publicly share your notes, you can only allow others to modify content if you are a premium user. Searcheeze gives you this feature for free. And as far as aesthetics are concerned, Searcheeze definitely sprints ahead of Evernote, as the final product looks far better.<br />
Needless to say Evernote’s overall features are far more robust than Searcheeze, but the service addresses one issue in particular – making it easy for a team to contribute to any given topic.<br />
Comparisons to Evernote aside, Searcheeze is an ideal tool for teams working on a project and need to be able to share information from around the web in a quick and easy way. For private users, it can easily be used as an online scrapbook of sorts, or online bookmarking alternative, allowing you to save clippings from all over the web, in neat organized topics.<br />
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"It's sort of similar to giving a house key to your friends when you go on vacation–pick the friends you most trust in case you need their help.<br />
"If you forgot your password and need to login but can't access your email account, you can rely on your friends to help you get back in.<br />
"We will send codes to the friends you have selected and they can pass along that information to you."<br />
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5 Ways To Clean Up Your Computer With An Automated Script [Windows]

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<img alt="automate computer cleanup" class="aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://www.new-technology-news.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ace81bb0c1omated.png.png" src="http://www.new-technology-news.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ace81bb0c1omated.png.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" />Computer maintenance isn’t exactly something that most people remember to do. For the general user that isn’t exactly tech savvy, when a computer doesn’t work, they either call for help or simply buy a new computer.<br />
If you have family members or friends that are always calling you for help with a slow computer, I’m going to offer you a solution that you can use to stop those phone calls right now. This solution incorporates six tools into a Windows script. That script is going to perform all of the PC cleanup work that you would do if you were sitting right in front of the computer yourself.<br />
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What This Script Will Accomplish</h2>
This Windows script is going to run the required tools in command line mode. Many of these tools that you’ve been using for years, you may not have even realized that there <em>is</em> a command-line mode available.<br />
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Clean Up Registry & Temp Folders</h3>
The first step is probably the most important. We’re going to launch CCleaner in command line mode to clean up temp files and the registry.<br />
One catch. In order to make this script work without constant notifications about the apps making computer changes, you’ll have to disable the User Account Control windows feature in Windows 7.<br />
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Now you’re ready to roll. Create a file called <em>CleanComputer.wsf</em> and start it off with the following script.<br />
<code></code><br /><code></code><br />
<code>Option Explicit</code><br /><code>On Error Resume Next</code><br />
<code>Dim WshShell</code><br /><code>Dim retVal</code><br />
<code>set WshShell=CreateObject("WScript.Shell")</code><br /><code>WshShell.run "CCleaner.exe /AUTO"</code><br />
Danny covered CCleaner recently, so you can see just what it is capable of and how much it can optimize your system. When you launch it in the script as shown above with the /AUTO flag, it’ll run invisible and it’ll use the settings you used when you last ran the application. You’ll see CCleaner.exe running in the Task Manager.<br />
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If you configure CCleaner beforehand, in auto mode it’ll automatically clean up temporary files, log files and your registry as well.<br />
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Clean Up Spyware</h3>
Next up is to take care of any spyware that might be running on the PC. My favorite tool for that is Spybot, and luckily Spybot also offers a command line feature. The one problem here is that the path to Spybot is full of spaces, which is hard to handle in a Windows Script shell command.<br />
So, create a .bat file with the following:<br />
<code>C:Program Files (x86)Spybot - Search & DestroySpybotSD.exe" /taskbarhide /autocheck /autofix /autoclose</code><br /><code>Exit</code><br />
Save it as <em>SpyBot.bat</em> in the same directory as your Windows script. Then in the next line of your WSF file, add the following:<br />
<code>WshShell.run "spybot.bat"</code><br />
Your Windows Script will launch your batch job that will launch Spybot in command-line mode. You will know it’s running when the Exe appears in the task manager.<br />
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Those four parameters after the spybotsd.exe file  will run Spybot in silent mode, automatically remove any spyware found, and then automatically close.<br />
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Remove Malicious Software</h3>
In addition to anything Spybot catches, I also like to run the Microsoft Malicious Software removal tool. Download the executable from the “Microsoft Download Center” section, save it in your script directory as “<em>malremove.exe</em>” and then add the following line to your growing Windows Script.<br />
<code>WshShell.run "malremove.exe /Q /F:Y"</code><br />
The /Q command tells the malware removal tool to run in quiet mode (no interface) and /F:Y tells it to forcibly remove any malware that it finds without any intervention required. The first time you run it during your initial testing, you’ll have to select the option for no warning the next time it runs.<br />
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Here it is running in the background.<br />
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So, we’ve covered most of what you’d probably do if you were there in person – run CCleaner to get rid of temporary Internet files and other temp files, remove spyware and malware, so what’s left?<br />
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Automate Disk Cleanup</h3>
Another common tool that can help computer performance is the Windows Disk Cleanup tool.  First you have to set it up. Go to <em>Start -> Run</em> and type: “<em>cleanmgr /sageset:1</em>“. The following window will appear.<br />
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Set up the items that you’d like your command line to automatically clean, and then click OK. This tells it that whenever you choose <em>/sageset:1</em>, to utilize the settings you’ve just created. Now, in your Windows Script, add the following line.<br />
<code>WshShell.run "Cleanmgr /sagerun:1"</code><br />
This will run the Windows disk cleanup silently, using the settings you’ve just created. You can also install the latest Windows updates by first installing WuInstall.exe and adding this line.<br />
<code>WshShell.run "wuinstall.exe /install /reboot_if_needed"</code><br />
And don’t forget to do a quick defrag of the hard drive by adding the following lines to the script.<br />
<em>WshShell.run “Defrag volume c:”</em><br />
<code>WshShell.run "Defrag volume d:"</code><br />
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Automate Virus Scan After Cleanup</h3>
Last, but definitely not least, you’ll also want to end your script by firing off a full virus scan. For example, I use Kaspersky, which offers its own set of command line parameters.<br />
In my case, I just add the following final line to my script.<br />
<code>WshShell.run "AVP.exe SCAN /ALL /i4"</code><br />
And that kicks off the command window and runs through a full scan (which can take several hours).<br />
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Most other anti-virus providers out there offer similar command-line options.<br />
So, once you’ve added all of these lines, close out your Windows Script.<br />
<code>WScript.Quit</code><br /><code></code><br /><code></code><br />
Once you’ve finished the procedure above and saved your file on the PC, just schedule the job to run on a regular basis (<em>/Accessories/System Tools/Task Scheduler</em>). Give the procedure above a try and see how well it works for you.<br />
Did it work well, and can you think of any other useful command line tasks that could also be added? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.<br />
<small>Image Credit: Shutterstock</small><br />
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5 Ways To Clean Up Your Computer With An Automated Script [Windows]

Computer maintenance isn’t exactly something that most people remember to do. For the general user that isn’t exactly tech savvy, when a c...