Metanota Is An Elegant, Cloud-Syncing, Simple Notes Manager
OS X: Metanota is a beautiful syncing notes app that works with the wonderful Simplenote service. While it's far from the only option available, it offers excellent organizational features, a...
View ArticleFacebook Rolls Out File-Sharing for Groups, But You Should Use These Services...
Facebook began the process of rolling out file sharing for groups today, allowing you to share files of most types up to 25MB. This might be useful for the average Facebook user who doesn't want to...
View ArticleIs It Still Worth It to Fill Up Your Drive With Music?
Once upon a time, music was hard to get in digital form, so when you had it, you hung on to it for dear life, filling your hard drive with dozens of gigs of music. In the age of streaming and cloud...
View ArticleThese Are the Companies that Protect Your Data from the Government (And the...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation took a look at 18 different web companies to see which ones are serious about user privacy—and which ones are likely to hand your data over to the government at a...
View ArticleCloudee Is the Simplest Way to Share Videos on Your iPhone
iOS: Cloudee is an iPhone app with a simple, primary object: to help you actually share those video clips you take with your device rather than let them sit and waste away in your camera roll. It does...
View ArticleCue Turns Your Email, Contacts, and Calendars into a Smart Timeline of Your Day
iOS: Calendars can help you keep track of your day, but they don't always have all the relevant information about a specific event—sometimes that's stored in your email, or on the social network in...
View ArticleInsync for Gmail Syncs Your Attachments to Google Drive (and Dropbox, Soon)
Insync for Gmail takes the attachments in your inbox and automatically syncs them to Google Drive (and, sometime soon, Dropbox) based on labels. For example, if you were to add the label @Drive to a...
View ArticleTop 10 Secret Features of OS X Mountain Lion
OS X Mountain Lion was released this week and we've told you everything you need to know about Apple's new operating system—except one thing: the secret features. With over 200 small changes, a few of...
View ArticleDoes It Make Sense to Buy Movies and Music from Amazon?
Dear Lifehacker,I just read yesterday that Amazon now offers iTunes-like "cloud matching" for music, and now Amazon's Instant Video is available for iPad. Does this make Amazon a viable option for...
View ArticleCameraSync Adds Location-Based Uploads, Sending Your iPhone's Photos to...
iOS: The official Dropbox app will upload new photos whenever you open it up, but CameraSync will upload those photos in the background—without you needing to open up the app—whenever you reach a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Outlook Is Awesome, Better Olympics Streaming, and Sharing Music in...
This week we're learning that Microsoft's new Outloook webmail service is actually pretty awesome, that you can watch the olympics online, in real time, for free, and that Amazon's CloudPlayer service...
View ArticleFedEx Now Lets You Print Documents from Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box
Got a document that you need on paper, but don't have a printer handy? FedEx Office now lets you print documents from your Dropbox, Google Drive, or Box accounts right from the store. More »
View ArticleTop 10 Clever Uses for Dropbox
Dropbox is an awesome service. You can back your files up to the cloud, sync them between computers, and share them with your friends. That's not all it can do, though. Here are our top 10 favorite...
View ArticleGTD-Powered To-Do App Things Updates, Now Syncs To-Dos and Projects Across...
Mac/iPhone/iPad: Things, a GTD-inspired to-do manager, has long been a well-polished and feature-rich way to manage your to-dos, but until now making sure everything stays in sync on the go has been...
View ArticleSkyDrive Brings Its Cloud Storage Service to Android
Android: Microsoft promised an SkyDrive Android app and today they've delivered. If you've wanted to access all the files in your SkyDrive account, you now can from your Android smartphone or tablet....
View ArticleSnipping Tool++ Easily Sends Windows Screenshot Snippets to the Cloud
Windows: Windows 7 shipped with a much-needed Snipping Tool for taking partial screenshots, but it's not exactly feature-rich. Snipping Tool++ adds a few handy features that connect your screenshots...
View ArticleCue Adds More Customization, Other Fixes to Its "Smart Calendar" on iOS
iOS: Cue is an intelligent calendar that integrates your email, contacts, documents, and other cloud services to create a smart timeline of your day—and it's updated with some much-needed...
View ArticleDoxie Go Scans All Your Paper, Goes Everywhere, and Syncs with Many Popular...
Doxie's been around for awhile, but the latest iteration of these portable scanners offer one of the easiest ways to digitize your life. They take up about as much room as two staplers, operate from...
View ArticleWhat Should I Do Now that Google Apps Accounts Are No Longer Free?
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View ArticleUse Google App Engine to Get Google Apps for Your Domain for Free
Even though officially Google is no longer offering free Google Apps for Business accounts, there is still a way to sign up for Google Apps and get it linked to your own domain. Just sign up for...
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