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Microsoft Surface Pro Review: Too Much Future?

The Microsoft Surface was the biggest new tech of 2012. Its first iteration — Surface RT, a confusingly named and marketed tablet-with-a-keyboard — bombed. Pretty hard. So why believe in the full-powered Surface Pro? Simple. It’s a braver and more divergent take on the laptop-tablet convergence than anyone else has risked so far.

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How To Make Money On Your Lunch Break

How do you spend your lunch break? Taking a turn round the park? Checking Facebook? Catching up on the work you should’ve done in the morning? All of these options have their place, but here’s something else you can be doing: Making money.

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Top 10 Tricks To Master Spotify

The digital music revolution continues at a frenetic pace — we’d only just turned in our CDs for MP3s when streaming services came along to upturn the apple cart again. There are now a whole host of streaming apps to choose from, but the original pioneer Spotify remains the biggest and the most well-known.

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How To Lock Down Your Facebook Privacy Before Graph Search Strikes

Graph Search is Facebook’s bold new way of browsing the social network, letting you call up photos of your family in California, restaurants your friends like in New York, or any public updates from Gizmodo employees who also like hot air ballooning.

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10 Tricks To Make Yourself A Dropbox Master

Dropbox is a robust independent file syncing tool (which Apple once tried to buy) that recently hit the 100 milion user milestone. It’s arguably the most popular cloud service around and for good reason.

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Six Hidden Windows 8 Features You Can’t Live Without

Windows 8 can take some getting used to. While the desktop app works very much like Windows 7, there are plenty of new shortcuts, options, and tricks built into the operating system. Think you know how to use it like a pro? Here are a few Windows 8 features that you probably haven’t found yet.

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Control Your Computer With Your Phone

Want to pause VLC from the comfort of your couch? Email a forgotten file from your home to your office? Gain full remote access to your PC from halfway across the world?

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Ten Tricks To Make Yourself A Gmail Master

Back in 2004, Gmail rewrote the rules for web-based email. It had a fast, clean interface, and a jaw-dropping 1GB of free storage. Today, it comes with 10 times the amount of space, and boasts many millions of users across the globe.

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