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There would be many applications out there in the market but one of those which is definitely super-cool to use, is Hootsuite . Once you sign in to this application, you will find an option as Pending Tweets, this is where you can draft a tweet and schedule it for future. All you need to do is tap on ''Pending Tweets". Go to the next window and write a tweet. Once you are done with tweet drafting, tap on Menu. You will be shown the above screen where you have to tap on Schedule. Set a date and time for your schedule to be posted and tap on 'Set Date' at top right and you are done. Hootsuite apart from giving you additional features, it also has inbuilt browser which opens the url when clicked on. Further you have option to open the url in browser or send to Instapaper or send it via Email / message. It's really beautiful and worth trying.

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It’s Christmas in October. Lots of people are getting new iPhones, but the rest of us have plenty to celebrate, too, as Apple rolls out iOS 5, iCloud, Mac OS X 10.7.2 and, of course, iTunes 10.5 — the glue that sticks it all together. Fire up Software Update because the mothership has a freebie for you. iTunes 10.5 (download) brings a lot of good things — features we’ve all been wanting for years — to your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Mac: The New iPod touch from MacMall.com• iTunes in the Cloud: iTunes now stores music and TV purchases in iCloud, making them available anywhere, any time, at no additional cost     • Automatic Downloads: Purchase music from any device or computer and automatically download a copy to your Mac and iOS devices     • Download Previous Purchases: Download your past music, TV, app and book purchases again, at no additional cost     • Sync with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iOS 5    ...

If you ever notice that your iPad or iPhone calendar doesn't seem to be synchronizing correctly, or is just very slow, here's how you can fix it. First, this is caused by the technology used to connect you to our Exchange services, called Activesync. It also happens on other devices (Android, Windows Phone, etc). To fix the problem, you are simply going to turn Calendaring synchronizing off, then back on again. From your iPhone/iPad: Open the Settings app and tap on Mail, Calendar and Contacts Tap on you Exchange account Then tap on the On/Off toggle button for the Calendar When the pop-up message appears, tap on Delete (removes the old calendar data on your device) Then tap on the On/Off toggle button again to turn Calendar synchronization back on and receive a fresh copy from Exchange Then tap the Done button. You can now go back to work!

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is an amazing game that gives you lots of stages to play. Smooth motion and high graphics is so tempting that you can't resist without playing. It costs $ 1.99 and its worth it. Total of 14 stages and each of it has different graphics and weapons to fight. It is recommended to play at high difficulty level. Chopper ride gives you a nice experience of fighting while you sit in a chopper. The second last stage 'Desert Chase' will be little hard to play, but I know at the end, like other games, you will surely make it. Only drawback about this game was that it was quite small and easy. It is recommended to play at medium or hard difficulty level. Battlefield VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL ...

It has now been 4 years when Apple Inc. had launched its most innovative and the most popular product in the year '07. The iPhone not only transformed the mobile industry, but has also given a few face to Apple. Before the launch of iPhone Apple and the details of Apple business was not so popular among masses specially in non European and Asian countries. If you have a look at Apple and its business in last four years, you can see that the market cap has increased three times. No one would have ever thought this can happen in next four years. In 2007, Apple was nearly 10 years into a fantastic business turnaround. Propelled by the early success of the iMac and pushed further into the black with the iBook, iPod, iTunes and the transition to Intel processors, the iPhone took Apple into an entirely different direction. Four years after the first iPhone was released, a lot has changed in the mobile space. Smartphone adoption has finally gone mainstream. The fortunes of Nokia, ...

Mac OS X Lion has 250 new features which were discussed in WWDC’11 this week. Let’s have a look at few of them which are really appealing   1. Auto Save: Ever thought how wonderful your life would be if you don’t have to bother about saving your document at regular intervals. Apple’s new OS X Lion has various new features among which ‘Auto Save’ is quite amazing. While you keep working, Lion will take care of saving your documents. In case you want to lock the changes, just zoom in on the title bar of your document you can see the name of the document is a menu now and you actually can tap / click on it. Under this option you will find four menu – Lock, Duplicate, Revert to last Opened and Browse All Versions. Lock: While working, you reached to the final level of your project and you like it in that form and don’t want to change in any more – no problem – just click on Lock and it till lock your changes. Now, unless you do it manually, your data is locked. Duplicate: O...

An appropriate signature is the requirement of every mail that you sent out regardless of personal or official. Here are four simple steps of altering signature on your iDevice: I am using my iPod to take the screenshot and upload it on this blog, however steps will remain same on all the iDevices. 1. Click on Settings 2. Scroll to find Mail, Contacts, Calendars and tap on it 3. On the next screen you might need to scroll down till… 4. Scroll down till you find the option of Signature and tap on it 5. Here you are on the edit signature view. Edit according to your choice and click on Mail icon at the top left and you are done.

This is one of the most beautiful experience I had in recent times. I used my iTouch to control my home machine while I was in office. I tried controlling PC and Mac, both gave me wonderful experience. I would like to add, it’s not just for iTouch but you can also use it on iPhone and iPad. The software I used was RDM+ lite, you can go for RDM+ full version spending less than $10. Lets have a look at the features: This was the screen capture I took when my nephew was watching The Bourne Ultimatum at home thinking no one was watching him. Have a look at the icons above – it’s the shortcut. You can go to other media items, logoff from here, get info, and if you click on the icon at extreme right, it will show you the keyboard shortcut and special commands. Mouse movement is amazing in this application, its smoother than you can even expect. If you don’t want this shortcut panel you can just drag it upwards and its gone. See the next image in which I have hidden the shortcut bar. Yo...

The word disc always refers to an Optical Media, which is external and commonly known as CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, or DVD-Video disc. When unmounted, they come out of your machine physically. The term Disk is used for magnetic media such as hard drive (internal or external). A disk is always rewritable in nature and can be reused multiple times. Another characteristic that keeps it separate from discs is its nature to be further divided into multiple partition. Not of very great use, but I am sure this post will add a little to the knowledge bank that most of us have.