TechRec – Mobile Apps Series: Pocket, Fing & Insightly

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Managing a small business means you wear a lot of different hats throughout the day. Staying on top of all of the different priorities can seem overwhelming. There are a lot of business apps in the marketplace that can help you do everything from managing employee productivity to keeping up with business expenses but how
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TechRec: Increase Collaboration & Eliminate Company Email with Slack

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Ten years ago, more than half of email’s receive were from another person. Today on average only about 8-10% of email is from a person and the rest are comprised of email marketing, receipts, social media updates and other email white noise. To combat the inefficiencies this created for staff communications, Stewart Butterfield, founder of
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TechRec: Convert Any File with CloudConvert

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CloudConvert is a free website and Chrome browser application that can convert over 200 different file formats including PDF, TXT, DOC, DOCX, OGA, WMA, MP3, MP4, and AVIs. Since the application is in the cloud there isn’t any software to install on your local workstation. Simply upload a file, select the output format, convert it
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Is Your Privacy at Risk? Apple Opposes Court Order to Create iPhone Backdoor

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A federal judge has ruled that Apple should help investigators break into an iPhone belonging to San Bernardino, CA shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. Up until this ruling Apple has done everything within their power and within the law to assist in the investigation. Believing the ruling has far greater security implications, Apple CEO Tim Cook
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Surfing the Web Just Got a Little Safer with Google’s Safe Browsing Alerts

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Last week Google announced they will soon be marking websites that don’t use HTTPS encryption with a red X in the Chrome toolbar. Their goal is to make it clearer to users which sites don’t protect data. This week, Google has taken a step further and has launched their Safe Browsing technology that will warn
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