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Phonedeck Lets You Control Your Android Phone from Your Computer

From Gizmodo:

One of the benefits of using Android is the options and flexibility you get. Like Phonedeck, an app that essentially lets you control your phone from a web browser. That’s right, you can send texts, make calls and reject calls on your phone all through your computer.

Along with notifying you of phone calls and text messages, it also puts your Android phone contacts to the cloud, which makes the whole interface sorta look like an all familiar social network but includes the phone notification features.

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Google Drive: Finally coming this April — Cloud Computing News

From GigaOm:

Google’s online storage service, rumored to be called GDrive is like the wolf in the fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Well, after long history of false alarms, the storage drive might just see the day in early April, according to my well placed sources familiar with company’s plans. I say might, just because of Google’s history with the Google Drive.

The rumors of Google’s Gdrive first emerged in 2006 and then in 2007 via The Wall Street Journal. Nothing came of those rumors. Two years later, same story, and one more time,nothing came to fruition. In 2010, Google announced that it would allow you to upload documents and files to Google Docs. In February 2012, the rumors started again with another report from The Wall Street Journal.

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TweetDeck Updates with Inline Image Previews, Twitter Lists, and More

From Lifehacker:

TweetDeck’s new non-AIR client was a little lacking in features when it first came out, but today it received a major update that makes it much more tempting. New features include full support for Twitter lists, inline media previews, a new format for retweets, and more.

The inline image previews are arguably the best part of this new update, showing you pictures and videos inside the stream, without requiring you to click on a link. The new lists feature is nice if you’re a fan of Twitter lists, though, and the new Activity and Interactions columns are an interesting way to keep up with your Twitter friends. They’ve also updated the retweet feature, now allowing you to use the “RT @username tweet” format rather than the less popular quote format.

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Five common SEO mistakes (and six good ideas!)

From Google Webmaster Central Blog:

Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate

To help you avoid common mistakes webmasters face with regard to search engine optimization (SEO), I filmed a video outlining five common mistakes I’ve noticed in the SEO industry. Almost four years ago, we also gathered information from all of you (our readers) about your SEO recommendations and updated our related Help Center article given your feedback. Much of the same advice from 2008 still holds true today — here’s to more years ahead building a great site!

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Learn why a message ended up in your spam folder

From Gmail Blog:



Many of our users say the accuracy of our spam filter is one of the key reasons they love Gmail. And while we think you should never have to look in your spam folder, we know some of you may want to know why the messages there were marked as spam. 

So starting today, we’ll be showing a brief explanation at the top of each of your spam messages. Simply look at any message in your spam folder and now you can find out why it was put there and learn about any potentially harmful content within the message.

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