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Online OCR - handy free Optical Character Recognition service
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Online OCR – we very much like this handy free Optical Character Recognition service

Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 - by Lee J.

If you’ve got a scanned document and need to convert it to text ina hurry, then the online OCR service looks to be a great tool. The service can extract text …

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mobiles

What’s the most used data service in the world? You might find the answer surprising

Friday, Oct 28, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

No, it’s not email, Facebook or even Twitter. It’s actually good ol’ SMS text messaging. There’s over 4.2 billion people texting worldwide, with 6.1 trillion SMS messages sent in 2010 – working …

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US teens are, like, so over chatting on the phone [infographic]

Sunday, Jul 3, 2011 - by Lee J.

After questioning 500 US teens via social networking sites, online consumer market research bods lab42 discovered that 71 per cent of respondents apparently preferred texting to phone calling.

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computing / software / Windows

Texter makes short thrift of everyday text

Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010 - by mike s

It feels like it hasn’t been updated since the dawn of time (well, three years) but the text substitution app Texter is still getting daily use in Chez Wirefresh.

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mobiles

o2 team up with Starbucks and L’Oreal for location based SMS vouchers

Friday, Oct 15, 2010Friday, Oct 15, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

We can’t think of many things more annoying  than being bothered by SMS messages offering us discounts for hair products or distinctly average coffee, but a breakthrough deal sees UK network provider O2 partnering up …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles / transport

StartTalking: send SMS messages without even looking at your phone

Friday, Oct 1, 2010Thursday, Sep 30, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

A free Android app called StartTalking has been launched to let drivers send off texts without even having to look at their handsets.

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mobiles

Ten per cent of adults SMS while shagging. Apparently

Friday, Sep 24, 2010Friday, Sep 24, 2010 - by Lee J.

We love the small of a king size infographic on a Friday morning, so here’s one stuffed full of SMS-related facts and figures for your delectation, straight from the good …

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mobiles

Texting trends: US teen girls type out 100 texts a day

Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010Tuesday, Aug 17, 2010 - by mike s

We’re indebted to the folks at Mashable for putting together this fascinating infographic charting the rise of text messaging, and putting some figures on how SMS has impacted on peoples’ …

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Apple / software / Windows Mobile

CreaWriter and OmniWriter serve up calming, soothing writing environments

Thursday, Feb 4, 2010Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 - by mike s

We’re typing this using CreaWriter, a free Windows text editor designed to “increase your productivity and creativity” by decluttering your screen and covering up your endless flashing widgets, Twitter feeds …

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US: 4.1 billion SMS messages being sent daily

Thursday, Oct 8, 2009Thursday, Oct 8, 2009 - by mike s

The latest CTIA wireless industry survey has just been released, and it reveals the continuing runaway growth of text messaging in America. According to the survey, over 740 billion text …

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software / Windows

EditPlus Text/HTML Editor v3.11 review (Windows)

Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

If you’re getting mighty miffed by having to do battle with basic Notepad application that ships with Windows whenever you’re looking to do some serious text/code editing, then, EditPlus for …

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