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Enjoy cooking? Download dozens of great cookbooks from Amazon for free!

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If you enjoy cooking, chances are you also enjoy collecting cookbooks. And as you well know, growing your cookbook collection can be rather expensive.

But thanks to our good friends at Amazon, adding great cookbooks to your personal collection doesn’t have to cost you a cent!

The secret? You can download dozens of great cookbooks (#ad) directly from Amazon, for free!

Yes, it’s true, and there’s absolutely no catch. In fact, you don’t even have to own a Kindle eReader in order to use your free Kindle cookbooks!

All you need is to have the free Kindle Reading App (#ad) installed on your computer or mobile device.  [Read more…]

Clean out and speed up your Android device with CCleaner for Android

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ccleaner-for-androidCCleaner has been the preferred system cleanup utility for millions of PC and Mac users for quite some time.

Now you can get many of the same benefits of the PC and Mac versions of CCleaner on your Android phone or tablet.

CCleaner for Android will clean the junk out of your device and make it run faster and with fewer hang-ups and glitches. I’ve been using it on my phones and tablet for a while now, and I love it.

Here are a few of the ways CCleaner for Android can help optimize and speed up your Android device:  [Read more…]

Turn your old unused smartphone into a free ‘landline’ with Viber

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viberIf you’re like most people these days, you probably have a perfectly good smart phone sitting in a drawer collecting dust after falling victim to the endless cell phone upgrade cycle.

That unused phone has some pretty sophisticated electronics inside it, so why not put it to good use?

You can turn your “old” smart phone into a landline replacement by installing a wonderful free app called Viber.

And regardless of which brand and model of phone you have, there is probably a version of Viber to run on it! [Read more…]

Easily recover accidentally deleted photos and other files with a free tool called Recuva

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recuvaHave you ever accidentally deleted a photo, Microsoft Word document or some other file that you actually had no intention of deleting? The fact is we have all done it at one time or another.

A fantastic free program called Recuva will scan your internal or external hard drive, USB thumb drive or the memory card from your camera or smart phone and give you the option to “undelete” any deleted files that it finds.

And guess what? It works like a charm!  [Read more…]

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