How to Receive an Email with the Results of your Cron Jobs
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If you run a program which can sometimes output information in cron that information normally gets dumped to your user’s mail file.  That means you would need to sign into the server to check the mail file and see the results.  A better way is to have the results emailed out to you.  You can do this by making a simple entry as shown below:

[email protected]

Adding that one line will then cause all cron output to go to the email address of [email protected].

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Adobe Photoshop Express App
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I have been a Photoshop user for years, so when I saw this app in the marketplace I really didn’t think it could be that great of an app but I thought I would try it out anyway.  I was pleasantly surprised at how well it works.  With very little effort you can dramatically improve photos you take on your phone.  They offer several different filters and effects all which can be done with a slide of a finger.

Adobe Photoshop Express App

Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express on the Android Marketplace

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GDocs Apps
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One thing which has been surprisingly lacking in Android is a good way to access your Google Docs.  Google does not provide an app for this but it took them a long time to get it out and in my opinion isn’t as good as this app.

GDocs allows you full access to your Google Docs account were you can view your docs and do simple editing of the docs.

GDocs App

GDocs App

GDocs on the Android Marketplace

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CallTrack App
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When I do consulting work I bill my customers an hourly rate.  Often times I get unexpected phone calls which can make it difficult to keep track of my time.

I use the CallTrack app to automatically enter all of my calls onto my calendar so that I can then easily go back and bill out the time.  It is a very simple app which allows you to also track your text messages.

 

CallTrack App

CallTrack

CallTrack for Android Marketplace

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FastCustomer App
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Calling customer service for anything is a chore.  You have to wait on hold until the next representative is available listening to annoying music and looping voices.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful if customer support called you when they were available.  That is what FastCustomer does.

You open up the app and select the company you need to contact and then when they get through to a person your phone will ring.

FastCustomer App

FastCustomer

FastCustomer on the Android Marketplace

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