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Most Popular iPhone Apps and Posts of 2012 Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com 2012 was an interesting year for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. We got a new operating system with iOS 6, and that came with a fair share of problems. Still, lots of new features, apps, and fixes came along. Here are the most popular iOS-related…
UCLA Researchers Find American Families Have Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time inhabitots.com Families drowning in too much stuff is the focus of a new book, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors, by researchers at UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF). To get information fo… RT…
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