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When setting up a new device, it's nice to go back and make sure you've downloaded all of your purchased apps (or any purchased content for that matter), but Google's Play store app doesn't make it easy for this to happen at the moment. Currently your download history contains both free and paid apps, with no way to separate the two.

My Purchases is a free Android app that allows users to view their entire Google Play purchase history with just a few taps, as first reported by Droid Life.

After you install the free or Pro version of the app, you grant it access to your purchase history and it will compile a list of your past purchases from Google Play. The list isn't limited to just apps; as it also includes any music, devices, movies, or TV shows you've purchased. You can then quickly view and download the item from the Play store.

Both the free and paid versions of My Purchases will reveal your purchase history. The only difference between the two, besides the $1.29 p... [Read more]

Updated spell-checking in Chrome recognizes proper nouns.

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When Chrome's engineers sat down to plan out feature updates, who would've thought that "spell-checker" would've been anywhere on that list?

Google Chrome 26 stable for Windows (download) and Linux (download) updates the browser's ability to automatically check for spelling and homonym mistakes with new dictionaries.

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Chrome 26 for Mac (download) has received the other Chrome 26 updates, but the spell-checking feature will be ... [Read more]

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Announced today, Verizon's Android devices will soon come loaded with a new Games Portal, a standalone app marketplace for games (separate from Google Play) combined with a social network similar to Apple's Game Center.

Powered by PlayPhone, an experienced builder of gaming networks, Verizon's Games Portal figures to be an attractive marketplace for developers. The platform not only offers distribution to millions of Verizon customers, but it also allows these customers to take advantage of direct carrier billing, a low-friction option that could result in more games-based purchases. What's more, since Android doesn't (yet?) have a built-in gaming platform to rival Apple's Games Center, the market seems ripe for the release of just such a network. But again, this is only for Verizon customers for now.

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Apple's ColorSync technology in OS X uses calibrated profiles of correction curves and other scaling factor information to match the color of various image input and output devices such as monitors, printers, and scanners, so images viewed on them will appear as close as possible.

Most devices will use a factory-provided profile or a generic one to give a close color match, but these often have notable color discrepancies that in some cases you can manage by creating your own profiles. For example, for matching colors across different displays, you can use the Calibrate button in the Color section of the Displays system preferences to generate correction curves for your monitors, and more closely match their colors.

Since the information in these profiles is the basis for color matching, if there are any problems in the profiles, you may not see proper color management in your devices. To manage this, Apple includes a program called ColorSync Utility, with which you can run a first-aid routine on your profiles (called Profile First Aid) and see if there are any errors. In most cases, First Aid can fix the profiles, but occasionally it can't, either because the problem is severe or because the profile is inaccessible for repair by the utility.

Besides other errors, those that indicate "File Locked" may be fixable by... [Read more]

New predictive intelligence app Sherpa.

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The launch of Google Now last year pointed a new way forward for search, as Google could begin predicting the information its users sought before they even thought to type a query. Traffic, weather, sports scores and more began materializing on phones running Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and above, with the company promising that many more kinds of information are on the way.

To date, there has been no iOS equivalent -- which prompted a war of words between Google and Apple last week, after Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt suggested that Apple was holding up the app in its App Store approval process. The closest cousin that Google Now has on iOS is Grokr, which surfaces the usual traffic and weather information along with breaking news, place recommendations and trending topics from around the Web.

Personally, I found Grokr to be a bit too noisy with its push notifications, which frequently pointed me to... [Read more]

The redesigned Evernote for Android.

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Evernote released a new version for Android today, bringing new photo and search features and a refreshed design to the popular note-taking app. Many of the features already exist in the iOS app, which was updated in November, but at least one is new to the company's mobile products.

The new multishot feature in Evernote for Android.

The update, which also includes useful new home screen widgets, went live in the Google Play store this morning. It comes on the heels of Google's release of the Keep note-taking service last week, a product that duplicates some Evernote features and that will integrate with Google Drive.

But about that Android update: A multishot feature lets users snap multiple photos of a moment, and save them to Evernote without ever leaving the in-app camera. Evernote is also bringing its "page camera" over from iOS, which uses the smar... [Read more]

Apple's Mail e-mail client supports a number of different messaging protocols including POP and IMAP, but if you convert an existing account from POP to IMAP then you may run into a problem in which e-mails are longer saved on the server.

MacFixIt reader Bruce recently wrote in with such a situation:

I have recently tried to convert my wife's AOL email from POP to IMAP. I did this by adding a new account in Mail. When she sends messages with the new account, the sent messages do not show up on the server, even though I have checked the box telling it to [make them] do so. I have tried both totally disabling the old account and leaving the account active but not checked. The sent mail shows up in a folder (mailbox) on the computer but not on the server. All works properly with the iPad. I would like the Mail app to work as well as the iPad so they are the same.

Initially it seemed as though some corruption in the account or the way Mail was handling the account was the root cause, which often can be tackled by clearing the account completely and recreating it from scratch (though you may lose some settings and account organization doing this); however, Bruce was able to find a quick solution to the problem without needing to resort to such measures.

With the server-side mailbox folder selected, select what to... [Read more]