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Amazon.com has introduced a way for users to quickly save and send news articles as well as other items to their Kindle devices for later, off-line reading. "The Send to Kindle Button lets people easily send that content to their Kindle so they can it read later," Amazon said in a statement. "No more hunting around for that website or blog that caught your eye - just open your Kindle and all the content you sent is right there. " The new feature can be added by users in a variety of ways . Amazon has made it possible for users to send items to their Kindles through Web browser extensions for Google Chrome and Firefox, as a feature that can be installed on Macs or PCs, from Google Android mobile devices, or from users' emails.

You can do a lot with smartphones these days, but unless you're downloading the best apps for your device, you aren't really using it to its full potential. So if you aren't sure what to download, just make sure you have these 10 apps on your iPhone or Android device. Google Maps This app comes preinstalled on Android devices and should be the first app downloaded on iPhones. Besides top-notch design, the app is the best free voice navigation app for driving directions.

A spring break in the nation's capital is a rite of passage for some families, but if the airfare from the West Coast to the East has stretched your vacation budget, take heart. Many places are free, thanks to government funding (although the sequester may cause some changes in hours or personnel). Here are some suggestions on how to make the most with the least: Smithsonian: No visit to Washington, D.C., is complete without a visit to the nation's museums. First-time visitors learn fast that a trip to the Smithsonian is not a visit to one place.

PALO ALTO - Gentry Underwood's tiny start-up rolled out a mobile app last month that promised to tame the unruly email inbox, the bane of the digital age. Not surprisingly, the iPhone app became an overnight sensation as more than 1.3 million signed up just to be on the wait list. Dropbox apparently couldn't wait, and on Friday the online storage company bought Orchestra, the company that makes Mailbox. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "We want to give Mailbox to everyone who wants it, and there are a lot of people who want it. We could raise more money and hire a bigger team but joining Dropbox gives us the opportunity to scale more quickly," said Underwood, chief executive and co-founder of the Palo Alto company.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Haters, we think you're going to like this. The Hater app launched Friday and was one of several start-ups featured at South by Southwest's Start-up Village during the conference's opening day.  The concept is simple: For those of you who are sick of only getting to "like" something on Facebook and other social networks, now there's an app specifically for all the things you can't stand. "You share the things you hate with the people you love," said Jake Banks, chief executive of Hater. "It's basically like Instagram for everything you hate.

All kinds of uses are already being envisioned for Google Glass eyeware, and the one that's catching our eyes is an app that would help users find their friends and family in a crowd, and vice versa. The app, dubbed InSight, would run on the user's smartphone. It would first take a picture of the user to create a digital fingerprint based on what they're wearing and physical characteristics such as long hair. Once the fingerprint is processed, others who have the app and are wearing the Google's smart glasses would be able to find the user in, say, a crowded mall, stadium or flash mob. QUIZ: How much do you know about Google ?

Google Field Trip, an app that alerts users of interesting places as they travel, has arrived on the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app, which launched for Android devices last September, sends users notifications as they near interesting locations, such as landmarks or popular restaurants. "Field Trip can help you learn about everything from local history to the latest and best places to shop, eat and have fun," the app's description says. QUIZ: How much do you know about Google ?

Nokia has rolled out its own app #2ToInstaWithLove , hoping to pressure Instagram to build a Windows Phone version of the popular mobile photo-sharing software. All new Nokia smartphones run the Windows Phone operating system but the Instagram app is only available for Apple and Google Android devices. The Finnish phone maker says it wants Instagram to make an app for its devices running the Windows Phone operating system. "The only way for us to show how much the Nokia community really cares about bringing this world-class app to Windows Phone, is by having a little fun and showing Instagram just how passionate you all are," Nokia said in a blog post addressed to its users.

What if you had 200 play days in Southern California? Then you'd have just enough time to test out the new edition of "SoCal CloseUps," an L.A. Times app and e-book by travel writer Christopher Reynolds. Introduced last summer with tips and pictures from Los Angeles and Orange counties, "SoCal CloseUps" has now grown to include the writer's favorite spots from San Diego to Santa Barbara, from the beaches east to the deserts and mountains. The iPad app, priced at $5.99, features more than 600 photographs and maps and 19 videos from Times staffers, along with hundreds of first-hand recommendations of hotels, restaurants, museums, neighborhoods, parks, beaches, tea rooms and biker bars.

Sorry Tumblr fans, ads are coming to the social network's mobile app. Tumblr, the social network known for its following among teens and young adults, said it will start letting companies promote their posts to mobile app users within the next three months. The mobile ads will work similarly to those added to the website version of the social network a couple of months ago, said Tumblr Vice President Derek Gottfrid, according to Bloomberg . That means companies have to pay to promote their own Tumblr blogs so they'll be seen by more people.