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The Internet is a place where innocence goes to die.

Yes, it's also mankind's greatest repository of collected knowledge--but some of the Internet's knowledge might be a little inappropriate for young minds.

In spite of this, Web browsers have quickly blanketed my home over the past few years. They're on my phone, my TV, my computer, my tablet, and apparently coming soon to my refrigerator. As the father of a 4-year-old, I run our house like digital-era Holden Caulfield, disabling or password-protecting the browser on every gadget I can own.

It's not even the Web'more

The free, universal Epicurious iOS app looks great on the iPad, though syncing with your Web account or the iPhone app requires an in-app purchase.

If you've searched for a recipe online, odds are you've ended up on Epicurious.com. This huge online recipe database culls recipes from a wide array of sources, including Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines and numerous cookbooks. The iPad app grants you access to over 30,000 recipes and presents them in a sleek, easily navigated layout. The app also includes an enhanced search functionality to help you sort through the sometimes overwhelming more

The Kindle Fire's e-mail client can set up Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL accounts with ease.

If you want to set up your Google Apps Gmail account, however, you'll need to enter a bit more information than just your username and password. Here's how to add your Google Apps Gmail account to the Kindle Fire:

Step 1: Go to the Kindle Fire e-mail setup and select Other as your e-mail provider.

Step 2: When prompted to enter your account information, type in your Google Apps e-mail address and your account password, then tap Next.

Step 3: Select more

Having all of your iMessage conversations sync across your iPhone and iPad automatically allows for a seamless experience when frequently switching between devices.

Although we have previously covered the basics of iMessage, and briefly touched on how to sync all of your iMessages between iOS devices, this is one question that keeps coming up. So, let's take a deeper look at how to ensure your messages will be synced.

Let's start with making sure everything is set up properly on your iPhone, before we move on to the iPad.

1. To begin, open the Settings app on your iPhone more

With recipes so freely available online, it's difficult to recommend paying for a cookbook app. There is one such app I plunked down for, and I feel it's worth every penny.

You may know Mark Bittman from his The Minimalist column in The New York Times. He's also the author of a number of cookbooks, including the excellent "How to Cook Everything." The How To Cook Everything app costs $4.99 for the iPhone or $9.99 for the iPad, but each features the entire contents of the How To Cook Everything hardcover, which costs more than twice as much as the iPad app, even at its discounted price on Amazon. And with its timers and shopping list features, the app does things the book can't.

For many people, spending an afternoon with a car salesman is about as enjoyable as visiting the dentist--maybe less.

Fortunately, car shoppers have access to a litany of online resources that are helpful for making the car-buying experience a little less stressful. Many of those same resources are available for Android devices as well.

Here are four popular car-shopping apps for Android:

Kelley Blue Book
The Kelley Blue Book app provides pricing information on new cars and used cars from 1992 on. For used cars, you can enter vehicle information and mileage to get a customized pricing report for that more

After setting up a Gmail account on your iOS device, you may have noticed the delete button has now changed to an archive button. Doing so more closely mimics the Gmail experience.

For some Gmail users, the archive feature is a welcome feature; for others the default delete functionality is preferred. Disabling archive is simple. Follow these four steps to turn off archive and restore delete.

1. To get started, go to Settings.

2. Navigate to Mail.

3. Select the Gmail account you want to edit.

4. Toggle the Archive Messages switch.

If you are a fan of the archive mentality, you may want more

Amazon recently released a Windows application called Send to Kindle, which allows you to send personal documents to your Kindle device from your PC.

In the past, you could send documents to your Kindle by e-mailing it to a personalized Kindle e-mail address or by connecting your Kindle to your PC via a USB cable. The Send to Kindle program makes sending your documents even easier by allowing you to right-click on them from Windows Explorer. With Send to Kindle, you can also send documents from any Windows program by choosing to print it, then selecting Send to Kindle as more

Nobody who uses an iPad will ever confuse it for a full-feature notebook PC (especially once they've tried to enter data via the device's built-in keyboard). But anyone who computes on the road knows there's more to business travel than keyboarding.

These four free iPad apps transform the tablet into a clock radio, weather reporter, file manager, and multi-talented notepad.

Free file manager simplifies transfers to PCs via Wi-Fi, USB
If you store Word, Excel, and other Office documents online, you may not need to keep copies of the files on your iPad. But many iPad users more