Recipe: Wheat-Free Almond Date Cookies.

Ever tried using soy flour for cookies? Well don't. For those needing to get away from wheat, bean flours might work in breads, but can taste obviously out of place in sweets. Nut flours tend to work better.

Almond meal is a good place to start. The almond is a drier nut, so you can easily grind it into meal in a blender or food processor. Almonds are rich in fiber, B-vitamins and healthy fat while being high in protein and low in carbs. The meal doesn't have an overwhelming personality of it's own like bean flours do. The final cookie here is mildly sweet, chewy and incredibly satisfying. Just one makes a quick breakfast.

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Review: Sign-N-Send for quick PDF signatures.

Get mailed lot of PDF contracts you need to sign or PDF documents you need to markup and approve? The hassle of opening the document in a reader app and weeding through advanced annotation features can be annoying when all you need is to make a quick signature. With Sign-N-Send for iPad you open the document from email, sign it and send it back within seconds.

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Review: Flukes, Fleas & fun.

It seems every ukulele player owns a Fluke or Flea, even if they have $5000 ukes in their collection. Cute and quirky, these plastic-body ukes are surprisingly decent musical instruments.

Be bold.

The instant attraction of the Fluke and Flea is the colorful design. Through they come in natural wood soundboards too, the variety of paint and tatoo jobs is huge. You can even have your own artwork added to the soundboard at the factory. Tiki King has done some amazing designs for these things. You may be better off spending a little more for a Tiki King design. (Some are only available on Tiki's site.) The resale value will most likely be higher, since more limited quantities are made.

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MB: Flukes, fleas, PDF notes and almond cookies.

As the iPhone cam gets taken more and more seriously as the point-and-shoot and handycam killer, there's now an official Steadycam for it. Pricey at $150, but if you shoot a lot of video with your iPhone, it might be worth the investment.

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News.

SOPA dies. All it took was for Wikipedia to go dark for a day for the world to understand the vile nature of a vague law that wouldn't have done a thing to stop internet piracy. Republican presidential candidates all jumped on the anti-SOPA bandwagon, Lamar Smith suddenly realized he's supposed to be working for the voters (not Hollywood) and yanks the bill, and Facebook's Zuckerburg shows his other face (the one opposed to SOPA) a day too late. It'll be interesting to see how many supporters will claim they were against it all along.

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Previews.

Monday Briefing for the smorgasblog this week:

• Flukes, Fleas and Fun Looking for a starter ukulele? Flukes and Fleas are some unique beasts engineered from plastic and made in the USA. They play easy and loud.
• Review: Sign-N-Send Get a lot of PDFs you need to sign and send back? Or docs you need to review and approve? Sign-N-Send makes the task fast on your iPad.

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iPad iWorkbook: Freeing multiple objects.

When you're working on a complex layout in Pages or Keynote, one of the most annoying "features" is that all objects added are automatically locked to move with text. that's fine if you're working with inline text, but a pain when you're working with objects you need to move in a layout.

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How to free multiple objects from inline text.

• Hold on an object.

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