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Friday, 1st February 2013

How To Backup Your Facebook Data In 5 Easy Steps

How To Backup Your Facebook Data In 5 Easy Steps

Backing up almost everything on your Facebook account is surprisingly straightforward, using Facebook's built-in archival tools.

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Monday, 8th October 2012

How To Get The Perfect Wallpaper For The Retina iPad

How To Get The Perfect Wallpaper For The Retina iPad

That 2048x1536 retina display on the new iPad is really big in pixel terms. It’s hard to find wallpapers that do it justice, since they have to be 2048x2048 squares to rotate properly. A site called 2048pixels popped up to solve this problem, and it just launched a new version that lets you customize wallpapers right from the site, even on the…

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Wednesday, 26th September 2012

How To Get Your YouTube Videos Back From Google

How To Get Your YouTube Videos Back From Google

Google’s Data Liberation Front keeps adding new ways for Google users to get their personal data out of Google’s services and back into their own hands. The latest addition to Google Takeout is YouTube videos. You can now download all of the original, full-quality videos you’ve uploaded to YouTube and take them elsewhere whenever you want…

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How Iran Can Make State Censorship Into A Cash Cow

How Iran Can Make State Censorship Into A Cash Cow

Anywhere in the world, the fastest way to make anything popular is to ban it. Certainly Iran, which actually is an Internet infrastructure provider and which has by far the largest Internet using population in the Middle East, undoubtably knows that. So when Iran is handed a gold mine like The Innocence of Muslims, what should it do?

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Tuesday, 11th September 2012

How To Filter The Social Web On Your Mobile

How To Filter The Social Web On Your Mobile

In this fifth and final installment of our How To Filter The Social Web series, I'm looking at a mobile service called Prismatic. It's a slick looking website and iPhone app that filters social news for you. Filtering news on mobile has traditionally been a tough nut to crack - and there's no shortage of startups that have attempted it. Feedly…

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Monday, 10th September 2012

Here's How I Tracked News About Andy Murray Today

Here's How I Tracked News About Andy Murray Today

I'm on the hunt for five great tools to filter the social Web. The fourth product I'm looking at is Bottlenose, a social media dashboard that allows you to filter content by topic. For example: Andy Murray winning his first Grand Slam tennis title today.

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Sunday, 9th September 2012

How To Filter The Social Web From Your Inbox

How To Filter The Social Web From Your Inbox

I'm on the hunt for five great tools to filter the social Web! Last week I looked at medical news curator Webicina and topic-based news aggregator Reddit. Both of those products enabled me to filter for content. But just as we're overwhelmed with the amount of content on the social Web, we're also overwhelmed with the number of websites and apps we…

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Wednesday, 5th September 2012

How To Filter The Social Web, Part 2: Reddit

How To Filter The Social Web, Part 2: Reddit

This week I'm exploring tools that help filter your Social Web experience. Yesterday I checked out Webicina, a medical news curation service. Today I'm re-visiting a service that has a much broader appeal, at least in terms of topics covered: reddit. The Condé Nast owned social news aggregator has become so popular that even the President of the…

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Tuesday, 4th September 2012

How To Filter The Social Web, Part 1: Webicina

How To Filter The Social Web, Part 1: Webicina

This week I'm going to be exploring filtering tools on the Web, with a particular focus on general interest topics like health, politics and sports. The Web is often an overwhelmingly noisy environment. Even the best social media services - like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ - can quickly drown you in a deluge of real-time updates. Last week, I…

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Wednesday, 22nd August 2012

A Lifesaver for Your Brain: Digital Sticky Notes Done Right

Online life is a constant series of interruptions. Some people try to stave off madness by cluttering their desktops with floating windows from an app like Stickies. But now there's a tidy, user-friendly improvement upon this idea (for Mac users). If you’ve ever created a new document, folder, alarm or event to remind you what you were doing or…

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