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After reviewing how I use my desktop as a toxic waste dump for files I want easy access to for a one time use, I recently downloaded a new Mac software app called Hazel from Noodlesoft to clean up my MacBook Pro. Basically, it creates rules to clean out your downloads folder, your trash and [ READ MORE ]
Each month, I spent 2 minutes tops using the iPhone to speak to other people. The other 43, 220 minutes I spend using my iPhone as: - my new book library. I installed Kobo and thanks to some regularly appearing coupons in my email, it’s my new book store. Books were getting annoying to move all [ READ MORE ]
A recent article in Mashable pointed me to a new website that promises to help you stay on track of your resolutions: Dorthy. The site promises to give the user a living page that focusses on their specific goals, provides information on said goal, and connect the user to other like-minded goal searchers. It’s a [ READ MORE ]
Monty Python’s YouTube channel has launched. The intro video explains it all.. and tells a tale of how TV execs are changing their ways of thinking about free videos online – watch it, and then if you like it, buy it. [ READ MORE ]
Tech blog StartUpMeme wrote about a new service called UserNameCheck, a service that shows you if your preferred username is already taken by another in this growing social media world. I use it, however, to remind myself of all the social media sites I have signed up with and have subsequently forgot about using. I tend to [ READ MORE ]
This might be a lazy post, but important nonetheless! Watch this amazing video to give you a sense of the world we’re working in today and tomorrow. Five minutes well spent. And you can bop along to Fatboy Slim while you ponder. It’s a win-win. [ READ MORE ]
Only seven years ago, the internet was a very different place. And I have proof! As part of Google’s 10 year anniversary, they’ve opened up an easter egg so you can search the internet as it was in 2001. I’ve looked up Facebook (first link to its Harvard incarnation), You Tube (didn’t exist), my name (I [ READ MORE ]
Broadband viewership has doubled! Well, at least in the States. And a large number of people want to see companies on social networking sites… or so it may seem. Social networking is a very broad term. Personally, I’d be happy to stop receiving ads for celebrity dieting techniques while I’m on Facebook. I have tried to cancel [ READ MORE ]
Just because: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQKdHxeMkk Turns out YouTube is shutting down all copies of this pageant. Seems suspicious. Anyone know why? [ READ MORE ]
DRM backlash has been happening for years. It prompted some music distributors to shed the DRM restrictions off their music on iTunes. But it continues to cause issues and frustration for consumers. Many feel they are buying the movies, music and TV episodes, but their devices actually own it. The latest snafu is with Sony. In [ READ MORE ]