MakeUseOf.com: “Cool Websites and Tools [March 2nd]” plus 9 more |  |
- Cool Websites and Tools [March 2nd]
- How To Make Your Regular Mobile Phone Smarter With SMS/MMS (Part 1)
- 5 Creative Ways To Give Money As Gifts Online
- Lockergnome – Archive Your Online Lifestream While Interacting In A Geeky Community
- Genieo – A Tiny Desktop App To Set Up An Automatic Personal Start Page
- Three Book Recommendation Engines For Quick Book Searches
- MakeUseOf Mac Giveaway Day #1 – Intego VirusBarrier X6
- Spark App: A Lightweight To-Do List & Notes [Mac]
- How To Search Emails In Gmail Efficiently
- How To Easily Download All Facebook Photos You’re Tagged In
| Cool Websites and Tools [March 2nd] Posted: 02 Mar 2010 07:31 PM PST Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory.
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| How To Make Your Regular Mobile Phone Smarter With SMS/MMS (Part 1) Posted: 02 Mar 2010 05:31 PM PST
On one of our more recent polls, a large portion of our readership base actually informed us that they own a plain cell phone, showing us that not everyone out there is in deep need of the features of high-tech mobile devices and smartphones.
This first part focuses on how you can access your social networks without any special apps (like for the iPhone). The second part features ways to stay productive with SMS services. Cool SMS Tricks to Stay Social
Update Your Status Across Social Networks You may have your secret, individualized emails from Flickr, SkyDrive, Facebook, etc. to update your status, but the following services make cross-posting a breeze and will save you time!
Whether you have several social network accounts you want to update, you feel like updating your networks selectively, or just want somewhere to continue your longer-than-140-characters Twitter updates, Posterous will have you covered. To send a plain-text update (with no photos or other media), text "Post + your message" to 41411 or email/send a media message (MMS) your update and your multiple photos, videos, etc. to post@posterous.com (to post to all of your default-selected networks), flickr+facebook@posterous.com (only those two), posterous@posterous.com (only your Posterous blog), etc. You can send an email via SMS if you can add an "@" in the "To:" textbox. Learn how you can send an email via SMS.
Get Updates From Your Social Networks
We have also featured a number of places where you can send SMS to phones, as opposed to from your phone as we discussed here, but now we’d like to hear from you. Which SMS services do you prefer or recommend? And look out for part two of this article, coming soon! Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!
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| 5 Creative Ways To Give Money As Gifts Online Posted: 02 Mar 2010 03:31 PM PST
You have no time to mail a package, no time to mail a card with money inside – no time to do anything but wonder how you let yourself get into this position. You don’t want your friend or family member to think that you forgot about them, but you’re also stuck in a situation with very few options. Tina recently wrote a great post with some last minute gift ideas. In this post, I’d like to offer a few additional creative ways to give money as gifts through online resources when you’re really hard-pressed for time.
Why Prepaid Credit Cards Make Excellent GiftsThe simplest and fastest method to send money online is also the most common – sending gift cards. It’s also arguably the least meaningful, because it doesn’t really reflect that you know much about the person. It’s sort of like handing them a wad of cash – how meaningful is that? Well, things have changed in the world of gift cards. Previously, you had to walk into a bank and specifically purchase a prepaid credit card. A little later, you could find them in your favorite convenience store. These prepaid credit cards were bland and boring. Finally, you can purchase these gift cards online, and you can usually choose from some fairly creative card designs. To find legitimate and safe resources, I would suggest starting by going directly to either Visa or Mastercard.
Visa offers a specific section for online vendors that offer Visa gift cards. In many cases, these are banks where you have to be a member, but if you scroll through the list you’ll find some pretty awesome gift card vendors that let you customize the card design.
For example, on Visa’s list you’ll find Gift Card Lab, where you can actually upload photos and use them to create your own customized prepaid Visa card. Now how cool is that? Mastercard similarly offers a list of online and offline vendors where you can purchase prepaid Mastercard gift cards.
Alas, most of the Visa and Mastercard vendors will only sell gift cards for use within the United States, so if you’re an international customer then you’ll want to check out the awesome international gift card service known as CardRex. Creative Ways To Give Money In A Meaningful WayOf course, maybe you don’t just want to send money – but instead send a gift that’s a little bit more meaningful. Maybe the person that you’re sending the gift to is a book lover, or an online shopping addict or loves to dine out! Thankfully, almost every online store offers gift cards, but in my opinion one of the best gift cards that everyone loves to receive is an Amazon Gift Card.
Amazon is an online paradise for any shopaholic. If you’re buying for an avid shopper, this is one gift that will be greatly appreciated. The convenience of Amazon cards is obvious – especially when you just don’t have time to wait for the card to get shipped to the recipient. If you need it today, then e-mail the gift card to them! If you’re throwing a birthday party or they’ll be arriving shortly, just print out the gift card right on your home printer! If you do send an Amazon card through the mail, they’ll include a free greeting card with it. However, if the standard Amazon Gift Card isn’t creative enough for you, just scroll down the Amazon gift card page for the option to visit HDGreetings where you can personalize an e-card using your own photos. When you’re done, just email it!
Maybe the person you’re sending money to isn’t really a shopper, but instead loves to go out and dine at various restaurants. In that case, the obvious choice is to head on over to Restaurant.com. Sure, you could go out and buy a specific gift card for a single restaurant, but why not let the recipient of your card choose their own dining experience? At Restaurant.com, they get to do just that.
When you buy someone a Restaurant.com certificate, they can choose from over 13,000 restaurants across the United States. If you’re in the UK, check out The Gift Card Centre, Esha Gun for Indian gift cards, or if you’re in a country where it’s virtually impossible to access useful banking services like this – consider the Royal Bank of Canada. It’s one of the few banks that offers truly international services, including credit and debit card services. When living in an unstable part of the world, it’s a safe solution. Create Fun Customized ScratchOff Cards!If you want a really creative way to give money, consider creating a Personalized Party Scratchoff card. These is a significant collection of premade scratch cards, but you can also email this vendor and ask them to custom create one for you. Unlike other services that are corporate based, which require you to order thousands of cards, with this service the minimum order is only ten.
This is a fun approach, because you can have them play a scratch off game that you’ve customized, and when they win you can hand them the envelope full of money as the prize! It would add a bit of fun and laughter to any party. Send Graduated Paypal PaymentsThe last creative way to give money that I’d like to mention is something I call the “graduated” gift approach. It does require that the recipient have a Paypal account. In the case where the friend or family you’re giving the gift to does have one, just go into your Paypal account and send a personal gift payment as shown here.
Just one dollar? Yes, it’s the beginning of the graduated gift that will keep on giving every day up to the person’s birthday. This works great up to about age 16. On the number of days prior to the person’s birthday, you send them a very small gift via Paypal. For example, if they’re 15, send them a penny ($0.01) and then write a note that you plan to double the gift every day until their birthday.
At first, your gift recipient may scoff as the amount goes from just 1 penny, to two, to four, to eight… However, on the last few days up to the 15th birthday, the payments are just over $40, just over $80, and then a final payment of $163.84! Before you take this gift approach, make sure that you understand the power of compounding, and calculate each payment amount before you get started. You’ll have to send a sufficiently low initial payment so that you can afford to send all of them – especially the last few big ones. This approach makes for a wonderful countdown to a big day, like a graduation. Do you have any creative gift giving ideas using online resources? Share your thoughts in the comments section below. Related posts
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| Lockergnome – Archive Your Online Lifestream While Interacting In A Geeky Community Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:31 PM PST
Bakari also recently wrote an article about Flavors.me which is a new lifestream service that helps you bring all of your online content together in one place, although not really in a lifestreaming format (I put one together for myself because I liked the style and ease of the site).
Well, Chris Pirillo has put together a new lifestream service that gives users a free blog AND the ability to stream their lifestream. It’s called Lockergnome. It is basically a Wordpress MU install with the BuddyPress plugins to make it into a community site. There are some benefits to having a presence in such a place. As we go through a review of Lockergnome, I will highlight some of the benefits. The first point I would like to bring across is that signing up and using the Lockgnome lifestream service is free and easy. The basic membership offers some cool features such as your own Wordpress blog, the ability to archive your lifestream, the ability to import/export data, social networking features and even the possibility to have some of your good content promoted! Those are the features that are offered FREE OF CHARGE.
Secondly, running your presence there is just like using any Wordpress blog. If you are not that familiar with how a Wordpress blog works, I’d send you to Wordpress.tv for some good tutorials. The basic idea here is that if you are familiar with blogging on Wordpress, you won’t have any difficulties learning the ropes at Lockergnome. With the free blog, you only have one theme choice, but that’s OK because it’s their very popular P2 theme (mentioned in this article as a possible Twitter-like tool).
Thirdly, you can easily add streams of your content from many places online to create your own lifestream. Like I said before, I’ve written about lifestreaming on your own blog. Having your blog (and lifestream) on a site like Lockergnome has its own advantages. Upgrading plugins is done for you. It is really easy to do because everything’s put in place for you; all you need to do is add the feeds for your content, and viola! It is also noted that everything streamed in your lifestream is YOUR content and can be exported for you. This is also good because even the content you update on the other services (such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook) is archived in your stream so if they ever lose your data, you still have it on Lockergnome.
There are also social networking features available! BuddyPress offers many unique abilities which help foster social interaction which Lockergnome takes advantage of. Why is this noteworthy? Because Chris has been social networking for quite some years and has had a blog network at Lockergnome for quite a while. He has a strong community of geeks. Lockergnome offers the ability to socialize and network with like-minded individuals (if you’re a geek!). Connect with others, make friends, and harness the power of being a member of a community.
If you become very involved in this community and you create good content on your blog there, there is a possibility your content will get noticed and featured across the site. This opens up opportunities for the blogger who wants an audience (who doesn’t?)! NOTE: Chris made mention of this in the video introducing Lockergnome but I don’t currently see it on the home page. I am hoping it is just something in the works and not just forsaken. That’s why I use words like "potential" and "possibility."
There you have it! Lockergnome is a great place online to blog, lifestream, archive your content, and interact with a geeky community! Come, make friends, share your lifestream and geeky knowledge and do it all quite easily! If you decide to try out Lockergnome, don’t forget to come back here to the comments to let us know your opinion of it. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!
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| Genieo – A Tiny Desktop App To Set Up An Automatic Personal Start Page Posted: 02 Mar 2010 11:31 AM PST
Take a look around and you will see personal start pages starting up with iGoogle or NetVibes. I remember in the early days of MakeUseOf, we had done a small feature on comparing the Top 12 Startpages contenders. How the web world has moved on since then (iGoogle wasn't even born).
That's a cross-section of the web giving their bytes worth on the importance (or lack of it) of start pages. One of the bytes was for a new kind of start page service that's a bit different in the way it looks at the whole thing. Genieo is a browser personal start page for sure, but it takes the desktop route. It is a small application which installs on your PC and generates the first start page using your past browsing history and site preferences as a stepping stone. Right here, you might be going 'Uh oh!' at the thought of a desktop application that goes through your browsing records. To address the first concern, Genieo is a very small installation at around 500KB. The second concern needs a more elaborate answer that's best provided by the guys themselves at Genieo. They say that they care about our privacy and the only information they gather is of the non personal usage kind. Genieo also automatically disables itself once you navigate to secure sites (this includes email) or online transaction sites of any kind. The one page privacy statement shouldn't deter you, because Genieo follows the same general data collection that's done by most services on the web. With That Addressed, Let's Start Genieo
Ending The Day With GenieoGenieo is great for the guy who doesn't have the patience to sit and manually configure a start page on his own. It is definitely for the guy with regular browsing habits. If you visit websites which are more or less of the same nature, then Genieo is the day launcher you have been looking for. But web nomads who have diverse interests might find Genieo a bit frustrating because personal favorites can easily get lost in the clutter of the other sites visited as temporary stopovers. Though, Twitter was conspicuous. I also couldn't find the link to integrate Facebook on the start page. The same problem held true for bringing in some weather information on the start page. But ultimately, it all comes down to the user choice – do you like to have more control over the start page, from the kind of display to the nature of the information? Or would you let things happen by themselves? For the latter, Genieo is worth a place in the browser. It allows for setting up an easy, fast, and secure personal start page. Let us know your preference. em>Got Tech Questions? Ask Them on MakeUseOf Answers! Related posts
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| Three Book Recommendation Engines For Quick Book Searches Posted: 02 Mar 2010 10:31 AM PST
Like StumbleUpon for websites, and Last.fm for music, there are so-called book recommendation engines as well, that suggest titles based on previous reads. Most commonly, these are integrated in book cataloguing sites like LibraryThing and GoodReads. For this article, we’ll focus on the ‘quick’ book recommendation engines, that skip the whole process of cataloguing and rating all your previous reads. These three sites will hook you up with new books in a matter of minutes, working off your last (enjoyable) read, or story traits you’re looking for.
The Book SeerThe Book Seer is as simple as it gets. On the home page, fill in a book title and author, and hit the button. The server leprechauns will rack their brains for some good recommendations.
On the next page, you’ll be presented with two independent recommendation lists, so don’t be surprised if you see a duplicate title. The left side column is generated by the Firefly collaborative filtering system, rendering the famous Amazon recommendations. This is the same backend system used by Barnes & Noble. The right side column is generated by LibraryThing’s system, an online book cataloguing tool.
Scrolling down the page, you can also search for local books stores or libraries, or launch another recommendation ’search’. Off-topic tip: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, as featured in the left column above, is an amazing read. What Should I Read Next?In essence, What Should I Read Next operates very similarly to The Book Seer. Again, you can launch a recommendation search by entering a book title, or its ISBN code (and save a few clicks in the process). However, What Should I Read Next does not use the Firefly system (Amazon), or LibraryThing, but employs its own recommendation engine.
Recommendations are pulled from similar ‘likes’ of registered members. You can register (and log in), by simply entering your email address. Since you won’t be handling any sensitive information, a password isn’t even requested. Once logged in, the site will keep your previous reads ‘in mind’, enabling it to improve future recommendations for everyone. WhichBook.netWhichBook.net comes at the recommendation problem from a whole different perspective. You won’t even need to enter previously liked books. Simply describe the kind of book you’re looking for by specifying the ‘degree’ of the most prominent characteristics, like mood, humor, length and unconventionality. Up to four traits can be filled in. You can also opt for audio books and large print, to filter down the possibilities.
At the bottom of those traits, a button will take you to revising character, plot and setting details. Specify the kind of protagonist, up to visual characteristics, and select the ‘kind’ of plot you’re looking for. Setting will allow you to limit the scene to certain continents, or if need be, to an imaginary world.
Searching will show you a title, author, and a short reader comment, as well as a number of parallel titles. WhichBook.net can help you out if you’re rather specific about the kind of book you want to read next. Do you know any other quick recommendation sources that don’t require signing up and endless ‘rating sessions’? Let us know your tips in the comments section below! Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!
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| MakeUseOf Mac Giveaway Day #1 – Intego VirusBarrier X6 Posted: 02 Mar 2010 10:00 AM PST
Oh, noticed the asterisk, did you? Actually, if you work in a mixed environment with Windows and Macs, chances are, you will come across some malware: scareware, keyloggers, spyware, the works. Macs may or may not be exploited by these malware but it’s always a good choice to stop them in their tracks. Intego’s VirusBarrier X6 is a great tool to help monitor your system and prevent such infections. We have 10 licenses worth £480 to give away. Each copy offers coverage on up to 2 Macs for the duration of 1 year.
Network Monitoring tools help to monitor bandwidth (mis)use by certain applications.
Personal Firewall features allow you to carefully examine all established connections, ports and protocols.
How do I win a copy?All you need to do is; Join our Facebook page by clicking on the Become a fan button below.
If you can’t see the fanbox above, click on this link. To seal the deal, click on the Facebook Share button below the article to spread the news to your friends. Then in comments section, post a link to your Facebook profile (be sure to enter your real email address so that we can contact you if you win!). Existing fans only need to share the article and post a link to their Facebook profile in the comments. This giveaway ends tomorrow, just before the next one starts. Between now and then, you can share this post or comment as many times as you want! The more you interact, the higher your chances of winning. Let the giveaway begin! Have fun! Want to know what else we’re giving away? Check out this post 15 Must-Have Free Apps For Your Mac & Giveaway. MakeUseOf would like to thank Intego for their generosity while participating in this giveaway. Interesting in sponsoring? We’d love to hear from you. Get in touch with us via email. em>Got Tech Questions? Ask Them on MakeUseOf Answers! Related posts
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| Spark App: A Lightweight To-Do List & Notes [Mac] Posted: 02 Mar 2010 09:31 AM PST
I have my Mac at home, but what about when I’m on the road? Pen and paper is out of the question. Aside from having almost unreadable handwriting, I tend to lose pieces of papers easily. Since a mobile phone is less likely to go missing, I prefer to have my to-do list there. So the requirements of my to-do list software is that it’s both lightweight and synchronize-able with iCal.
Small SparksIn the comments of my previous article about Notational Velocity, a reader suggested an alternative note taking application called Spark (this app is, by the way, different from another Mac app with the same name whose function is to create shortcuts). After taking a quick look, I concluded that this one is more to-do list software than a note-taking app. And it’s just my luck that Spark meets my requirements of a to-do list app. But I also found out that this useful app is still imperfect and buggy. My first complaint would be about the non-availability of documentation. I can’t find the version number of this app. There is also no data about shortcuts that you can use. As a shortcut guy, I was a little bit disappointed. I managed to find several common shortcut keys, but not enough to navigate the app without the mouse. The interface itself is pretty simple and straightforward. There’s the search field at the top of the window, the task pane in the middle, and the note area below it.
To add a task, you can click on the plus (+) icon at the bottom of the window or use “Command + N“. You can add notes to the task if necessary by editing the notes field. Deleting a task is also as easy as selecting one and then clicking the minus (-) icon or the “delete” key on your keyboard. You can nest tasks under another task and make them as part of a bigger project. You can also drag and drop the project into another project and create big and smaller projects.
The next place to visit is the Preferences pane. Click the small gear icon at the right bottom of the window or use “Command + Comma (,)” to open the window. There are several things that you can set here. Under the General preferences, you can tell Spark to open at login, hide/show the menubar icon, enable iCal/email syncing, set the font for the notes, and hide/show the Dock icon.
You have to restart Spark after choosing to show the dock icon before the effect takes place. The advantages of having the dock icon are the ability to see the dock badge (a.k.a: how many tasks left undone) and having the “normal” menu just like any other application.
There’s also the ability to add the due date. Just select a task and click the eye icon on the bottom right of the window. You could also add a shortcut to quickly summon Spark under the “Preferences > Shortcuts“. I expected to find many customizable shortcuts because of the “s”, but there’s only one item there.
WishlistI personally think that Spark has the potential to be a good simple project and task management app. But to be honest, there are still many things to fix and add before it can achieve that goal. After playing with the to-do list software for a while, here are my list of the things I wish the Spark developer could add, improve or repair:
Have you tried Spark? Do you know other simple-free-quick-lightweight project and task managers for Mac? Share your thoughts and opinions using the comments below. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!
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| How To Search Emails In Gmail Efficiently Posted: 02 Mar 2010 08:31 AM PST
Until then, the focus of email clients and services had been on sorting emails. Thunderbird for example has over a dozen sorting criteria including date, size, and status. Searching emails, however, is notoriously difficult. Google is a search engine. Consequently, Google’s email service provides many different ways to search your Gmail emails, while sorting is neglected. This article shows you how to use all the search options you have within Gmail.
SearchWhen entering a search term into the query field, Google will suggest terms based on names and email addresses found in your emails. This can help to quickly find out an email address.
Search OptionsOn the right side of the search buttons are two inconspicuous pieces of text, one of them reads “Show search options“. Clicking the text will bring up a menu with advanced search options.
These search options combine several operators, such as from:, to:, subject:, and in:. You also can manually enter these operators into the search field, followed by your query. In my example above I would type “from:mark in:anywhere deadline after:2009/02/28″. If your search is limited to the criteria available from the search options, it’s of course much easier to use the form. Search OperatorsUsing the search options you can search any of your folders, without having to know complicated operators. However, your options will always be limited. When you need to search something very specific, you can use operators, just like you were using a search engine. The cool thing is that when you start typing an operator, the search filed will provide matching suggestions for supported operators. Here are five of the most useful operators: OR When you want your results to match either one OR the other term, this is your tag. Example: from:mark OR to:authors cc: and bcc: With these tags you can search for recipients that were (blind) carbon copied. Example: cc:jorge label: In Gmail you can label important emails to make it easier to find them again. A menu button in the bottom right of each email allows you to quickly add labels. Additionally, the system will automatically label emails based on the folders they are stored in.
Example: from:mark label:deadline has:attachment A useful operator to locate emails with any type of attachment, such as photos or documents. Example: subject:vacation has:attachment filename: When the previous operator comes up with too many results, you can further specify the filename. Since the full filename also includes the filetype, e.g. .pdf, you can also use this operator to search attachments by file types. Example: subject:vacation has:attachment filename:.jpg A full list of operators can be found in Gmail Help: Using advanced search. MakeUseOf has published many, many articles about Google Mail. Here are a few highlights:
This article on how to search Gmail was inspired by a question posed on MakeUseOf Answers. Swamy asked whether it’s possible to search emails by size in Gmail. This is not possible. However, you can search your mail by size in clients like Thunderbird or Outlook. So, a compromise would be to use one of these tools and import your email from Gmail. Do you know of other ways to search mails in Gmail? Please shout it out in the comments. Thank you! em>Got Tech Questions? Ask Them on MakeUseOf Answers! Related posts
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| How To Easily Download All Facebook Photos You’re Tagged In Posted: 02 Mar 2010 07:31 AM PST
You can also create Facebook “tag” photos, which means a person’s profile is linked to the specific picture they appear in. This gives you the very useful ability to quickly view pictures of specific people – all without ever having to dig through a photo album.
In this guide, I’ll show you how to download all of the Facebook tag photos that you and your friends are in with a great application called PhotoGrabber. Getting StartedTo begin, simply head over to the PhotoGrabber homepage and download the application for your operating system. PhotoGrabber is available for both Mac (PhotoGrabber-OSX) and Windows (PhotoGrabber-Win), so make sure to download the right .zip file.
After you’ve downloaded the file, Windows users should extract its contents to a new folder on your computer and Mac users should unzip and drag PhotoGrabber.app into your Applications folder.
One very nice feature of PhotoGrabber is that it is a standalone executable file and requires no installation. Once you’ve extracted the files, all you need to do is run pg.exe (just make sure to keep it in the same folder as the rest of the extracted files). Downloading Facebook PhotosNow that you’ve downloaded and extracted PhotoGrabber, double click the PhotoGrabber executable to get started. When you first open the program, you will be presented with a login screen. Click the large Login button to be taken to a Facebook authentication page.
Click Allow on the Facebook authentication page which will allow PhotoGrabber to have access to your content.
Now that you’ve authorized PhotoGrabber to work with your account, head back to the application. Click I want to download…
PhotoGrabber will now display a list of all of your friends, including yourself. To download all pictures tagged with your name, simply select Myself then click the large Begin Download button.
Before the download begins, you will need to select a directory where you would like to save the tagged photos. Click OK and the download process will start.
Facebook photos are fairly small and download quickly, but the duration of the download will vary based on how many pictures have been tagged. It took approximately 20 minutes for me to download 1,000+ photos, but your experience may vary based on the network connection.
When the photos are finished downloading you can browse to the folder where they were saved to view them!
You can repeat this exact same process to download any tagged pictures of your friends, just select their name instead of Myself at the download selection screen. Using the PhotoGrabber application for Facebook is great for keeping a personal copy of photos from Facebook and is an excellent way to protect them for the future. Do you have any other tips for saving your personal content from Facebook? Share it with us in the comments! Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!
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MUO has featured such an array of SMS-integrating services that you can basically deduce that a messaging plan for your mobile phone may render a data plan anywhere from accessory to unnecessary. Smartphones and high-tech mobile phones, mainly attractive for their data plan (think email or web browsing) and Office integration, don’t always prove a complete necessity for some of our readers.
The first thing I should point out is that not everyone would probably label all of these ideas as terribly “creative” 
I recently wrote an article about how to share your own lifestream on your own blog called 
What is it about personal start pages? Or call them personalized homepage services. They are all jostling for our eyeballs as soon as we wake up and switch on.
Finding new books to read isn’t always easy. Looking at the size of libraries and some bookstores, it’s hardly surprising that there’s a lot of bad stuff circulating as well. Until recently, I limited myself to word of mouth and the tedious business of reading the back of every book on the shelves. How old-fashioned.
I’ve always been asked this question, “Is it true that Macs never get infected by viruses?” Honestly, I’ve always responded with a resounding, “Yes*” 
After forgetting many small things that I have to accomplish, I am certain that I need to implement a to-do list. I don’t need fancy things, just as long as I can have access to this list wherever I go.
When Google launched Gmail they revolutionized emailing.
One of the best features of Facebook are the photos albums, which allows you and all of your friends to upload an unlimited number of pictures to share with your personal networks.
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