September 18, 2011
If you are an Apple user, you may not have known that users of the Windows version of Skype were able to access Facebook through the program. Now, with the 5.4 beta, Mac owners have been given the same features. After you've installed the new version, you'll need to enter your Facebook information. Once you've done so, Skype will match your contacts with their respective accounts.
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September 17, 2011
The popular music streaming site MOG announced on Thursday that it would be launching a service called FreePlay, which means that subscribers to the site would be able to get free access to MOG's 12 million song catalog. This new service follows on the heels of the European-based, ad-supported, music streaming service, Spotify, that reached the US market starting in July.
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September 16, 2011
Connectify is offering free accounts until October 15th to students with .edu addresses, allowing them to set up free Wi-Fi hotspots for their devices. Students can sign up for the service for free and receive their Connectify Pro license by using their .edu email address.
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September 16, 2011
The blogging platform, Posterous, is undergoing a major makeover, renaming itself Posterous Spaces, which takes a social networking approach to sharing private and public user content. Members of the site will still be able to share photos, videos, and written content as before, but in the new platform they can configure "spaces" for the type of content they want to share.
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September 16, 2011
There are many reasons we might need or want to share our phone number with strangers but giving out our private phone number can be risky. However thanks to a cloud-based system and company called RingCentral, iPhone users can now generate temporary phone numbers that will forward calls to their permanent number, and it is available for free for a limited time.
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September 15, 2011
Malware researchers and malware programmers are in constant competition, the latter hunting for new ways to hide, the former sniffing out those methods. BIOS, the basic operating system pre-installed on computer motherboards, is the perfect place to hide, but has been thought generally safe from intrusion.
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September 15, 2011
For the last few months everyone has been clamoring for any information on the iPhone 5. Rumors are all over the place claiming all kinds of crazy things about the new phone. People say it will be thinner, some say it will look the same and just be like an iPhone 4. Apple has been playing their cards close and not releasing any information about the device.
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September 14, 2011
Anyone who is a big time Facebook user can probably attest to the massive amount of emails they receive. Every time you comment on a wall post or share something you get an email notification for every single other comment. Facebook is currently testing a solution to this challenge by consolidating very active users notification emails into periodic "digests" instead.
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September 14, 2011
Facebook is all about sharing. Up to this point, to share with someone you had to be their friend, and to be their friend they had to accept a friend request. That all changes now, because Facebook is rolling out a new subscribe feature that allows users who share a post publicly to be seen by anyone who subscribes to them.
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September 14, 2011
Though Netflix arrived on Android in May, its rollout to devices has been slow and on a device-by-device basis. As a result, many devices that seemed to have the required hardware were left out in the cold. Now, for owners of Android 2.2 and 2.3 smartphones, that’s in the past. Netflix’s latest update of its [...]
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September 13, 2011
The Google Music beta is still going strong. They recently rolled out a web app to better support the iPhone, and now they are rolling a new music discovery service called Magnifier. This is obviously a move designed to keep feature parity with other music services such as iTunes, Last.FM and the newly announced Facebook Music.
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September 13, 2011
Although it’s no longer the talk of the town – er, web – Dropbox is still frequently used by MakeUseOf as a means of sharing files and remains one of the best tools for that task. Using the service on mobile devices has now become a bit more pleasurable, thanks to the updated mobile site. [...]
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September 12, 2011
If you can rent movies, a car or a hotel room, then why not an iPad? Well, if you live in New York City or are traveling through the area and need one of Apple's most popular devices, a New York-based rental service called Flying Connected can hook you up. For a low fee of $15 per day, you can rent a fully connected iPad, loaded with movies, books, magazines and other apps.
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September 11, 2011
Google Music finally has a more elegant way to listen to your music on the iPhone. This is some news that Google Music users who own an iPhone have been waiting for since the beta launched. You could always listen to your music in Google Music on your iPhone, but it was in the standard interface and it was not a very pleasant experience.
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September 10, 2011
Select users may notice a change on Facebook, because they has begun rolling out a new feature called Smart Lists. Smart Lists are like Google+ in that it sorts your friends in a way that makes it easy to navigate, keep track of and share with them, but the key difference is that Facebook Smart Lists do all of this automatically, so you don't have to.
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