December 23, 2011
The holidays are here, and that means a lot of people are spending time on social networking sites spreading holiday cheer – and desperately trying to avoid relatives. If Google+ is your network of choice, you’ll likely notice that they’ve added a couple new features. Perhaps the most important is the new “volume control” added to your streams.
December 3, 2011
What filters should each and every person have in their arsenal so that their inbox is as orderly as mine? I’m here to help you get started in setting up your first five filters, or help you add on to your current collection. These five should handle daily-to-weekly activities of the everyday internet guy or gal and get that inbox looking as clean as a whistle.
September 21, 2011
Do you want to make your digital smartphone photos look like they were taken with a 50 year old camera that you found at a yard sale? Do you have an Android? Then you’re in luck, because Pixlr-o-matic is now available for the low price of free. It’s an image editing app that can apply pre-determined filters to photos on your Android.
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.
February 7, 2011
Ever wished you could clean up your Twitter timeline without pruning back on who you follow? Notice too many uninteresting or automated tweets cluttering up your feed? If you answered ‘yes’ to either of the above questions then it’s time to take control of your account with Proxlet, an extension that puts Twitter on steroids [...]
October 27, 2010
Encouraging you to “Like,” “Tweet”, “Digg”, and “Stumble” content, buttons for social networks spill on to almost every page on the modern Internet. If you prefer to copy URLs yourself, AdBlock can keep social networks where they belong: their own pages. Recently, we taught you how to use Adblock to keep you safe from malware, [...]
June 25, 2010
The vuvuzela is a cheap plastic horn that’s recently begotten international fame during the football World Cup in South Africa. Most people agree that a vuvuzela noise mildly irritating – as if there were a mosquito stuck in your ear. Multiplied by the thousands, it produces a deep, hypnotic rumble, straight from the gates of [...]
May 28, 2010
Setting up email filters or organising your emails into folders is an efficient way to manage your emails. You might want to know how to set up email filters to automatically sort your email into folders for better management. For example, you may want to have a Facebook filter to separate all your notifications emails [...]
April 8, 2010
Recently we wrote about how awesome Gmail is and how close it comes to replacing full blown desktop email clients. One of the great features of any email client is the ability to sort through all the email you get and perform automated tasks in a breeze. It is possible to automate a number of [...]
February 1, 2010
If you (like most of MUO readers, I suppose) receive and send quite a few emails daily, you should be using Gmail for two simple reasons: it’s free and feature-rich. One of the best Gmail features is the ability to create and use customized Gmail filters. We’ve seen a lot of possible uses of Gmail [...]
