Best Back-Up Tips For Your RememberTheMilk Tasks
For many of us who work in the cloud, we’ve come to rely on our favourite services quite heavily. We also sometimes love and trust them perhaps a little more than we should at times, leaving ourselves open to losing everything we have built with the service so far. So I put a bit of thought into the best ways to back up RTM tasks so they’ll always be protected and available.
Star Now Lets Acting & Music Talent Find Great Job Auditions
If you're an actor or musician of some sort you've probably wondered more than a few times how you can easily find out about all the good gigs. I'll bet you've also wished there was an easy way for talent seekers to simply find you and ask you to audition, too. Well, StarNow is doing a great job of connecting these dots and bringing all the best talent and best jobs together.
Facebook Really Needs More Sophisticated Privacy Controls [Opinion]
Facebook have been under pressure in recent years from all angles to make privacy options simpler and quick to change. They've actually done quite well at this, considering how complicated the Facebook privacy system is overall. However, for those of us who understand the privacy controls well, there are a number of things Facebook could implement to improve the effect of privacy controls.
How to Get Wget for Your Mac
Macs are great, with their neat UI and a Unix back-end. Sometimes you get the feeling you can do just about anything with them. Until one day you’re trying to do something simple and you realise what you need is just not available natively. In this case, I’m talking about wget, an incredibly useful command-line tool to download whole webpages, including media and as much link depth as you require.
How To Fix Installation Errors For Updates On Your Phone [Android]
Android lovers know how it goes. The phone works beautifully until one day it just....doesn't. Errors pop up and you're left scouring Internet forums trying to find a fix that will work for you. Today we've done that for you and pulled together a list of all the reliable fixes you can try.
WePay - A New PayPal Alternative To Try Out
These days, the idea of transferring money via the Internet is not only accepted, it's often essential. There are many freelancers who nowadays rely on Internet payments in order to carry out business. Most of us currently rely on PayPal to ensure our payments get through. Now there's a new competitor called WePay in town who might make a viable alternative if you're a US-based customer.
How To Participate In An Internet Blackout (Like The SOPA Protest)
You may have noticed on January 18th that plenty of big websites participated in an Internet blackout as a protest of the US government’s proposed SOPA legislation. Despite the SOPA plans being dropped for now, there are still numerous similar acts of legislation being proposed. If you’re planning on supporting future protests, you might like to know what Google recommends you do.
Try Free Group Texting and Events With Capsule
What do you do when you want to invite a decent amount of people to a private event? Do you post out invites? Ring everyone? Probably not. Most people these days would probably say they used Facebook. But what if your friends include people who hate Facebook or just don't use it? Or what if you're that person? What do you use then? Well, we have a solution for you.
The Top 5 Privacy Tips For Facebook Timeline Applications
If you're a Facebook user, you've probably recently started to use the Facebook timeline on your user page. You've probably also noticed changes such as the ticker feed and new behaviours of open graph applications like Spotify. Well, Facebook has very recently opened up their timeline applications so that many more applications can do the things Spotify can do, such as sending data to your timeline, news feed and ticker.
The Entertainment Industry Giants Already Have Too Much Power [Opinion]
In recent weeks, the Internet has been up in arms about the proposed SOPA/PIPA legislation. Many people see these measures as incredibly powerful and therefore dangerous to businesses and individuals online. While most people will agree it's worth protecting the income of artists, history shows that the entertainment industry is somewhat overzealous with their accusations of copyright infringement.
The 5 Best O'Reilly eBooks That Are Free To Download
There are quite a few people who have realised that smartphones, tablets and e-book readers are a great way to store and read technical manuals. It's not just that these books are not taking up room on the desk. It's also the fact that they're on hand when you need to refer to them and easy to get stuck into when you find yourself with an hour spare and realise you could spend a little time learning something useful.
5 Best Websites With Fun Activities for Toddlers
If you're looking online for fun activities for toddlers, you've probably realised that there's a lot of garbage out there. So many sites have found their way to the top of the Google results which are so busy being SEO-friendly that they've managed to fail to have any useful content on their page. It's a nightmare to sort through!
Try The Free Official AutoCAD App For Your Phone [Android]
As most engineers, architects and draughtsmen can attest, it's incredibly useful to have a reliable smartphone application to edit your documents while you're out and about. Just think, no more A1 sheets of paper covered in incomprehensible notes. Or if you must carry that around, at least you can keep your files accessible on your phone just on the off-chance you're able to stop into a site unexpectedly.
Two Easy Ways To Create Visual Infographics Of Your Résumé
Creative jobseekers are always searching for new ways to distinguish themselves to potential employers. One of the quickest ways to do this is to make your résumé stand out from the crowd. Once you've got their attention, they'll hopefully notice all those great skills you have. In the meantime, you've got to turn your résumé into something which looks really interesting. And who's got the time for that?
Enroll Free At Stanford Online For Winter 2012 [News]
Stanford University has increased the amount of courses it offers for free online and anyone can participate by enrolling in the January 2012 intake. The courses are run with all the benefits of an online university course, except you do not receive any credit for completion. Lectures are available online to watch at your leisure, as are reading materials and quizzes.
Get Paid For Your Citizen Journalism With Citizenside [Android & iPhone]
Are you always on the go? Do you regularly find yourself in the midst of all the action in your town? If you're also taking great photos, capturing video footage or writing up quick explanations and putting them online, you've probably crossed the line into citizen journalism. Whatever your motives for doing this, you're going to want the process to be as simple and hassle-free as possible.
Bundlr - Easily Collect and Share (Cool) Stuff You Find Online on a Single Page
There are times when you know you want to put together a collection of photos, articles, tweets, videos and snippets of things from around the web. Maybe you're brainstorming for an article you're going to write, following some breaking news, planning a holiday, collecting reasons to support your fundraising cause, or maybe you're just redecorating your house and need to collect inspiration ideas.
3 Cool Android Apps For Lego Fans [Android]
Do you love Lego? Do your kids love Lego? I'll bet you know someone who does and would absolutely love for you to have Lego applications on their Android phone. Lego is fun and creative and will expand the sorts of things your phone can ultimately be useful for. There are a huge variety of Lego applications available for Android phones.
Adding Events To Google Calendar Via SMS (And More!)
So many of us use Google Calendar every day without once thinking about all the extra useful things it's capable of doing for you. Every now and then you probably find yourself paying attention to a Google Calendar feature you hadn't really thought of or noticed before and thinking "Well, I should definitely set that up - That's SO USEFUL!". No doubt adding calendar entries by SMS will be another one of those things.
Baby Connect Helps You Monitors Your Baby's Health [Android & iOS]
It's natural for new parents to want to record the everyday activities of their baby. You never really know what's normal for your child until you've established some kind of pattern, so it's worth recording these little details so that you know exactly what normal is. These days, we can do far better than the old notebook. Smartphone users can get hold of any number of great applications to record their baby's activity.