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About Nancy Messieh

Nancy is a writer and editor living in Washington DC. She was previously the Middle East editor at The Next Web and currently works at a DC-based think tank on communications and social media outreach.

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How To Use Google+ As Your Social Media Dashboard To Cross-Post To Facebook, Twitter & More

If you're active on several social networks and run your own blog as well, chances are you're posting a lot of the same content in several different places. To make life a little easier for you, you could simply start to post everything from one place - Google+ - and automatically post that content to several different networks and sites. Of course, a word of warning is in order. The key to any social network is just that - it's social.

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How To Use Dropbox's Enhanced RSS URLs To Get Notifications When Your Files Are Changed

With Dropbox introducing enhanced RSS URLs for your 'Recent Events' page, there are quite a few ways you can put this new feature to good use. Dropbox is already a must-have productivity tool, but with this new feature, combined together with a handy IFTTT recipe, you can easily power-charge how you and your friends or colleagues use the backup service.

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DIY
10 Great Geek Hacks: Repurpose Everyday Objects & Get The Most Out Of Your Electronics

If you're looking for a way to get the most out of old everyday objects that have become obsolete, like cassette tapes and CD's, or want to put everyday objects like binder clips, bread clips and ceramic bowls to good use, we've put together a list of 10 really cool geeky ideas to upcycle, hack and reuse things lying around your house. There is no end to the ways that you can put all your old gadgets and bits and pieces to good use.

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2 More Slick Ways To Browse Instagram On Your Computer

Rather than squint at your smartphone screen, why not take your Instagram browsing to your browser, and view the gorgeous photos posted using the photo-sharing app on your computer screen instead. By using services like Ink361 or Instadash, replying to comments, adding new comments, and discovering new users to follow couldn't be easier.

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Letterpress - An Addictive New Word Game You Won't Want To Put Down [iOS]

Letterpress is a brand new word game that comes to us courtesy of Tweetie creator Atebits. Available as an iOS app, the new word game will likely have you glued to your iPhone screens. Deceptively simple on the surface - both in concept and design - Letterpress is a must-have for anyone who's a fan of word games. Bringing with it elements of Boggle, and the spirit of connect the dots - the game has the potential to be the next big addiction.

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Speed Through Your Image Editing Tasks With These 3 Great Batch Editing Tools

When it comes to resizing or converting images, it can often be a tedious task of doing one after the other. Luckily there are a lot of great tools out there that make it easy to get through the process at just about the click of a button. Not only can you find great batch editing software to resize or convert image files, you can also find a few that will give you a few pretty impressive batch editing features as well.

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8 Ways to Make the Most Out of Twitter's New Header Image

With Twitter launching a new look for user profiles, the biggest change you'll have noticed by now is the big header image you can use to feature an extra image that says a little something about who you are or what you do. Twitter header images should be at least 1200 by 600 pixels, and by putting a little bit of thought into what kind of image to use, you can really spruce up your profile, and say something about who you are, all at the same time.

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The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Hipstamatic

The iPhone photography app Hipstamatic can be a little overwhelming at first, trying to understand how all the different combinations work and what kind of effects you can create using the app. When you first download Hipstamatic, if you haven't already, you'll find that it comes with a few pre-set lenses, film and flashes, which you can use in any combination of your choice.

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3 Cool Ways To Get Visitors To Interact On Your WordPress Site

User engagement should be a top priority for anyone running a website, blog or any kind of online business. While there is a lot that should be done in terms of encouraging users to share your content on social networks, as well as encouraging them to leave comments, there are a few more unique ideas that can help visitors interact with your site, and in some cases keep them there for a bit longer.

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Forget iPhoto. Use Pixa To Organize Photos On Your Mac

If you've been looking for a way to keep photos on your Mac organized, and iPhoto isn't cutting it for you, a new beta app might have you covered. Free for as long as it's in beta, Pixa is an easy to use app that makes it easy to keep your photos organized, back them up to the cloud, and open photos in external apps. In addition to keeping you organized, Pixa comes with a few pretty cool features which make it easy to stay organized, inspired and more.

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Create a Responsive Site In Minutes With Striking.ly

Having a responsive site is a must now for anyone who wants to cater to a wider audience, no matter what device they're happening to be on at the time. Responsive themes detect the device a visitor is using, and alter the site to give the viewer the optimal viewing experience - so whether you're driving traffic to your site when people are on the go on their phones or sitting at their computers, Striking.ly will handle the transition.

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Quick, Easy Ways To Download Photos From Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Google+ & More

With the amount of information we post online, we're putting an awful lot of faith in third party services to keep our content and photos safe. Between Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and Google+, there's no limit to the way we share our images online. And thanks to a few other third party services, there's no limit to the ways we can back up our online photos to our computers.

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Bic for Her And Other Must-Read Funny Amazon Reviews

We've already taken a look at funny Amazon reviews in the past, but thanks to a colossally dismal marketing idea on the part of Bic, creating a line of pens especially for women, we've once again gone digging for some of the more humorous reviews on the site. Along with the Bic for Her pens, there are also a couple of books, an ill-thought out kids toy and even one review for a wall mount, proving that your next laugh on Amazon could be pretty much anywhere.

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5 Reasons To Use Fancy Instead Of Pinterest

Since the Pinterest explosion, which has admittedly recently died down a little, there have been all sorts of clones popping up left and right catering to niche audiences, or even just unabashedly copying the social networking site. One social network that has already earned itself comparisons to Pinterest is Fancy, by allowing users to save and share photos on boards, with the difference of calling them 'lists' instead of 'boards.'

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Find Out More About People You Read About In The News With This Chrome Extension: Summer

When you're browsing the Web, reading the latest tech, business and world news, do you ever find yourself wondering about the people you're reading about? If so, Summer is a handy little Chrome extension which will definitely appeal to you. Summer is something of a Crunchbase that follows you around the Web, and goes far beyond letting you know just about tech and Internet personalities.

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Spotify: The Best Way To Listen To Music On Your iPhone

With Spotify making it onto the MakeUseOf Best iPhone Apps list, we're taking a closer look at what you can get out of using Spotify on your iPhone. You can select between the free or premium Spotify account, depending on how much you want to do with Spotify on your phone or tablet. Spotify Premium on your iPhone or iPad gives you on-demand music and the potential for offline access to Spotify's entire music library with millions of songs.

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Bookmark, Highlight, And Share Your Favourite Pages On The Internet With Annotary

There is certainly no shortage of online bookmarking sites but if you're still on the hunt for that perfect way to bookmark your favourite posts and sites, Annotary is the perfect marriage of a social and visual bookmarking service, and it couldn't be easier to use. Annotary is part productivity tool and part social networking site, by allowing you to bookmark pages, highlight specific parts of pages, add notes to your highlights, and share your bookmarks with other Annotary members.

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How To Block Facebook And Other Social Networks From Tracking You Online

Whenever you visit a site with a Like, Tweet or +1 button, you're actually sharing data with Facebook, Twitter or Google. And that's not all. There are hundreds of advertising and data collection companies that know quite a bit about your browsing habits. Luckily, no matter what your browser of choice might happen to be, there is a way to stop social networks and advertising companies from tracking your every move on the Web.

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Turn Your iPhone Into A Journaling Tool With Everyday.me

If you're anything like me, your iPhone never leaves your side. A great app that will come in handy on a daily basis is Everyday.me, which makes it easy to keep a daily journal while you're on the go. Not only does Everyday.me allows you to create original posts, but by granting the app access to your social networks, it can also save those posts to your journal automatically as well.

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4 Handy Services To Get Your Online Life Under Control

We're subscribed to so many newsletters, and are members of a countless number of services and social networks, and usually our email accounts are always the first ones to get bogged down with a flood of messages we tend to ignore. Add to that the way we grant third party apps permission to our social media accounts left and right, without really keeping track of who has access to what.

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