If you were lucky enough to get an iPhone or iPod Touch for Christmas then you might be wondering which apps you should be throwing onto it. Well, here’s the first in a series of posts that will show you how to use your device to improve your everyday life. Each of these ‘iPhone essentials’ […]

It’s now only one week until the big day and I’m sure excitement is starting to set in. Perhaps you’re trying to sort out your Christmas entertainment. If so, take a peek inside today’s window and you might find something that will help you.

xxx lets you transform your standard home computer into a multimedia hub […]

Windows: If you need to share large files online, Pando is an excellent choice. This tool lets you send and receive large files (up to 1GB in size) via email, IM client or web, without any hassle! The latest version 2.3.3 includes enhancements in the P2P protocol, improvements in speed for Pando Pro and loads […]

Believe it or not, it’s that time of the year again. 2009 is almost over and the countdown to Christmas has already started. And what is the best way to keep track of that countdown? An advent calendar, of course! Nowadays you can buy advent calendars of all shapes and kinds, but I still believe […]

Everyone loves sharing their photos online on Flickr, Picasa and other similar sites. The risk of it is that some people think all online images are public property, so they can simply take them and use them anywhere else. Unfortunately there’s little you can do to avoid this without getting too complicated, like disabling right […]

Windows: If you need to edit several photos in a row, either you spend a long time with the PC working on each one of them, or you use Modi. This program lets you apply basic changes (rotate, resize, adjust levels, add frames, insert watermark and more) to multiple photos simultaneously, saving you time and […]

YouTube, the most famous video sharing community in the world, was launched back in 2005. After four years it has become a clear point of reference in online business for other people, who have launched a bunch of websites following the same concept: gathering similar content and sharing it online. Sometimes these websites use the […]

The problem
The more digital content we store on our computers, the more important reliable backup solutions become. For example, my iMac has about 50GB of music and photos on its primary disk drive. While much of the music could probably be replaced, any photo not yet uploaded to Flickr would be lost forever if that […]

Aurora is definitely one of the best photo optimization and sharing apps I’ve tried and the great news is, the developers are currently offering a 24 hour free offer. Normally the app would set you back $20. All you have to do is click on the “Buy Now” links for either Mac or Windows and […]

Hunch.com is a recently launched ‘decision engine’, which has got quite a bit of attention due to one of the company being Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake.
Microsoft’s heavily covered Bing has been called a decision engine - by Microsoft - which I don’t understand as it’s just a search engine. I think it’s a good search […]

According to Opera, today is the day the Web changes. Its new Unite service promises to radically extend what we do online. The basis of the new platform, which is built into the latest build of Opera 10, is to do away with Web servers owned by strangers and instead connect people on a computer-to-computer […]

Your desktop is the first thing you see when you start your computer, so why not use it for something more useful than just displaying a cute picture? There are some tricks - and software apps as well - for embedding interesting information (calendars, to-do lists, CPU data) on your desktop, so that you always […]

iTunes 8.2 released [Softonic]
China blocks access to Twitter and Flickr [Blog Herald]
Acer Android netbooks coming this autumn [BetaNews]
Nokia N97 on sale worldwide this month [Nokia Conversations]
Google working on ‘Wave’ communications tool [Google]

Windows 7 RC1 released to MSDN and TechNet [Microsoft]
Apple augments chip team - secret new stuff to come? [WSJ]
Yahoo! layoffs start - Flickr hit first [GigaOm]
Palm Pre Mini to be released this year [TechCrunch]
Panda introduces ‘cloud based’ antivirus app [Cloud Ave]

The Web provides you with lots to do: you can follow the news worldwide in real time, listen to your favorite music, enjoy online videos, chat with people on the other side of the globe and learn about hundreds of different subjects, among other things. But there is more to the Internet than just using […]