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Question: So, this Spotify thing... How do I land myself an invite?
Answer: Music in the cloud — it’s a lovely thing.
The newest and shiniest of the services is Euro-darling Spotify, which on Thursday made its debut on …
Spotify is finally here in the U.S.!
I’ve been using the service over here in Europe for quite a while and it’s packed with lots of cool stuff: more music than you can ever reasonably listen to, social network features, and more. But one of my favorite features is the way Spotify links out to the rest of the internet.
As the team at Fox News discovered—to its chagrin—earlier this week, security lapses on social networks can have wide-ranging consequences.
As we reported, persons unknown took control of the Fox News Politics Twitter feed in the early hours of July 4th, and started trying to spread rumors that the president had been …
You work, right? And are you on the Facebook? Seems everyone’s on the Facebook. That thing’s probably going to “make it” in the tech world.
Your superiors may not appreciate you spending company time on Facebook, preferring instead that you buckle down and churn through those spreadsheets. But what if you’ve already churned through …
Heard about any good hacks lately?
It’s high time we went over some password rules:
1. The longer the better. Six characters? No. Eight? Meh. Twelve? Yes.
2. Use a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols.
3. Create a different password for each site. It’s a total pain, I know, but consider one of the …
When Apple’s OS X Lion debuts in July, it’ll only be available through Apple’s Mac App Store. No retail copies, no white-edged Apple-gray install DVDs—just an install file you’ll purchase and pull down by conjuring the App Store from your Mac’s dock and perusing “New and Noteworthy” for a picture of Apple’s new tawny-maned kitty. Oh, …
Google’s doing it, Amazon’s doing it, Apple will be doing it very soon now. Everyone’s putting their music in the cloud. Clouds are, it would seem, where it’s at. Indeed clouds are so happening that perhaps you might prefer to roll your own rather than use someone else’s.
Here’s one way of doing that.
Milwaukee developer John Mills …
We’ve all been there. We’ve all felt the nausea inducing, gut twisting, computer monitor chucking sensations that result from a mistakenly sent message. Then arrives the infuriatingly merry sounding “whoosh” indicating your e-mail or text has sent successfully. You soon curse the inexistence of an emergency e-mail ABORT button (unless …
I know the future is upon us, but there’s still something about facial recognition that creeps me out. Especially when it suggests those not-so-flattering photos of me accurately…
Soon, Facebook will be able to scan all photos posted to Facebook and suggest people to tag based on their facial features.
And though Facebook’s …
The recent World Health Organization report saying that cell phone radiation is “possibly carcinogenic” has caused a bit of a stir.
On one end of the spectrum, the report itself categorizes cell phones alongside DDT and car exhaust in terms of potential risk while on the other end, the wireless association, CTIA, says that the …
You have Facebook friends. You have Gmail contacts. Never the two shall meet? Bah. Here’s an easy way to export your list of Facebook friends and then import them into your Gmail contacts list.
Export Using “Friends to Gmail”
Head on over to friendstogmail.com and “connect” with your Facebook account. Step through the process and …
Here’s how to use a Twitter bookmarklet with the iPad’s Safari web browser. It’s a cool trick that’ll let you quickly and easily tweet an interesting web page out to your followers directly from the browser—no need to try to hunt down a “Tweet This” button or mess around with copying and pasting the page’s link from the address …
