tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45194743874617789932024-10-07T06:44:51.833+01:00Little blurbs of interestGreg Synnotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01534847789721786441noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519474387461778993.post-65072655280053940512011-03-28T03:48:00.000+01:002011-03-28T03:48:00.403+01:00

  Moodagent, a cross-platform and mobile application, creates music playlists based on your mood. Tell it how you’re feeling and it picks songs that mirror your emotional state. Feel like you need a computer to pick your music based on the mood you tell it you’re in, sure why not. Happy? Sad? blah blah blah, adjust how sensual, tender or angry you want your music and pick the tempo too. It

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  Sign me out is simply a lovely little iPhone app that lets you check if your Gmail and Facebook are signed in anywhere you don’t want them to be. Don’t pretend you’ve never walked away from a computer leaving yourself vulnerable to the odd “frape” here and there, well it could be worse that if someone more malicious comes across your open account. Or in my case, hacks it. If you find

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  Again something else I should have posted as soon as I’d come across it, but anyway… Facebook has rolled out a new comment style system with real time updates and better sharing. Apart from all those however you can also edit any comment you make on Facebook without having to remove your original comment. If you hit the little X in the corner of the comment within the first minute of

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  So I should have updated this on the day it happened. But Twitter now uses HTTPS, why should you set this up? Well security is always a plus in my books. Anyway: It's easy to do: Go to your Twitter settings page. Tick the Always use HTTPS checkbox. Click Save and re-enter your password when prompted. Going forward, Twitter will always send data back and forth using the considerably

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  Well Firefox 4 has finally launched, and it’s definitely taken a big jump in the name of progress. In my opinion anyway. I might even consider going back to it full time from Chrome, I don’t know if it’s that good yet however. But as pretty as the new layout and set up are, there are still a few things that some of you may not like, I know I certainly didn’t. Tabs on Top I simply like my

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  Is Facebook a scammer’s Paradise? Every day you come into contact with a new scam, survey or fake application on Facebook with bum links from scammers hoping to profit from your itchy clicking finger and it’s getting worse. So are the scammers just getting smarter or is Facebook getting lazy? According to Sophos Threat Report 2011, the top three scams on Facebook are: Likejacking Worms:

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  I was thinking about this a lot in the past few days, what's the best way to  split the rent evenly and fairly that won’t lead to the destruction of friendships. In particular this became a point of importance as I plan on spending my summer in San Francisco with some friends. Fourteen to be exact. Now the easiest thing would be just split the rent 14 ways were we all to live

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  If you’re like me then you probably have multiple computers that are constantly in rotation. Or you might be using a work computer and so you don’t have access to your usual collection of tabs and bookmarks that you’d like. The familiarity of your home browser is nice right? Well Dropbox, my favourite find ever comes in to save the day, again. With the use of a the lovely little portable

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This is just to say sorry for the lack of content lately, I have been swamped with work and college and assignments, I've also been freelancing a lot lately too. From tomorrow onwards i start work with the Dubliner and plan to focus my time more so I might fit everything in, expect more content in the coming days. - Greg

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  Windows/Mac/Linux (Chrome & Firefox): This is CloudMagic, the video explain it all really but in short, what used to be a speedy Gmail only app is now covering Google Docs and Contacts too. Helping you find your entire life in the cloud easily. CloudMagic also doesn’t retain your Google password, for that little extra security too and although its not as in-depth as some search

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  Ever return a product to Apple only to be told that your warranty has been void due to water damage, even if you’ve secured it in a water proof vault on top of a mountain, how could this happen? Well it turns out there’s a small lightly coloured dot inside a lot of devices that turns red/pink when exposed to water. Put in place so that when a service technician is looking for a problem

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Example with Cast of Cheers sharkZapper lets you control your music from Grooveshark and see whats playing withou even having to switch tabs, gets live notifications and more Only on Chrome: sharkZapper lets you control your music without having to go back and forth between tabs. I've spoken about how incredible I think Grooveshark is before, but it can be quite irksome having to always revert

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  It’s funny to think that as I write this piece on Procrastination that I am in fact procrastinating myself. Working out any number of ways to avoid going to bed and be well rest for work tomorrow whilst also writing anything else but college work, so far I’ve done 4 reviews, a feature and a small piece on Facebook and have yet to make a single dent in the pile  of assignments that

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  For Windows: If you work with PDFs regularly, particularly if you use Openoffice, you’ll want this little program. PDFZilla is a batch PDF converter that converts single PDFs to editable formats like Word documents. For PDFs being so popular these days, they come with the annoying caveat that you can’t edit them with an expensive program like Adobe Acrobat… until now. PDFZilla can batch

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  Keeping on top of your massively overloaded inbox becoming too daunting a task? One quick way to organise through your emails is to reply quickly and concisely. Here’s a view on replying efficiently… If you’re staring at that overbearing inbox and are considering the possible numerous amount of times you have tried to tackle it… and failed. well one solution to your problem is to ignore

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  Click the Picture Get paid to write? Yes, please! In a perfect world everyone would be paid for the work they did. Unfortunately however in many cases (mine being journalism for example) there are many arguments for working for free. There are also some stupid reasons, and the chart above might just help you filter out a few of them. Jessica Hische has created a flow chart which might

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  There's not much to say about Grooveshark other than, IT’S AWESOME! Its everything that i want and that i need in a music streaming site, and better yet, its totally free, if you’re willing to put up with a few ads, and yes I am. Grooveshark can be your very own little music library packed with every album, artist or genre that you like and will even let you organise it how you wish.

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  Everyone makes a new years resolution, whether they are willing to admit it to everyone or not, or just something they keep to themselves but how often do you see people keep to these “Resolutions” and before you think about everyone else, when do you stick to yours? Quitting bad habits can be difficult but replacing them could be your solution, the main thing to think about though is

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You Can’t Buy Happiness, Luckily You Can Make It.Christmas is getting pretty close, even if it doesn’t feel like it, I’ve still yet to see the Coca Cola Christmas ad on TV. Who knew advertising was when so many would consider themselves in the season.With what many would consider the most expensive time of year looming its pricey head again, and many of us running around with empty pockets for

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Ok, so simply put RockMelt is another Web Browser, but it’s not just any Web Browser, in its own little ways, its unique. Based upon the Google Chromium Source (it looks like Google Chrome), RockMelt is what Social Networking addicts have been looking for. It seamlessly integrates with Twitter and Facebook, allowing you to shout to the world your every status, update and tweet simply. It even

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  This is a simple trick you may or may not know about but it certainly makes things that little bit easier when you’re linking people to a clip and you want them to see a specific point in the video. The video explains it all really, just thought I’d share this video… lifehacker

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  Ge.tt is a clever, instant file-sharing web-app that makes sharing files simple and fast. You can share a link to your file(s) immediately, without waiting for the upload to complete, and it doesn't use Flash, Java applets, or any other plug-ins. Ge.tt is simple to use and doesn’t even require you to have an account (but theres extra benefits if you do sign up). Go to Ge.tt, select the

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  For most of us, Facebook and Twitter are an unmanageable mess of status updates, random questionnaires, and all round pointless posts, but what if you actually wanted to use social networking without getting information overload, here are a few tips. Jimmy Kimmel suggested a National Unfriend Day that was to take place on November 17th, but just because that's come and gone, doesn’t mean

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Simple desktops springs from a simple idea, easy on the eye designs that are distraction free but still appealing to look at. Do you want less, but not boring? Then you want Simple Desktops. Simple Desktops: a collection of bling, drop shadow, and gradient free desktops to help keep you stay focused but also provide just enough eye candy to not be bored. It's here because finding these

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  “Full Description A multiprotocol Im Client that lets you manage all your IM, email, and social network accounts from one easy-to-use application. For IM, it brings all your buddies into one merged contact list with support for AIM, MSN, Facebook Chat, Yahoo, ICQ, GTalk, and Jabber. For email, it offers notifications of new emails with message previews, as well as, the ability to perform

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