FREE VIDEO DOWNLOADING

So you sometimes see a video online that you want to save offline? Who doesn’t? Freemake.com just came out with a new version of its free video… Read more

TWEAKING GMAIL

Joy has 53,914 saved emails in her Gmail account, going back to 2005. That’s about two-thirds of the seven gigabytes of free storage allowed by… Read more

TAMING THE EMAIL MONSTER

Shortmail.com is a free service that tries to save you from looking at long emails. Every message sent or received through the service must be… Read more

GOOGLE + SOCIAL

Now that 20 million people have visited the new “Google+” social network, we’re ready to add our two cents. (Yes, we know: half the journalists… Read more

IPAD BOOKS

“My iPad 2,” by Wallace Wang, $25 from nostarch.com. Wang is the author of several best-selling computer books and he makes this stuff easy to… Read more

SPOTIFY RADIO ARRIVES

Spotify.com has free Internet radio that that listeners claim puts Pandora to shame. You can go to the website and get an invitation to sign on…. Read more

THE NUMBERS REPORT

– Here’s a trend to ponder: The number of Americans who use Microsoft’s “Internet Explorer” to browse the web has dropped to 44 percent. It… Read more

DIGITIZING THE BRITISH LIBRARY

Google ran into copyright trouble trying to digitize every American book, but they’re steaming ahead with an opening group of 250,000 out-of-print… Read more

GET A HUMAN

GetHuman.com gives you phone numbers for actual human beings at banks, insurance companies, Facebook, etc. They also tell you if you have to say… Read more

THE APPS ATE MY DATA

AT&T has a free calculator that makes it easy to find out why you keep going over the data limit on your smart phone. It’s especially helpful… Read more