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 downloader tool. It lets you save videos from Facebook, YouTube, ComedyCentral, Vimeo, MTV, and 50 others places.
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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 Google. Though all of it is organized with labels, it’s time consuming to winnow the junk.
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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 limited to 500 characters or less. That’s about 100 words.
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Now that ten million people have joined the new “Google+” social network, we’re ready to add our two cents. (Yes, we know: half the journalists in the known universe are already on this.)
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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, though it’s still hasn’t officially launched. Spotify has been described as a magical version of iTunes where you’ve already bought the whole library.
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Here’s a trend to ponder: The number of American’s who use Microsoft’s “Internet Explorer” to browse the web has dropped to 44 percent. It was once nearly 100 percent, and as recently as three years ago it was around 70 percent. Mozilla Firefox has 28 percent, Google Chrome has 21 percent, Safari around 5 percent and Opera, now out in a new version, around 2 percent.
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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 books (40 million pages) in the British Library (the national library). The books are dated between 1700 and 1870.
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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 “representative” to get a human agent, dial “O,” or whatever other trick is needed. It even tells you the average time spent on hold. “Very helpful for reaching the IRS,” said one user.
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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 now that Verizon has joined AT&T and T-Mobile in ending unlimited data plans for new customers. Here are a few ways to use up one gigabyte in a month.
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