Know When Facebook Friends Delete You As a Contact

We are not Facebook Friends anymore. Know when your existing friends secretly remove or delete you as a connection on Facebook. “X and Y are now friends on Facebook” – That’s the message displayed in your Facebook profile each time you add a new friend on Facebook or someone else confirms your pending request. But the reverse is not true – you will never know when existing friends remove you from their Facebook friends list. The count...

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How To Read PDF Documents on your iPod or any Mobile Phone

You can read HTML Websites, Email Messages, PDF Files, Word Document or any Text File on your iPod, Mobile Phone using the free tool called ebook to images. If you like to read Adobe PDF ebooks, Word Documents or text files on your iPod, cell phone or any other portable device that supports pictures, here’s an extremely useful utility. Called eBook to Images, this 500kb tool extracts the text out of your PDFs, then converts that text into...

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Dropped your Mobile Phone or iPod in Water?

How to dry your expensive mobile phone or iPod that got wet in the rain or you may have dropped it in a wash basin? What is the next step that you would take if your expensive mobile phone or iPod gets wet in the rain or your drop it in a wash basin? Such accidents are not very uncommon. Adam Curry once dropped his iPhone in the toilet. Venadium went for a swim while the iPod was still in his pocket. Leo Laporte did something similar to...

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BlackBerry Guide for Power Users

Become a power BlackBerry user with these lesser-known but very useful tips and other time saving keyboard shortcuts. Do you want to be more productive with your BlackBerry phone? Well, if you don’t have the time to read manuals, here’s a quick overview of some great time-saving features, tips and lesser-known keyboard shortcuts that will help you do things quickly and more efficiently on a BlackBerry. BlackBerry Guide for Power Users – Take...

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How to Close All Background iOS Apps at Once

Learn how you can close all the background running apps on your iPad and iPhone. And you can quit apps without jailbreaking. .<iframe width="526" height="326" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CGWQBjt95AY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> When you double-tap the home button of your iPad or iPhone, the dock will show a list of all the recently used apps and some of them could still be running in the background. You tap and hold your finger on the app icon until it begins to jiggle and you can then press the red “minus” sign...

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Backup your Gmail Inbox Online

This tip describes how you can backup your Gmail mailbox online so that you have access to all your emails even if the main service is down. If you want to backup your emails from Gmail to the local computer, enable POP3 access in your Gmail settings and then use a desktop mail client to download a copy of all your messages from the Google cloud to the local disk. That’s easy! Windows Live Mail, Outlook and Thunderbird are some nice email...

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Opera Browser Coming to iPhone

Opera will be showing a preview of their Opera Mini browser for the iPhone during the Mobile World Congress. If you want to browse the web on your iPhone (or iPod Touch or the upcoming iPad), the only option is the built-in Safari browser because Apple, until now, won’t approve other browser apps in their iTunes store. Opera, hoping that Apple will change their policy, has developed a version of the Opera Mini browser for the iPhone and...

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The Most Essential Tools for Presenters

Conferences have come a long way in the last few years. As a presenter or as an organizer, here are some useful tools and tips to help you get the most out of your sessions. Conferences have come a long way in the last few years. People just don’t attend a presentation, take down notes, ask a few questions and leave but they expect something more. As a conference presenter, here’re some useful tools (and tips) that may help you get the most out of your session. Once the details of your session has been finalized, set up a Google Moderator ...

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What’s Coming in iPhone 5, According to the Rumour Mill

This neatly-done poster highlights all the rumors and news stories surrounding Apple’s next phone – iPhone 5 – which is expected to launch around September this year. This neatly-done poster from French blog NoWhereElse highlights all the rumors surrounding iPhone 5 which is expected to launch around September. Bigger screen, higher-resolution camera, 3D support.. the wish-list is endless. Thanks GottaBeMobile for the ti...

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Create a Unique Password for Every Site You Use

Learn how you can create unique and strong passwords for every website that you use without storing the passwords anywhere. You want to create lengthy, complicated and unique passwords for every website that you use but that rarely happens in practice because these complex strings would be nearly impossible for anyone to remember. Most people thus rely on password management software that encrypt and store all your passwords in a database...

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Download Multiple Web Videos Into a Single Movie or MP3

How to download multiple video files from YouTube, Google Video, Break.com and other web video websites into one single movie or an MP3 file. While there are tons of tools that let you download web videos with ease, MovAVI offers one unique feature – it can join multiple videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Break.com, etc. into one single file all by itself that you can later download in any format. Related Reading: How to do Everything with YouTube Using ...

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A Better Way to Bookmark Web Videos

Meet a useful web app that lets you bookmark web videos from all popular video sharing websites to a common queue and you can watch them all later. [Updated] As you may have noticed, YouTube offers a handy Watch Later feature that lets you add the current video to a queue with a click. You can then conveniently watch all these ‘queued’ videos later when you have the time.There’s one minor problem though. YouTube is ‘the’ most popular...

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Find the Person Behind an Email Address

Know the email address of someone but nothing more? Learn techniques to help you uncover the location and other details of the email sender. You get an email from a person with whom you have never interacted before and therefore, before you reply to that message, you would like to know something more about him or her. How do you do this without directly asking the other person? Web search engines are obviously the most popular place for performing...

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Windows Live Photo Gallery vs Picasa

The new version of Windows Live Photo Gallery supports facial recognition, geo-tagging, panorama stiching and themed slideshare but is it better that Google’s Picasa software? Read a detailed comparison. A new version of Windows Live Photo Gallery, a free program that lets you manage your collection of photos and videos, will be available for download later today on live.com. The new Photo Gallery remains a solid alternative to Google’s Picasa...

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