Facebook proudly boast the number of photos uploaded a day increases by thousands each day, and even tops previous records over times such as New Year’s Eve, which would make me guess that you are probably ‘tagged’ in some of these photos. With all these photographic memories, it can be useful to have the ability to download and save these pictures yourself, and Photograbber is the best tool for the job.
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by David Bain
6 Sites To Discover New Music
Think about that feeling you get when you hear a new to-be-favourite song or band for the first time. It’s great right? In this brief summary, we have some tools that will help you find new music and artists.
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by David Bain
AppUseful Android Application
AppUseful are pleased to announce our first mobile application! If you’re an Android user you can now enjoy reading the AppUseful Blog on your mobile device.
It’s free to download using this link, or the QR code below. Look out if you own a Windows Phone as we’re hoping to release an app very soon for that platform and other mobile devices in the near future.
Please let us know what you think and any suggestions are welcome. We’ll be updating the application in the future, so keep an eye out and we will make sure you know.
Tags: application, Mobile
by David Bain
4 News Aggregation Sites You Should Try
With news sites posting about every and any occurring event it can become difficult to narrow down the news you want to read efficiently. Fortunately there are multiple aggregation websites out there that can be personalised and cater for the news you want to read.
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Tags: aggregation, news, sites
by Matt Bush
Mobile Weekly: Twitter for Android Update
After a recent update to version 2.0, Twitter for Android has become one of the best clients to use for checking up on your constant stream of tweets. It has had a complete redesign which some might say resembles the iOS version. It now features a much darker theme instead of the old blue clouds background we saw in version 1. Also the main menu screen has gone and it now loads you straight into your timeline. Other features inherited from its iOS cousin is the ability to pull down to refresh and the swipe menu which gives your the option to reply or the favourite the swiped tweet. The overall design of the app is slick, clean and well engineered. Learn More
by David Bain
Submitting Apps To The AppUseful Directory
It’s really easy to submit a great web app to the AppUseful directory. All you have to do is head to http://appuseful.com and hit ‘Submit An App’. Check out this screencast that shows just how easy it is! Learn More
by David Bain
Making Newsletters Just Got Easier With TinyLetter
Newsletters are a useful tool for any publisher to keep traffic on your site and getting content noticed, but most newsletter services will charge or be limited feature wise. A website called TinyLetter is a great free alternative for creating a newsletter with great features that you can also charge people for.
Tags: email, Free, newsletter, service, tinyletter, updates
by David Bain
Facebook: Has Your Home Feed Gone Quiet?
We have gathered that the latest rounds of Facebook updates have brought in a new feature that some people have been opted into from the get go. If you have noticed that your home feed has gone quiet and your only getting the same friends, this would be because the new feature is only showing stories from the friends you interact with most. If you have ever hidden someone from the homepage it may not effect you, but it would be a good idea to check.
by David Bain
Hoverme – Adding More To Twitter Profiles
Twitter profiles can limit the amount of information you can put on there. If you ever need to find a persons Flickr profile, YouTube channel or anything on the social web, Hoverme is a great extension for Google Chrome that will do just that.
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by David Bain
Mobile Weekly: Android Gets Its Online Market
Yesterday Google held an announcement for the Android platform and one of the new things to come out of this was the highly anticipated online Android market. It seems inspired from Apple’s online app stores, now for both iOS and Mac which allow you to view apps in your browser without launching iTunes first. Before the launch it has not been the easiest task to find and explore new apps, this brings the Android platform a directory which will encourage more developers to move onto the platform.
