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I have an HTC desire and I really do love it. Well, mostly. I love everything about my phone except the lack of space in phone memory. I had hoped Froyo would end my misery, by allowing me to move apps to the SD card, but it’s only helped a small amount. There’s just not enough app-makers who think it’s important to add App2SD functionality. And given the pitiful amount of memory on my phone, I am really limited to just the apps with App2SD. I’ve known for a while that it’s really the...

I’m very happy to share with you a French translation of my Facebook Privacy manual (the English version I mentioned here and is available on MakeUseOf here). The French Facebook Privacy Manual is available care of Flavien Chantrel, Anne-Laure Raffestin and Le Blog du Modérateur on Scribd. Many thanks to Anne-Laure for co-ordinating this translation and doing such a fantastic job! View this document on Scribd Filed under: education, how-to, internet, Links, security, social networking, web2.0

Right, time for a rant. Something which has slowly grown to annoy me is the number of websites which will change my language settings simply because they have managed to work out where I am sitting right now. In short, what I’d like to say to all webmasters who do this is “STOP IT!” For me, I’ve noticed this problem because I’m primarily an English speaker who happens to be in France. Yes, I make good use of my sudden French settings and get some instant French practise, but by and large I...

My MakeUseOf Manual on Facebook Privacy has been released! Download “The (Very) Unofficial Facebook Privacy Manual” from MakeUseOf for free. Or if you’re a Scribd user, have a read of “The (Very) Unofficial Facebook Privacy Manual” on Scribd. “This handy guide outlines everything you could ever want to know about locking down your privacy on Facebook, and a few things you probably didn’t even know you wanted to know.” – Justin Pot of MakeUseOf.com View this document on Scribd Filed under:...

I just thought I should let you all know that I’ve started writing for MakeUseOf, covering fairly similar topics to the things I write here. To collect my writing back into one place, I’ve made a to collect all my best professional writing, including my work at MakeUseOf, NetSavoir, writings at Vegemite Croissant and more. Please feel free to “like” the in order to keep updated.If Twitter is more your thing, I have a few different accounts you might like to follow: @ – This tells followers when there’s new posts from the NetSavoir blog, plus the occasional related link ...

This trick is only good for public pages and you do need to know the URL if you’re already stuck behind the firewall. But how many URLs of public sites do you know? Probably a few. Web2Mail – Either subscribe to a page you want to watch for changes or email www@web2mail.com with the URL in the subject and it will email you the site within 5 minutes WebInMail also sends websites to you. Email browse@webinmail.com with the URL in the subject. Easy! Don’t forget you can get old snapshots with...