So next time you’re in town, a little worse for wear, text Gliese 581d, a planet about 20 light years from us, hanging round the constallation Libra. This planet is apparently a high contender to actually support intelligent life, according to the scientists that discovered it. And HelloFromEarth.net are going to text it.

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It’s all about you. Or, at least, it was. Twitter used to be “a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” Now, the newest and fastest growing ‘social media’ giant has had a change of heart: [...]

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Finally, Twitter have got round to a little bit of spring cleaning and have got rid of a number of spam accounts- used to follow other Twitter users to direct them to their own websites for the sole purpose of gaining hits. The ‘Twitter Correction’, currently in top trend spot on Twitter, has seen follower [...]

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There are so many technology videos out there- selling us things, making us laugh, or doing both- that it’s hard to cut the wheat from the chaff and find one of any decent quality. We’ve waded through hours of videos to bring you five of the best.

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Everyone is in on Facebook and Google Mail, so why not combine the two and save hassling around between tabs in your browser all afternoon? iGoogle has released a new Facebook Connect Gadget, allowing you to keep track of your Facebook news feed from your iGoogle home page. You can even update your status from [...]

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Google has announced a new feature from the Google Labs which builds search results into a table like in a spreadsheet.

If you want a list of all the capital cities in Europe you can enter a query like ‘capital cities in Europe’ and Google Squared will build a spreadsheet like results page where you can add rows and columns and build up a table of your results.

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When America first launched the ‘just add water’ instant cake mixture, it bombed. Subsequent research found that American housewives liked to feel they were doing something towards the end result. The answer? ‘Just add water…and an egg’ cake mixture. That sold like proverbial hot cakes. The same can be said about Microsoft’s new search engine, [...]

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While fixed broadband has become as normal in people’s homes as toasted cheese sandwiches, another means of connecting online is starting to take the market by storm: mobile broadband. Mobile broadband basically frees you up to check up on work emails and the latest sports results while you’re out and about instead of having to [...]

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