[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Facebook Gets Hip to Data Portability
- [Mashable!]
Facebook has now made it possible to download all of the content and information that you have added to Facebook. This means that you can download your photos, videos, wall posts, conversation threads and status updates.
This information will then be prepared and downloadable as zip file. Rather than just getting all of the data in a structureless archive, the data can be viewed in your web browser and will be easy to access and sort through.
…Check out this video Facebook created explaining the new feature.
[If they made it viewable by web browser, does that mean it's all crudded up with HTML and therefore impossible to import into any other microblogging/social networking platform? Because that's not what portability means to me. -L]
- Block unwanted calls from reaching your Android
- The blocking allows you to create custom black and whitelists that will let you control who can call you. Once you have the lists in place you can decide whether you want to route the call to voicemail, or otherwise just pick up and hang up. The app will do either automatically.
- Wolfram|Alpha Brings Computational Search, Crazy Miscellanea to Android
- [Lifehacker]
Wolfram|Alpha, the "computational knowledge engine" that can help you count your calorie burn, explain confusing once-removed-type relationships, teach you step-by-step math, and otherwise raise your eyebrows just landed in the Android Market.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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