Twitter Silently Opens Up Its Analytics Service To Everyone, For Free [Updates]

Without making a big deal about it, Twitter has silently opened its analytics services to the general public, letting any Twitter user view detailed account statistics for free. The tool is not perfect yet, which might be the reason for the silent launch, but anyone at all can give it a try and see what information can be gained from it.

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How to Extract Email Addresses from your Gmail Folders

Learn how to extract unique email addresses from your Gmail mailbox and export them as CSV files with the help of a simple Google Script.

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This story, How to Extract Email Addresses from your Gmail Folders, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 14/06/2013 under GMail, Internet.

Bing Maps Adds 270 Terabytes Of Bird’s Eye Imagery And Venue Maps Of Landmark Locations [Updates]

Bing Maps made three key changes in a single sweep that's sure to make even die-hard Google Maps users take a second look. Bing updated its maps with the largest collection of "Bird’s Eye Imagery" locations; new detailed "Venue Maps"; and a "Report a Problem" feature to gather feedback from its users.

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How to Use Twitter as a Gmail Notifier

You can use Twitter as a Gmail notifier with Google Script. You can also receive SMS text alerts for new email messages on your mobile phone via Twitter.

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This story, How to Use Twitter as a Gmail Notifier, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 13/06/2013 under GMail, Sms, Twitter, Internet.

Cool Websites and Tools [June 13th 2013]

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool websites round-ups delivered to your email daily email subscribe here....

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Reddit Upgrades Multi-Reddits For A More Customized Experience [Updates]

The developers of Reddit announced on Friday that it will effectively introduce a new way of presenting its already-existing "multi-reddits". Users will soon be able to streamline the process of creating multi-reddits and be able to share them using unique URLs.

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The Web Hidden On The Web – FreeNet

Last week it was officially announced that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has been mining data from cellular service provider, Verizon. People were, and are, freaking out! How could the government do such a thing? What kind of totalitarian state are we really in?

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Google Stats

Sometimes it's a good idea to look at stats and see how many people use Google's products. Here are some official stats for the most important Google services and software:



Google Search - 1 billion users (September 2010), 100 billion searches per month (August 2012)



Google Maps - 1 billion monthly active users (June 2012)



YouTube - 1 billion unique users every month (March 2013)



Android - 900 million activations (May 2013)



Chrome - 750 million active users (May 2013)



Gmail - 425 million active users (June 2012)



Google Translate - 200 million monthly active users on translate.google.com (April 2012)



Google+ - 190 million active users in the stream, 390 million active users across Google (May 2013)



As you can see, there are at least 3 Google services that have more than 1 billion users: Search, Maps and YouTube. The number of Android activations is higher than the number of active users, since some of the devices are no longer used and there are users that have multiple Android devices.

Gramps Lets You Print Free Customised Family Tree Charts [Cross-Platform]

At some point in your life, you've probably considered looking into your family tree and making sense of it all. If you're the technical guru of the family, you've possibly also considered how you might digitise all the information your family has collected in order to make a neat-looking family tree to pass around to all the relatives. Gramps is free, open-source family tree making software which makes this part of the process is easy and completely free. Today we'll focus on building the best family tree printouts for you.

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Gramps Lets You Print Free Customised Family Tree Charts [Cross-Platform]

At some point in your life, you've probably considered looking into your family tree and making sense of it all. If you're the technical guru of the family, you've possibly also considered how you might digitise all the information your family has collected in order to make a neat-looking family tree to pass around to all the relatives. Gramps is free, open-source family tree making software which makes this part of the process is easy and completely free. Today we'll focus on building the best family tree printouts for you.

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I Bet You Didn’t Know Your Webcam Could Do This! 5 Tips To Help You Use Its Full Potential

Are you the kind of person that covers their webcam with a sticker, so nobody can spy on them? Almost every device now is equipped with at least one camera. They make virtual meetings a little more personal. You can visually interact with the other person, read facial expressions, and thus better understand how they feel. This subtle information adds a lot of depth to conversations. But webcams can do a lot more than enhance virtual conversations. Few of us use their full potential for fun, convenience, and safety.

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I Bet You Didn’t Know Your Webcam Could Do This! 5 Tips To Help You Use Its Full Potential

Are you the kind of person that covers their webcam with a sticker, so nobody can spy on them? Almost every device now is equipped with at least one camera. They make virtual meetings a little more personal. You can visually interact with the other person, read facial expressions, and thus better understand how they feel. This subtle information adds a lot of depth to conversations. But webcams can do a lot more than enhance virtual conversations. Few of us use their full potential for fun, convenience, and safety.

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Google's Calorie Counter, Not Just for Voice Search

When Google started to answer questions about nutrition, I wondered why the new feature was limited to voice search. Sure, you could use it in Android, iOS and even in Chrome for desktop, but why not show the same results in the regular search interface?



Now you can search for [how many calories are in popcorn?], [steak calories], [how much vitamin a is in a carrot?] and many other similar queries from any browser. Just type the query and you'll get an interactive info card and a long list of nutrition facts.

Chrome Frame Discontinued

Chrome Frame is a clever plugin for Internet Explorer that loads pages using Chrome's rendering engine if those pages include some code that requests this. It was released back in 2009, a few months after Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8. Back then, Internet Explorer was the most popular browser, but it didn't include many HTML5 features and it was pretty slow.



"With Google Chrome Frame, developers can now take advantage of the latest open web technologies, even in Internet Explorer. From a faster Javascript engine, to support for current web technologies like HTML5's offline capabilities and <canvas>, to modern CSS/Layout handling, Google Chrome Frame enables these features within IE with no additional coding or testing for different browser versions," explained Google back then.



Now Chrome is the most popular browser, Internet Explorer 9 and 10 added a lot of HTML5 features, while the outdated IE versions have a declining market share. Chrome Frame is no longer that useful and Google decided to discontinue it and "cease support and updates for the product in January 2014".



Chrome Frame was mostly used by companies. Google suggests IT administrators to deploy Chrome for Business and use the Legacy Browser Support extension to quickly switch to Internet Explorer for the older websites and apps that require IE. Another option is to keep using Chrome Frame even after January 2004 because it will continue to work.



Here's the video that introduced Chrome Frame:

And here are some browser market share stats from StatCounter:

StatCounter - desktop stats	IE	Chrome	Firefox	Safari
March 2009	62.52%	1.73%	29.40%	2.73%
May 2013	27.72%	41.38%	19.76%	7.96%

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