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Keyboard shortcuts are an easy way to save yourself some time and typing if you spend a lot of time click-clacking away at your keyboard like I do. The most common ones are somewhat universal (to many applications, at least). Control + P to print, Control + C to copy, Control + V to paste.

Buried within the settings of Apple’s iOS 7 is a feature that could revolutionise how we communicate. Called the Multipeer Connectivity Framework (MCF), it lets you send messages and photos even when a person has no signal. Now a group of developers has created a free iPhone app called FireChat that takes advantage of this

A Colorado mother who attempted to teach her daughter a lesson about Facebook use wound up getting blasted by others. In an effort to show her daughter how quickly something can spread online, Kira Hudson posted a public photo of the young girl and asked her Facebook friends to share it, WHNT reports. She had

Almost two thirds of nine to 11-year-olds have mobiles now and limiting what content they see can be tricky. With this in mind, YouTube is rumoured to be working on a child-friendly version of its video site aimed specifically at children aged 10 and under. ‘Multiple sources’ told The Information the site would only show

  WhatsApp is set to add the ability to send and receive voice messages through its app for the first time. The firm, bought last week by Facebook, will launch the service within weeks in a bid to take on phone firms. CEO Jan Koum said the voice service will be deployed for Android and

  It’s hard to tell whether Erik Åberg is a magician or a designer—maybe it’s a little bit of both. Åberg is the creator of Ghostcubes, a cardboard system of folding boxes that, in his hands, demonstrate perfect, calculated precision. We don’t know terribly much about Åberg: This is his first and only video on

  Having hundreds of Facebook friends may seem like the ultimate sign of popularity and happiness, yet it could actually suggest the opposite. Researchers from Maine compared personality traits to levels of happiness among more than 16,000 people over a four-year period. People listed as extroverted at the start of the study gradually saw an

On its 10th anniversary, we highlight some of the facts and figures related to Facebook, the defining social network of our time. On this day, February 4, exactly 10 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg turned on TheFacebook.com from his Harvard dorm. Little did he know or comprehend at the time that he’d be giving life to

  ‘Password’ is no longer the worst password on the internet, researchers have discovered. However, they warn the new ‘worst password’, 123456, is just as insecure. The team at SplashData analysed millions of stolen passwords posted online in 2013 to compile their annual list of the worst. ‘For the first time since SplashData began compiling

  Facebook has launched a new trends section designed to tell users the site’s most popular topics of discussion. The new feature, which is being rolled out to all Facebook users, is believed to be aimed at letting the site compete with Twitter’s popular trends. The trends will reflect the most discussed topics on Faebook,