Radiopaq has come out of Beta this week, and it promises to transform your listening habits if you're a fan of internet radio. As well as a comprehensive search engine finding stations for you you'd be unlikely to stumble across yourself, it's got loads more features.

You can mark your favourite podcasts and have them automatically updated for the next time you log on, have it automatically update the weather and traffic feeds for your local area, and so much more.

I'm not sure what it is about April, but it makes me want to go on holiday. It's a long time since Christmas, there doesn't seem to be much Spring in the air and I'm ready to get away. Anywhere (that picture is of where I was six months ago today. Is it any wonder I'm craving a holiday?). There are a whole host of resources out there to bag you a cheap deal - here are a few of the best (and if you've got your own favourites, add them in the comments).

Skyscanner
My first stop whenever I get itchy feet. You can search very non-specifically, so if you're up for anything but have a limited budget it's perfect. There's also bar charts showing which days are the cheapest to fly, and since it searches most of the budget airlines, you're bound to pick up a bargain.

Now first off I'd like to make myself clear - downloading content online is illegal (unless you're paying for it, streaming it or using a service like 4OD). However the fact is that people download a LOT and regularly, and these people somehow manage to fill you in on annoying stuff, like what happened on LOST the day before it's on Sky One (I know this to my personal chagrin).

Of course there are a lot of issues with downloading, like viruses, faulty copies, files that you need to download other files to play etc. Now while I'm not condoning that you partake in this 'heinous activity', I do feel that you should have at least a working knowledge of terms such as Azareus and ISOHUNT. Confused? Then this is the article for you.

An Ofcom report has come out today, warning of the dangers to children who are unaware of the risks of leaving your personal info to run free on your social networks. There's 25% of 8-11 year olds who have sneakily ticked the 'yeah, I am *totally* the right age to use one of these things' when really they should have stayed away.

But it's not just a kid-based thing - most of us are guilty of sharing a little too much online, so here are a few tips to keep you safe.

1) If you wouldn't say it to a stranger, don't post it
If a man stopped you in the street and asked for your full address, date of birth and email address, would you give it to him? Hell, no. So don't put it online - that man on the street is a lot harder to trace when he's nothing more than an IP address.

2) Be aware of your networks
I once posted a post-date analysis on Facebook, thinking the boy in question wouldn't see it. I didn't realise that by joining the London network everyone in that could see my full profile - ouch. This is customisable now, so go into the 'Privacy' area of FB and check out who you've allowed full access to your profile.

Huzzah! I found yet another way of keeping track of all the good stuff that my friends and relations post about the internets!

FriendFeed is a service which will collate updates from all the various social networking sites. That means you'll be able to see what your sister twittered, posted on Flickr, added to Facebook and listened to on Last.fm, without having to track her down on all those spots. All you need to do is convince her that she can't live without FriendFeed in her life.

When you work on the Internet, broken links abound and it's worth being able to yell or Skype across the room to find out if you're the only one who's seeing the dreaded timed out screen. This is a site that will save you (and everyone else) the bother.

Just type in a URL and you'll get a simple, clear reply - either it's down for everyone or just you. Does this remind anyone else of those Clear Blue pregnancy kit ads that seem to claim that women can't read? And what happens if the site itself goes down?

Down For Everyone Or Just Me? [via Geeksugar]

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Facebook is the place where all your worst misdemeanors are stowed away, but there's always the chance that the offending photos might fall into the wrong hands. Facebook have now added greater control, however, over your 'limited profile' options, so you'll be able to minimise the likelihood, if not eliminate it all together. Of course, eliminating it all together would involve never partaking in such activities, and that's not a great option...

Now, you can control what individual friends see from the main 'Friends' page - limited profile is a new menu filter on the right. When you upload things like photos and notes, you'll now have to select who sees it - it won't default to everyone.

The internet has finally eaten itself. In the past two days, I've had to 'magazines' land in my inbox, which work almost like PDFs you flick through at your leisure. The second, Idiomag, is personalised to me, which serves the dual purpose of being endlessly interesting and making me feel pretty special.

You stick in a couple of your favourite artists toy our profile and then receive a daily newsletter with articles regarding them, regarding artists similar to them and with each page you have the option to listen to the track it's discussing. There's a last.fm element in the way you 'train' the service regarding the kind of articles you're interested in, and you can even update your likes and dislikes directly from your last.fm or Facebook profile.

It could be that this is a fabulous idea, and is the future of the internet. It could be that this is a weird place between online and offline. I'm really not sure, but I sure do know a lot more about Nick Cave than I did 15 minutes ago.

Get your own Idiomag here.

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Having two calendars is a nightmare - so imagine the four Google calendar, one written diary and one Outlook nightmare that is my life (it's got nothing to do with an active social life, btw, more an awful lot of reminders to watch ANTM). I'm one step closer to knowing where I'm supposed to be when, with the new functionality of Google Calendars.

Downloading this Google app will automatically synch your Outlook with your GCal and back (or you can choose to have just one display on the other or vice versa). That means any appointment you put in Outlook will be seen in your Google calendar as well as the other way round. The only thing that would make it better is if I could have other people's calendars, which they've shared with me, showing in my Outlook. Currently you can only add the one's you have the password to i.e. your own. Still, gift horse/mouth and all that...

Get it here [via Lifehacker]

What with your mother being on Facebook, and the worry that future employers will Google your name and come up with *those* photos, it's more important than ever to manage exactly what's written about you on the web. There are services you can buy to analyse and pimp up your profile but there's also a whole load of free things you can use.

Luckily, ReadWriteWeb have a great article summarising these things. There are simple solutions, such as setting up Google Alerts and Technorati tracking. There are also more encompassing services like Naymz, which allows you to configure your profile with links to your other online profiles, contact info, endorsements, etc. Basically, it's well worth looking into, since there's heaps of ways of being rep savvy.

So, in the style of Sesame Street, today's tech tip is brought to you by ReadWriteWeb. You can read the full article here.

Password protecting files on your computer is most wise. Slightly paranoid, but quite wise, nonetheless. But if you're in the admirable habit of changing your password between files, rather than using one word that you use for absolutely everything, there's a chance you'll forget them.

Are the documents lost forever? Does it mean that your first novel will never be completed? No, fear not. There are some wonderful things on the internet, not least of all this snappily titled Password Recovery Software. Not only can you search for all the password protected files on your computer, it can provide tools for uncovering passwords. It can even reveal asterisked passwords from things like your webmail account.

Fabulous tool, unless you are in fact some kind of fraudster. In which case, I'd ask you to stay well away.

Try it here.

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We type lots, at high speed, all day, and as a result, typos happen. But really it's other people's typos that are particularly irksome. Because when you're looking for a particular item on eBay or Craigslist, you have a sneaking suspicion that someone out there with the spelling and grammar skillz of a YouTube troll has the perfect item but you can't find it because of the way they've mangled the search terms.

That's whereTypoBuddy comes to the rescue. The tagline "we help you get deals from people who can't spell!" says it all. When you enter your *ahem* typo-free search into TypoBuddy's search field, it scans eBay and Craigslist for approximations of the same, delivering results that take into account twice typed, missing and transposed letters. You get the results you were actually looking for, saving you from the bother of having to try out second-guessed bad spelling combinations. When you click through to the site you were after, it will also tell you which combinations it used so you can save the search if need be.

TypoBuddy [via Geeksugar]

Tinyurls are fab for condensing overly elaborate URLs and sending them about, but they're not terribly meaningful. Tinyurl.com/4rgo63o doesn't mean much to me, anyway. MeaningfulURL.com allows a similar condensing process, but allows you to swap the tinyurl portion for something more meaningful, like thanks.to or invite.you.to. You can the then pick the latter portion. For instance, I condensced the URL for the new iPhone story into . Unfortunately, the addresses expire after three days, but damn, during you can do lots during those three days...

Try it here [via LifeHacker]

Another music tip for you this week, after all that life organising type stuff of the previous week. We're a big fan of Finetune here, and use it to create playlists that all the office is happy with.

It allows you to build your own playlists (although there can be no more that three songs by each artist), which can then be streamed. Alternatively, you can enter a few of your favourites, and it will populate the playlist for you, with stuff that it thinks you might like. I entered three of my favourite artists this morning, and not only did it add stuff that I knew I liked, it added stuff that I didn't know, and in fact liked very much indeed.

Once you've got your playlists, you can add them onto your Facebook profile (although unlike MySpace, it won't start playing them when people log on). There's also playlists you can browse compiled by other people.

Try it out here.

Check out probably the best site in the entire world focussed on music, with the word 'chemical' in the title: My Chemical Toilet

I've recently re-discovered Twitter, not only as a nosy-parker dream, but as a way of actually organising myself (anyone else have the 2008: Get Organised resolution?). The girls at Geek Sugar are all over it, and have come up with two fab ways of using Twitter to get organised.

The first is something called Tweet What You Eat. This allows you to log your daily intake of food (which you can submit from your mobile), as a direct message to a Twitter feed, so you can keep a record. If you enter the calories, it even tots up the total, so you can ensure you don't go over the golden number.

If you've decided to take the plunge with an iPhone, you might be now wondering how long it's going to take you to enter all your contacts onto it manually - with the SIM card being stuck in the phone, there's no option to copy the contacts from an alternative SIM. Luckily, there is a way of doing it, without any sparkly smartphone software, and it should have you up and running within the hour.

Firstly, you'll need to pay a visit to Mobyko. This site will back-up all your SIM contacts from your old phone, storing them in case you ever lose your mobile or damage the SIM card. Once you've made that back-up, you can export all those contacts as a .csv file to your computer. From here, you need to go into Outlook and import the contacts (File/Import and Export/Import from another program/Comma Separated Values/Browse File/OK). Finally, once the numbers are in your Outlook Contacts, synch your iPhone. Hey presto - all your old contacts are now on your new iPhone.

Slow computers are less fun that dentist trips in my opinion, inevitably resulting in tears and tantrums, both from me and the computer. So, anything that stops valuable processor being sneakily eaten up by programs is a bonus.

Enter the Startup Monitor. It's a tiny little app, which will let you know if a program tries to load at system startup. When you choose not to allow a program to register itself, the program's entry becomes disabled in Control Panel, so you can go back and enable it later if necessary.

No, it probably won't change your life, but it might just stem the tears and tantrums. Get it here.

[via PC Top Tips]

One of the things that was suggested the last time an iPod announcement was made, was that we could find a way of tagging our music collections according to mood. This would allow for you to select music based on how you're feeling, therefore eliminating the chance of 'All by myself' coming on the stereo when you're in the mood for a party.

Moody is a free application that allows you to do just that. The bad news is you initially have to go through your library and pick a colour based on a scale between happy and sad and also calm to intense. The good news is that you can then choose a particular tag i.e. happy/intense, and get a populated playlist accordingly.

Go forth and tag.

Get it here.

If you're about to forward an email, there's nothing more annoying that having to delete lines and lines of these symbols: > in order to get to the real text. Luckily, you can now go to Email Stripper, which allows you to paste the email in and then let it take out all the extra weird formatting. When you're forwarding something way down an email thread and hoping to pass it off as your own idea, this tool will come in very useful.

And even more excitedly, it's free!

And even more excitedly, it's got the word 'stripper' in the title and that means I can post a photo of the 90's hotness that was The Chippendales!!

Email Stripper [via Life Hacker]

Left mouse buttons do so much. And double clicking does even more. But why give your left hand button all the fun? Imagine the feelings of your right hand button. It's probably been living with a serious inferiority complex most of its life, moping about, looking longingly as you select, move, edit and embrace your left hand mouse button. Not anymore.

Now, you can download ClickZap, which allows you to customise what will happen when you double right click your mouse. You can choose from minimising the active window, muting your music, locking your computer and a few more, all giving your right mouse button a new lease on life. Happy days.

Product page: ClickZap [via Lifehacker]