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Best of the Rest: Backup Your Gmail Account, How Shazam Works

by Thomas Houston on October 20, 2009 at 07:25 PM

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • Although most people hit by the recent Sidekick data loss debacle were able to recover their contacts, you may be a bit less trusting of the cloud. Wired writes on how to backup your Gmail account. [From: Wired]
  • Slate examines how Shazam, the music identification app, can listen to a tune and spit out the song that is playing. [From: Slate]
  • The iPhone and iPod touch now sync with the latest version DoubleTwist, a cross-platform media player that's an alternative to iTunes. [From: DownloadSquad]
  • The original Carl Sagan autotune has been on repeat here for the past few weeks, and the follow up, featuring science legends Bill Nye and Richard Feynman, confirms that this is one of the best Web series of 2009. [From: Gizmodo]
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