Pinterest helps users catalog their passions
(CNN) — For Heather Neroy, it used to be a tedious process: Whenever she came across an interesting arts-and-crafts project or recipe on the Internet, she would save it for later by copying the link, pasting it into an e-mail and sending it to herself.
After that Neroy, a stay-at-home mom from Southern California, would file the e-mail in a folder for future reference. It wasn’t exactly the most efficient system.
Then last year, during one of her browsing sessions, she read a blog post that gushed about a new website called Pinterest. The virtual pinboard, where users can pin and organize images onto individual “boards,” didn’t pique Neroy’s interest at first, but she quickly changed her mind.
“Someone described it as an online filing system, and I thought, ‘That’s exactly what I need,’
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Twitter to delete posts if countries request it
(CNN) — Online social networking site Twitter said Thursday it will begin deleting users’ tweets in countries that require it — but it will still keep those deleted tweets visible to the rest of the world.
The move is significant because, until now, the only way Twitter could comply with countries’ limits was to remove the content globally.
Twitter said it will now delete tweets only “reactively” and on a case-by-case basis and will let the affected user know why the content is being withheld.
“We hold freedom of expression in high esteem and work hard not to remove Tweets,” Twitter spokeswoman Jodi Olson wrote in an e-mail to CNN.
“And just to be clear, this is not a change in philosophy and there are still countries to which we will not
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Nintendo promises to do Wii U launch right
But Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata warned earnings for the fiscal year set to begin April will be the toughest ever for the Japanese manufacturer behind the Super Mario and Pokemon games.
Iwata’s remarks come a day after it lowered its annual earnings forecast to a 65 billion yen ($844 million) loss, much larger than the 20 billion yen ($260 million) loss projected earlier. It posted a 77.62 billion yen profit the previous fiscal year.
Iwata blamed the strong yen, which erases overseas earnings, as well as the arrival of smartphones and other devices that offer gaming.
The higher yen slashed nearly 54 billion yen ($701 million) from the company’s operating profit for the April-December period.
“I can see how the red ink may be perceived as abnormal,” Iwata told analysts and reporters at a Tokyo hotel. “The environment has changed.”
The failure of the 3DS handheld, which offers
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Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries
The additional flexibility announced Thursday is likely to raise fears that Twitter’s commitment to free speech may be weakening as the short-messaging company expands into new countries in an attempt to broaden its audience and make more money.
But Twitter sees the censorship tool as a way to ensure individual messages, or “tweets,” remain available to as many people as possible while it navigates a gauntlet of different laws around the world.
Before, when Twitter erased a tweet it disappeared throughout the world. Now, a tweet containing content breaking a law in one country can be taken down there and still be seen elsewhere.
Twitter will post a censorship notice whenever a tweet is removed. That’s similar to what Internet search leader Google Inc. has been doing for years when a law in a country where its service operates requires a search
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Tip: Reset copier settings before donating
Answer: You’re smart to be concerned about your security. Fortunately, home copiers generally contain very few records of the copies they’ve made. At most, you’ll want to reset your copier’s internal storage and settings. The procedure varies with each manufacturer — check the copier’s manual for instructions. If you don’t have the manual, don’t panic. You can go on the manufacturer’s website and download it. Once the reset is done, you can sell or donate the copier without further concern.
Q. My wife is planning on hiking the Pacific Crest Trail this spring. I want to be able to keep track of her progress from my computer. Will a cell phone-tracking app do the job?
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A. I did a little checking and it turns out a fair bit of the Pacific Crest Trail has decent cellular
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