In the interview that accompanied its recent investment in audio sharing platformSoundCloudlast week, Fred Wilson of VC firm Union Squarestatedthat “The web should not be mute”. This underlined the fact that until recently audio has yet to really find its place on the Internet in the way that other media such as video has and that this should really be remedied – especially since it’s a highly familiar and, thanks to mobile apps, portable means of sharing messages, thoughts and ideas....

It’s useful to know how to record screencasts. These videos of what’s displayed on your computer screen, with an audio commentary if you choose, are a good way of easily sharing a problem you’re having or something you’re working on – or helping others by showing them how to do something with their computer in an easy-to-follow-way. Although there are plenty of apps available to record videos, the most recent version of Mac OSX, Snow Leopard, has everything you need to get recording without paying a penny more....

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. All of us take a lot of video calls these days, and because of the pandemic, they’re mostly from our own homes and on Wi-Fi connections. However, when you might need to take a call from outside or your Wi-Fi might not be working, call quality drops drastically....

Facebook todayannounceda revamped profile called the Timeline at its annual F8 conference. The new Timeline takes the place of your profile and provides a realtime stream of everything you’ve done, all the way back to your ‘birth’. The timeline is a realtime stream that shows you all of the events, images and posts that are important to you, while hiding the items that it feels are not important. A sort of ‘automatic autobiography’....

When someone writes the history of Twitter, somewhere near the top of the list of ‘Bad moves the company made’ will be the Quickbarintroducedto its official iPhone app this week. Billed as an easy way to view top trends and other information right from your timeline, users have reacted with anger at the addition, finding it an unnecessary hindrance rather than a help. While the discontent amongst users makes us suspect that Twitter will remove, or at least make it easy to switch off, the Quickbar in a future update, if you’re using a jailbroken iPhone there’s an easy solution....