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. Are you in a job where you regularly need to collect contact information from companies? And do you find it an annoying and unnecessarily time-consuming task to sort through ever-changing web designs, to find that one button or bit of information you’re actually looking for? Don’t look any further… help is on the way!...

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. Sometimes you’ve gotta work with what you’ve got—and that doesn’t just apply to the intelligence and skills you’ve respectively been given from nature or obtained from nurture. It can also apply to what has been referred to as the new oil: data. It’s what runs through the veins of the new economy, replacing the industrial with the digital....

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. In ourHoly Sheetarticle series, we’re exploring all the things you can do with Google Sheets aside from simple number crunching, from tracking your stocks to scraping contact details from websites. Today, we have a welcome surprise for all the news junkies among the Google Sheets nerds....

Ever feel like you barely know your neighbors? A small startup out of Atlanta is going to change that.Home Elephantis an app that creates hyper-local geographic social networks so that neighbors can once again be, well neighborly. Lost a cat? Post it on Home Elephant. Saw a dog stealing a computer? Send out an alert on Home Elephant. It’s an ongoing conversation with your neighborhood on Facebook, on the web and now it’s in your pocket....

The Home Officehas launcheda new crime mapping service in England and Wales, releasing street-by-street information on every crime reported to police. UK citizens can visit the Home Office’s new website (www.police.uk), enter their postcode or address to display the crimes that have been reported in the users area, giving detail down to a range of 12 houses. The scheme, the first time anywhere in the world where the information has been released, will also make users aware of the police officers responsible for their area, holding their local force accountable for the crime levels at those locations....