Compiled by JOHN COLLINS

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Rely on Hunch to get recommendations

There’s an increasing crop of services that make social recommendations based on what you tell them about yourself and those you follow. Hunch provides recommendations on movies, technology, art and design, even fashion, and has mobile apps so you can get tips on the go. Like all social utilities, you’ll need to put the effort in and use the tool or otherwise the recommendations can be well wide of the mark.

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Lego's advertising from the 1960s

Having problems with an unresponsive home button on your iPhone? Convinced your device is failing just as the iPhone 4S makes its debut? Well actually, it’s probably just a matter of calibration and this short article explains how you can make the button responsive again.

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45sound.com for better gig videos

YouTube and Vimeo have millions of clips of live gigs no matter what your music taste but almost without exception the sound quality is awful. 45sound.com is addressing this issue by recording gigs – it has almost all of last weekend’s Hard Working Class Heroes festival – and then cleverly matching the clean sound file with your clip. One to watch.

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How to get your iPhone home button working again

Fancy a bit of nostalgia for a simpler time and simpler toys? With Lego getting increasingly high tech, it’s easy to forget the simple bricks that many of us grew up with and built everything from hotels to giraffes with – as long as we used a bit of imagination. This US television ad from Lego in the 1960s will bring you right back. Worth watching while your kids monopolise the TV with their Xbox.

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