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READ:Making sense of the buzz words

LAUNCHED DURING the week, Google Buzz, a new feature of Gmail that adds social networking facilities, has a lot of people scratching their heads.

Productivity blog Lifehacker has written a clear and useful explanation of Buzz that should help you get more out of the service.

http://bit.ly/9BZNA3

BUY:A new take on self-portraits

IT’S TRULY the present for the person who has everything – a work of art based on your own DNA. Order online and DNA 11 will send you a collection kit so you can collect cells from inside your mouth – which will then form the basis of an abstract image that is actually the unique code of your DNA. It’s not cheap, though – mini portraits start at ¤163. www.dna11.com

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Draw on benefits of free online design

IF YOU need to create a complex diagram for work or fun, Creately might be worth checking out. Calling itself an “online diagramming and design tool”, the service is intended for use by multiple people working on the same project. With the free service, all your diagrams are publicly viewable. A more fully featured pro account costs $9.95 a month. Not bad when you consider you once had to pay hundreds of euro for desktop software that could achieve the same thing. creately.com

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Share PC files with your iPhone

THE IPHONE has put easy-to-use computing power in our pockets, so why not extend that capability by allowing it to access the files and programs on your other computers? That’s what LogMeIn Ignition does, allowing your iPhone to run anything that’s on your PC back at base. It costs €24 from the App Store logmein.com