Since Flickr’s inception in 2004, shutterbugs have been posting their photos to flickr.com for the world to see--and comment on. And Flickery from Eternal Storms improves that experience by providing a portal that makes everything cleaner and faster.

With the ongoing battle between Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iBooks, e-books have been in the spotlight plenty. But audiobooks are still the easiest way for many readers to get a quick fix on the go. They can be enjoyed hands-free almost anywhere, and--thanks to Audible and iTunes--they’re as easy to buy as their e-book counterparts. Unfortunately, with that convenience comes digital rights management (DRM) that restricts how you can listen to your books. Enter Simply Audiobooks, a would-be Audible-alike website offering downloadable audiobooks--at least some of which are free of meddlesome DRM. Despite that advantage, this upstart bookstore can’t begin to compare to its better, more established competition.

For better or worse, personal email is dying. Two decades ago, email was the future--and now it’s beginning to feel like the past. Between Twitter, Facebook, and other sharing tools, my email inbox has become a repository for sales pitches, a few residual mailing lists I can’t seem to get off, Facebook alerts, and spam. Almost all of the personal emails I used to exchange with friends and family have moved onto social networks.

Losing data sucks. Your spreadsheets from work are one thing, but the truly heart-wrenching losses are the things you can’t replace: pictures of your kids at Disneyland, the Great American Novel you’ve been working on since college, or your 300GB iTunes Library that you’ve been lovingly curating for the last decade. Luckily, tools like Prosoft’s Data Rescue can help get your data back whether you lost it to file corruption or simply to being overzealous with the Empty Trash command (we’ve all done that at least once).