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Gmail users will shortly be given a better way to manage the flood of emails that come their way. A new ‘priority inbox’ will sort your messages based on how important Google thinks they are. This ‘importance’ will be calculated in a number of ways, including how often you email the sender and which messages you reply to.

Android only: Missing your USB cord, or just too lazy to grab it? WiFi File Explorer turns your Android SD card into a small web server, so you can transfer files, stream media, and otherwise control your content across a Wi-Fi network.

Google has overhauled its much-admired Google Translate, with the search giant pumping time and effort into making the world's languages accessible for all.

Neat little update for Pogoplug owners today: the latest firmware update adds printing support, allowing iPhones, Android devices, and anything else that can hit the diminutive home server's web interface to print files.

When does a netbook cease being a netbook? When it measures over 10-inches? Has a dual-core CPU? Laptop has reviewed ASUS' 1215N, and deemed it the best netbook yet, thanks to the sheer speed of Nvidia's Optimus graphics-switching tech. [Laptop]

Many thanks to comment poster Chris who has explained why the 'US only' launch of Google's 'Call Phone' feature within Gmail has resulted in it being available to me in the UK:

Some good news for owners of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, as the smartphone is set to finally receive an update to Android 2.1.