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Argh! What was that video called? Was that on Twitter or Facebook? Where did I save that article? Who was it who made that joke about the Edsel? Do you find yourself asking these questions often? As we get wrapped up in more and more Web services, things tend to get disorganized.

We've got inboxes over here, inboxes over there, boards here, there, tweets, docs, posts and shares. It's almost too much to keep straight. Fortunately, there are little helpers out there. I've found two I love, and I'll show you how to use them. One is free, the other is in closed beta, but there are invites below! If you've got other suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments.

Is someone sitting on the Twitter handle you want? Is it someone with 0 followers who registered in 2008 and never tweeted once? Yeah, that was me, too. At least, it was yesterday. This morning, Twitter Trust & Safety turned over to me the account I've been after for years.

The trick is to file an impersonation claim. That's the only one Twitter responds to in a timely fashion. This means you have to make a credible case that you or your brand is being impersonated, and the account has to have violated Twitter's inactive account policy. But if you have your ducks in a row, you can have that account in your hands in under a week. Here's how.

I want to tell you about one of my favorite things on the Internet. Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate.

Storify.com on the desktop is the place to start. You can use Storify to capture a momentous event online, or you can ask a question and curate the best answers. Its uses are almost limitless. I've gotten so much out of it as a blogging tool, and I know you will, too.

Did you upgrade your pods, phones and pads to iOS 5 yesterday? If so, you may have noticed something dramatically un-Apple-like in its design. The Newsstand "app" for storing magazines and the like is actually a folder, which means you can't put it into folders... or so you thought!

Newsstand is a strange, abnormal feature of iOS. It sucks up your publications, so you can't decide where they go, and it stands out badly from other folders, visually. Fortunately, though this will surely be fixed soon, there is a temporary trick to put it in a folder! All credit to 52 Tiger for discovering this, but it's important to share it with you as a public service.

Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim has been updated for Python 3. The new version of the book covers Python 3 and the differences between it and Python 2. It's available in print, or as a free e-book.

Unlike the other free Python e-books we covered, Dive Into Python is geared towards experienced programmers. It's considered a classic among Python developers.

Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners is a recent free mini e-book by by Addy Osmani. In addition to covering a several useful JavaScript design patterns, Osmani covers what design patterns are, what makes a good pattern, the structure of a pattern and anti-patterns. This is a great resource for a beginner.

The website for Stanford University's Computer Science 101 contains lecture notes and interactive JavaScript exercises, and is available for free to the public. The exercises can be completed within the browser.

The technology used to create the in-browser exercises is discussed here.

Clojure is a dialect of the LISP programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It's becoming increasingly popular as a modern functional programming language. This week O'Reilly Radar blogger Stuart Sierra called it "the hot new language of the moment." He describes Clojure as "Lisp meets Java with a side of Erlang." Interested? Here are a few free resources to get you started.

HTML5 is popular for building rich Web sites as well as cross-platform mobile applications. And it looks like with Windows 8 Microsoft is embracing using HTML5 and JavaScript as a paradigm for building desktop applications as well. With everyone from Apple to Microsoft embracing HTML5 as "the future," if you don't know it yet, you should probably get started.

If you want to take full advantage of HTML5, you will need to know JavaScript, so you might want to start with our round-up of free JavaScript books.

jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to make designers and front-end developers' lives easier. According to W3Techs, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library by far, and is in use by 33.1% of all websites.

If you're a designer or front-end developer, it's definitely something worth knowing. Here are some resources to help you learn and master jQuery.