October 2011
7 posts
Sony Just Bought Its Future →
Sony, with a $1.47bn check, just bought back its destiny. In agreeing to buy out Ericsson’s 50-percent stake in the Sony Ericsson smartphone partnership, the Japanese company brings to an end a…
HP keeping PC business, spin-off axed →
After several months of deliberation, it’s been announced today that HP will keep its Personal Systems Group business, this PC Unit to stay in the family for the time being. Just this past August…
Apple wins patent for Slide to Unlock iOS gesture →
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has just granted Apple a new patent today for its “Slide to Unlock” iOS gesture. The patent application was filed more than a year before the very first…
Instantly Turn Any Text into a Sticky Note with... →
If you’re a fan of the Stickies app on the Mac and want a really quick way to create sticky notes out of existing text, here’s a keyboard shortcut that can save you some time. Just select any…
Launch app Quicksilver roars onto Mac OS X Lion →
Popular launch app Quicksilver has added support for Mac OS X Lion in the latest update, the development team announced on its blog today.
For those unfamiliar with the impressive app, …
Easily Navigate In and Out of Full Screen Mode in... →
GMusic Is a Native Google Music Player for the... →
iOS: GMusic is a new native iOS app that streams music from your Google Music account right to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. It can even download songs for offline playback, something…
March 2011
8 posts
A License to Pry →
Bump.com, an online start-up, is creating a way for people to ping each other using their license plates. The company’s founder, Mitch Thrower, compares the service to online coupon and…
Option-Click the Airport Symbol to Quickly See... →
Commenter Roman reminds us that by holding the Option key on a Mac and clicking the symbol for your AirPort settings, you get the fastest path possible to seeing your connection strength,…
30 Things We Need — and 30 We Don't →
Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we’re getting too much of stuff we don’t need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to…
WiFi2HiFi Streams Any Audio From Your PC to iOS... →
Windows/Mac and iOS: Apple’s AirPort Express has long been an awesome way to stream music from your PC across the house, but if you don’t have one, iOS app WiFi2HiFi lets you stream any…
SSDs May Have Flash But Western Digital Bets $4.3B... →
All the cool data centers are deploying solid state drives that use Flash memory as opposed to janky [JUNKY?] old hard drives, so why is Western Digital shelling out $4.3 billion to acquire…
Use A Wiki To Ace Your Classes [Study] →
One of the tried and true best ways to study and retain information is to re-write the content - whether it be lecture notes, textbook facts and figures, or whatever - down again on paper. We…
Sleep is More Important than Food →
Let’s cut to the chase. Say you decide to go on a fast, and so you effectively starve yourself for a week. At the end of seven days, how would you be feeling? You’d probably be hungry, perhaps a…
Coming Soon: Advertiser Alerts on Your Phone →
Advertisers have long contemplated a world in which they could contact people walking down the street with special offers and get them to change course and enter a store. There’s been new movement…
November 2010
4 posts
How to Install Android on an iPhone in Six Easy... →
If you’ve got an iPhone, are a little bored with iOS, and you’re interested in moonlighting with Google’s Android operating system, you can dual boot Android and iOS side-by-side on your iPhone in…
UsingMiles Organizes Your Frequent Flier Miles for... →
>Start using your frequent flier miles and reward points more effectively by manging them with UsingMiles, a unified rewards dashboard and travel search engine. Read on to learn more and…
Fit Finder Matches Men to Their Perfect Shirt... →
Everybody has that one shirt—it looks good and, more importantly, fits perfectly. Use that shirt to find other great-fitting tops with Fit Finder, an impressively detailed database and webapp.
…
Cloud Printing on Its Way to Google Docs [Google] →
Cloud printing is coming soon to Google Docs, according to some eagle-eyed source-code spying over at all-things-GOOG blog Google Operating System. Cloud Print is going to be Google’s…
October 2010
4 posts
WhatTheFont for iPhone Identifies Fonts on the Go... →
iOS: The popular font-identifying web site WhatTheFont (our look) now has an iOS app, letting you quickly identify fonts you see outside of your computer screen.
As far as web tools that…
PhotoSync for Lazy Auto-Syncs Your Photos to Your... →
iOS and Windows-only: PhotoSync for Lazy is a desktop and iOS app combination that watches a folder on your Windows PC and syncs any photos inside of it to your iPhone automatically.
Syncing…
"Working on the right thing is probably more... →
The question is, how do you know what’s truly the right thing?
Photo by normalityrelief
Yesterday we looked at judging the value of an idea after doing it, but then how do you know…
WhatTheFont for iPhone Identifies Fonts on the Go... →
iOS: The popular font-identifying web site WhatTheFont (our look) now has an iOS app, letting you quickly identify fonts you see outside of your computer screen.
As far as web tools that…
August 2010
13 posts
Minimalist Facebook Cleans Up Facebook's Interface... →
Firefox/Chrome/Safari: If Facebook’s a little too cluttered for your taste, the Minimalist Facebook extension/Greasemonkey script can tidy things up. After a quick install, a visit to Facebook…
Where to Get the Best Free Education Online [Back... →
Whether you’re a student looking for supplemental learning or you’re in the workforce but thirsty for knowledge, you don’t have to drop thousands of dollars in tuition to enjoy a top-notch…
Hipmunk Is a Fantastic, Surprisingly Usable Flight... →
Web site Hipmunk re-imagines flight search, translating the information you’re most interested in to a user-friendly chart of possible flights.
Most popular flight search engines are cluttered,…
REPORT: Apple's Readying A 7 Inch iPad To Protect... →
Apple is preparing to release a 7” version of the iPad, possibly before the end of the year, according to a new report emanating from Taiwan, picked up by PC World.
Why would Apple…
Use the "Spike" Feature in Microsoft... →
Microsoft Word has a hidden feature that most people probably don’t know about: a way to collect text on the clipboard from multiple locations, and then paste it all at once into your document.
The Help Desk Geek blog details how this feature works: You start by selecting a block of text, and then use Ctrl+F3 to copy it to the “Spike”. Once you’ve selected a number of...
Updated Flash Player Enables Hardware-Accelerated... →
Windows users have been enjoying hardware-accelerated video decoding since the Flash 10.1 Final release; now the latest Flash Player release for Macs (10.1.82.76) officially brings GPU decoding to…
How to Watch Netflix Instant Streaming on Your... →
If you’re fed up with waiting for the official Netflix app to make it to your iPhone, here’s a way you can hack the Netflix iPad app to work on your jailbroken iPhone.
The process is fairly…
F. B. Purity Hides Annoying Facebook Applications... →
Most Browsers (Greasemonkey): If your Facebook News Feed is still clogged with annoying applications and unimportant updates, simple user script F. B. Purity can seriously narrow it down to just…
Google Goes Live with Multi-Account Sign-Ins... →
Google had started rolling out multiple account sign-ins earlier this week, and now it appears to have reached critical mass. Check in your Google Accounts page, and your days of multiple…
Google Halts Wave Development, Shutting It Down By... →
Sad news on the Google wire today, at least for fans of the next new thing. Google announced, in a post filled with examples of Wave’s innovations and strengths, that the real-time messaging and…
Google Launches Multiple Account Sign-In for... →
Google today is adding support for multiple account sign-ins so anyone with more than one Google account can just log into one, but quickly switch between accounts without special add-ons or
There Is Always One More Of Everything →
I lived with a guy named John Doyle in college. Like many people at MIT, John was brilliant. He instantly understood math and physics that sounded like foreign languages to me. But he had his…
Benjamin Franklin's 13 Secrets To Business Success →
Benjamin Franklin, unlike many of our founding fathers, didn’t come from an aristocratic family. In fact his journey from teenage runaway to wealthy printer is the epitome of bootstrapping a…
July 2010
1 post
Safari Extensions Now Available Through Browser... →
Windows/Mac: Safari 5.0.1 is out, and it’s much more than just a bug fix. Installing the update activates Safari’s new extensions platform, which has roughly 100 extensions available through …
April 2010
30 posts
Google Suggest Mobile Provides Smart Answers While... →
iPhone/Android/WebOS: Mobile searching for common information—weather, unit conversions, flight data, and the like—just got a bit faster on some phones. Google’s Suggest feature on its mobile…
Windows Media Player 12 Streams Your Media Library... →
Here’s a new one to us: Linking your Windows Live ID to Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7 allows you to stream your entire music library to any computer. Even better: no need to install…
Netflix Delays New Releases from Fox and Universal... →
Bad news for Netflix subscribers who still use the service for something other than streaming Watch Instantly movies and TV: The service has entered agreements with Fox and Universal (along with…
Use Google Dictionary to See Words Used in Current... →
If you want to see a word in current usage, most dictionaries offer dated or stilted examples. Google Dictionary combs news sites to pull quotes demonstrating words in current usage.
Plug in…
Twitter Newspapers →
Twitter uses the “river of news” format to present your timeline. The most recent tweets of your Twitter friends are at the top and these get pushed down as new tweets enter the timeline.
JDownloader Turbocharges File Sharing Sites... →
Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’re a frequent visitor to popular file sharing sites like Rapidshare you’ll want to grab a copy of JDownloader, a java-based tool that completely automates the…
Savevideo.me Downloads Video From YouTube,... →
Web-based tools for downloading YouTube videos abound but smaller video sites are often neglected. Savevideo.me works on YouTube and a half-dozen other sites for easy one-click downloads.
Visit…
Uploadr Takes Screenshots, Shares Files and... →
Windows only: Free, portable application Uploadr takes screenshots or shares files on file sharing site Localhostr with a simple drag-and-drop interface—and it even has Jump List support for…
Xmarks for Firefox Syncs Open Tabs Between... →
Firefox: Fans of the Xmarks bookmark and password syncing service, rejoice. You can now close down any Firefox browser connected to Xmarks and open whatever tabs you left standing on another…
Create Instant QR Codes with a Bookmarklet... →
Creating camera-phone-friendly QR codes with a goo.gl shortlink URL tweak is nice, but one of our readers took the next logical step. His bookmarklets creates a goo.gl link, automatically…
WeekPlan Pairs Your Tasks with the Motivation... →
WeekPlan is a weekly task and goal planner that pairs your task list with the personal and professional goals you’re striving towards.
WeekPlan not only organizes your tasks for the week but…
Hone Your Eye for Fake Online Reviews [Reviews] →
Online reviews have changed the way we shop, and mostly for the better. We’re certainly more informed consumers, but online reviews aren’t always trustworthy. Savvy consumer blog Consumerist…
The Tiny Ohto Petit-B Pen Fits Comfortably in Your... →
Like to keep a pen handy but don’t want to look like you’re carrying an office in your bulging pockets? The Ohto Petit-B compact wallet pen fits easily in your pocket—and even in the fold of a…