August 2010
13 posts
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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
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…