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…