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New flybuys Earns Discounts Faster (But They're Not Good Discounts) One year ago, we scoured the globe beyond Google Maps to show you some pretty amazing map mashups.
Mac OS X only: When 300 new features get added to a new operating system revision, chances are it’s built in functionality that was only available in third party applications before. When it came to building a fresh Mac with Leopard, we left out quite a few installations in favour of the built-in enhanced versions, like iTerm (Terminal), SilverKeeper (Time Machine), VirtueDesktops (Spaces) and SharePoints (System Preferences’ Sharing panel). Macworld revisits their catalog of “Mac gems” software and lists the ones Leopard includes features from, too. What favourite Mac app of yours does Leopard make obsolete? Let us know in the comments.
Leopard’s Gems replacements, Part 1 [Macworld] Leopard’s Gems replacements, Part 2 [Macworld]Yahoo Food suggests eight frozen dinner entrees you can buy at the local supermarket to scratch your take-out itch that won’t cost you an arm and a leg and won’t pack on the weight of an extra arm or leg. From pizza and enchiladas to ravioli and coconut chicken, the article promises these eight foods will motivate you to drive right past the fast food joint into the comfort of quick, tasty and healthy microwave cuisine (your definition of healthy may differ from the authors, but these meals are certainly healthier than most take-out or fast food you’re likely to get). Got a favourite healthy and tasty frozen entree? Share it in the comments.
The Microwave Diet: 8 Great Frozen Entrees [Yahoo Food]If you’ve become a stargazing junky with either the open source Stellarium or the latest Google Earth, you can now take your stargazing on the road with your cell phone or iPod touch using mobile web site or application Starry Night. First, if you’ve got a sufficient mobile browser you can check out the iPhone and iPod touch-optimised mobile site (I wasn’t able to test it on other mobile browsers, but it relies on some Ajax). On the other hand, if you’re using a BlackBerry, Starry Night comes in the form of an installable application. And if you’ve already learned to navigate by the stars, you can polish all of your stargazing chops on the go while you figure out where you’re going.
Starry Night iPhone-Optimized Web Site [Space.com via Webware] Starry Night for BlackBerryMythbuntu, the Ubuntu version of the Linux-based DVR software MythTV, has just pushed out a new release. Fearful of Linux but want to roll your own DVR? Check out how to turn your Windows PC into a media >> centre on the cheap.
It’s not the least bit uncommon to start your holiday shopping in November, but to avoid the jaw-dropping bills this holiday season, weblog I Will Teach You To Be Rich suggests you start saving now. Come the first week of January, people will start getting their bills from Christmas and will start wondering what the hell just happened. Did they really spend $907 — the average amount spent on Christmas gifts — this year? Don’t forget to factor in travel, food, etc. That’s why… on the first of every October, I start saving for the Christmas gifts I’m going to buy.
While October has passed, it’s never to late to start saving. Then again, if money is tight this year, there’s no shame in going the inexpensive, DIY route this gift-giving season. Let’s hear how you handle your holiday budgeting in the comments.
Here’s how I start planning for Christmas — in October [I Will Teach You To Be Rich]Craigslist is an excellent tool for finding great deals, but if you’re trying to put together streamlined Craigslist searches and feeds to stay abreast of a specific set of results, it can be difficult to build queries beyond very basic, inflexible keyword searches. For example, Craigslist search does not support wildcards, nor does it support AND, OR, or NOT searches. To make more useful Craigslist searches, the Witigonen weblog uses a combination of Yahoo Pipes with Craigslist to add all of the missing advanced search capabilities to Craigslist—and remove frequently occurring items. Whether you’re using Craigslist to keep track of job postings or hunt for a great new couch in your area, a precision search can make the difference between finding what you want and getting buried by what you don’t.
How to Actually Search Craigslist [Witigonen]The Eye-Fi secure digital memory card adds Wi-Fi to any camera and supports automatic wireless uploading to your computer as well as tonnes of different web-based photo sites, from Flickr and Facebook to Picasa and the open source Gallery2. You just plug the card into your camera and set up wireless access from your computer, then snap pics like normal. Whenever you’re in range of your wireless router, Eye-Fi will automatically upload the pics; if you’re not in range, Eye-Fi will upload them when you are (it’s also a regular 2GB memory card). The Eye-Fi will set you back $US99, but it’ll also rid you of the cord and cradle clutter of your traditional sync tools. We haven’t gotten our hands on one (yet), but the folks at Gizmodo gave it a rave.
Eye-Fi [via Gizmodo]Stream music directly from your iPhone or iPod touch with the FireflyMediaServer application, a ported version of the same media service that shares iTunes libraries over your wireless network. Say you’re at a friend’s place and you want to play a song you’ve been really into. Rather than handing over your earbuds, you could just log in to her wireless network and stream the song on a proper set of speakers through the iTunes shared library. Setting it up takes a little doing, but it’s also very simple.
If you’ve been waiting impatiently for Google to roll out IMAP access to your Gmail account, your wait is over—IMAP access is now available to all. Now everyone can turn Thunderbird into the ultimate Gmail IMAP client.
