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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time The massive banking glitch which saw up to 200,000 Commonwealth Bank customers double-charged for withdrawals has apparently been resolved, with reports indicating that the problem was fixed overnight. The bank has promised to reverse any overdrawing fees resulting from the stuff-up. Obviously, if you’re a Commonwealth customer, it would make sense to double-check your online statements today and over the next few days to make sure the error really has been resolved and no errant fees have stayed on the books.
Windows/Mac/Linux: TextFlow is an Adobe AIR-based word processor with a new and innovative take on document collaboration. Rather than offer real-time updates when multiple users are working on a document like Google Docs, Zoho Writer, or previously mentioned Gobby, TextFlow imports multiple Microsoft Word documents, analyses all of the differences, and provides robust tools for merging, accepting, or rejecting any of the changes therein by a master editor. Say, for example, you send a document to several co-workers. Even if you track the changes, you’d still need to manually merge all the suggestions and changes into one document once they got back to you. On the other hand, you could drag and drop all of the documents into TextFlow and let it analyse the differences, making it significantly easier to create a single document using the best changes available and without making mistakes. When you’re done, just export the final result back to a Microsoft Word doc. If you’re still not entirely convinced, check out TextFlow’s intro video for a better idea of how it works.
TextFlow [via CNET]Apparently not content merely with offering access to iTunes and the ABC’s iView without affecting your monthly download limit, ISP iiNet has also now added Xbox Live gaming content to the list of quota-free material. The announcement makes it pretty clear that it’s gaming-only for now, though Xbox options in Australia being more restricted than the US, this isn’t much of a problem. What we’d really like to see is other ISPs following iiNet’s lead: come on people, it’s supposed to be a competitive market!
Melt Mail is a free email forwarding service that creates a temporary email address that forwards all incoming mail to your real email address. To use it, just enter the email address you want messages forwarded to, select how long you want it to work, then hit Create. Melt Mail generates a random address that you can use with impunity to register on spam-likely sites, for example, and after 3, 6, 12, or 24 hours, the forwarding will stop. There are lots solutions for disposable email around, Melt Mail isn’t breaking any new ground, but since some services won’t allow you to register with popular temporary email addresses, it’s worthwhile to have another option in your arsenal. Besides, the dead-simple interface is a nice touch. Melt Mail [via Download Squad]
Firefox with Greasemonkey: If you’ve consolidated multiple email addresses in Gmail, chances are you’ve accidentally sent email using the wrong From address at one point or another. If this is a persistent problem for you, reader Eric Biven’s Gmail Multiple From Address Greasemonkey script helps ensure you’re sending email from the right address every time you compose an email. After you install it, just compose an email as you normally would and hit Send. The script will display a pop-up confirming the From address you’ve chosen, giving you the opportunity to cancel sending the email and switch From addresses in case you’ve forgotten to do so. To accept it, just hit Enter again or click OK. To cancel, hit Escape or click Cancel. It may not be for everyone, but if you manage multiple email accounts from a single Gmail inbox, it could come in very handy. Thanks Bill!
GMail Multiple From Address Extensions [Userscripts.org]Windows only: Free application Newzie is a feature-rich desktop newsreader designed to keep you up to date with the latest web content, whether that content is coming from a traditional RSS feed or not. To that end, Newzie monitors feedless web pages for changes, supports “virtual channels” that monitor user-defined keywords (great for ego tracking), and more. It also supports advanced content filtering, customisable keyboard shortcuts, subscription priorities, a Post Sweeper feature that clears out unnecessary posts when you’ve fallen behind, and built-in reading statistics. In the end, Newzie is full of interesting and innovative ideas that we’d love to see from more newsreaders, but it could use a little more polish overall if it wants to attract a lot of users. If you give it a try, let’s hear what you think in the comments. Newzie is a free download, Windows only.
Newzie [via gHacks]Reader projectvirus creates a smart, dynamic desktop HUD that prominently displays a desktop-sized flip clock. That big old clock is pretty cool by itself, but projectvirus went one step further by embedding small pieces of information along the edges of the clock, including the date, weather conditions, system monitor, and music playback info. To top it off, the whole setup is accomplished using the following free, popular desktop customisation tools:
Mac OS X only: Preference pane Visage lets you customise your Mac’s desktop, login panel, and alerts. Set a custom login panel background image and logo with Visage, or enable a “desktop effect” that runs a screensaver (like the Word of the Day, RSS visualizer, or iTunes album art) as your wallpaper, behind your windows. Visage offers a free trial for seven days, then if you don’t register and pay its $US9.95 licence fee its features are limited (though it’s not clear what you can’t do beyond the seven-day trial). Visage is a free download (with seven-day full trial) for Mac OS X only. Thanks, bachya! Visage
Everyone’s done it: you’ve got a raging stomachache and you’re feeling kind of fatigued, so you search online for the cause of your malady and conclude that you’ve got cancer. A new study from Microsoft shows that “cyberchondria” is common because when you search for symptoms, the worst case scenario can be the first result—or not representative of the frequency of a serious illness. (For example, searching for a headache will return just as many brain tumor results as caffeine withdrawal, when the chances of a tumor are “infinitesimally small.”) Have you decided you’re dying after searching for illness symptoms online? Tell us about it in the comments.
Reader crshmancombined two of our recent posts into one multi-screen, wall-mounted computer setup. Using the DIY coat hanger laptop stand, crshman hung his laptop on the wall. Then, he uses a single keyboard and mouse to control the lappie as well as a dual-screen desktop computer. Here’s how to use Synergy to control multiple computers. Nice job!
Wall Mounted Laptop? Awesome… [The Robert Report]
