Saturday, July 19, 2008
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How to Hack a Technical Job Interview
11:00PM Gina Trapani | Job interview master Vj Vijai describes how make the best impression at a technical interview using people skills (versus technical skills). His talk, which happened at O’Reilly’s awesome Ignite event, is informative, funny, and short. Vijai also has a web site outlining the principles, linked below. Thanks, Brady! Hacking the Technical Interview More »
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This Week’s Best Posts
10:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | This week’s most popular posts include: How to ditch MobileMe and get push on your iPhone “If MobileMe is driving you nuts, or you just don’t fancy the annual service fee, blogger Beau Giles outlines how you can get similar results using NuevaSync and Google’s mail service.” Vodafone denies iPhone cap plan confusion“Why won’t Vodafone acknowledge the confusion over its plans, and what will it do for customers who have signed up on the basis of a contract which it seems Vodafone doesn’t want to honour? “ One Hundred Push Ups Takes You from Zero to a Hundred in Six Weeks“Web site One Hundred Push Ups details a training plan for going from 0 to 100 push-ups in a matter of six weeks.” Top 10 Computer Annoyances and How to Fix Them“Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, but too much of the time they can be frustrating, time-wasting, stubborn machines.” Why You’re Better Off Avoiding the iPhone“If you’re a free software lover who’s concerned about your privacy and the limitations of DRM, you don’t want an iPhone.” Five Best Windows Backup Tools“Your data is your life, and if you’re not backing it up regularly, you’re flirting with disaster.” More »
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Mount a Camera on Your Bike
9:00AM Adam Pash | Photography enthusiast blog Photojojo details how to mount your point-and-shoot camera on your bicycle for fun and creative shooting. The supplies are cheap (under $10), and putting it all together is a breeze. When you’re done, you could use it to snap photos at intervals for a time-lapse or shoot some video like Photojojo did above. If your camera doesn’t support time-lapse (or you just want to really soup it up), check out how to turn your point-and-shoot into a super-camera with CHDK. Your Bike? Awesome. Your Camera? Awesome. You Thinking what We’re Thinking? [Photojojo] More »
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DropUpload Does Quick Drag-and-Drop FTP
8:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free, open-source application DropUpload is a lightweight FTP client designed to provide simple drag-and-drop file uploads to any folder on your FTP server. To use it, you set up DropUpload with specific folders you want to upload to, then just drag and drop files into the app to automatically upload them to your server. It’s quick, extremely lightweight, and very easy to use once it’s set up. DropUpload is free, Windows only. Don’t have an FTP server? Here’s how you can set one up on your home computer. DropUpLoad [via Download Squad] More »
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QuickSend Sends Simple, One-Hand Emails from Your iPhone
7:00AM Adam Pash | iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application QuickSend creates and sends simple emails in a flash through a one-hand-friendly interface. When you fire up the app, you get two scrollable sections: the first with email addresses of your contacts and the second with messages. Line up the two you want and tap the Email It button. QuickSend launches a new email with the necessary fields auto-populated, and all you have to do is hit send. While it’s a great app for one-handed emails, it could use some improvements. First, if you’ve got a lot of contacts, finding the right address in the unsorted list is a pain. Second, this really seems best suited for an SMS-integrated application, since these are the sorts of messages you want to send when someone isn’t necessarily at their computer. Either way it’s a good start. QuickSend is freeware, requires an iPhone or iPod touch running 2.0 firmware. QuickSend [iTunes Store] More »
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Tap and Hold an Image to Save It to Your iPhone
5:00AM Gina Trapani | iPhone owner Jason Kottke offers a handy tip for getting images onto your phone (or iPod touch): On any page in Mobile Safari, tap and hold an image to save it to your device. As Kottke points out, this is very useful for assigning images to your contacts or getting new wallpaper (as useful as the new ability to save email attachments, methinks). Hit up Facebook, for example, to grab photos of your pals to add to your address book. You’ll need the updated iPhone 2.0 software to do this. Here’s our rundown of all the features it adds. iPhone 2.0 tip [Kottke.org] More »
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AccelMan File Manager Replaces Explorer with Robust Features
4:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free application AccelMan is a dual-pane Windows Explorer replacement with a powerful feature set. Previously a shareware application, AccelMan boasts a built-in image viewer, tabbed views, command line integration, a media player, text editor, and even file compression and extraction with support for 15 popular formats (including ZIP and RAR). It also does as-you-type search, reads PDF and Microsoft Office documents, and tons more. We’ve shown you how to replace Explorer with Xplorer2, but if you’re looking for an Explorer alternative and Xplorer2 wasn’t you’re thing, AccelMan is worth a look. AccelMan is freeware, Windows only. AccelMan File Manager [via FreewareGenius] More »
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Sync and Back Up Your Data with Conduit for Linux
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Admit it—even if your desk could be the cover shot for Organized Worker Monthly, your data is all over the place. Between desktop apps, online networks, and webapp tools, it’s easy to lose track of data and duplicate tasks, simply because it’s not all accessible, or it takes too much of your time to keep it all synced up and together. Conduit, an in-development program for the Linux desktop, makes it simple to link your web data, desktop files, and other information all together, then synchronise them all with a single click. Follow along as we check out how Conduit works, peek at its potential, and try out a few examples (and solicit your own clever ideas). More »
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Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparison
1:30AM Lifehacker US Edition | Editor: Being digital vagabonds without an Exchange server, we Lifehacker writers use online apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to get things done. But can an Outlook user make the switch without losing out? Guest contributor Jared Goralnick’s here today to take a look. Gmail launched in 2004 and has matured each year, but Microsoft Outlook (with Exchange) is still the most popular tool for accessing email. Comparing the two side by side, is it time to jump ship from either platform? Let’s find out. More »
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