Sunday, November 2, 2008

Dilate Or Shrink Your Pupils On Command

10:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | If the eyes are the window to the soul, being able to manipulate how your eyes appear to others is a rather tricky lifehack. Over at WikiHow they have a tutorial on methods of training yourself to shrink and enlarge your pupils. Why might you want to do this? More »

PicoPad Wallet Notes

9:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | PicoPad wallet notes ensure you’ll always have a pen and paper handy. Each notepad is the size of a few credit cards stacked (width and length is the same, but slightly thicker than a single card) and contains a mini pen and a stack of Post-It notes to scribble your impromptu notes on. While a PicoPad isn’t a replacement for a full out notepad or stack of 3×5 cards, it’s extremely small and will be with you whenever you have a wallet or purse handy. Use a similar product or DIY creation? Share with your note-taking-brethren in the comments below. PicoPad – Wallet Notes More »

iPhoneThemeGenerator Makes It Easy To Customise Your iPhone

8:30AM Adam Pash | Web utility iPhoneThemeGenerator remakes your iPhone in your image. The site holds your hand through icon, background wallpaper, and dock changes, allowing you to customise every element to your liking. You can choose pictures from the default galleries or—if you’re the creatively talented sort—you can upload your own images. When you’re finished, the webapp compiles the theme in an iPhone friendly format. To get it on your phone, you’ll need to have jailbroken your iPhone, then follow the instructions on the site. If you don’t really feel like you own a gadget until you’ve fully customised it to your liking, this one’s for you. iPhoneThemeGenerator [via Life Rocks 2.0] More »

Seven Fitness Tips For Information Workers

8:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Information work is rough on your body. Without proper preventive and prescriptive care the years logged behind the computer can take their toll. Abhijeet of the blog Dumb Little Man has seven solid tips to help you minimise the strain spending your days shackled to a cubicle can take on your body. On the matter of seating: More »

Eight Simple Ways To Save After A New Car Purchase

7:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Whether you’ve just purchased a brand new or a gently-used car, Trent at The Simple Dollar financial blog has rounded up some tips to help you save. Some of the tips are obvious to a seasoned automobile owner, like creating and sticking to a maintenance schedule to help give the car a long life. Some of his other tips are excellent but often overlooked: More »

ToneThis Makes Ringtones, Wallpaper Dead Simple

5:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free application ToneThis makes it simple to create MP3 ringtones, wallpaper, and videos for your mobile phone. Apart from its simple MP3 ringtone creator, ToneThis sports a lot of great features—like simple tools for sending media to supported phones in a few clicks. Unfortunately those features don’t always work perfectly—as CNET can attest to—but as a simple ringtone and wallpaper creator, it does the job admirably. If you decide to give it a try, be sure to read the installer carefully—this thing tries its best to install all kinds of toolbars and other crap that you probably don’t want. ToneThis is a free download, Windows only. ToneThis [via CNET] More »

How Do You ‘Future Proof’ Your Data?

5:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Jerome P. McDonough, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, is concerned about data. Your data, the government’s data, the world’s data: he is so concerned about it that he and other information specialists can see a potential digital dark age where data from the present isn’t being transferred to new media as quickly as it is being lost. More »