Friday, November 20, 2009

Fix

Hide Your Electronic Clutter In A Clever Vase-Turned-Charging-Station

11:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Gadgets are great but nobody wants a hallway table littered with charging gadgets and cables. This novel hack turns an opaque vase into a secret charging station. More »
Work

Droplr Offers Simple Drag And Drop File Sharing For Mac OS X

10:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Mac OS X: Feeling left out because of all the neat file-sharing applications for Windows? Droplr adds drag-and-drop support to OS X for sharing just about everything. More »
Organise

Wantz.it Turns The Entire Web Into Your Wishlist

9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | It might be cutting it close for this holiday, but there’s always next year for guaranteed gifts. Wantz.it is a universal wishlist tool that lets you add anything you can find on the web to your list. More »
Organise

Follow The “Lost” Rule Of Organisation To Save Time, Reduce Stress

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Organisation is a means to an end, not an Olympic sport. Obeying an often ignored rule of organisation will save you time and unnecessary stress. More »
Design

Use Windows 7 Themes In Vista Or XP

11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Microsoft put far more work into the look and themes of Windows 7 than its previous operating systems. Pull down that design work into your non-7 system with Digital Inspiration’s simple work-arounds. More »
Work

Chrome OS Virtual Machine Build Ready For Your Testing

4:28PM Adam Pash | If you’re aching to try out Chrome OS after taking a glimpse earlier today, friendly power user Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment. More »
Money

Fraudsters Hitting Self-Managed Super Funds

3:00PM Angus Kidman | Scams hitting Internet banking are pretty common (and quite easy to recognise), but online criminals will have a go at any potential source of income. The latest target? Self-managed superannuation funds. More »
Communicate

Grey Market Phones Might Be A 000 Risk

1:30PM Angus Kidman | If you want a particular phone model (or colour) that hasn’t been released in Australia, then buying it as a “grey market” import can seem like an appealing way to solve the problem. But as well as not getting any local warranty support, you might run into trouble when it comes to making 000 emergency calls. More »
Work

Restoring From Your Windows 7 Backup

12:00PM Angus Kidman | Having a sensible backup strategy is vitally important, but so is knowing how to restore your backup if things go wrong. Microsoft’s storage blog runs down how to make that happen in Windows 7. More »