Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Twitter/Facebook Client Brizzly Open For Sign-Ups
9:00AM Kevin Purdy | Brizzly, the web-based social-media manager that ranked as one of our readers’ favourite Twitter clients, has dropped the invite code requirement and is available for anyone to log into. It’s still technically in “beta”, but mostly to keep up the fairly rapid pace of feature development. [via TechCrunch]
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Windows Surface Scanner Finds Bad Hard-Drive Sectors
8:30AM Lisa Hoover | Windows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it’s hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start. More »
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MinimizeToTray Revived Puts Firefox In Your System Tray
8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Firefox extension MinimizeToTray Revived puts Firefox in your system tray, and replaces the popular MinimizeToTray extension that has been abandoned and doesn’t support Firefox 3 or later. More »
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Give Wireless Charging Mats A Natural Wood Look
6:30AM Sarah Rae Trover | Wireless charging mats are a clever way to charge your gadgets without cords or power bricks, but a big black mat can easily stick out in any room. Instructables shows you how to make a more stylish wooden induction charger. More »
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YouTube Will Soon Block Access From Set-Top Devices
6:20AM Kevin Purdy | It won’t affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo or other licensed YouTube partners, but Google’s streaming video service will start blocking access to TV-connected devices as of December 2. More »
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TorrentFetcher Searches For Torrents From Your Desktop
6:00AM Whitson Gordon | Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of your choice. More »
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The 40/30/30 Rule Preps You For The Game Of Life
5:40AM Lisa Hoover | When you’ve placed yourself physically where you need to be, kept at something past your initial doubts and taken a risk at failing, you’re running at 100 per cent. Thinking of challenges that way — 40/30/30 — is a great motivational tool. More »
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Use An Over-Under Wrap To Keep Your Headphones Kink-Free
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Headphones have a magic way of tangling themselves in inexplicably complicated knots. Many techniques for keeping headphones tangle-free work but they badly kink and over-tighten them in the process. Use an over-under wrap for easy and cord-friendly storage. More »
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The Complete Guide To Google Wave Preview Available Now
4:00AM Adam Pash | The preview edition of Gina and Adam’s new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. More »
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