If you’re an occasionally travelling laptop user, you know it’s annoying to plug your system in and back out, before and after every trip. Blogger Pat Hartl solved this annoying issue by installing a wall socket right in his desk.
Super Glue and its off-brand cousins are the next best thing to duct tape when it comes to good-enough repairs, but heaven help you if it spills. Luckily, there’s a guide to getting SuperGlue out or off of nearly anything.
With a second three-day weekend coming up, you’ve probably got some real free time. If you’re not on the road, might we recommend developing some new cooking chops? These relatively pain-free projects and how-tos are yours for the learning.
iPhones and iPod touch models can’t sync with Firefox bookmarks, but you can regularly push your bookmarks to them on a Windows system. The trick involves the Xmarks sync service, Internet Explorer and a tiny system tray utility.
Windows: Yesterday we showed you how to remotely control a computer through Dropbox. Want to further automate your online syncing? MailDrop automatically grabs attachments from a particular email folder or label and stashes them in your cloud-based Dropbox storage.
Windows 7 has been widely acclaimed as the best Windows release in years, but Microsoft has still managed to also make it an evil sales tool for Office 2007 upgrades. Here’s what sucks about pre-installed Windows 7 for Office 2003 users not planning to make a shift, and how to fix the dreaded MAPI32.DLL error.
Summer’s here, and you want to spend your weekend burning steaks somewhere other than your backyard. Meat In A Park lets you find nearby public BBQ locations and promote your own BBQ plans via Facebook.
When Microsoft first announced its pricing for Windows 7, one of the minor shocks was that Australia didn’t get the ‘family pack’ discount bundle of three copies that nearly everywhere else did. Now it turns out that we will, but only in a restricted way.
One of our more frequent complaints around here about the Everyday Rewards scheme offered by Woolworths is that it doesn’t include liquor chain Dan Murphy’s, even though Woolworths owns it. That’s about to change, albeit only for the month of December and only for wine.
