Windows Vista only: Sidebar gadget I Forgot The Milk adds quick access to your to-do list right in your Vista sidebar.
Some websites automatically place the cursor in important text boxes for you. Others are not so courteous. A quick Firefox tweak makes it easy to jump right to the text boxes.
Starting a side business can be a good way to turn something you love into extra income, but if you’re not sure what might make for a good side gig, The Simple Dollar has 50 suggestions.
Reader Gavan writes in with an interesting tip for using your printer to quickly count documents that might come in handy next time you volunteer to hand out fliers.
The photog gurus at weblog Digital Photography School offer up 13 tips for improving your outdoor portraits, several of which explain how to best take advantage of whatever lighting conditions you’re shooting in.
Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’re interested in the idea of cloud computing and remote access to your files but are a bit paranoid about putting your data on some third party server, Tonido is a great compromise.
Windows only: Email search utility OutlookDeck brings a completely new interface to searching Outlook—multiple persistent search folders on the screen at a time.
If Michael Ruhlman’s done his job, your favourite cookbooks might go the way of the printed encyclopedia—at least for everyday cooking. Here’s what the food writer said over email about ratios, the foundation of all your food.
Students in high school, or university kids without embedded math knowledge, take note: Microsoft’s Live Search can solve math equations with variables.
