Friday, April 17, 2009
Work
Zamzar Now Converts Text To Speech
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | You need a quick text to speech conversion but you’re lacking the software to do so. No worries, Zamzar—the handy online file conversion tool—has added text to speech conversion. More »
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Learn Willpower Techniques From The Marshmallow Test
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Back in the 1960s, a researcher learned a lot about willpower from studying hundreds of four-year-olds left alone in a room with a marshmallow or cookie. Here’s what the strong-willed ones had in common. More »
LMMS Turns Your Desktop Into A Music Sequencing Monster
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Linux only: LMMS puts a powerful set of music-making tools into one window, letting those who can’t swing a home studio roll samples, bass grooves, synths, and other effects into high-quality audio files. More »
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Google Maps Shows Local Webcams
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Google Maps picks up a layer from webcams.travel, giving you embedded views of public webcams anywhere you want to go. More »
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4:30PM Angus Kidman | After two four-day weeks in a row, maybe it’s time to actually do something. Fill in those weekend gaps with these five ideas from the past week on Lifehacker:
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Five Things To Do This Weekend
4:30PM Angus Kidman | After two four-day weeks in a row, maybe it’s time to actually do something. Fill in those weekend gaps with these five ideas from the past week on Lifehacker:
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Fix
3:00PM Angus Kidman | More than once, I’ve eyed off the IKEA Gestalta artists’ dummy and then decided not to buy it as it’ll just be one more piece of clutter. Blogger John came up with a good excuse for purchasing it though: he turned it into a lamp. More »
Turn That IKEA Artist’s Dummy Into A Lamp
3:00PM Angus Kidman | More than once, I’ve eyed off the IKEA Gestalta artists’ dummy and then decided not to buy it as it’ll just be one more piece of clutter. Blogger John came up with a good excuse for purchasing it though: he turned it into a lamp. More »
Communicate
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Want to add subtitles or captions to your YouTube videos? Webapp CaptionTube can walk you through the process, helping create captions which you can upload in XML format straight onto YouTube. More »
CaptionTube Adds Captions To YouTube Videos
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Want to add subtitles or captions to your YouTube videos? Webapp CaptionTube can walk you through the process, helping create captions which you can upload in XML format straight onto YouTube. More »
Communicate
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Revising email can definitely lead to better communication, but how do you develop the revision habit? My own solution is pretty simple: compose important mails in a word processor rather than in the email software itself. More »
Draft Important Emails In Your Word Processor
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Revising email can definitely lead to better communication, but how do you develop the revision habit? My own solution is pretty simple: compose important mails in a word processor rather than in the email software itself. More »
Design
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Reflections often make for a great photo when you stumble across them in the wild, but you can also get something of the same effect with a little image editing trickery. More »
Add Reflections To Your Photos
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Reflections often make for a great photo when you stumble across them in the wild, but you can also get something of the same effect with a little image editing trickery. More »
Work
9:17AM Angus Kidman | Microsoft has released a new version of its Outlook Connector software for synching Windows Live email, contacts and calendars with its Outlook desktop mail client (2003 and 2007 versions are both supported). The main changes in this release are fixes to stop meetings getting their times shifted (yikes!), eliminate not handling calendars with more than 250 appointments properly, and not messing up MAPI connections used by other programs. More »
Microsoft Updates Outlook Connector, Fixes Calendar Bugs
9:17AM Angus Kidman | Microsoft has released a new version of its Outlook Connector software for synching Windows Live email, contacts and calendars with its Outlook desktop mail client (2003 and 2007 versions are both supported). The main changes in this release are fixes to stop meetings getting their times shifted (yikes!), eliminate not handling calendars with more than 250 appointments properly, and not messing up MAPI connections used by other programs. More » 