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 »
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 »
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 »
Google Maps picks up a layer from webcams.travel, giving you embedded views of public webcams anywhere you want to go. More »
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:
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
