Thursday, April 23, 2009
Work
TreeSheets Combines Text Entry And Spreadsheet Styling To Organise Your Notes
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: TreeSheets is a hierarchical notes manager structured like a spreadsheet. Although it sounds unwieldy, it’s surprisingly easy to move around and create well structured notes, to-do lists, and more. More »
Organise
Food.com Searches All The Major Recipe Sites At Once
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Food.com’s recipe search is worth getting excited about. It comes from Food Network founder Scripps Networks, but can pull recipes from Epicurious, Food & Wine, Cooking Light, Gourmet, Chow.com—basically, any US food site you’ve heard of. More »
Organise
Find New Music On Twitter
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | We’ve already taken the bold (for us) stance that Twitter can be actually useful. Now Wired comes along and suggests it can actually do something else—serve as a fresh searching pool for new music. More »
Travel
4:30PM Angus Kidman | Earlier this week, I appeared on ABC Radio Australia’s Tech Stream, contributing to a discussion about technology and how to use it to enhance the travel experience (a familiar topic around here, obviously). You can access the full extended broadcast in glorious MP3 format on the ABC site, and maybe pick up a few useful tips (such as how Wikipedia can help you book cheap fares). Tech Stream
Tech Travel Tips In Audio Form
4:30PM Angus Kidman | Earlier this week, I appeared on ABC Radio Australia’s Tech Stream, contributing to a discussion about technology and how to use it to enhance the travel experience (a familiar topic around here, obviously). You can access the full extended broadcast in glorious MP3 format on the ABC site, and maybe pick up a few useful tips (such as how Wikipedia can help you book cheap fares). Tech Stream
Communicate
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Now that Optus has joined the government’s controversial mandatory Web filtering trial , a lot more people are potentially going to be included than with the original list of small ISPs. But with Optus offering an opt-out option, the question arises: should you say yes or no if you get asked to participate? More »
Should You Participate In Net Filter Trials?
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Now that Optus has joined the government’s controversial mandatory Web filtering trial , a lot more people are potentially going to be included than with the original list of small ISPs. But with Optus offering an opt-out option, the question arises: should you say yes or no if you get asked to participate? More »
Money
1:05PM Angus Kidman | There are plenty of services offering to help get unmanageable debts under control, but a shadow shop by Choice suggests that most won’t offer an appropriate solution. More »
Why Debt Relief Services Won’t Help With Debt Reduction
1:05PM Angus Kidman | There are plenty of services offering to help get unmanageable debts under control, but a shadow shop by Choice suggests that most won’t offer an appropriate solution. More »
Communicate
11:00AM Angus Kidman | In a typical “Australia one year later than the States” move, Warner Bros is going to begin offering movies via download services at the same time as DVD releases, beginning with The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button on June 3. More »
Warner To Release Download Movies The Same Day As DVDs
11:00AM Angus Kidman | In a typical “Australia one year later than the States” move, Warner Bros is going to begin offering movies via download services at the same time as DVD releases, beginning with The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button on June 3. More »
Work
Belvedere Updates, Adds Folder Recursion, Fixes Bugs, And More
10:00AM Adam Pash | Lifehacker’s very own automated file manager, Belvedere, has seen its first update in over a year, bringing folder recursion, action confirmations, simple rule enabling and disabling, and a handful of bug fixes. More »
Money
9:03AM Angus Kidman | Been contemplating placing some Google AdWords ads? The search giant is offering a carrot to attract Australian businesses: $75 of free advertising.
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Google Giving $75 Free Credit To New Advertisers
9:03AM Angus Kidman | Been contemplating placing some Google AdWords ads? The search giant is offering a carrot to attract Australian businesses: $75 of free advertising.
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