Thursday, June 4, 2009

Work

MouseZoom Enlarges Text And Shows Color Values

11:30PM June 4, 2009 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Windows only: MouseZoom is a tiny portable tool that functions both as a screen magnifier and a colour picker. More »


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Food Combos More Nutritious Together Than Separate

10:30PM June 4, 2009 | Kevin Purdy

Certain foods just go together, like red meats and rosemary, garlic and fish, and oatmeal and orange juice. Men’s Health suggests those pairings and others exist for a reason—your body wants more of their nutritional synergy. More »


Money

Cheap iTunes Cards At JB Hi-Fi, Kmart

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4:00PM June 4, 2009 | Angus Kidman

Two deals worth noting if you’re stocking up on iTunes cards: JB Hi-Fi is offering two $30 iTunes cards for $40 until June 13, and Kmart has 10% off all cards from today until June 10.


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Mobile Bing Lacks Aussie Zing

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2:30PM June 4, 2009 | Angus Kidman

Another feature to add to the list of options Australia isn’t getting yet with Microsoft’s Bing search engine: decent mobile phone support. More »


Money

What FlyBuys And Everyday Rewards Get You These Days

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12:30PM June 4, 2009 | Angus Kidman

They’re the duelling giants of shopper reward schemes — but just who is in and who is out with Everyday Rewards and FlyBuys isn’t always obvious. More »


Design

How To Customise And Share Windows 7 Themes

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10:30AM June 4, 2009 | Angus Kidman

The plethora of themes is one of the more appealing features of Windows 7 for customisation addicts. Indeed, there’s so many options it can be tricky to know where to start. More »


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Google Flu Trends Expanded To Australia

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8:30AM June 4, 2009 | Angus Kidman

Google has expanded its Flu Trends tracker — which uses the number of queries related to flu to extrapolate how many people might actually have it — to Australia. More »


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Google Squared Goes Live, Formats Searches Into Spreadsheet

8:00AM June 4, 2009 | Adam Pash

Google Labs today released Google Squared, which, according to the search giant, “constructs a table of facts about any search category you specify”—though some searches produce distinctly better results than others. More »


Communicate

Yahoo Mail Filters Your Inbox By Contacts And Connections

7:00AM June 4, 2009 | Adam Pash

Yahoo’s email service rolled out an interesting new feature today that filters your inbox to show only emails from contacts or “connections” to help you get to your most important emails first. More »


Design

IconRestorer Manages Your Desktop Icon Positions

6:00AM June 4, 2009 | The How-To Geek

Windows only: IconRestorer not only backs up and saves your desktop icon layout, it also lets you switch your icons to a space-saving list view. More »