Reader Alex writes in with his ubergeeky solution for quickly posting new events to your Google Calendar using an AutoHotkey script and a small command line utility.
Windows only: If you’re looking for an all-in-one image capture tool that offers more than just capturing, look no further than PicPick.
An excellent workspace is one well-tuned to the needs of its occupant. Today’s featured workspace doesn’t feature an abundance of LEDs and RAID storage, but instead carefully-crafted storage and stations.
The gHacks blog writes up a useful tip: You can save bookmark searches in Firefox to use as smart “virtual” folders, and then pin them to your bookmarks bar.
We showed you how to kill foot odour with old socks, but why not go one step further and make an entire stick of DIY deodorant?
Firefox/Internet Explorer: Meeting planning web site ScheduleOnce has a new Firefox and Internet Explorer add-on that adds a new widget to your Google Calendar that helps you and your co-workers find a good time for a meeting.
Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Google Reader Watcher adds notifications for unread items right in your web browser, complete with a quick-access menu that takes you directly to the feed.
If you’ve heard reports of a critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5, you’ll be glad to know that Mozilla will address the issue with an update later this week. On top of that, if you’ve been experiencing slow startups, the update intends to fix that as well. [Mozilla Links]
Gmail gives you five seconds to unsend an email. Unfortunately in real life, you can’t hit the undo button once you’ve verbalized your feelings. The key then, according to Harvard Business Blog, is to know how to prevent the damaging message to begin with.
Google’s popular newsreader updates with new friend following features, private sharing of items, people search and a “like” feature that tells the world when you like a link. It’s another nice social update, but we can’t help but wonder who’s using them.
