Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - Page 2
Travel

Jetstar To Offer SMS Boarding Passes From November

Lifehacker AU

Online check-in is great, but difficult if you don’t have access to a printer on the road. Jetstar will simplify that process in November when it allows passengers to use an SMS as their boarding pass.


Communicate

Avoid Inappropriate Email Signoffs

Whether work-related or on personal time, most of us send multiple emails daily, which is why learning how to properly close the correspondence is essential because, as the Washington Post notes, you can pay the price for a “careless closing”.


Work

EzRSS Provides BitTorrent Feeds Of Your Favorite TV Shows

Web site ezRSS is yet another web site designed to help you “subscribe” to your favourite TV shows via BitTorrent so your download automatically starts as soon as a new episode is available (known as broadcatching).


Communicate

This Week In Google Dissects The Cloud

Our very own Gina Trapani has just launched a podcast called This Week in Google (or TWiG) with tech guy Leo Laporte and journalist Jeff Jarvis.


Organise

Flickr Image Search Finds Better Photos

My favourite way to find photos (especially for publication in blog posts and use in presentations) saw a big upgrade today: Flickr’s search results page is now a whole lot easier to browse.


Fix

Windows 7 Makes UAC Less Annoying Than Vista

If you’ve been keeping up with Windows 7 news, you know one of the selling points is a less annoying UAC system—so the 7 Tutorials blog set out to illustrate what was actually changed.


Work

Office On The Forest’s Edge

The only thing today’s featured office shares with the your average office is the fact that it has a roof and a floor. Beyond that it’s quite a different space than most of us spend our days in.


Work

Yet Another Process Monitor Manages Running Tasks

Windows only: System monitoring utility Yet Another Process Monitor is not just a powerful way to see what’s going on under the hood—it’s also portable.


Money

A Burglar’s Advice On Hiding Money

We’ve already shown you where and how to safely hide cash in your home, but if you really want to learn how, why not ask the expert? The following are some dos and don’ts of money storage courtesy of a former burglar.


Work

Update Twitter With A Keyword Bookmark

Reader Gilles writes in with an interesting tip: You can use a keyword bookmark to quickly post something to Twitter from the address bar in any browser.