Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Communicate
Tiny Twitter Brings Twitter To Your Windows Mobile, Java-Enabled Phones
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows Mobile/Blackberry: If you have a data plan with your phone, Tiny Twitter will help you keep tabs on your friends and send out tweets without overage charges. More »
Work
Brazen Careerist Makes Professional Networking Less Painful
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Brazen Careerist, formerly a blog network headed by the oft-linked Penelope Trunk, launched today as a professional network that aims to help Generation Y share their ideas and interests, but maybe also land a job while doing so. More »
Design
4:30PM Angus Kidman | Every image editing tool has a basic black and white conversion option, but the results aren’t always pleasing or easy to adjust. Using Photoshop’s layers tools can make the process easier. More »
Make Better Black And White Conversions In Photoshop
4:30PM Angus Kidman | Every image editing tool has a basic black and white conversion option, but the results aren’t always pleasing or easy to adjust. Using Photoshop’s layers tools can make the process easier. More »
Organise
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Google’s familiar practice of offering popular sections within a site as part of its search results has a new twist with Wikipedia: for longer articles, it offers direct links to the main sections, making it quicker to jump to the relevant material. How effective that is depends on the article structure, but for well-maintained topics, it’s a handy time saver. [via Google Operating System]
Google Offering Wikipedia Sub-Links In Results
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Google’s familiar practice of offering popular sections within a site as part of its search results has a new twist with Wikipedia: for longer articles, it offers direct links to the main sections, making it quicker to jump to the relevant material. How effective that is depends on the article structure, but for well-maintained topics, it’s a handy time saver. [via Google Operating System]
Fix
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Some sort of earring holder is a dressing table essential for jewellery lovers who don’t want to lose track of their baubles. Take a drill and an IKEA toothbrush holder to create an easy storage solution. More »
DIY IKEA Earring Holder
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Some sort of earring holder is a dressing table essential for jewellery lovers who don’t want to lose track of their baubles. Take a drill and an IKEA toothbrush holder to create an easy storage solution. More »
Travel
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Hostels remain the cheapest way to score accommodation when you’re seeing the world (assuming security issues don’t drive you to a hotel). iPhone application Hostel Hero lets you search for and book hostels in 150 countries, and stores details of your bookings on the device itself. More »
Hostel Hero Books Hostels Via Your iPod
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Hostels remain the cheapest way to score accommodation when you’re seeing the world (assuming security issues don’t drive you to a hotel). iPhone application Hostel Hero lets you search for and book hostels in 150 countries, and stores details of your bookings on the device itself. More »
Fix
Tech Support Cheat Sheet Reveals The Secrets Of Troubleshooting
11:30AM Adam Pash | If you read Lifehacker, chances are you’ve been designated as your family’s de facto IT person, and you’ve probably spent more than your fair share of hours troubleshooting applications you know no better than the person asking. How do you do it?! More »
Organise
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Search engine aggregators which combine results from multiple sites are nothing that new, but Heapr combines the expected Google results with Twitter, Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia for a pretty contemporary mix of results. More »
Heapr Searches Google, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha And Wikipedia
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Search engine aggregators which combine results from multiple sites are nothing that new, but Heapr combines the expected Google results with Twitter, Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia for a pretty contemporary mix of results. More »
Work
9:00AM Angus Kidman | We’ve all suffered death by PowerPoint, but that doesn’t seem to stop the flood of bad presentations. BBC News rounds up 10 telling examples of PowerPoint at its worst. More »
Ten Ways Not To Use PowerPoint
9:00AM Angus Kidman | We’ve all suffered death by PowerPoint, but that doesn’t seem to stop the flood of bad presentations. BBC News rounds up 10 telling examples of PowerPoint at its worst. More »
Organise
