Thursday, August 27, 2009
Work
Notalon Helps You Take Cornell-Style Notes
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac/Linux: If our talk about Cornell-style note taking caught your eye and you wished there was an easy to use application for taking them, you’ll want to check out Notalon. More »
Work
iGoogle Working With Secure Gmail Connections
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Setting Gmail to always use a secure connection (connecting with https://) is a good idea for many reasons, but doing so had, for a long time, prevented users of Google’s customised iGoogle pages from accessing their Gmail. More »
Organise
4:30PM Angus Kidman | Whether it’s for a place to work on the road or just a day-boosting jolt, a good cafe is something to cherish. Beanhunter lets you hunt down cafes across the globe, with an emphasis on independent proprietors rather than Gloria Jeans and the like. More »
Beanhunter Tracks Independent Cafes
4:30PM Angus Kidman | Whether it’s for a place to work on the road or just a day-boosting jolt, a good cafe is something to cherish. Beanhunter lets you hunt down cafes across the globe, with an emphasis on independent proprietors rather than Gloria Jeans and the like. More »
Work
3:00PM Angus Kidman | It’s well-recognised that notebook sales are now outstripping desktop PCs, but within the notebook category, netbooks are also claiming an increasing chunk of the market. More »
Netbooks Rapidly Grabbing Notebook Market Share
3:00PM Angus Kidman | It’s well-recognised that notebook sales are now outstripping desktop PCs, but within the notebook category, netbooks are also claiming an increasing chunk of the market. More »
Money
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Travelling means dealing with unfamiliar currencies, and if you’re not careful you can spend a lot more than you expect because of the relative differences in value. Here’s some tips to ensure you don’t end up blowing your budget. More »
Don’t Get Ripped Off With Foreign Currency
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Travelling means dealing with unfamiliar currencies, and if you’re not careful you can spend a lot more than you expect because of the relative differences in value. Here’s some tips to ensure you don’t end up blowing your budget. More »
Travel
11:00AM Angus Kidman | Queenslanders will be waiting a while for Wi-Fi on trains, and now Adelaide has stolen a jump on BrisVegas, rolling out a bus which includes free Wi-Fi services for all the passengers. More »
Adelaide Bus Gets Wi-Fi Service
11:00AM Angus Kidman | Queenslanders will be waiting a while for Wi-Fi on trains, and now Adelaide has stolen a jump on BrisVegas, rolling out a bus which includes free Wi-Fi services for all the passengers. More »
Travel
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Jetstar is promising SMS-based boarding passes from November, and a similar project is on the Qantas radar, but it’s the overseas carriers who seem to be delivering on the phone front. British Airways rolled out a mobile check-in option last November, and now Air Canada is allowing check-in and other functions via the iPhone. More »
Air Canada Offers iPhone App For Check-In
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Jetstar is promising SMS-based boarding passes from November, and a similar project is on the Qantas radar, but it’s the overseas carriers who seem to be delivering on the phone front. British Airways rolled out a mobile check-in option last November, and now Air Canada is allowing check-in and other functions via the iPhone. More »
Work
Push Your Ideas Through With Superfluous Brackets
8:00AM Adam Pash | Business author, blogger, and speaker Seth Godin suggests a simple, sneaky little trick to push your (slightly audacious) ideas past your boss. His suggestion: Add some {brackets}. More »
Fix
Obesity Significantly Shrinks And Ages Brain Tissue, Study Says
7:30AM Azadeh Ensha | As if you needed another reason to get and stay in shape, a new study has concluded that obese and overweight people have “significantly less” brain tissue than persons who are of normal weight. More »
Design
