Friday, August 28, 2009
Work
Blaze Launches Applications And Automates Repetitive Tasks
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows: Applications launchers are plentiful and since Windows Vista there has been a built-in launcher in the start menu. Blaze however rolls application launching into a package with task automation. As you work it suggests ways to automate your workflow. More »
Design
When To Use Bar Charts Instead Of Pie Charts
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Pie charts look cooler than other kinds of charts. They’re based on pie, after all, and seem less accountant-like than bars, bubbles and lines. They are, however, often a very wrong way to represent subtle but important differences. More »
Organise
My Tracks For Android Is A Fitness Geek’s Dream
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Android: If the GPS mapping and performance analysis of apps like RunKeeper give your Android phone iPhone envy, Google’s got a geeky alternative. My Tracks plots runs, cycles, and other fitness forays to custom Google Maps or a Google spreadsheet. More »
Communicate
3:46PM Angus Kidman | The last time we saw Australian digital TV takeup figures, just under half (47%) of households were digital-TV ready. Three months later, and the magical 50% barrier has been cracked, despite the confusion created by Freeview campaigns. More »
More Than Half Of Australia Has Digital TV
3:46PM Angus Kidman | The last time we saw Australian digital TV takeup figures, just under half (47%) of households were digital-TV ready. Three months later, and the magical 50% barrier has been cracked, despite the confusion created by Freeview campaigns. More »
Fix
3:00PM Angus Kidman | If herbs don’t work to cure your insomnia and you can’t convince yourself to get up and work, your PC might be the next best solution to sleeplessness. (No, we’re not talking about in-depth financial news reporting.) More »
Curing Insomnia With Online Tools
3:00PM Angus Kidman | If herbs don’t work to cure your insomnia and you can’t convince yourself to get up and work, your PC might be the next best solution to sleeplessness. (No, we’re not talking about in-depth financial news reporting.) More »
Design
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Regularly using Twitter and proud of it? TwitterLogos rounds up graphics from across the web that you can use to link your Twitter profile. More »
TwitterLogos Offers Graphics To Promote Your Twitter Life
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Regularly using Twitter and proud of it? TwitterLogos rounds up graphics from across the web that you can use to link your Twitter profile. More »
Fix
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Waiting on hold might seem inevitable when you place a support call, but Adobe’s two-hour delay on its support line sets a pretty high bar for poor customer communication. More »
Adobe Customers On Support Hold For Two Hours
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Waiting on hold might seem inevitable when you place a support call, but Adobe’s two-hour delay on its support line sets a pretty high bar for poor customer communication. More »
Fix
10:30AM Angus Kidman | You know the feeling: you’re trying to sign into Google on a non-regular machine, Google decides it needs to throw a CAPTCHA at you for security, and the image is completely unreadable. Is that annoyance ever going to disappear? More »
Google Might Ditch CAPTCHA One Day
10:30AM Angus Kidman | You know the feeling: you’re trying to sign into Google on a non-regular machine, Google decides it needs to throw a CAPTCHA at you for security, and the image is completely unreadable. Is that annoyance ever going to disappear? More »
Communicate
9:00AM Angus Kidman | At the beginning of the month, Woolworths was pretty adamant that its mobile phone offerings wouldn’t include data-only plans or dongles. After apparently flogging a lot of SIM cards, the supermarket chain seems to be having a change of heart. More »
Woolworths May Do Data Plans After All
9:00AM Angus Kidman | At the beginning of the month, Woolworths was pretty adamant that its mobile phone offerings wouldn’t include data-only plans or dongles. After apparently flogging a lot of SIM cards, the supermarket chain seems to be having a change of heart. More »
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