Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - Page 2
Communicate

Effectively Work A Crowd By Searching Out Clusters

Extroverts and social butterflies thrive on mingling, but for the more introverted crew, “getting out there” can be less than appealing. Here are some suggestions on how to effectively work a crowd of strangers.


Work

Windows 7 Transfers Your Wireless Settings Easily

After discovering how easily WEP can be cracked and creating a long, secure WPA2 key, you’ve probably noticed it’s a pain to setup the wireless when your friends stop by. Windows 7 makes this process easy.


Work

Mood Lighting And DIY Privacy Screens

What do you do if you want some extra privacy in your office but you’re not at liberty to go around tearing walls down and remodelling to fit your needs? Don your DIY hat and set to work.


Fix

DIY Print-And-Fold iPhone And iPod Touch Dock Looks Great

Design site Dessine moi un objet (Google translates that to “Draw me something”) has shared an impressively attractive and simple iPhone and iPod touch dock. Oh yeah, and they’ve included an excellent printable template.


Work

Google Chrome 3 Brings More Speed, Features To Stable Release

Windows only: Chrome turned one year old just a couple weeks back, and as a belated celebration, the folks at Google have just pushed out a brand new stable release in the form of Google Chrome 3.


Work

Helvetimail Gives A Minimal Facelift To Gmail

Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Safari/IE: Gmail’s already got several great themes, but if you’ve never been satisfied with Gmail’s clutter, the Helvetimail user script transforms Gmail into a Helvetica-based, stripped-down interface.


Work

How Weekend Projects Can Free Your Inner Rock Star

In one day, Beck Hansen and friends recorded an album-length cover of a beloved pop music album. They did it by setting aside time, lowering their guard and letting creative work happen. Anyone with a side-project could learn a lot from them.


Organise

Remember The Milk Task Manager Hits Android

Android: Not wanting to leave its users with a platform they can’t reach their to-dos on, Remember the Milk released an Android app for Pro account holders that surpasses the iPhone app in one key way.


Work

Choose Which App Opens For Each Camera In Snow Leopard

If you regularly plug an iPhone and digital camera into your Mac, but don’t always want iPhoto or another default app to open for every single camera it detects, you’re in luck, at least if you’ve upgraded to Snow Leopard. Creig Sherburne points out that the Image Capture app has a preference pane in the lower-left corner that lets you set which photo handling app should launch for each particular camera. [via Daring Fireball]