Friday, September 18, 2009
Work
Google Book Downloader Downloads Books To PDF
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows: Thanks to Google’s drive to add more and more books to the Google Books project, including thousands of public domain volumes, you’ll find quite a nice selection to choose from. Google Book Downloader helps you download them to PDF. More »
Work
Ubuntu 9.10 Will Have Slicker Boot-Up, Software Store
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Ubuntu has released the sixth alpha of its Linux distribution, and it firms up two of the features we want to see in Ubuntu: a faster, graphical boot-up sequence, and an integrated software store. More »
Work
Make A Doodle Your Permanent Google Icon
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Firefox: Google’s clever, mysterious and completely random logo changes, known as “doodles”, usually last for just one day. With this Greasemonkey script, you can make any official Google doodle the logo you always see when searching. More »
Fix
Hang Perfectly Centred And Level Artwork
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | If your method of hanging pictures and paintings involves asking a patient friend 20 times about crookedness, an Apartment Therapy blog reader would like to, er, set you straight with a guide on getting perfectly aligned frames. More »
Communicate
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Normally when we talk about piracy at Lifehacker it’s in the context of copyright, but we must point out that Saturday is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Google’s Australian blog has some handy tips for bucaneer-hacking your life.
Aargh, It’s Speak Like A Pirate Day
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Normally when we talk about piracy at Lifehacker it’s in the context of copyright, but we must point out that Saturday is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Google’s Australian blog has some handy tips for bucaneer-hacking your life.
Fix
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Thinking ahead to a leisurely Saturday breakfast? Standard dietary advice is to poach or boil your eggs rather than fry them, but one study suggests fried eggs can actually help reduce your blood pressure. More »
When Fried Eggs Can Be Good For You
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Thinking ahead to a leisurely Saturday breakfast? Standard dietary advice is to poach or boil your eggs rather than fry them, but one study suggests fried eggs can actually help reduce your blood pressure. More »
Money
2:22PM Angus Kidman | The dominance of the two big Australian supermarket chains, Woolworths and Coles, is likely to be challenged after the pair signed an agreement with the ACCC agreeing to end restrictive leasing practices. That might sound like arcane financial management talk, but in practice it should result in more supermarket choices in major shopping centres, and hopefully lower prices. More »
Why You’ll Soon Have More Supermarket Choices
2:22PM Angus Kidman | The dominance of the two big Australian supermarket chains, Woolworths and Coles, is likely to be challenged after the pair signed an agreement with the ACCC agreeing to end restrictive leasing practices. That might sound like arcane financial management talk, but in practice it should result in more supermarket choices in major shopping centres, and hopefully lower prices. More »
Organise
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Real estate search site MyHouseHunt.com.au has undergone a major revamp, shifting its emphasis to searching and managing property listings across the two dominant local real estate listing sites, Domain and RealEstate.com.au More »
MyHouseHunt.com.au Adds Maps, Property Shortlists
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Real estate search site MyHouseHunt.com.au has undergone a major revamp, shifting its emphasis to searching and managing property listings across the two dominant local real estate listing sites, Domain and RealEstate.com.au More »
Fix
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Acrobat Reader can often be a source of annoyance, and one challenge is getting it to work on 64-bit systems — but you can get the job done with a simple registry fix. More »
Get Acrobat Reader To Work With 64-Bit Windows
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Acrobat Reader can often be a source of annoyance, and one challenge is getting it to work on 64-bit systems — but you can get the job done with a simple registry fix. More »
Money
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Saving money is a sensible basic financial strategy whatever the economic climate, but new survey data suggests that we’re no longer being driven to savings accounts by fear of the recession. More »
Aussies No Longer Panicked About Saving
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Saving money is a sensible basic financial strategy whatever the economic climate, but new survey data suggests that we’re no longer being driven to savings accounts by fear of the recession. More » 
