Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - Page 2
Money

Know When To Use Alkaline Versus Rechargeable Batteries

Rechargeable batteries have their share of benefits (helping the environment, for one), but when it comes to saving money, personal finance blogger Len Penzo argues that sometimes regular old alkalines are the better option.


Design

ZapBing Rotates Your Desktop Wallpaper With High Quality Bing Images

Windows only: If you’re a fan of the high quality photographs regularly rotating on the Bing homepage, free application ZapBing brings a rotating lineup of those images to your desktop wallpaper.


Work

Master The “Why Hire Me” Story To Land A Job

So you’ve finally landed that job interview. Now it’s time to seal the deal with a killer interview. How? For one, try mastering your “Why hire me?” story.


Organise

Use Tape To Mark Frequently Moved Cables

If you’re constantly plugging and unplugging your laptop out of power strips at work and home, you’ll eventually grab the wrong cable. Avoid yanking the plug on your desktop computer or charging station with this simple hack.


Work

Notify Monitors Multiple Gmail Accounts For New Mail

Mac OS X only: Mac users who want notifications of new Gmail messages have had the official Google Notifier for quite some time, but it can only monitor one account. Free menu bar application Notify monitors multiple Gmail accounts and then some.


Work

Join The Invite-Only Office Live Web Apps Preview Today

Microsoft Office Web Apps will bridge the gap between your desktop Office documents and the web, but it’s currently in an invite-only preview. However, the always clever Amit Agarwal at weblog Digital Inspiration discovered a simple trick that’ll score you an invite.


Work

Use DropBox To Sync OneNote Notebooks Across Multiple Computers

If you read over our guide to using Dropbox for more than just file syncing and thought about how great it would be to use Dropbox for keeping your Microsoft OneNote notebooks synchronised in real time, you’re in luck.


Work

Get More Productive By Mastering Windows 7 Jump Lists

We’ve already mentioned the new Jump Lists feature in Windows 7 as one of our favourite features, and today we’ll take a closer look at how you can use them to save time.


Work

What Music Helps You Get Things Done?

Music is a personal choice, but most of us can’t really sort emails to Slayer or hit tight deadlines with ambient drones. When you need to get things done, relax, or get creative, what tunes do you turn to?


Work

Firefox Implements WebGL For High-Powered Web Graphics

It’s only in the nightly trunk builds, and no real web application is using it, but WebGL, an open framework for web sites to utilise rich 3D graphics through OpenGL and JavaScript, has been baked into Firefox.