Saturday, October 17, 2009
Work
From The Tips Box: “Copy File Path” In Finder, More Wave Filters
11:00AM Whitson Gordon | Readers offer their best tips for finding lost mobile phones when they’re on vibrate, adding a “Copy File Path to Clipboard” option in OS X’s Finder, and filtering public waves by language in Google Wave. More »
Fix
DIY Tennis Ball Photography Stabilisation Unit
9:00AM Adam Pash | DIY web site Instructables details how to make an image stabilising unit to supplement your steady hand using a tennis ball and a few nuts and bolts. More »
Communicate
Manage Your Google Reputation
8:00AM Adam Pash | We’ve always emphasised the importance of monitoring your online presence, and now Google’s jumping in with their own tips for managing your reputation through search results. More »
Organise
FlagTab Groups Your Firefox Tabs With Colours
7:00AM The How-To Geek | Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension FlagTab adds relative tabs and customisable colours so you can keep your tabs organised more easily. More »
Work
Performance Test Pits Windows 7 Vs. Snow Leopard
5:00AM Adam Pash | With the Windows 7 release looming next week, tech site CNET decided that it’d be a good time to see how the two stack up against each other. It may seem unfair that the tests use a MacBook Pro booting Snow Leopard and Windows 7 in Boot Camp, but whether or not that mattered, the results are fairly balanced. More »
Fix
Polish Chrome With Aluminium Foil And Cola
4:30AM sarahrae | Whether you’ve got rusty chrome on your car or dirty chrome on the faucets on your sink, possibly the quickest and easiest way to get them clean and sparkling again is simple: aluminium foil. More »
Work
AVG 9 Free Now Ready For Download
4:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: AVG 9 Free—one of the most popular free antivirus apps on the market—is now available for download. More »
Work
FlyScreen Puts Calendars, Weather, On Your Phone’s Lock Screen
3:30AM Kevin Purdy | Android/Symbian: FlyScreen saves you the trouble of unlocking, clicking and waiting for an app to open to get calendar items, weather updates, SMS messages or just about anything else by putting swipe-accessible widgets on your “lock” screen. More »
Money
BudgetSketch Creates A Workable Budget For The Future
2:40AM Adam Pash | Web application BudgetSketch is a free personal finance budgeting application focused on collaboratively budgeting for future months rather than tracking your spending from the past. More »
Fix
