No matter how conscious you are of your phone, things get lost. If you’ve lost your phone or other gadget, here’s an easy way to ensure the (hopefully) good-natured soul that finds it can get it back to you.
We live in an era where the answer to almost any fact-based question is no further than a Google search away, but Scientific American highlights a study suggesting subjects forced to get something wrong before being told the answer learn it better.
Catching an occasional shooting star is one thing, but with the right timing you can see dozens to hundreds of them in a single night. We’re in the peak season for the Orionid Showers, read on to catch a glimpse.
Every time you click results in Google, Yahoo or Bing, a special URL tracks your click—and makes it annoying to copy and paste. The CyberNet blog runs down click-track-preventing tools for all three search engines.
We pointed to an iGoogle interface for Google’s Tasks to-do manager yesterday that gave users a pretty big view inside their custom home page. Want a totally full-size Tasks view without launching iGoogle? Bookmark the “Canvas view” page.
