Monday, March 1, 2010
Work
Opera Chugging Along, Releases Fourth 10.5 Release Candidate In 24 Hours
11:40PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: Opera’s development team has cranked out no less than four 10.5 release candidate builds in the last 25 hours. That might signal a final build timed to arrive with Microsoft’s mandatory browser choice screen in Europe. More »
Money
4:00PM Angus Kidman | OK, here’s a really odd way to save money. Specialist magazine retailer Mag Nation is offering a free magazine or book to the value of $50 to anyone who visits a store on a Monday in March wearing only their underwear. More »
Mag Nation Offers Free Titles If You Visit In Your Undies On Mondays
4:00PM Angus Kidman | OK, here’s a really odd way to save money. Specialist magazine retailer Mag Nation is offering a free magazine or book to the value of $50 to anyone who visits a store on a Monday in March wearing only their underwear. More »
Communicate
2:00PM Angus Kidman | Most phone company web sites include coverage maps, but these rarely include enough detail to be sure of how a given network will perform. Android app Sensorly collates data from individual users and compiles these into coverage maps to give you an on-the-ground perspective on whether you’ll get signal. More »
Sensorly Crowdsources Signal Information For Android Users
2:00PM Angus Kidman | Most phone company web sites include coverage maps, but these rarely include enough detail to be sure of how a given network will perform. Android app Sensorly collates data from individual users and compiles these into coverage maps to give you an on-the-ground perspective on whether you’ll get signal. More »
Travel
12:00PM Angus Kidman |
It’s a pen, it’s a voice recorder — and it’s useful enough to warrant a place in my list of technology travel essentials. Road Worrier gets hands-on with the Livescribe. More »
Road Worrier Road Tests The Livescribe
12:00PM Angus Kidman |
It’s a pen, it’s a voice recorder — and it’s useful enough to warrant a place in my list of technology travel essentials. Road Worrier gets hands-on with the Livescribe. More »
Work
The Day Trader’s Paradise
11:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | What do you get when you have space for a custom office setup, a good amount of cash, and the vision to make it all happen? Dozens of monitors and the need for your own personal power plant. More »
Disk Space Fan Analyses Hard Drive Space With A Dash Of Eye Candy
10:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free utility Disk Space Fan analyses your hard drive usage to help you determine what’s taking up space on your hard drive, representing it all with fancy visualisation eye candy. More »
Organise
9:52AM Angus Kidman | Over the weekend, we told you about Google’s new location-based option for filtering searches. A Google Australia spokesperson has confirmed to Lifehacker that this option hasn’t yet been added to the google.com.au site (which is where you’ll end up if you visit google.com from an Australian IP address). However, if you select the ‘Go to Google.com’ option from that page, you can access the location filtering option. It’s hardly the ideal implementation, but better than nothing we suppose.
Location Search Not On Google Australia Yet
9:52AM Angus Kidman | Over the weekend, we told you about Google’s new location-based option for filtering searches. A Google Australia spokesperson has confirmed to Lifehacker that this option hasn’t yet been added to the google.com.au site (which is where you’ll end up if you visit google.com from an Australian IP address). However, if you select the ‘Go to Google.com’ option from that page, you can access the location filtering option. It’s hardly the ideal implementation, but better than nothing we suppose.
Organise
8:30AM Angus Kidman | You wanted to exchange large files and you wanted better start pages. Kick off your Lifehacker Monday by making sure you didn’t miss any of the biggest posts from last week: More »
Last Week’s Best Posts
8:30AM Angus Kidman | You wanted to exchange large files and you wanted better start pages. Kick off your Lifehacker Monday by making sure you didn’t miss any of the biggest posts from last week: More »
Organise
Speed Up Your Shirt-Hanging Routine With A Simple Trick
7:00AM Adam Pash | We love the two-second t-shirt folding technique we featured a few years back, but if you’re more of a hanger than a folder, home blog Apartment Therapy’s got a few pointers to help you speed up getting your shirts on hangers. More »
Design
