Saturday, December 4, 2010 - Page 2
Work

ButtonRemapper Reassigns Your Android Phone’s Buttons

Android: If you’ve ever wished you could skip music tracks or scroll up and down with your phone’s volume buttons, free app ButtonRemapper will let you reassign those functions on your rooted Android phone.


Organise

The Autofocus Productivity Method: Stop Maintaining To-Do Lists And Start Getting Stuff Done

Looking for a personal productivity system that doesn’t suffer the rigidity and unwieldiness that have thwarted your best efforts to adopt other systems? Autofocus offers simplified task management and emphasises getting stuff done instead of getting stuff filed, organised and tagged.


Communicate

Benefit From An Interview Rejection By Debriefing Yourself

In the current economy those out of work are sending out more resumes and going to more interviews than ever to land the job they want. Turn the inevitable rejections into a chance to improve your game.


Work

XBMC Dharma RC2 Brings Enhanced Add-On Support

Windows/Mac/Linux: Back in August we took a peek at the beta version of the newest XBMC release. The new release candidate, Dharma RC2, is available for download now and packed with new features like enhanced add-on support with automatic updating and more.


Work

Use Search Operators In Android Market To Clean Up Search Results

Quite often, searching the Android Market gives you less than helpful results. It turns out, however, that the Market uses smart search operators, so you can further refine your search terms and find the app you’re looking for.


Money

Dwolla Offers Simple Payments Across Social Networks And The Web

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Although the process of transferring media has evolved a thousand fold since the early days of the internet the process of transferring money hasn’t kept pace. Dwolla seeks to make it dead simple to send money across social networks and the web.


Work

Android Market Adds ‘Similar’ Tab For Easier App Discovery

While there are some third-party apps that will help you discover other apps you’ll like, the Android Market on its own doesn’t do much to aid in the app discovery process. Today, though, it seems they’re rolling out a new feature where, on an app’s page in the Market, you can hit a new “Similar” tab to see related apps.


Work

Chrome To Windows Phone 7 Pushes Links To WP7 From Chrome

Chrome/Windows Phone 7: Got a new-fangled Windows Phone 7 model? Use Chrome as your main browser? Push web pages and copied text from your big-screen system to your mobile device with one click after installing this Chrome extension.


November 4, 2010
Organise

Use Word’s Outline View As A Nested Personal Wiki

Rather than keep multiple files, to-do lists, and longer notes on something coming up, consider using a Word file in the “Outline View” to create a nested, expandable personal wiki-style organiser. It’s how one Lifehacker reader rolls.


Work

Fedora 14 Brings Sped-Up JPEG Handling, Better Remoting To Linux Desktops

All systems: Fedora 14, the latest release of the Red-Hat-backed Linux desktop, includes a library for handling JPEG photos that speeds up photo processing, thumbnail creation, and photo importing. There’s also support for better control of remote desktops and virtual machines.