Readers offer their best tips for fast forwarding videos in QuickTime, easy smartphone docks for your desk and car, and clever uses for hair clips.
iOS/Android: Popular app Bump has been around for awhile, allowing you to “bump” two phones together to transfer contacts, calendar events, photos and even Facebook or Twitter friendships. If your an iOS user, the newest version also includes music listening via bumps.
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Mac OS X: Quiet Read is a nifty little menubar app that stores links for you to access later. It works via drag and drop and can automatically posts to Instapaper or Read It Later.
We’ve already shown you how to hide the Ping drop-down in iTunes, but for many folks that wasn’t enough — they wanted all evidence of Ping removed from iTunes’ interface (and who can blame them?).
We make many decisions based on how we think we’ll feel in the future, but often those predictions are wrong. Studies are showing we can’t accurately predict how we’ll feel and so it may be best to just stop trying.
Windows and Mac OS X: Wunderlist manages your tasks with a few focused features for organisation, all within a beautiful interface and at no cost.
