Career blogger Penelope Trunk carries a 2007 article from the Harvard Business Review with her everywhere she goes. The article, called The Making of an Expert, discusses the reality of expertise, which, simply put, is this:
Many online music services allow you to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to songs that you enjoy or don’t enjoy listening to. Jelli however leverages the thousands of votes logged by its users to build a better radio experience.
Once you’re active in Google Wave, you want to know when something new happens there – even if you don’t have Wave open in your browser. These notifier tools monitor your Wave inbox, letting you know you’ve got new and changed waves.
If you take a pass on generic brands at the supermarket in favour of brand name foods, Consumer Reports’ comparison test might interest you. Turns out there’s often very little difference between the two in taste or quality.
Saving something as a PDF file is a great way to preserve it for future reference or for sharing with others, without risking the site changing before you look at it again. PDFMyURL makes it easy to convert sites to PDF.
Browser cookies are one of those technical bits of web browsing that almost everyone has some awareness of. They’re also probably one of the most misunderstood aspects of browsing. Today we’re here to clear up the confusion.
Standard camera straps aren’t the speediest or most comfortable. This simple DIY strap hack gives you the speed and comfort of a $US50+ camera sling but at a fraction of the price.