Thursday, February 4, 2010 - Page 2
Design

The All-Glass Opera Desktop

Reader t.click’s desktop sports an amazing, totally transparent skin for the Opera browser that uses Aero Glass to render virtually the entire interface.


Design

Dummy Image Generator Is The Lorem Ipsum Of Images

Lorem ipsum is a block of dummy text in Latin often used in design and publishing to fill space in a mockup. The brilliant Dummy Image Generator is like “lorem ipsum” for images.


Fix

Gut An Old USB HDD Enclosure To Make An External DVD Drive

More and more lightweight laptops and netbooks are shipping sans optical drives. Don’t buy an external drive for $US50+ for those few times you need it, turn an old USB HDD enclosure and DVD drive into an external drive.


Fix

Build A Walking Work Station In 20 Minutes For $US20

If you want to get off your duff and onto your treadmill but think you can’t spare time away from work, now you’ve got no excuses. Consultant Jenny Evans demonstrates how to build a treadmill work station quickly and on the cheap.


Work

uTorrent 2.0 Brings Performance Updates, UDP Support And More

Windows only: uTorrent is far and away the most popular BitTorrent client among Windows users, and they’ve recently pushed out a shiny new 2.0 release, bringing with it bug fixes, performance improvements, UDP support, automatic bandwidth regulation and more.


Work

Revolver-Tabs Refreshes And Rotates Tabs In Google Chrome

Google Chrome: Setting a website to refresh is old hat, but what if you want to refresh multiple sites and keep an eye on all of them? Revolver-Tabs refreshes and rotates your browser tabs.


Organise

How To Clip, Sort And Cite The Entire Web With Zotero

If you’re looking for a way to organise all the information you find and research you do online, and you’ve had enough with bookmarking, copying and pasting, and cobbled-together techniques not cutting it, Zotero is a comprehensive information manager for Firefox.


Fix

Keep Brown Sugar Soft With Marshmallows

We’ve previously explored the brown-sugar-loosening powers of a slice of bread, but if you want to keep your dark brown stuff from clumping, grab a couple of marshmallows.


Work

WordPress for Android Writes and Edits Posts on the Go

Android: Got a blog? Got an Android-powered phone? Now you can write, edit, moderate comments, and preview your posts and pages with WordPress’ own Android application.


Work

MaComfort Brings Mac-Like Functionality, Shortcuts To Windows

Windows: If you frequently switch between Windows and OS X you likely find yourself hitting the wrong hot keys and wanting for some of the Mac functionality in Windows. MaComfort can help bridge the gap.