Windows only: If you’ve ever wanted to assign a shortcut key directly to your favourite applications, you can do so easily with this simple AutoHotkey script.
When exercise companies started designing exercise bikes with televisions built into them, they were certainly onto something. Mount your laptop on your exercise bike or elliptical machine with this rock-solid build.
Windows: Ever download a movie from — oh, I don’t know — some far-reaching nether-region of the internet, and when your download finishes, realise the video is split into multiple parts? AVI Joiner quickly combines those split videos in just a few clicks.
Ugly cords are the obvious villain in your gadget-charging clutter, but even if you put together a nice charging station, you’ve still got to sacrifice some counterspace to your charging station’s footprint. This clean, wall-mounted charging station tackles both problems.
Windows: Desktop Eye is a small sidebar gadget that puts security camera monitoring in an unobstrusive widget and saves you from running a bulky separate application that may not always be in focus where you can see it.
E-book readers are popular for reading digital books, but they’ve got their limitations. If you have a netbook, you already have a powerful and virtually unrestricted portable e-book reader on your hands. You just need to know how to set it up.
Google just announced a trial program called Google Fibre for Communities that’s going to test an extremely fast, experimental broadband network in at least 50,000 homes, delivering speeds of up to 1GB per second (“over 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today”).
If you don’t like seeing NSFW or kid-inappropriate videos popping up in your search results and suggested videos, YouTube now has a Safety Mode to do the heavy-lifting for content filtering for you.
Having a very sharp knife goes a long way toward preventing disastrous knife slips, but there are oh-so-many ways of cutting yourself with any kind of knife. Tom Mylan, a Brooklyn butcher, shares his hard-earned tips on avoiding bad blade slips.
Ubuntu has a unified notification system that posts to your desktop’s upper-right corner (unless you move them), but the Thunderbird email client doesn’t seem to know about them. Make Thunderbird use the same notifications as other apps with this quick terminal fix.
