Saturday, February 20, 2010

Work

From The Tips Box: Chrome Awesomebar, Flyaway Cables, Food Defrosting

12:00PM February 20, 2010 | Whitson Gordon

Readers offer their best tips for adding missing Firefox features to Chrome, keeping cables from slipping behind your desk, and defrosting food faster in the fridge. More »


Communicate

VoxOx Translates Foreign-Language Instant Messages On-The-Fly

10:00AM February 20, 2010 | Lisa Hoover

Windows/Mac: VoxOx is a snazzy chat and social networking app for keeping in touch with your friends. We’ve mentioned it before, but VoxOx is even more useful now that it has a real-time translation tool. More »


Work

Customise Pinned Shortcuts On The Windows 7 Taskbar

8:00AM February 20, 2010 | The How-To Geek

You normally access shortcut properties through the right-click menu, but when you’re dealing with a Windows 7 pinned taskbar button, that’s just going to pull up the excellent Jump List feature. So how do you customise the shortcut? More »


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How Do You Keep Allergies At Bay?

7:30AM February 20, 2010 | Whitson Gordon

Whether allergies are just a minor inconvenience for you or a debilitating problem, home improvement weblog Apartment Therapy has some tricks to allergy-proofing your home. More »


Design

Happy 20th Birthday Photoshop: Our Most Popular Tips And Tricks

7:00AM February 20, 2010 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Photoshop stepped onto the scene 20 years ago today, changing the face of photo-editing, altering the way we weight the truthfulness of images, and introducing “‘Shopped!” into the language of internet pundits everywhere. Check out our most popular Photoshop tutorials inside. More »


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Why Google Apps Users Miss Out On Regular Gmail Features

6:30AM February 20, 2010 | Gina Trapani

If you’ve taken the leap and hosted your domain email and other services with Google Apps, no doubt you’ve noticed that you miss out on services that “regular” accounts get: like Google Reader, Wave, Analytics and, right now, Buzz. Here’s why: More »


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Make Sure You’re Not De-Motivating Your Team

6:00AM February 20, 2010 | Lisa Hoover

It should come as no surprise that money is a pretty powerful motivator for workers, but an article by researchers at Harvard Business School says it takes more than cash to keep employees happy and productive. More »


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Choose Wisely Lets You Select Your Default Browser On A Per-Link Basis

5:00AM February 20, 2010 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Mac OS X: If you want to be able to select your “default” browser on a link-by-link basis, directing some links to Firefox, others to Chrome, and so on, Choose Wisely allows you to do so. More »


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The Fully Automated Media Centre

4:00AM February 20, 2010 | Alex Ward

Ed. note: We love a good media centre almost as much as we love automation, so self-confessed media geek Alex Ward’s fully automated media centre caught our eye. It’s all the benefits of an awesome media centre without all the hassle. More »


Communicate

Facebook Adds Privacy Controls For Applications

3:30AM February 20, 2010 | Adam Pash

You can finetune who can see virtually every aspect of what you do on Facebook, except what you share via Facebook applications &mdash ;until now, that is. More »