If you’d like a clever and cheap way to keep windows, goggles and other glass and plastic surfaces from fogging up, you can use a potato to keep the vision-blocking condensation at bay.
Next time an out-of-control pen wreaks havoc on your clothes or furniture and you don’t have a spot remover on hand, try a little hairspray. Reader Shelley says it worked wonders after her two-year-old used her couch as a canvas.
Many financial advisers recommend buying a home to take advantage of the associated tax benefits. If you want the investment portfolio without the hassle of home ownership, life management blog My Life ROI has some suggestions.
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Windows/Linux: Sleeping your computer is a useful way to save energy, but free utility SonarPM takes power management an awesome step further: It puts your computer to sleep automatically when you walk away from your desk — using sonar.
Many people often remark that they wish their workspace was more relaxing or meditative, very few people actually construct their workspace to be a Zen meditation chamber.
The Times’ tech writer Nick Bilton sat down with ABC anchor Diane Sawyer to discuss the dos and don’ts of digital etiquette, spending the majority of their time talking about the etiquette of using smartphones in social situations, like dinner with friends.
The web is littered with music — given away for free, embeded in videos, and so on. Puniz indexes publicly accessible music and lets you grab the source tune.
Webcams are optimised for things like video conferencing, not close focus. If you’re trying to use your webcam to record things close up — awesome stop-motion Lego combat, electronics tutorials, etc — you can hack the focus with cheap reading glasses.
Nathan Yau is a doctoral candidate in statistics, but the most valuable lessons he’s learned in analysing and working with data don’t involve formal maths. Here’s how he suggests looking at lines, charts and numbers to find interesting things.
Google’s messed around with personalizing and re-ordering results based on who’s searching for some time now. Their latest idea kills SearchWiki involves adding a “star” to a result you want to see up top in the future.
