Firefox: Mozilla knows we often reach out to our contacts through our browsers. So the Firefox maker has crafted an experimental tool to make, for example, filling out “email this” forms easier by importing contacts directly into your browser. More »
Mac: Like the Windows beta, there’s no real feature in Kindle for Mac, beyond Kindle e-book syncing, that will rock your socks off. For doing some reading away from your Kindle, though, it works just fine. More »
The concept of a daily deal site selling you discounted goods is a pretty familiar one. Ouffer.com partially utilises that approach, but focuses on experiences such as restaurants, concerts and spas. More »
Last year, we showed you a nifty lamp made from the IKEA Vallo watering can. Proving there’s more than one way to skin a garden implement, hacker Kornell has come up with a different variant on the same idea. More »
Digital music and movies have made entertainment cheaper than ever, but that doesn’t mean that shopping around isn’t still worthwhile. More »
Readers offer their best tips for learning DIY skills, middle clicking on Synaptics touchpads, and saving money on drying your laundry. More »
Google offers SafeSearch to stop offensive content popping up on your workplace computer or in front of the kids, and Microsoft’s rival search engine Bing has a similarly-labelled option. But while Google’s system can distinguish between images and text in videos, Bing seems to take a much less subtle approach: if a video sounds remotely raunchy, it gets blocked regardless of actual content. More »
If you’ve had a tough time choosing between Parallels and VMware Fusion for running Windows on your Mac, all-things-Apple site MacTech pitted the two virtualisation tools against one another in a giant faceoff. More »
For Google Wave users, email notifications make it easy to track waves you’re interested in, but what if you want to publish them more broadly with others? nowWw lets you share waves on Facebook and Twitter, sharing them with a wider audience. More »
Ever tried cancelling a print job in Windows but feel like it takes ages before anything actually happens? It’s a common annoyance, and one that helpful Reddit user Shikyo explains and remedies. More »
