Posts by Kevin Purdy
Work
4:00AM Kevin Purdy | It’s easy to forget about your body’s needs when you’re deep into your work or the net — until your body offers a painful reminder. Save your physical shell some strain with these cheap, customisable ergonomic workspace upgrades. More »
Top 10 Ergonomic Upgrades For Your Workspace
4:00AM Kevin Purdy | It’s easy to forget about your body’s needs when you’re deep into your work or the net — until your body offers a painful reminder. Save your physical shell some strain with these cheap, customisable ergonomic workspace upgrades. More » 
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Twitter/Facebook Client Brizzly Open For Sign-Ups
9:00AM Kevin Purdy | Brizzly, the web-based social-media manager that ranked as one of our readers’ favourite Twitter clients, has dropped the invite code requirement and is available for anyone to log into. It’s still technically in “beta”, but mostly to keep up the fairly rapid pace of feature development. [via TechCrunch]
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YouTube Will Soon Block Access From Set-Top Devices
6:20AM Kevin Purdy | It won’t affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo or other licensed YouTube partners, but Google’s streaming video service will start blocking access to TV-connected devices as of December 2. More »
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Lock In A Fixed Schedule To Keep Work-Life Balance
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn’t mean you’re productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. More »
Work
Fix Unread Gmail Favicons In Better Gmail 2 And Greasemonkey
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox with Greasemonkey: Gmail recently made a few tweaks to its message count API, leaving tools like the favicon message indictors by Eric Bogs and Peter Wooley, along with Gina’s own Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension, broken. Now they’re fixed. More »
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Office 2010 Mobile Available For Beta Download
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows Mobile 6.5: If you’re rocking a fairly new Windows Mobile phone, Microsoft offers a beta build of its portable Office applications until April 2010. That means free viewing editing of Excel, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote and other documents. More »
Design
Use Windows 7 Themes In Vista Or XP
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Microsoft put far more work into the look and themes of Windows 7 than its previous operating systems. Pull down that design work into your non-7 system with Digital Inspiration’s simple work-arounds. More »
Work
7:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it’s different from other operating systems. Here are the features, functions and screenshots you’ll want to know about. More »
First Glimpse At Google Chrome OS
7:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it’s different from other operating systems. Here are the features, functions and screenshots you’ll want to know about. More »
Work
Camino 2.0 Adds Features To A Speedy Mac-Centric Browser
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Mac OS X: Camino, the lightweight, Mac-centred, standards-compliant browser, has seen a 2.0 release filled with features fans are going to dig. Selective ad and Flash blocking, OS X keychain integration, Growl support and much more are now baked in. More »
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