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Cache My Work Restores Your Workspace After A Restart
4:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: The biggest annoyance that comes with a reboot isn’t the time wasted rebooting — it’s the time wasted getting your workspace back up and running how you had it before you restarted. Free application Cache My Work fixes this problem. More »
Communicate
Gmail Prematurely Marking Some Messages As Read
1:10AM Kevin Purdy | Bloggers, Twitter users, and TechCrunch are reporting that certain Gmail accounts are marking incoming messages as “read” upon delivery, leaving inboxes apparently, falsely empty. More »
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Kill New Program Highlighting In Any Start Menu
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | If you’re a frequent tester or tinkerer, you know that Windows likes to “highlight” your newest installed apps and program folders in the Start Menu, and doesn’t turn it off until you take notice. Stop that with a little-known setting. More »
Fix
4:30PM Angus Kidman | The Kindle might finally be on sale in Australia, but geographic restrictions mean that like pretty much every other ebook reader to date, Australians don’t get the same range of titles or discounts our overseas brethren enjoy. Ebook blog BookBee outlines a way to access US-only ebooks on PCs and iPhones. More »
How To Avoid Ebook Restrictions
4:30PM Angus Kidman | The Kindle might finally be on sale in Australia, but geographic restrictions mean that like pretty much every other ebook reader to date, Australians don’t get the same range of titles or discounts our overseas brethren enjoy. Ebook blog BookBee outlines a way to access US-only ebooks on PCs and iPhones. More »
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Get Quicksilver Working In Snow Leopard
9:00AM Adam Pash | Quicksilver is easily one of our favourite tools ever, but since its future isn’t all that bright, die-hard users cross our fingers every time OS X updates. In Snow Leopard, Quicksilver stopped working for many users; here’s how to fix it. More »
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QT Lite Frees You From QuickTime’s Bloat
5:00AM Whitson Gordon | Windows only: No one likes being bugged by Apple’s Software Update Utility in Windows, but many of us deal with it because we need QuickTime to use iTunes or view the occasional video. QT Lite aims to fix that. More »
Fix
3:00AM The How-To Geek | The final version of Windows 7 is being released this week to the general public, and after you get your hands on it the first thing you’ll need to know is: Do all my tweaks still work? More »
The Best Windows Tweaks That Still Work In Windows 7
3:00AM The How-To Geek | The final version of Windows 7 is being released this week to the general public, and after you get your hands on it the first thing you’ll need to know is: Do all my tweaks still work? More »
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“Got The Wrong Bob” Gmail Labs Feature Saves The Embarrassment
3:00AM Adam Pash | Gmail Labs’ new “Got the Wrong Bob” feature saves you the embarrassment of sending an email to the wrong contact by alerting you whenever you compose an email to a contact with the same name as any of your frequently emailed contacts. More »
Communicate
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Apple loves to fling out statistics about how many iPhone apps have been downloaded (two billion at last count), but there’s a slightly annoying corollary to its success: companies feeling obliged to announce iPhone apps even when they haven’t released them yet. More »
iPhone Apps More Useful When They’re Actually Launched
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Apple loves to fling out statistics about how many iPhone apps have been downloaded (two billion at last count), but there’s a slightly annoying corollary to its success: companies feeling obliged to announce iPhone apps even when they haven’t released them yet. More »
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