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11:15PM Lifehacker US Edition | The key to staying productive is to efficiently manage your energy, not your time, says author Tony Schwartz. By removing distractions and focusing on our physical well-being, we’d get a lot more work done and we’d feel better about it too. More »
Disable and Remap Any Key with SharpKeys
10:30PM Gina Trapani | Windows only: Sick of accidentally hitting the Caps Lock key when you never intentionally use it? You can disable the Caps Lock key entirely with a free Windows utility called SharpKeys. The How-To Geek explains that instead of having to edit the Windows registry yourself to disable and remap keys, SharpKeys does it for you with a convenient interface. You can even add key combinations that map to functions and applications, like Print or your default email client. SharpKeys is a free download for Windows XP and Vista. Map Any Key to Any Key on Windows XP / Vista [the How-To Geek] More »
Remote Control Your Computer with Your iPhone
2:00AM Adam Pash | It’s a phone, it’s an iPod, it surfs the web, and it finds the closest restaurant serving fried calamari. If you hack it, you can install killer third-party applications. But in addition to all of that, the iPhone is also a killer remote control. You could spend hundreds of dollars on a multimedia remote with a touchscreen interface, glorious album art, and all of the fixings, but if you’ve already got an iPhone, you really don’t need to. Today I’ll show you a number of ways you can use the iPhone to remote control everything from iTunes playback to your Windows or Mac desktops. More »
Prevent Memory Leaks with Pen and Paper
1:17AM Lifehacker US Edition | Writing things down helps you remember them, claims The Positivity Blog. That’s because our memories alone are usually not dependable, and external systems are needed. Write things down so that you can think clearly, define your goals, track your achievements, and of course, get the unnecessary stuff off your mind. Isn’t that what self-improvement is all about? Of course, if pen and paper isn’t your thing, you can also try journaling. Readers, how do you stay on top of everything? Why You Should Write Things Down [The Positivity Blog] More »Optimise BitTorrent To Outwit Traffic Shaping ISPs
2:06PM Sarah Stokely | Wired’s written up a guide on how to outsmart ISPs which throttle BitTorrent traffic. Tactics include encrypting your traffic, changing the default port number, changing the way the protocol behaves, reducing the amount of one-way traffic, or hiding your traffic within an encrypted tunnel.
I’ve commented before that Australian ISPs have been fairly cagey about admitting whether they shape BitTorrent traffic or not.
There’s so much user generated content being shared online these days (hello YouTube!) that it’s just bogus for ISPs to pretend that throttling P2P traffic is just punishing pirates. Clarity is really needed on the issue – if ISPs wish to shape traffic, they should expressly have to tell their customers that.
Optimize BitTorrent To Outwit Traffic Shaping ISPs
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