Search the contents of every web page you’ve ever bookmarked with del.icio.us using a dynamically built Google Custom Search engine from deliGoo. Just point your browser to the deliGoo homepage, enter the username and optional tag you want to search, and then enter your search terms and click Goo. deliGoo will analyse your del.icio.us account and create a Google Custom Search Engine, then use it to search the contents of every site for a match. If you’re a prolific bookmarker and you’ve run into a situation where you know you’ve bookmarked a page, remember what it was about, but can’t find it using your tags, a deliGoo search might be just what the doctor ordered.
deliGooiPhone early adopters stung by the $200 price drop can now claim their $100 Apple store credit online. All you need is your phone number and serial number.
Mac OS X only: Share more than just your user folder on your Mac using the SharePoints preference pane. You already know how to access your Mac’s files from your PC, but OS X’s default Windows sharing only shares the user folder. To share other folders, grab SharePoints, which offers a graphical interface for configuring Samba (Windows sharing) as well as advanced AFS (AppleFileServer) properties. SharePoints is a free download for Mac only, donations requested.
SharePoints 3.5.4 [MacUpdate]US – Microsoft’s offering Office 2007 to students for $US60 starting next Wednesday. Valid student ID and email address required. AU – Microsoft hasn’t let us know whether this offer is happening in Australia too – we will keep you posted.
The minimalist Wine Wedge creates a cheap, space-saving wine rack of any size anywhere and any time you need one. The two rubber wedges that make up the Wine Wedge actually look a little on the flimsy side, but according to the NYT review, “The Wedge may not look very robust, but it works surprisingly well.” If you’ve had problems with frail wine racks in the past, the $9.95 Wine Wedge is a cheap and sturdy alternative.
Wine Wedge solves need for traditional wine rack [Unclutterer]Windows XP and Vista only: Dual monitor utility DisplayFusion can set different wallpaper images for each of your desktops or stretch an image across desktops. Choose one of your own images or search and browse Flickr photos for new wallpaper images right inside DisplayFusion. (I recommend searching for “panoramic” images and setting one to stretch across both monitors.) DisplayFusion was a little crabby on my PowerBook Bootcamp’ing Windows XP, but the concept is spot-on and much-needed. Can’t understand why Windows doesn’t have better built-in dual monitor support like this. DisplayFusion is a free download (donations requested) which requires the .NET 2.0 runtime to run. DisplayFusion [Binary Fortress via the How-To Geek]
I’ll be a guest on Melbourne community radio station RRR’s computer show Byte into It on Wednesday, 19 September. Hosted by Phil Wales, the show is broadcast on Wednesday nights from 7pm to 8pm.
If you’re not in Melbourne, fear not. You can listen to RRR streaming online, or download the Byte into It podcast. More information here.
Few skills are as useful for a Friday afternoon as the rewarding power nap. The Ririan Project introduces 10 benefits to power napping and details four styles of power nap: nano nap (10 to 20 seconds), micro nap (two to five minutes), mini nap (five to 20 minutes), lazy man’s nap (50 to 90 minutes) and the traditional power nap (exactly 20 minutes). Contrary to popular opinion, napping isn’t for the lazy or depressed. Famous nappers have included Bill Clinton, Lance Armstrong, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison. The moral of the story: to be ultra-productive, just rest your head. You snooze, you gain.
For more, check out this guide to power napping. For a double-whammy energy boost, check out the caffeine nap.
10 Benefits of Power Napping, and How to Do It [Ririan Project]TechCrunch tells us that Twitter has added search and GMail import to its service, and launched a toolbox called “Explore” where they’ll list tools people can use to interact with Twitter offsite. They’re also releasing a visualisation tool called Twitter Blocks. New Twitter Visualization Tools Coming: First Is Twitter Blocks [Tech Crunch]
CNET’s reported that Netvibes has gone mobile – for real this time. Users no longer need to create a ‘mobile’ tag to push content to their phones. There are two new mobile apps – one lightweight one for Windows phones, another more fully-featured for Apple’s iPhone.
In a welcome but long-overdue change, you can now edit the layout of your iGoogle tabs directly from the edit menu to display anywhere from one to four columns with varying widths. (Of course, the one-column option gives you the equivalent layout of no columns.) In order to edit your tab layout, select the tab and choose the “Edit this tab” option from the drop-down.
Edit iGoogle Tab Layout [Google Blogoscoped]
