Wrapping newborns to sleep often makes them feel settled, but if you wrap them too tightly it can lead to hip damage. The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has produced a video outlining the correct way to wrap a child to eliminate that risk.
Mac OS X Lion: The built-in firewall utility in OS X is pretty powerful, but it doesn’t offer a lot of configuration options if you want to tweak the settings. IceFloor is an app that allows you to customise the default firewall in a wide variety of ways.
When you roll up to your friend’s house, you usually go searching through your contacts to call them. Pocket Doorbell saves you a step by determining your location and calling your nearest friend with the tap of a button.
We’ve long been fans of online file conversion service Zamzar, but today they released a new feature that lets you convert files over email.
House prices in Australia only dropped marginally in the last quarter, but the year-on-year picture is a little grimmer. The average decline in house prices between the last quarter of 2011 and the year before was 4.8 per cent, with Brisbane and Adelaide the worst-hit.
Mac: If you’ve been shying away from popular online password managers like LastPass due to security concerns, Aussie developer Ergun Coruh has a simple solution that gives you total control of where your passwords are stored. MiniBluebox is a drag-and-drop system that gives you everything you need in a password manager, including 512-bit encryption, synchronisation and more.
iOS (jailbreak): Orbit is a handy jailbreak hack that adds home screen page switching in the style of Mac OS X’s Expose feature. This is very useful if you’ve got a lot of apps and pages to manage.
Large file downloads aren’t easily manageable from any of the browsers on a Mac, but if you’re looking for a little more control and a speed boost, SpeedTao does the trick.
Some sites automatically play Flash videos which can be annoying, troublesome at work and suck up bandwidth. The Chrome extension FlashControl stops Adobe Flash from loading unless you have authorised a particular site to bypass the restriction.
Picasa 3.9 finally has great integration with Google+, allowing you to easily upload and share photos on the service and tag friends. Even if you don’t use Google+, you might want to download the update for new editing features.
