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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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From The Tips Box: Gmail Remember The Milk, Repelling Mosquitoes

12:00PM Whitson Gordon | Readers offer their best tips for updating Remember the Milk with Gmail’s canned responses, avoiding mouse jumps while typing with touchpads, and repelling mosquitoes with Listerine. More »
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PST Desktop Live Makes Performance Benchmarking Simple

10:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Linux Live: If you want to put your computer through the paces and get some feedback and benchmarks, you’ll be hard pressed to find a tool more packed with tests than the Phoronix Test Suite Live CD. More »
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Windows Surface Scanner Finds Bad Hard-Drive Sectors

8:30AM Lisa Hoover | Windows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it’s hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start. More »
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MinimizeToTray Revived Puts Firefox In Your System Tray

8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Firefox extension MinimizeToTray Revived puts Firefox in your system tray, and replaces the popular MinimizeToTray extension that has been abandoned and doesn’t support Firefox 3 or later. More »
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TorrentFetcher Searches For Torrents From Your Desktop

6:00AM Whitson Gordon | Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of your choice. More »
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The 40/30/30 Rule Preps You For The Game Of Life

5:40AM Lisa Hoover | When you’ve placed yourself physically where you need to be, kept at something past your initial doubts and taken a risk at failing, you’re running at 100 per cent. Thinking of challenges that way — 40/30/30 — is a great motivational tool. More »
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The Complete Guide To Google Wave Preview Available Now

4:00AM Adam Pash | The preview edition of Gina and Adam’s new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. More »
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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 »