January 2010
46 posts
5 Simple Tips for Improving Designer-Client... →
By Aaron Griffith
Good business relationships rarely just happen. While a smitten designer and their starry-eyed client may start out well with a “honeymoon” of a successful initial…
Top 10 Tips and Tools for Freelancers [Lifehacker... →
Freelancing isn’t something you should just jump into, but it makes sense for a good number of workers. If you’re looking into, or getting started with, working on your own, here are 10…
Convert Rafter Spaces into Book Shelves [Storage] →
You can never have enough storage space, especially if you’re a book lover. This clever hack turns the unused space between rafters into book shelves.
The design seen in the above photo is quite…
Turn Your iPhone and iPod touch into iPad →
Apple iPad, which was announced earlier this week received a mixed reaction from all over the world. Some found it as an oversized iPod touch, while others thought that it has the…
7 Free Things That Will Shove Success in Your Face →
Here are seven things that will help you succeed, and they don’t cost a penny. You see, success is not the result of good luck, being born in the right family, or intellectual superiority….
How To Automatically Save Email Attachments in the... →
Now here’s a clever use for the cloud if I ever saw one. Lifehacker shines the spotlight on MailDrop — a free Windows application that automatically saves email attachments to your…
Make Do-Not-Do Lists for Better Productivity... →
Nearly every time management system advocates to-do lists in some form to help keep us on track. Consider turning that advice on its head and make a do-not-do list instead.
Photo by peekandeat.
Learn the Art of Smooth Transitions to Avoid Being... →
Are you habitually late? Before writing it off to laziness or being disorganized, consider that maybe you’ve developed a habit of pre-meditated lateness. Get past it by factoring more transition…
Why You Should Think Twice About Freelancing [Work... →
You’ll see a lot of encouragement to start freelancing on tech-obsessed blogs (ahem), often pitched with an eye toward some kind of ultimate freedom. The Freelance Folder blog drops a bit of…
Facebook for Silverlight Puts a Dark, Stylish... →
Windows/Mac: Back in November, Microsoft featured an attractive Facebook client to demo Silverlight 4, and many people wondered where it went. Well, Microsoft has finally released the fancy…
The Top 5 Free Microsoft Products & Why They... →
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer may be the worst browser on the planet, and any Mac lover or Linux geek can easily expound on the flaws in the Windows operating system.
However, it would be…
14 Things To Do Before Moving In or Out... →
Changing apartments can be exhilarating, intimidating, a design challenge, a shopping trip, and many other things. If you’re switching up spaces, Apartment Therapy has a two-part,…
Google Reader Lets You Subscribe to Any Page on... →
RSS technology makes it possible for anyone to keep up with fresh content without having to visit the site in question. Now the same holds for webpages without RSS thanks to a new…
10 Free Joomla Extensions You Can’t Live Without →
Joomla is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) in the world, used in over 30 million sites, with over 200,000 community users and endless amounts of extensions. There…
Google Reader in Plain English →
I favorited a YouTube video: http://www.google.com/reader - How to use Google Reader to read all your favorite news sites and blogs in one place and share news with friends.
U.S. Army Gets an iPhone App →
The White House isn’t the only part of the U.S. government that has iPhone fever. Army.mil, the official homepage of the United States Army now has its own iPhone app [iTunes…
How to Keep Working at Home from Destroying Your... →
One of the main reasons I became a full-time freelancer was the freedom I thought it would give me in creating my own hours and working at home. It’s the dream, right? Sleep late,…
Enhance Windows Explorer with Advanced Filtering... →
The folks from 7 Tutorials are big fans of the Windows Explorer version included in Windows 7. They recently published a tutorial which shows how to play with filtering options (from the…
MS SEO Toolkit →
Increase visits to your website with Microsoft’s SEO Toolkit. Included are tutorials that offer detailed analysis of your site and hints on how to increase traffic.
Free Microsoft SEO…
Stop Dreaming About Quitting Your Job and Just Do... →
When you’re ready to leave your job, it’s pretty normal to be completely paralyzed with fear. Life coach Dr. Sharon Lamm-Hartman says there comes a point when it’s time to just go ahead and take…
I Gotta Feeling Parody →
I favorited a YouTube video: Your night out anthem becomes your morning after anthem. See our videos a month earlier at http://www.collegehumor.com and follow us on…
The Glass Desk Loft [Featured Workspace] →
Pulling off a glass desk is tricky, especially when that desk is prominently featured in your main living space. Today’s workspace features a glass desk that avoids becoming an eyesore with…
Subscribed to revision3 →
I subscribed to revision3’s channel on YouTube.
A Beginner’s Guide to Web Development →
The web development field offers a variety of languages from front-end development, like HTML, CSS and Javascript, to back-end programming, like PHP, ASP and Ruby on Rails. So how do you…
Speccy – An Advanced System Information Tool For... →
I was just able to check out the latest beta of Speccy from the makers of CCleaner which we have covered here. Speccy gives you an awesome amount of advanced system information about your…
Still Searching for Your Passion? Let's Find... →
“Just follow your passion. “ This is the oft-repeated advice that brings blank stares and cries of fear to just about everyone. The most typical response is something like, “Passion, I have…
How To Sous Vide An iPhone →
I favorited a YouTube video: Created on November 9, 2009 using FlipShare.
Android 2.1’s Best Features in Screenshots →
Great software needs hardware that can keep up, and my new Nexus One is a sleek, awesome handset. But the most important ingredient in this generation of touchscreen smartphones is the…
The 3 easiest ways to earn more money →
In the seemingly infinite universe of ways to earn more money, there are really 3 models that are relevant to you.
Learn these and you’ll know 90% of the basic options for earning more money.
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Repair Windows Media Player 12 with Fix WMP... →
In case you are the type of geek using Windows Media Player 12 as your default media player and, for whatever reason it stops working, you might want to try Fix WMP Utility. This portable…
DiskDigger will find Deleted Pictures and Text... →
DiskDigger will help you recover all kinds of deleted files on any kind of media in almost any file type. Great for checking USB/SD cards for deleted pictures and text files that have…
Create an Application Whitelist in Windows 7... →
Windows 7: If you have a terminal in your home or business that you want to restrict to certain applications, you don’t need a third-party application. Use the built-in policy editor to build a…
SpeakerShare Streams Music Between PCs with... →
Windows: Do you have iTunes installed? Are your sound drivers up to date? Chances are that’s all you’ll need to stream music between computers using SpeakerShare. The free, no-install app is easy…
Aluratek tempts with 8.9-inch 720p Cinepal PMP →
Aluratek hasn’t been one to really rival the mainstays in the digiframe and e-reader markets, but the outfit’s latest portable media player looks atypically slick. Boasting an…
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000: The First DirectX 11... →
ATI continues pressing the 3-month lead it has over Nvidia’s next-gen Fermi architecture with another set of DirectX 11-supporting graphics cards—this time for notebooks, with the Mobility Radeon…
Wow, 80 Percent of LED TVs Sold in the US Are... →
Interesting factoid from the Samsung CES presser: Samsung is dominating LED TVs. They claim 80 percent marketshare in the US. Though with everybody selling them now, and for cheaper, that could…
It’s not what your employees can do for your... →
My business partner and I have been working together for about 8 years now and since then we’ve both learned a lot about business. When things start to go well you’ll start to feel like you…
Go Bold for a Better Chance of Achieving Your... →
It’s a new year, and lot of us are doing our best to put together achievable goals and resolutions. Programmer and productivity blogger Jonathan Tran reminds us that often bold change is a better…
Digital Janitor Automatically Tidies Up Your... →
Windows only: Organizing the eleventy-billion files you’ve got stuffed into folders on your hard drive is about as much fun as watching cheese go moldy. Freeware utility Digital Janitor…
Pico Projector From Light Blue Optics Throws Up a... →
Light Blue Optics has been showing off their cool projection wares since 2004, so it’s great to hear they’re close to turning that “holographic laser projection technology” into a viable…
Lexar Media Echo SE and ZE: 64GB In a Nail Drive... →
I can’t wait to get my nails over one of these absurdly small 64GB USB drives. They come in 8 to 64GB, and will continuously backup your files, no matter what you are doing. [Crunchgear]
Vintage Ad Browser Provides Classic, Cheesy... →
Looking for a vintage ad style to inspire your design work, or just boost your party invitation’s look? Google Blogoscoped proprieter Philipp Lenssen has assembled more than 100,000 print ads…
Create an All-Inclusive Control Panel Shortcut in... →
By default, Windows’ 7’s Control Panel broadly groups its options, tucking the nitty-gritty stuff you might be looking for into very general categories. You can, however, create a shortcut that…
How Non-Latin Domain Names Could Be Used to Steal... →
Unicode is great because it supports multiple languages simultaneously, bringing international understanding, universal peace, and planetary love. And so is ICANN’s decision to allow domain…
Top 10 Mind Hacks for Making Your Resolutions... →
Nothing but the strength of your convictions can keep a self-improvement promise going for at least 365 days. You can, however, boost your chance at success and outwit your worst habits with some…
December 2009
21 posts
6 Ways to Start the New Year Doing Instead of... →
It is the time of year where many people will attempt to develop their New Year’s resolutions. Whether you have one resolution or a thousand, wouldn’t it be a fabulous accomplishment to be able…