New & Novel Technology

• How to choose achievable goals
  "The most important attribute of a list of goals is that it constantly shift, move around, evolve, and feel alive."
• Take study-worthy lecture notes
  "This semester I'm going to perfect a strategy that gets my notes right the first time: the Cornell Note-taking method."
• Get a free college education online
  "Not headed back to school this fall? You could be, minus the exorbitant tuition and without even leaving your chair."
• Geek to Live: The 100th installment
  "This is the 100th installment of Geek to Live, which has spanned every one of my personal nerdy obsessions over the past year: from home networking, Firefox, and data security to personal finance, netiquette and web publishing."
• Consolidate Firefox's chrome
  "There are bunch of unnecessary buttons, menus and doodads in the Firefox control area (the "chrome") that you don't need, taking up space you could be using to see and do more with your web pages and tabs."
• One-click DVD rips
  "I've got no time to sit around clicking through dialogs to rip my DVDs, I've put together my very own one-click DVD ripping solution."
• Two money-saving cellphone keystrokes
  "Pogue offers two keystrokes that can save you call time - and hence money on your cell phone bill
• Top 10 open source Windows apps
  "...instead of pimping yet another Google product, I'd like to tip my hat to the open source developers who release innovative, useful products that make our lives that much easier every day - because it's our right, not privilege, to control our own data."
• 11 Killer Freebies for Your Pocket PC
  "The Pocket PC can do more than you ever imagined, from reading e-books to making VoIP phone calls to streaming TV shows from your PC, all without spending a dime on extra software."
• Top Firefox 2 config tweaks
  "In honor of the Firefox 2.0 release yesterday, today we'll dive deep into the bowels of the fox's config with a handful of my favorite Firefox 2 (and older) tweaks."
• Get organized with GTDTiddlyWiki
  "Don't let GTDTiddlyWiki's unusual name put you off. It's one of the best organization apps available, and in fact it beats the pants off all the commercial organizational software I've tried."
• Share any size file with MediaFire
  "...a free file hosting service that allows unlimited file sizes and uploads, as well as unlimited downloads of files."
• Roll your own timeline
  "...today I'll go over how to visualize a series of events using the open source dynamic widget called Timeline."
• Build your "PC on a stick" with MojoPac
  "You're headed to your buddy's house and you want to play some World of Warcraft or watch a downloaded movie while you're there. You don't have to drag along your entire laptop to do so."
• Download of the Day: ErrorZilla Firefox extension
  "...ErrorZilla turns Firefox's less-than-useful default 'Server not found' page into a much more practical and useful tool."
• Remove affiliate links from your Google search results
  "Using Google advanced operators (like, -site:bizrate -site:ebay -site:shopping.com), Give Me Back My Google removes known resellers from your search results"
• TVUplayer (Windows)
  "TVUplayer was less than 1 minute behind my live TV, which is pretty impressive."
• From Bloglines to Google Reader
  "The just-rolled-out Reader upgrades turned the app into an even better product than the much older and more-established Bloglines, and so I've made the switch."
• Take the web offline
  "Grabbing your favorite, must-have content for your offline viewing pleasure is a really simple process."
• Make your own font
  "Knowing absolutely ZERO about fonts and typography, I was able to hand-draw, correct and create my own installable system font for use in digital images and documents in an afternoon with Fontifier."
• Set up a personal, home SSH server
  "...you don't have to be a Unix whiz with a beard, ponytail and penguin tee-shirt to reap the benefits of the secure, remote computing that SSH offers."
• MySpace custom style remover Greasemonkey script
  "...when you start worrying that a MySpace page might trigger a seizure, you know something has to be done."
• Forget the TV and watch the web
  "There are plenty of places you can find television episodes and buzz-worthy clips online..."
• Wget local copies of your online research (del.icio.us, digg or Google Notebook)
  "Sure, storing your data on the web is great for from-any-online-computer access, but in an age of cheap, enormous hard drives and powerful desktop search, why not replicate the data you keep on the web to your computer?"
• How to portscan your computer for security holes
  Make sure your computer is locked up tight.
• Geek to Live: Put your idle computer to work for you
  Don't let your idle CPU cycles go to waste. Crack the whip even when you're away from your computer.
• Technophilia: Protect your web searches
  Keep your search history private.
• Hack Attack: Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking
  It'll save you lots of time browsing - trust me.
• Technophilia: From cubicle to couch
  How to put an end to working for the MAN.
• Know which aisle it's in with the Grocery Shopping Helper
  Save some time - hack your grocery store.
• Ask the Readers: Websites that changed your world?
  Get to know the best websites you're missing out on.
• Improve your reading speed with ZAP Reader
  Increase your reading speed by two-fold (or less (or MORE!)).
• FlashMute
  Mute the irritating, autoplaying embedded Flash videos from your browser while your computer's volume stays normal.
• Free educational resources roundup
  Find the best places to learn on the cheap
• Geek to Live: QuickLogger redux
  Readers show how they capture all their goods in a Quicklogger
• Download of the Day: The Emergent Task Timer
  Track your day in this beautifully designed work log.
• Download of the Day: RipIt4Me
  Easily break through even the sturdiest DVD copy protection with RipIt4Me.

• Mind map your del.icio.us bookmarks

  Italian developer Pietro releases a neat Java applet which mind maps your del.icio.us bookmarks by tag. continue reading »

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