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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.
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Gmail
This week we rounded up the best online backup tools and explained how you're backing up wrong, detailed how to build an excellent Boxee-based media center, and cured your various aches and pains...
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Office 2010
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....
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Linux
Ubuntu
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....
Software
Linux
Ubuntu
Brizzly, the web-based social media manager that ranked as one of our readers' favorite Twitter clients, has dropped the invite code requirement and is available for anyone to log into. It's still...
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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....
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Windows only: Firefox extension MinimizeToTray Revived is a replacement for the popular MinimizeToTray extension that has been abandoned and doesn't support Firefox 3 or later, and puts Firefox in...
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Firefox
Firefox 3
In our continuing efforts to help as many of our readers get a chance to play around with Google Wave as possible, we're back again with our weekly Google Wave invitation donation thread. Note: Read...
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Turkeys are being purchased, pie recipes dusted off, and the folding chairs are being dragged out from the basement. It's that time of year again—celebrate Thanksgiving with some fresh...
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Wireless charging mats are a clever way to
charge your gadgets without cords or power bricks, but
a big black mat can easily stick out in any room. Instructables shows you how to make a more stylish...
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It won't affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo, or
other licensed YouTube partners, but Google's streaming video service
will start blocking access to TV-connected devices as of Dec. 2. The COO of set-top box...
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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...
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BitTorrent
The Pirate Bay
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 percent. Thinking of challenges that...
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Headphones have a magic way of tangling themselves in inexplicably complicated knots. Many techniques for keeping headphones tangle-free work but they badly kink and over tighten them in the process....
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You may have every corner of your work life streamlined, but that doesn't mean you don't still need a quick break from work after a long week. Take a little breather in our open thread.
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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.
Google Wave is a young tool that's not...
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It's important to keep your knives sharp for a safe and efficient kitchen, but it's easy to neglect the other bladed tools, like your vegetable peeler. Food weblog Chow shows how to keep a...
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Android/iPhone: ShopSavvy proved itself one of the most popular Android apps out of the gate, and it's easy to see why. Now on iPhones, the app lets you scan item barcodes, see who has it for less,...
Mobile
Android
iPhone
Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time...
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Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time...
