This week saw the acquisition of TweetDeck by Twitter for $40-$50 million. Yay for Twitter, right? They’ve gotten access to a popular and functional client. But why TweetDeck, and why now? Well, that’s quite a story. With the acquisition of TweetDeck, Twitter is getting hold of a popular Twitter client. It’s got versions for the [...]
How Did You Hear About Osama? I Bet It Wasn’t On TV…
The way we consume media has changed drastically over the last few years. Instead of watching the nightly news, we are getting news real-time. And the news we get is no longer filtered by big media companies. We’re just as likely to get the news from a person who sees it happen as we are [...]
The Khan Academy, Free Educational Videos
The Internet is full of free educational videos. Some good, many bad. Whether a video is considered good or bad usually comes down to the individual viewer, or student. If you are a professor at MIT you may expect educational videos to make use of technical terms that you know, while a a non-native speaker [...]
How To Disable Aero Snap Under Windows
Aero Snap is a new feature that Microsoft implemented in the Windows 7 operating system. It can be used to automatically arrange windows when they are moved to the edge of the screen. I use the feature all the time, for instance to display two windows next to each other. Some users on the other [...]
How To Translate RSS Feeds Automatically With Yahoo Pipes
I have shown you how to Combine Multiple RSS Feeds With Yahoo Pipes. Today I’m going to show you another very handy, and easy to configure, Yahoo Pipes construct: Feed translations. I’m subscribed to a few feeds that are published in a language that I do not understand. Many of the links on those sites [...]
Slow Performing Firefox Add-ons Revisited
Last month Mozilla published a list of slow performing add-ons for the Firefox web browser. The findings back then were that add-ons increases the startup time of the web browser by ten percent on average. That’s a lot, considering that five add-ons would on average increase the browser’s start-up time by 50%. The basic idea [...]
Cursor Indicator, Indicates PDF, Doc, Exe File Links On The Internet
I sometimes miss to look at a link destination before I click on the link in question. That is usually not a problem unless it does not point to a website but a file. Depending on the configuration, this may open or execute the file right away on the computer, or display a prompt. PDF [...]
What’s In A Name: Will Windows 8 Be The Name Of The Next Windows?
Microsoft is keeping tight lipped about the name of the next windows. Many users assume that it will be named Windows 8. Others use the name because it is convenient at the moment, mainly because there are not any solid alternatives at the moment, besides The Next Windows maybe, and that the community interested in [...]
Craigslist Image Preview
If you are a user of the highly popular classifieds website Craigslist you may have asked yourself if there is an option to display attached images right on the general listings page and not only on the individual pages. You can enable a single thumbnail image on Craigslist with a click on the show images [...]