Improve Your Mac Laptop Battery Life With Watts [OSX]
Laptop batteries are tricky bits of hardware. You have to plug them in to charge them up, but you can't leave them plugged in too long or they'll be damaged. You can't always let them run out of charge completely and if you so much as look at them askance they'll give up on life just before you've saved your work. You know, they can just be generally painful items when it comes down to it.
Kickstart Your Summer Fitness & Weight Loss With FitBit
With summer approaching, many of us are starting to think a little more seriously about our weight. In particular, it's that time of year when people worry about how they'll look in those summer outfits. If this is you and you're looking for a new way to keep track of your health goals, then it's time to check out Fitbit. Fitbit is best known for their premium step-trackers and other such intelligent devices.
5 Top Sites To Download Free Kids Music That You'll Love
If you've got kids, you've no doubt thought about how you might be able to increase the size of their music collection for free. I mean, who wants to listen to the same CD of nursery rhymes over and over again, right? So in order to keep your sanity while your kids listen to their favourite songs, the best trick is to have more of them - and the higher quality you can manage to find the better.
10+ Great Online Tools For Group Co-Ordination & Meetings
How do you manage a team of people who are spread out geographically? How do you co-ordinate international time zones? The concept of working via the Internet has begun to creep into the everyday workplace, so it's probably a good time for us to round up some great tools for organising and managing a decentralised team of people.
5 Top Free Ways To Learn How To Speak French (Or Any Other Language)
So you're thinking of heading to Paris for a holiday but you're not sure how far you'll get with your limited French once you're done ordering your first croissant? Never fear, the Internet is here. There are thousands of great free sites available to help you learn French. The only real trick is finding the best ones! Here's five of the very best free online ways to learn French.
The Top 4 Facebook Page Admin Annoyances Made Easy
When you're setting up a Facebook page for your business or favourite local organisation you usually think it's going to be relatively straightforward - especially if you're a technically-minded person to begin with. However, there seem to be several steps in the process of getting things properly set up that are not at all intuitive and can be quite irritating to work out.
Top 5 Places To Wax Philosophical Online
There are days when you just feel like you've got great questions about the world which just need to be asked. Your mind is clear and the question just jumps in to your head unbidden: What if I...? Why do we...? How does this...? Would anyone be able to...? The question is there and you just need to get it in front of a willing audience and get people talking about it. Where do you go?
4 Tips For Securing PDF Documents
When you create PDFs for business purposes there are a number of security concerns you may have, ranging from who can view it to how the content can be re-used. It's therefore vital to understand your PDF security settings well and to know what protection features are generally available. Here are some of the top PDF security tips.
Promote Your Band On Facebook With An Awesome Tab By BandPage
As anyone who has ever tried to promote a band online can attest, sometimes it's a pain to pull together all of your material into something easy to promote. What you really want is a way for people to see all the important stuff in one place, then to make that place easy to find. RootMusic's BandPage promises to be all that.
Sonar Finds Your Friends Of Friends In Nearby Venues (+250 Invites) [iPhone/Android]
Have you ever wondered what possible real-life use you could have for geo-based social applications things like Foursquare? I mean, besides when you're not just going out and telling your mates that you're having more fun than them. It seems the folks at Sonar did think of a great way to use Foursquare and the like - and it's really worth taking a look at.
7 Great Android Games for Casual Gaming
For those of you who love to play games in random idle moments, here's a list of great games which are entertaining, cheap, casual, silly and easy to pick up and set down. Well okay, easy to set down for some of you. For the rest of you, these games may spell disaster for your productivity. You've been warned. Read on!
Use Memrise To Really Learn New Language Vocabulary Or Another Subject
If you've ever wished there was a way to just stare at a screen and automatically know a great deal about new topics, then you're probably a fan of online learning. If you've been looking at various online language learning, flashcards and mnemonics, you've probably noticed that there's a lot of great tools out there, but very few of them entice you to come back on a regular basis. No-one knows why you didn't go back.
Use Brayola To Find Great Bras Which Fit You Well
Until recently, women who wanted to purchase a bra online were really gambling on how well the bra would fit. Sizing charts were laboriously pored over and purchases were made with returns policies in mind just in case it turned out not to fit at all. For many of us, the best course of action was to buy the exact same bra you have at home already. But now a new startup called Brayola is working towards changing how women find bras that fit well.
Mastering Wget & Learning Some Neat Downloading Tricks
Sometimes it's just not enough to save a website locally from your browser. Sometimes you need a little bit more power. For this, there's a neat little command line tool known as Wget. Wget is a simple program which is able to download files from the Internet. You may or may not know much about Wget already, but after reading this article you'll be prepared to use it for all sorts of tricks.
6 Best Apps to Use When You've Lost Your Android Phone
It's amazing how even the most organised individuals can occasionally find themselves up that notorious creek without a paddle. Plan B is the application to install when your phone is already missing. However, if you're really going to get prepared for that lost phone scenario you might like to install a few other great applications too.
5 Great Ideas to Make Your Facebook Fan Page Interesting
There are many Facebook pages around that aren't being run very effectively, mainly because the people in charge aren't sure what they can do to be more interesting to their fans. You've seen them around - your favourite local café; that indie band you liked; the new art gallery in town. Often these pages are run by the owners, who are people who just don't have the time to work out how to promote themselves properly.
5 Of The Best Comic Artists On The Web
Comics are an acquired taste, and they vary quite wildly in style and talent - especially on the Internet. Sure, there's plenty of funny comics out there with a simple drawing style (XKCD and the like), but this list isn't for them. Sometimes it can be difficult to find new comic artists who create art which is as beautiful as it is interesting.