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Productivity Owl Swoops In To Save You From Time Sinks [Chrome]
Feeling distracted? Productivity Owl is an enchanted, judgmental creature who will swoop in to save you from yourself – just when you need it the most. He's not your friend – in fact, you will fear him. He's not polite – when he's upset with you, you'll know it. But regardless of how you feel about his manners, you will respect him. Fearing his wrath you will soon find yourself avoiding distracting sites and focusing on the things you need to get done instead.
Why This Technology Blogger Does Not Own a Smartphone [Opinion]
"Do you have a smartphone yet?" It's a question my friends ask often, and it's a reasonable one to ask. I make my entire living writing about technology, explaining how to use software and interviewing people who create high-tech toys. I should be an early adopter – and sometimes I am. But when it comes to smartphones I can't bring myself to join the 21st century.
How to Use Your WiiMote as a Controller for Your Android Device
Use your WiiMote as a gamepad for your Android tablet or phone. Touch screens are great for some games, but for others you just need tactile response. So, if you prefer to do your gaming on an Android device I highly recommend the free app WiiMote Controller. It's easy to set up, and mimics an Android keyboard – so it works with most games.
Flipboard For Android Tablets Is Finally Here. Here's How It Works
The ultimate tablet magazine is ready for your Android. Long an iPad-only offering, Flipboard arrived for Android tablets in December – and I've barely put my tablet down since. With the ability to pull in content from thousands of sites, Flipboard can also access your Google Reader, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook accounts, meaning everything you care about on the web is literally at your fingertips.
Use Your WiiMote As A Mac Gamepad With WJoy
Do you want a gamepad for your Mac, but don't want to buy yet another controller? Use your WiiMote as a gamepad with Wjoy. This app doesn't enable motion controls on your Mac, but it does let you use your WiiMote as a simple gamepad – perfect for games and even emulators if that's what you like to do. Not everyone knows it, but the WiiMote connects to the Wii using Bluetooth – and there's nothing stopping you from using the WiiMote with any computer that uses Bluetooth.
Reddit Is Fun - A Great Android Reddit Client
Browse Reddit, Android-style. Reddit Is Fun is a free app for putting the best of Reddit at your fingertips. Sign in with your account and flip through your front page and favorite subreddits, or search for and explore any individual community on your own. Reddit is Fun is a near-perfect interface for the Internet's front page, allowing you to comment, vote or simply browse in just a few taps.
Broke Your CD? Visit Adobe’s FTP Site Full Of Their Software
Have a license for an old Adobe product, but can't find your disk? Not an issue. So long as you've got your serial number you've got a legal way to download and run the software you paid for, thanks to a not-so-secret FTP server containing every version of pretty much every program Adobe's ever offered.
ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T Review and Giveaway
The $450 ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700T) is a high-powered, lightweight tablet with a detachable keyboard you'll actually enjoy typing on. Not everyone thinks the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity is the best tablet on the market, but I can't imagine wanting to own a different one. I hate reviewing hardware. So I won't pretend to be an expert. I'm going to write this review from my point of view, pointing out reasons I think the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity is a great tablet you should maybe think of getting – and definitely enter to win below because we're giving one away. Let's get started.
The GParted Live CD: A Quick Way To Edit Your Primary Partitions [Linux]
Edit your partitions from outside your operating system. The GParted Live CD is a simple Linux distro you can use to change the size of your partitions – or wipe a drive entirely. Built around GParted, the ultimate partitioning software, the GParted Live CD is probably the simplest way to use GParted on any computer – regardless of what operating system it runs.
Quickly Research How Your Favorite Online Services Make Money
Find out how your favorite sites on the web make money. "How Do They Make Money" is an interactive site that lets you quickly find your favorite tech companies, and you should check it out. Why? It's not a bad question. Most web users seem not to care how their favorite sites make money – until a given site makes a policy change they don't like. There are patterns behind the madness. Almost every site on the web needs to generate some revenue.
Quickly Copy Symbols To The Clipboard With Symbol Caddy [Mac]
Quickly find and copy obscure symbols, then post them into any program. Symbol Caddy is among those long-forgotten class of Mac apps - the dashboard widget. Which is a shame, because it's a widget that is sincerely useful. Imagine you're writing about currencies, and need to compare the dollar ($) to the euro (€), and as such need quick access to both symbols. If you're American, where do you find the euro symbol?
Satellite Eyes: Map Wallpapers Based On Your Current Location [Mac]
See a picture of the community around you, right on your Mac desktop. Satellite Eyes is a tiny Mac download that sits in your tray, determines your current location and puts a map of your choosing on the desktop. Whether you want a minimalist outline, a satellite image or even a watercolor, it doesn't matter - Satellite Eyes can deliver, and will automatically move every time you do.
Shop Smart And Save Money - Check The Price History For Any Product With Camelizer [Chrome]
Don't pay more for a product just because of poor timing — see a history of price fluctuations before you buy anything. Camelizer is an extension for Google Chrome that shows you a chart of price history, helping you avoid the highs so you buy during the lows. Camelizer can't predict when prices will be lower, but it does give context to your purchasing decisions by showing you a price history for any given item.
ShopSavvy: Scan Barcodes To Quickly Compare Prices [Android, iOS, & Windows Phone]
Quickly scan a bar code and compare prices – with stores nearby or stores on the web. ShopSavvy is an app that uses the camera on your phone or tablet to interpret bar codes, telling you about a product and showing you where to get it affordably. You can shop online at stores like Amazon or pull up a map of brick-and-mortar stores near you selling the same product, complete with prices.
Create Stunning Gorgeous Maps Of Any Location With Map To Image
Create beautiful maps of your favorite places, then download high-resolution copies of them. Whether you want a water colour outline of the city you recently visited or a detailed grid of your hometown, CityTracking.org's Map To Image is a simple web-app allowing you to turn your favorite places into art. Sure, you could compile screenshots from Bing or Google Maps to make your own images, but Map to Image makes the process simple.
How To Automatically Pause Your Music When You Unplug Your Headphones [Mac]
Set iTunes (or any Mac music player) to pause every time you unplug your headphones and play when you plug them back in. BreakAway is a simple app for Mac that prevents you from filling a room with your music when you unplug your headphones. If this sounds familiar, it should: my iPod shuffle used to automatically pause when I unplugged my headphones.
No Remote? No Problem. Use Chrome to Control Your XBMC Media Center
Use Chrome to completely control XBMC. Whether you want to browse and play your media or send a video you're watching on your laptop to your media center, a variety of extensions and tricks lets you control everything about your media center from Chrome. Are you hosting a YouTube party? You can use your laptop to send videos to your TV, meaning there's no crowding around a tiny screen or dealing with on-screen keyboards and mediocre search results.
eBooks, Remote Control & Other Creative Uses For Dropbox That You Haven't Thought Of
Do you think you've thought of every possible use for Dropbox? You haven't. Neither have I. Writers like me will never get sick of dreaming up new ways to use Dropbox, because this seemingly simple tool can be used to accomplish so much. It's a program that provides a simple service - sync a particular folder on your computer with all of your other computers and a web service.
Unzip Any Archive Using The Unarchiver [Mac]
Quickly extract practically any compressed file on the planet. If you're a Mac user, and Apple's default unzip tool is struggling to open an archived file, it's time to install the ultimate tool for the job: The Unarchiver. With support for seemingly every compression format known to man – and a couple not yet discovered – there aren't many files it can't open.
How To Stream Video From Your PC To Your Nintendo Wii
From your PC to your TV, by way of your Wii. That rhymed and was annoying. I apologize. But seriously, you can play almost any video that's on your computer right now using your Wii; it's not hard. Your Wii is hooked up to your network via WiFi and so is your computer. All you need to do is share the video from your PC and open it on your Wii. Sharing the video is easy - Windows comes with that ability built-in.