Today’s post is a bit of a departure; let me know what you think…
By now regular readers know that my old PC suffered a catastrophic meltdown about a week or so ago. There I was one evening, aimlessly surfing the web carefully researching several posts, when a pop-up exhorting me to run my anti-virus software [...]
2 great options for finding local movie showtimes:
From your desktop, go to Google Search Film Showtimes and input your zip code - hit “Change Location” and you’ll instantly have all your local movie showtimes at hand. Make sure you bookmark this site: It’s way faster and easier than looking through the local newspaper!
As I’ve mentioned [...]
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If you sometimes get frustrated utilizing multiple resources for searching the internet OR find that you’ve become over reliant upon Google, check out Joongel. From the site’s founders: “Instead of presenting you with an enormous amount of scattered results from different subjects and websites, Joongel provides direct search results from the ten most viewed websites [...]
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In a recent post about minimizing the amount of time and hassle you encounter at TSA security checkpoints, I mentioned that I use a travel vest. The strategy is pretty simple: as you approach the initial TSA screener, stow your cell phone, iPod, heavy metal watch, and so forth in the pockets of the travel [...]
Responding to a recent post about ultra-thin, “minimalist” wallets, Practical Hacks reader Chris Coyle commented on Big Skinny wallets. Big Skinny’s tagline is “The world’s thinnest, smallest, lightest wallets,” and the product appeared on the company’s website to be of high quality. The price was attractive enough ($8.95 + shipping for the model I purchased) [...]
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If you’re still carrying around one of those George Costanza-esque bulging wallets with dozens of scraps of paper, photographs, receipts, tear-off strips for free guitar lessons and the like, you really ought to simplify things and declutter your wallet! While you’re at it, you might want to consider switching to a minimalist wallet; there are [...]
If you’re using Wordpress.org for your blog, you may find a new plugin called “Insights” really interesting. Developed by Wordpress guru Vladimir Prelovac, Insights makes it exceedingly easy and fast to:
Add Flickr images to posts
Add Google maps to posts
Add links to your own blog posts to a new post
Search Wikipedia and add Wiki references to [...]
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On August 26th Mozilla released an “experimental” Firefox extension that promises to substantially change your browsing experience.
Ubiquity enables you to surf the internet by utilizing simple language commands as opposed to the traditional point and click method.
Once installed, a simple, customizable combination of keystrokes (I used Ctrl + U) launches Ubiquity. Although still in development, [...]