Surprising Things You Can Get For Free (Or Almost)

As much as I love the word, I have to admit it makes me suspicious. Just this week I won a “free” vacation, but the fine print says I need to send in a cashier's check to claim my prize. Sadly, “free” is usually a sneaky way to clean out my wallet.
Surprising Things You Can Get For Free (Or Almost)

Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized

Even if you're a hyper-organized, task-oriented worker with an expansive mind and endless ambition, you won't get a lot done if your mind and body are demanding you curl up and doze off. Luckily, you can overcome a late night of net surfing, a rough morning, or just the post-lunch stupor without becoming an over-wired mess.
Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized

How to Get Adult Kids to Pay Their Share

Not quite ready to push your adult fledglings out of the nest yet but getting fed up with their lack of contributions to the household budget? This article will provide you with some ideas on what to do to make the budgetary cycle in your household a little fairer on everyone, as well as getting them to do more of their share around the house.
How to Get Adult Kids to Pay Their Share

What's your secret tip for saving money at the grocery store?

What's your trick for staying cheap and healthy at the grocery store? Looking for ideas beyond coupon clipping.
What's your secret tip for saving money at the grocery store?

Browser Speed Tests: The Compiled, Up-to-Date Results

Back when Firefox 3's final release candidate dropped, we ran some tests to compare its page-loading, memory use, and technical timing to Internet Explorer 7, Opera, and Safari for Windows. Then Google Chrome arrived, so we pitted it against the betas for Firefox 3.1 and Internet Explorer 8, and shared the results. The tests were by and large the same, but many commenters wisely asked to see all the results, betas or no betas.
Browser Speed Tests: The Compiled, Up-to-Date Results

Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

With a plan of attack, you can maintain a sparkling house in just 19 minutes a day.
Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

Quit Your Day Job: lillyella

Nicole is a planner and her story is jam packed with helpful, honest, and realistic tips for gaining success when considering taking the plunge. Keep reading to find out about how she keeps it all together, the ultimate DIY project she's got going on in her back yard, and the two indulgences she had to sacrifice for her business.
Quit Your Day Job: lillyella

The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

They're rarely helpful. Actually, they usually add insult to injury. But what would computing be without 'em? Herewith, a tribute to a baker's dozen of the best (or is that worst?).
The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

50 Tools to Speed Up or Otherwise Enhance Your PC

Is your PC tired and sluggish? Has its get up and go got up and went? If you want a faster system, you could certainly break the bank and buy a new machine. Or you could read this article instead.
50 Tools to Speed Up or Otherwise Enhance Your PC

Convert Microsoft Word 2007 Files Online

Got a Word 2007-formatted file you need to convert while you're away from your desktop?
Convert Microsoft Word 2007 Files Online

Fill 'er Up

With rising fuel prices increasingly factoring into our driving decisions, Australians are feeling our fair share of pain at the petrol pump.
To help Australians get the best value for their fuel dollars, Google Australia has partnered with Motormouth to help provide everyone with easily accessible information about petrol prices. We've developed an iGoogle gadget (here) that allows you to find out the price of various fuel types across parts of major metro areas in Australia.
Fill 'er up

29 Steps I Took to Leave the Workforce at Age 29

Leave the corporate world behind!
29 Steps I Took to Leave the Workforce at Age 29

Internet Activity, Australia, Jun 2008

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Internet Activity Survey (IAS) collects details on aspects of internet access services provided by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia. This release contains results from all ISPs operating in Australia with more than 10,000 active subscribers as at 30 June 2008.
Internet Activity, Australia, Jun 2008

10 Reasons You Should Write Something Each Day

The written word is a part of every day life. At its most basic, writing is a way of communicating. This is the one inalienable characteristic of writing itself, whether you’re communicating with a colleague or friend or you’re actually communicating with yourself - though a shopping list, for instance.
10 Reasons You Should Write Something Each Day

How to Protect Your Email from Hackers

According to Wired, hacking VP-hopeful Sarah Palin's email account was easy: all the hacker needed was Palin's birthdate, ZIP code, and the name of her high school—all of which are no more than a Google search away. In fact, password security questions may have always been the weakest link in email security, since anyone with an acquaintance's knowledge or access to the internet can divine answers to most of your security questions within minutes. So how can you make sure your email account is secure?
How to Protect Your Email from Hackers

10 Unbeatable Tips for Overcoming Micro-Addictions

What are micro-addictions? They are those annoying little habits that prevent you from living the life you truly want. They are small enough to go unchecked, but bothersome enough to get in the way of you living your fullest potential.
10 Unbeatable Tips for Overcoming Micro-Addictions

10 Overused Words in Writing

All words are good words. Some, however, are overused without adding value to what you write. As a result, they reduce the readers’ interest, make text seem redundant, and cause the writer to appear amateurish.
10 Overused Words in Writing

Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

You can review the complete list here.
Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

How to Be Outstanding

Are you exceptional in your line of work? Do you love what you do? Perhaps that’s why you are or aren’t getting the results you want.
People who consistently achieve outstanding results all have this in common: they are passionate about what they do. It’s no longer work, but an active participation of joy and creativity.
This article takes a deeper look into outstanding performance, and gives guidance as to how you can manifest outstanding results in your life.
How to Be Outstanding

Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake

It’s not surprising that many people, especially web workers, experience email fatigue. After all, spending hours each day reading and replying to emails can prevent you from spending more time on the work that you actually have to do (unless sending and receiving emails is your line of work).
Archive Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake

anti-theft lunch bag

Stealing your co-worker's lunch is a downright contemptible act, that is, if it's perpetrated by someone other than you. But, if you've ever had your lunch stolen, you know the the frustration and anger it causes.
anti-theft lunch bag

How to solve a maze puzzle using Photoshop

Steps to solve a maze with photoshop. 1) find a maze image that has good solid lines (maze should have an open start and finish point) 2) use magic wand to select the border of the maze 3) etc
How to solve a maze puzzle using Photoshop

7 Tips for Money and Marriage

Today, while most of us marry for romantic reasons, marriage at its core is still a financial union. So much of what we want — or don’t want — out of life boils down to dollars and cents, whether it’s how hard we choose to work, how much we consume or how much we save. For some people, it’s working 80-hour weeks to finance a third home and country club membership; for others, it means cutting back on office hours to spend more time with the family.
7 Tips for Money and Marriage

20 superfoods for weight loss

It's time for a new slim-down mantra: Eat more to weigh less. No joke! The right foods help you drop pounds by revving your calorie burn and curbing cravings.
20 superfoods for weight loss

23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself

In the not too distant past, the Web was all about sharing, broadcasting, and distribution. The tide is turning. The Web is moving towards the individual. Applications spring up every month that let people track, monitor, and analyze their habits and behaviors in hopes of gaining a better understanding about themselves and their surroundings.
23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself

Why Tea Is Healthier Than Water

While nobody is running around extolling the virtues of cola as a replacement for water for daily hydration, researchers at Kings College London want to make sure you don't think every non-water drink is a poor substitute for water. After reviewing numerous studies on the benefits of drinking tea, they've concluded that tea is a superior drink.
Why Tea Is Healthier Than Water

The Falling Man

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
The Falling Man

10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

Who knew that providing energy and water for all could be a matter of foot cranks and dirt power?
10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming

The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming.
Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming

Don’t Panic: How to Know When the Large Hadron Collider Spells Your Doom

As anyone who has even a passing fancy of physics knows, the Large Hadron Collider was turned on just a bit ago, and while the Earth has yet to implode, we might not be out of the woods yet.
Don’t Panic: How to Know When the Large Hadron Collider Spells Your Doom

Ten things you don’t know about the Earth

Good advice from the 60s acid band. Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There’s a whole planet beneath your feet, 6.6 sextillion tons of it, one trillion cubic kilometers of it. But how well do you know it?
Ten things you don’t know about the Earth

Hurricanes, as seen from orbit

Hurricane Ike just rolled across Cuba, and soaked parts of Haiti - both regions still reeling from recent Hurricane Gustav. Ike appears to be weakening now, but is headed tward the Gulf Coast of the U.S., and may yet strengthen. The crew aboard the International Space Station was able to take a photo of Ike from 220 miles overhead last Thursday - one in a long series of great NASA photographs of hurricanes from space. Here are some of the best, from the past several years.
Hurricanes, as seen from orbit

Five Best Password Managers

You've got enough to keep track of in your day-to-day life without filling your head with the countless logins and passwords you've racked up over the years, and the Post-It note on your monitor just isn't an option. Luckily, there are several fantastic and secure password management applications designed to make it easy for you to remember, manage, and secure your passwords effortlessly.
Five Best Password Managers

20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

How many times during the day do you check email, or go to see updates of your favorite blogs or social sites, or shuffle paperwork or make phone calls … when you know you should be doing something more important?
20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

Why the Brain Follows the Rules

Clues to understanding the human social brain come from a study of punishment's role in fairness.
Why the Brain Follows the Rules

100 Things You Should Eat Before You Die

A meme that has been making its way around the food blogosphere for a few weeks. It's a list of 100 things you should eat before you die.
100 Things You Should Eat Before You Die

21 Easy Hacks to Simplify Your Life

Sometimes life gets in the way, and you need a workaround, some way to get past your usual obstacles and to trick yourself into keeping things simple.
21 Easy Hacks to Simplify Your Life

Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments

Whether they are blasting apart subatomic particles in accelerators, sequencing the genome or analyzing the wobble of a distant star, the experiments that grab the world's attention often cost millions of dollars to execute and produce torrents of data to be processed over months by supercomputers.
Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments

Why You Should Never Talk to the Police

This is an engaging and fascinating video presentation by Professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law, explaining why -- in a criminal matter -- you should never, ever, ever talk to the police or any other government agent.
Why You Should Never Talk to the Police

Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos

Tesla coils, superconductors, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about physics.
Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos

The Danger of Stress

You probably think you're doing everything you can to stay healthy: you get lots of sleep, exercise regularly and try to avoid fried foods. But you may be forgetting one important thing. Relax! Stress has a bigger impact on your health than you might realize.
The Danger of Stress

20 examples of grammar misuse

Grammar just ain't what it used to be, it seems. When we explained the difference between "fewer" and "less than", following Tesco's policy shift on this matter, readers told us what grammar rules they see being flouted or find confusing.
20 examples of grammar misuse

Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century

The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.
Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century

Six tips for good deeds that take less than five minutes

Here are some ways that you can help other people—and make yourself feel great, at the same time—in under five minutes.
Six tips for good deeds that take less than five minutes

Moment a dolphin gave birth caught on film

The unique moment was captured by a photographer at the Oltremare Aquarium at Riccione in Italy. Normally after a year-long pregnancy, captive dolphins give birth at night and away from the public gaze.
Moment a dolphin gave birth caught on film

Screenshot Tour: Google Chrome First Look

New beta web browser Google Chrome officially hit the streets just a few minutes ago, and we've rolled up our sleeves and taken a quick look at everything the newest browser on the block has to offer. Keep reading for a detailed screenshot tour of the exciting new Google Chrome browser.
Screenshot Tour: Google Chrome First Look

6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get the Most Out of Life

You never know how much time you have left, and trying to cram a list of things into that unknown time can be futile. Instead, live every day to the fullest. Get the most out of life.
6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get the Most Out of Life

How to Set Up a Laptop Security System

As students flock back to the library and the rest of us head back to the coffee shop for a warm drink and free Wi-Fi, the safety and security of our laptops—and all of the important and sensitive information they hold—are of the utmost importance. Let's take a look at several free and cheap methods you can (and should) use to keep your laptop safe, secure, and out of the hands of thieves. We'll also take a look at software that tracks and even snaps pictures of the thief in the event he did get away with your precious gear.
How to Set Up a Laptop Security System

5 Reasons to Write Down Everything You Eat For a Week

Quick, what did you eat for lunch on Monday? Ok, stop, you have no idea and neither would I. That's a problem if you are trying to lose or maintain your weight. How do you know what is causing gains and losses if you aren't tracking things?
5 Reasons to Write Down Everything You Eat For a Week

Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project.
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

The 10 Worst Job Tips Ever

The world abounds in bad advice for job-seekers. Here are some spectacularly unsound directives.
The 10 Worst Job Tips Ever

Hilarious Signage, Part 11

Scratching of head required...and even then, it's no guarantee you'll figure out the real meaning behind these masterpieces of ambiguity. At least this signage provides much needed entertainment and comic relief on our all-too-stressful urban roads.
Hilarious Signage, Part 11

10 Words That Will Help You Win at Scrabble

...and if all else fails, there’s always “ZQFMGB”… a worm found in New Guinea, according to Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes.
10 Words That Will Help You Win at Scrabble

Hasse diagram of the 2008 Olympic medal table

Different people have different conventions for how to rank the Olympic medal results.
Hasse diagram of the 2008 Olympic medal table

Are UFOs lighting up the skies over Australia's outback?

Move over Roswell. New Mexico's UFO Museum and Research Center may attract more than 150,000 visitors annually who are curious about the alleged 1947 alien crash landing there, but some residents of Australia's outback claim their skies are alive with unidentified flying object activity now.
Are UFOs lighting up the skies over Australia's outback

12 Sly Web Tricks That Put You in Control

Turn a Wi-Fi thief's world upside down. Send an e-mail that self-destructs. And ensure that your boss thinks you're always hard at work. These tweaks and tools let you gain the upper hand.
12 Sly Web Tricks That Put You in Control

That's Melbourne - Attractions Program

Head to the city on Melbourne Day and enjoy discounted entry at many of Melbourne's great attractions. Simply print the page and present your voucher on Saturday, 30 August to make the most of the city on Melbourne Day.
That's Melbourne - Attractions Program

Microsoft releases IE8 beta 2

On Wednesday in the US, Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8.
The user interface hasn't changed much since Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, except to add a Security pull-down menu between Page and Tools on the main toolbar.
Microsoft releases IE8 beta 2

The rise of ‘before you die-ism’

The man who wrote 100 Things to Do Before You Die, which sparked a publishing phenomenon, has died in the US. But why do 'before you die' books have such appeal to us?
The rise of ‘before you die-ism’

23 awesome license plates for computer geeks

This post is a gallery of pictures of some of the coolest vanity plates collected from around the Web. Some of the pictures have explanations, but mostly they are pretty self explanatory.
23 awesome license plates for computer geeks

Are you boring? Seven tips

“As people get older, they get more like themselves. And you’re getting more boring.”
Are you boring? Seven tips for knowing if you're boring someone.

Red Light Cameras Don't Work

The solution to one problem causes another.
Red Light Cameras Don't Work

Extreme ironing, an adventure sport for people who like laundry

Extreme ironing might be the coolest sport that didn't make it into the Olympics this year. Started over a decade ago by UK knitwear factory worker Phil Shaw, it requires four simple criteria: a man, an iron, an ironing board, and a crazy natural environment that makes people think, holy crap I can't believe he's ironing on that thing!
Extreme ironing, an adventure sport for people who like laundry

Smart and Easy Ways to Reduce Printing Costs

If you print a lot of documents on your inkjet printer at home, you've probably noticed that the costs of ink and paper over time are simply ridiculous--in some cases, they can exceed the price of your entire computer.
Smart and Easy Ways to Reduce Printing Costs

How your printer tricks you into buying ink and toner when you don't need it

How to fight back against the lying, infuriating, evil ink-and-toner cabal.
By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine.
How your printer tricks you into buying ink and toner when you don't need it.

How to persuade customer service reps to help you

Here's a clever tip for getting customer service reps to help you with a sticky problem that will require extra effort on their part.
How to persuade customer service reps to help you

Rub out splinters with a pumice stone

Next time your little ones have splinters in their hands or feet, try this.
Rub out splinters with a pumice stone

50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library

There are actually many more books listed here than 50 — a number of those listed are actually series of books, in a couple cases series that include 20 or more books. There are classics here, but there are cheap thrillers and popular fiction and even a few “kids” books.
50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library

Five Best FTP Clients

Whether you do you work on the web, run a home FTP server, or you just prefer a quick download from time to time, a solid, full-featured FTP client can be lifesaver. You've got tons of options—both free and shareware—for your FTP needs, so finding the right FTP client can be difficult.
Five Best FTP Clients

Tallest Skyscraper

The Burj Dubai tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world, is about to be completed. To celebrate it, David Hobcote has taken a series of amazing high resolution pictures from the air which give an exact impression of the breathtaking, massive scale of this building.
Tallest Skyscraper in the World

12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today

The workplace, more and more, is changing, and with this change comes a whole new set of rules.
The traditional office work environment and tools are still around, but at a very rapid pace, they’re being supplanted by newer and better tools, newer and better ways of working. The old rules are being broken, and new ones are emerging.
12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today

How con-men make their faces look trustworthy

Drake Bennett of the Boston Globe wrote an article on the various ways con men gain their marks' trust, including body language, verbal language, and facial expressions.
How con-men make their faces look trustworthy

YouTube: Top 10 YouTube Hacks

Summer's ending, and with it goes a certain sense of taking it easier, relaxing a bit at the office—you know, caching up on all that YouTube browsing you skip when there's real work to be done. The popular video sharing site is a great resource (and source of entertainment) that gets better with the right add-ons, plug-ins, third-party tools, and clever usage. Let's take a look at the best ways to get better video, download clips, and just find the video you're looking for at YouTube, so you can get more from your guilty pleasure.
YouTube: Top 10 YouTube Hacks

Nine tips for staying motivated to exercise.

Everyone knows that exercise is a KEY element to good health. The trick is keeping yourself motivated to exercise, if you’re a person who naturally relapses into the couch-potato pose.
Nine tips for staying motivated to exercise.

Melbourne's rated Australia's most liveable city

MELBOURNE has been rated Australia's most liveable city, but its central business district is almost the worst place in the country. Victoria's number one local government area of Nillumbik - which includes Eltham (hey! - home of The Black Stump!), Diamond Creek, Hurstbridge and St Andrews - enjoys the highest level of people in good health.
Melbourne's best, but quality of life index gives CBD the thumbs-down

Three Months, 3,000 Miles Or Longer?: The Truth about Oil Changes

There is much debate in the automotive world over how often drivers of typical passenger cars or light trucks should change their oil.
Three Months, 3,000 Miles Or Longer?: The Truth about Oil Changes

What is the best free email account? - Google's Gmail

Do you still use Microsoft Outlook or Eudora for your emails, or maybe something else? If you do, you probably are not having the most productive and user friendly experience that you could be having.
What is the best free email account? - Google's Gmail

The diet that really works

Bryan Appleyard thinks he has found a diet that really works: it took him three weeks to shed 14lb with healthy ease. But he had to go back 5,000 years to discover the science behind it.
The diet that really works

Do they really think the earth is flat?

In the 21st Century, the term "flat-earther" is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant. But there is a group of people who claim they believe the planet really is flat. Are they really out there or is it all an elaborate prank?
Do they really think the earth is flat?

Why Australia Is Dominating the Olympics

The medal competition between China and USA really masks extremely impressive national Olympic achievement by smaller countries. If we're going to pick winners in the national medal count -- and we are -- I think we should use a system that comes closer to fairly rewarding real national achievement.
Why Australia Is Dominating the Olympics

User anger: iPhone 3G problems emerging

The launch of the iPhone 3G has been embarrassing for Apple in many respects: its rocky MobileMe push email service experienced outage after outage and has been widely regarded as a public relations disaster. Now, purchasers of the iPhone 3G are reporting a wide range of problems from 'glitchy 3G reception' to hairline cracks in the plastic casing of their phones.
User anger: iPhone 3G problems emerging

Best value Australian iPhone plans revealed!

Want to buy an iPhone 3G? We've gone through all the plans from all the telcos to find the best of the best.
Best value Australian iPhone plans revealed!

What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast?

How 'bout that Michael Phelps last night? Wondering what he eats to fuel the kind of performance we've been witnessing? Well, on Monday night NBC's Bob Costas reported a tidbit of jaw-dropping info: Michael Phelps recommended calorie intake is 8,000 to 10,000 calories.
What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

How to Work Better

How to Work Better by Fischli/Weiss (1991). It’s a tongue-in-cheek work using a motivational statement.
How to Work Better

The Danger of Stress

You probably think you're doing everything you can to stay healthy: you get lots of sleep, exercise regularly and try to avoid fried foods. But you may be forgetting one important thing. Relax! Stress has a bigger impact on your health than you might realize.
The Danger of Stress

Top 10 Creative Ways To Display Time

Clocks don’t have to be boring. Of course, clocks need need to remain usable and display current time; however, they can do it in a number of creative ways. You are about to see some of the most creative examples out there. Take some time and enjoy.
Top 10 Creative Ways To Display Time

Crime and Justice News, 2008

Crime and Justice News is the annual newsletter of the National Centre for Crime and Justice Statistics (NCCJS) at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Crime and Justice News provides information on current and upcoming projects, snapshot data from recent NCCJS publications, and information about current issues in the crime and justice sector.
Crime and Justice News, 2008

Six tips for enjoying a vacation

How can I do things better, next time?
The Six tips for enjoying a vacation

Top 10 How To Videos

Featuring 10 of our favorites, chosen for the tricks they teach as well as their watchable quality. Get ready to fill some weekend project time.
Top 10 How To Videos

21 iPhone Food Apps to Eat Your Heart Out

Here are 21 food-related iPhone apps, both free and paid, that will let you eat your heart out.
21 iPhone Food Apps to Eat Your Heart Out

Never Mind Social Media, How About Social Hacking?

Long before things like social networks and social media were the hot buzzwords used to spark VC feeding frenzies, things like Web forums and newsgroups were the main social communication tool. People would go from Web forum to Web forum to spread news about people or products, good or bad. The overall effect of this type of promotion was usually limited, but it was still possible to get people riled up over something on a much larger scale.
Never Mind Social Media, How About Social Hacking?

Facebook Is Not Only The World’s Largest Social Network, It Is Also The Fastest Growing

Call it the Facebook World Tour. Even though Facebook is now the largest social network in the world,—with 132 million unique visitors in June—it is also still the fastest growing.
Facebook Is Not Only The World’s Largest Social Network, It Is Also The Fastest Growing

8 More iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known

We recently showed you "12 iPhone Tricks You Might Not Know", and we're back to give you more.
8 More iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known

8 Cool Tools for a Different Photo Viewing Experience

Sometimes viewing pictures in rows and columns can be dull. Luckily, there are a number of services dedicated to making the photo search and viewing experience more interesting. Here are 8 resources that provide a new approach to searching and looking at pictures online.
8 Cool Tools for a Different Photo Viewing Experience

iPhone: One Month Later

iPhone: One Month Later

9 mind tricks to get what you want

There’s a subtle tactic to make things go your way in your career, love life, and social world —one that has nothing to do with effort or luck. It’s called priming.
9 mind tricks to get what you want

How to Open a Jar With a Spoon

It's frustrating when a jar lid is exceptionally hard to remove. Here's what you do.
How to Open a Jar With a Spoon

CGI faked-fireworks feature in Olympics opening ceremony footage

Around 1 billion people around the globe are estimated to have tuned in to watch the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. I wonder how many of them realised that some of those fantastic fireworks they were watching had been created by a computer visual effects team?
CGI faked-fireworks feature in Olympics opening ceremony footage

11 Things We Hate About iTunes

iPod and iPhone owners know that Apple's iTunes is the dominant software for managing digital media. But some aspects of iTunes drive us nuts.
11 Things We Hate About iTunes

Blue Screen of Death During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting

Well this is just perfect. At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD nestled amongst the Nest's steel twigs. Perhaps an Opening Cermonies IT dude spit out his coffee on the machines in the server room when Li took to the sky?
Olympic Fail: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting