How to Make Windows Vista Less Annoying

Whether it's the nagging prompts or the irritating notifications, Windows Vista's default settings can grate on your nerves... which doesn't help you be the productive person you want to be. A few simple tweaks can cut down on the irritation—and drastically alter your views on Vista. Let's take a look at some of the best ways to tame the Vista beast and make it a less naggy operating system to work on.
How to Make Windows Vista Less Annoying

Why You Should Download Firefox 3 Right Now

Firefox 3 — available for download at 10am PDT Tuesday — is the culmination of a two-year quest to build the best browser ever. And while it’s not perfect, it comes pretty close.
Why You Should Download Firefox 3 Right Now

Archive Shoeboxed: Organise Your Receipts

Launched around a year ago, Shoeboxed provides a simple service for uploading, storing and organizing all those paper receipts that are stuffed into real shoeboxes around our homes and offices, into over-sized wallets and purses, largely lost or disorganized until summoned by our accountants and tax authorities!
Archive Shoeboxed: Organise Your Receipts

Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?

One afternoon, earlier this year, as I was scanning a long list that I was adding to endlessly, I realized, "I'll never get it all done. That's probably just fine. But this endless list and this feeling of being completely scheduled...it's not working right now."
Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?

Retrain Your Brain

Can't remember where you put your glasses? Blanked on your new colleague's name? "Forgetting these types of things is a sign of how busy we are," says Zaldy S. Tan, MD, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "When we're not paying good attention, the memories we form aren't very robust, and we have a problem retrieving the information later."
Retrain Your Brain:

Toilet Signs Across the World

Male and females are represented differently all across the world. One of the proofs for this statement is the diverse representations of toilet signs in different corners of the globe. While some tried to make the signs as obvious as they can get, others went out of their way to be creative. Here are some of the wackiest, funniest or oddest men and women toilet signs.
Toilet Signs Across the World

The 30 Most Salacious Sites For Celebrity Gossip

Feel a burning need to know the latest happenings in Lindsay Lohan’s life? Can’t wait to find out about the latest addition to the Brangelina family? If so, this list is definitely for you.
The 30 Most Salacious Sites For Celebrity Gossip

RepairPal Tracks the “Health” of your Car, From Buy to Sell

What if you could keep tabs on your automobile’s “health” in the same manner Google is hoping you’ll manage your own healthcare? There are a few services out there that hope to aid you in your pursuit of automobile happiness, including sites like Carfax that give you itemized records of car maintenance so you can decide whether or not the used car you’ve been eying is a lemon.
RepairPal Tracks the “Health” of your Car, From Buy to Sell

De-duplicate Your Data with Free Tools

When your hard drive's cluttered with hundreds of files in folders scattered everywhere, chances are you're using up disk space with multiple copies of the same data. Whether multiple memory card downloads have plagued your photo library, or swapping MP3s with friends who have similar tastes left you with double copies of the same songs, or you've saved and re-saved the same documents in different places, a good file de-duping can recover hard drive space and help you get organized.
De-duplicate Your Data with Free Tools

The Celebrity 100 - Forbes

IT IS THE YEAR OF THE TWEEN. Coming off a concert tour, a hit 3-D movie and a risqué picture in Vanity Fair, pop star Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. Hannah Montana) leads a slew of young stars onto our annual Celebrity 100 ranking of the world's ultrafamous. Also building buzz, and drawing dollars, from the under-18 crowd: Daniel Radcliffe, Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale.
The Celebrity 100 - Forbes

The Growing List of Things You Can Do With Google Maps

The Google Maps team has been hard at work launching a number of new features in recent months. In case you’ve missed them, here are a few of the features available in Google Maps these days.
The Growing List of Things You Can Do With Google Maps

Quarterly updates - Oxford English Dictionary

Every quarter, a range of entries in OED Online will be replaced by updated versions produced by the OED's revision programme. New entries will also be added across the alphabet.
Quarterly updates - Oxford English Dictionary

Fourteen tips to avoid nagging

In marriage, or any partnership, chores are a huge source of conflict. How do you get your sweetheart to hold up his or her end, without nagging?
Fourteen tips to avoid nagging

Australia's most gullible: Top victims of cybercrime?

Australians experience one of the highest levels of cybercrime in the world, according to a new survey — but are Aussies really such easy targets?
Australia's most gullible: Top victims of cybercrime?

Top Tourist Spots Americans Can’t Visit

Looking for someplace special to spend the Fourth of July? FP investigates five fabulous destinations where a summer getaway is next to impossible.
Top Tourist Spots Americans Can’t Visit

How to Recover Deleted Files with Free Software

Ack! The computer ate my term paper! We've all been there at some point. You delete an important file, somehow it skips your Recycle Bin altogether, and for all practical purposes, it's disappeared into the ether. But before you hit the big red panic button, there's a very good chance that your file is still alive and kicking somewhere on your hard drive—you just need to know how to find it. With the right tools, finding and recovering that deleted file can be as simple as a few clicks of your mouse.
How to Recover Deleted Files with Free Software

The 50 Best Pun Stores

Pun stores. Stores with puns in the title. Bet you didn’t think we could rank the 50 best ones. But you didn’t even think there were 50. Well guess again. BWE.tv has scoured the internet and pulled together the 50 Best Pun Establishments. And here we go:
The 50 Best Pun Stores

Get Rid Of Ants Without An Exterminator

Has warm weather brought a plague of ants down upon your home?
Get Rid Of Ants Without An Exterminator

Five job interview bear traps

In a tough job interview even the smoothest candidate can come unstuck. And the interview episode of The Apprentice showcases tactics to test the mettle of prospective employees. How to respond if you find yourself in a job interview from hell?
Five job interview bear traps

Eight ways to get exactly what you want - being-human

Cajole your boss into giving you a raise, win someone round to your point of view, or persuade your partner it's their turn to put out the trash - getting people to do what you want can be very handy. Persuasion is a key element of all human interaction, from politics to marketing to everyday dealings with friends, family and colleagues.
Eight ways to get exactly what you want - being-human