Exploring Our Solar System with Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram|Alpha contains a wealth of astronomy data on many areas of our universe, such as objects within our solar system and in the deep sky, constellations, and computational astronomy, making it a handy resource for astronomers, students, and hobbyists.
Exploring Our Solar System with Wolfram|Alpha

Top 10 Computer Hardware Fixes and Upgrades

If your desktop or laptop parts have died or seen better days, you've got a friend. All of your Lifehacker editors—and many helpful net denizens—have upgraded or repaired faulty systems, and they've rounded some of their most helpful tutorials.
Top 10 Computer Hardware Fixes and Upgrades

Is Your Printer Stealing From You? Here's How to Tell

Don't let that blank, boxy look fool you: Printers can steal your money and your time if you're not careful. Printer manufacturers have come up with a few creative ways to drain your wallet through ink and toner cartridge costs. Other printer models just make you waste precious minutes fooling around with complicated menu systems or stupidly designed hardware.
Is Your Printer Stealing From You? Here's How to Tell

Never Use Hotmail, Inactive Webmail As Your Secondary Email Account

Registering for an account at any web site almost always requires an email address, and some people use a secondary address they don't care about instead of their real email address to avoid spam. If you do this, be very careful.
Never Use Hotmail, Inactive Webmail As Your Secondary Email Account

Top 15 Social Media Resources for Foodies

Ah, food… who doesn’t love food? It’s essential to our survival, of course, but more importantly, it acts as a universal language. Every culture has their own cuisine and we can communicate a lot about ourselves in how we assemble raw ingredients into delicious meals. But some of us like food more than others.
Top 15 Social Media Resources for Foodies

Grab A Copy Of Nero 9 Free Edition

The makers of Nero are now offering a stripped down version of Nero 9 for free on their website. Well, not totally free but if you give up an email address you can download and use the Nero 9 free edition. Nero 9 Free is only offering data disk burning and disk copying functionality.
Grab A Copy Of Nero 9 Free Edition

Imagine That Something Good Never Happened

Apparently, contemplating the fact that a key event might never have happened, at all, makes it more surprising and mysterious. Just think how close you came to having a different fate – your life could have gone in another direction, so easily!
Imagine That Something Good Never Happened

How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night

Not eating for 12-16 hours can help people quickly reset their sleep-wake cycle, according to a study from the Harvard Medical School. This discovery can drastically improve a person's ability to cope with jet lag or adjust to working late shifts.
How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night

Blackstump Australia Issue 23 - August 1, 2009

The latest issue of new family friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Blackstump Australia Issue 23 - August 1, 2009

iPhone Virus? Turn Your Phone Off

That seems to be the only practical advice we’ve heard so far as a security vulnerability is set to be exposed later this afternoon that potentially threatens every iPhone via an SMS message.
iPhone Virus? Turn Your Phone Off

10 Ways to Get More Wear Out of Your Clothing

Think of the money you can save by extending the life of your clothes and hanging onto them longer. Here are some practical ways to do just that.
10 Ways to Get More Wear Out of Your Clothing

Rain, rain, go away…

Rain-related quotes from The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Rain, rain, go away…

Wolfram|Alpha’s Got the “Write” Stuff

Wolfram|Alpha is a great resource for writers. It has an enormous words and linguistics database that writers can use for such things as word definitions, origins, synonyms, hyphenation, and Soundex lookups.
Wolfram|Alpha’s Got the “Write” Stuff

Rooms for less with Bing Travel’s Hotel Rate Indicator

Bing Travel has created an intelligent tool to help you figure out whether the hotel rate you’re being offered is a deal or not.
Rooms for less with Bing Travel’s Hotel Rate Indicator

Catch Phrases That May Tip You Off to a Lie

Apart from more obvious signs, non-verbal gestures and other cues can also help to determine whether someone is telling the truth or not. Forbes outlines 11 ways to potentially sniff out a liar, including several phrases to watch out for.
Catch Phrases That May Tip You Off to a Lie

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

Open and edit PDF files in OpenOffice

Now, thanks to a very useful tool created by Sun, editing a PDF file is as simple as adding an extension to OpenOffice and then opening that PDF for editing.
Open and edit PDF files in OpenOffice

Wolfram|Alpha Can Help You Make Smart Food Choices

A variety of nutritional factors may be of importance depending on your dietary needs and wellness goals, which is why Wolfram|Alpha goes further than just providing the total number of calories in a food item.
Wolfram|Alpha Can Help You Make Smart Food Choices

How to Buy a Mattress

Here are a few things to keep in mind.
How to Buy a Mattress

Spy satellites map climate change

Sometimes America's spy satellites have to pass over 'friendly territory.' When they do, they can still be put to good use – in this case, monitoring sea ice for evidence of climate change.
Spy satellites map climate change