Friday, December 18, 2009

Capture Handwritten Notes on Your iPhone

Dan Bricklin’s Note Taker App lets you take quickly take notes on the go by sketching onto your iPhone’s/iPod touch’s screen using your finger. Because scribbling small notes would be difficult, the app lets you write using large gestures, then shrinks your notes to fit onto the pages, which are about the size of a 3×5 index card.
Capture Handwritten Notes on Your iPhone

The Most Influential Twitter User in the World Is...

How do you measure influence on Twitter? While follower count is perhaps the most obvious metric, other activities, like the numbers of times you’re retweeted, provide a bit more insight. Along those lines, INQ Mobile has just released their 2009 Twitter (Twitter) influence study, determining the most influential Twitter users in both the UK and the world.
The Most Influential Twitter User in the World Is...

Google Zeitgeist 2009

Google has released the year-end statistics of Google Zeitgeist 2009 which includes information about the most search topics in various niches in 2009. The default statistics show the search queries for the United States with the option to switch the country to view them for several dozen other countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany or the European Union.
Google Zeitgeist 2009

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Scientists crack cancer codes

Scientists are hailing the unlocking of the complete genetic code of two of the most common cancers as "a fundamental moment in cancer research".
Scientists crack cancer codes

Yale Book of Quotations Annual List (2009) of Memorable Quotes

Fred Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations and associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School, is out with his annual list of memorable quotes.
Yale Book of Quotations Annual List (2009) of Memorable Quotes

What You Watched and Searched for on YouTube in 2009

This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we're sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama's inauguration), some small (a Minnesota wedding party erupts into dance), some expected ("New Moon"), some surprising (Susan Boyle) — but all of them inspired, entertained and connected millions of people around the world via YouTube.
What You Watched and Searched for on YouTube in 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

10 iPhone Apps That Bring Holiday Cheer

In the spirit of the holiday season and an attempt to recover some of that holiday excitement, the following are 10 fun iPhone apps to help put a little more festivity into your lives.
10 iPhone Apps That Bring Holiday Cheer

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Twitter reacts to Australia's internet filter

Senator Conroy's announcement has been controversial, sure, but the reaction from Twitter has been decisive, and loud.
Twitter reacts to Australia's internet filter

Australia: Internet Censorship Plan Gets the Green Light

The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.
Australia: Internet Censorship Plan Gets the Green Light

How to Prevent Identity Theft

In 2008, there were almost 10 million cases of identity theft in the US alone, 22% more than the previous year.[1] While people are getting better at recognizing identity theft, and minimizing the damage, the best solution is to prevent it from happening in the first place by following these steps.
How to Prevent Identity Theft

Google Year-End Countdown Easter Egg

Just found out about a neat little Google search box Easter Egg for the New Year: Click on the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button with nothing in the search box to see a live count down of seconds left in 2009. What they should have done is linked the seconds number to a "seconds in days" calculator search to let people know what it is. Time marches on….
Google Year-End Countdown Easter Egg

Change DNS Servers With DNS Jumper

DNS and DNS servers have been pushed into the mainstream with Google’s announcement that they have released public DNS servers to speed up computer user access to the Internet. We have already given tips in the past how to benchmark DNS to find the fastest and most reliable one from all the public DNS that are offered by various organizations and companies.
Change DNS Servers With DNS Jumper

Mathematics of slicing pizza

For almost twenty years, mathematicians Rick Mabry and Paul Deiermann have attempted to figure out the perfect way to slice a pizza for sharing. urns out, mathematicians have been pondering pizza slicing problems since at least the 1960s.
Mathematics of slicing pizza

Monday, December 14, 2009

The Happiness Project Secrets of Adulthood

The Happiness Project: Each one changed my life, once I figured it out. Gretchen Rubin.
My Secrets of Adulthood

Mystery Giveaway at 1saleaday.com.au Pay only $4.95 for delivery Aust wide. - OzBargain

At 1saleaday, they need to make space for new and exciting products so they’re giving all their old stock away. If they’ve sold it in the past, chances are it could be here in the mystery giveaway. All you have to do is pay the 4.95 postage. You could get anything from a memory card to iphone Case to HDMI cable.
Mystery Giveaway at 1saleaday.com.au Pay only $4.95 for delivery Aust wide

Sunday, December 13, 2009

TeuxDeux: a simple online to-do list manager

TeuxDeux is an new online to-do list manager created by Tina Roth Eisenberg (AKA Swissmiss) and Fictive Kin. It’s not as full-featured as some other online to-do list applications, but if you’re looking for something that’s easy to use and has a strikingly elegant and minimal user-interface, then you should definitely take it for a test drive.
TeuxDeux: a simple online to-do list manager

Friday, December 11, 2009

Most Popular Top 10s of 2009 - Lifehacker

Every weekend, we comb our memories and archives to compile 10 useful items addressing a specific topic you may have forgotten about, or just happen to be excellent. Here are the 20 list(icle) posts that proved the most popular in 2009.
Most Popular Top 10s of 2009

Most Popular How-To Features of 2009 - Lifehacker

We cover a lot of tips every day on Lifehacker, but we get our greatest pleasure from putting together in-depth, step-by-step guides. From Windows 7 to Hackintoshes and beyond, here's a look back at our most popular how-to features of '09.
Most Popular How-To Features of 2009

IPL 15 Things

From the Internet Public Library - Explore our first seven of 15 "Things," Blogs, Microblogging, Social Networking, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, Podcasting, and Videos, and take the 15 Things Challenge!
IPL 15 Things - IPL Wiki

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Australian Social Trends, Dec 2009

The December issue reveals that over the last decade, the number of jobless families has fallen, while the number of people who live alone has been increasing. We also see that Australians are less likely to smoke than in the past, but more likely to be obese and that many workers work non-traditional hours.
Australian Social Trends, Dec 2009