Your Online Footprint

The CEO of Google has suggested that once you leave college, you may want to change your name to distance yourself from all the dumb things you did as a younger person and can’t erase from the Internet. Of course if you change your name, you won’t be associated with any of the positive things you did either.
Your Online Footprint

Create a Simple Password Protected Folder in Windows 7 Sans Software

Windows: If you're looking to stash some files away from other users casually browsing your computer but don't need to go full bore with the encryption, you can create a password protected folder with a basic batch script.
Create a Simple Password Protected Folder in Windows 7 Sans Software

Historical Imagery - How a Place Has Changed Over Time?

Google today introduced a new version of Google Earth, which among other new enhancements, sports an easier way for you to explore historical imagery of a place.
Historical Imagery - How a Place Has Changed Over Time?

Top 10 Registry Tweaks that Power Up Windows

The Windows registry is a mysterious place, but if you're comfortable editing it, you have the power to tweak nearly every Windows setting you can imagine. Here are 10 of Lifehacker's favorite registry tweaks that make life easier.
Top 10 Registry Tweaks that Power Up Windows

5 Important Tips for Better Eye Health in a Digital World

In attempting to sum up the world in 2010, one word comes to mind: connected. Everywhere we go we carry devices that keep us connected to something important to us. Be it a sleek new tablet letting you share photos with the person helping load your groceries, or a smartphone making sure you don’t miss that late night e-mail from a colleague; we are now constantly connected to the world around us, more than ever before.
5 Important Tips for Better Eye Health in a Digital World

How to Identify and Resist Manipulative Sales Pitches

Stores everywhere are competing for your hard-earned money (or easily acquired credit) this holiday shopping season, and they're pulling out every sales pitch they know. Here's how to identify some of the most manipulative and resist them.
How to Identify and Resist Manipulative Sales Pitches

The Hacker’s Guide to Tea

Coffee gets a lot of attention, but if tea's more your style, tea guru Tony Gebely offers this guide to understanding and brewing better tea—discussing the process, the kinds, and the care necessary to cultivate a great taste for tea.
The Hacker’s Guide to Tea

Australian Women’s Weekly in National Library of Australia Digital Archive

Hat tip to PC World Australia for the pointer to the new digital archive of Australian Women’s Weekly, brought to you by the National Library of Australia. This archive spans 10 June 1933 to 15 December 1982, which is 2500 issues and 220,000 pages, totaling about 275,000 articles. That’s not small, but I did find some pages that were listed in the search engine but weren’t viewable yet. You can do a keyword search at http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/112.
Australian Women’s Weekly in National Library of Australia Digital Archive

Curing Warts, Removing Splinters, and 19 Other Bizarre Uses for Banana Peels

It all started with a rumor that banana peels could be used to polish silver and a bet among friends that it couldn’t. In trying to discover if there is any legitimacy to the silver-polishing properties of banana peels, I found dozens of other unusual applications for them, including splinter removal and wart treatments.
Curing Warts, Removing Splinters, and 19 Other Bizarre Uses for Banana Peels

Curing Warts, Removing Splinters, and 19 Other Bizarre Uses for Banana Peels | Wise Bread

It all started with a rumor that banana peels could be used to polish silver and a bet among friends that it couldn’t. In trying to discover if there is any legitimacy to the silver-polishing properties of banana peels, I found dozens of other unusual applications for them, including splinter removal and wart treatments.
Curing Warts, Removing Splinters, and 19 Other Bizarre Uses for Banana Peels

Short Sharp Science: Looking down on the tallest structure ever built

The 828 metre Burj Khalifa skyscraper towers above downtown Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The no doubt soon-to-be iconic image taken earlier this year by GeoEye 1, the highest resolution satellite in operation, opens the 2011 calendar of parent company GeoEye.
Short Sharp Science: Looking down on the tallest structure ever built

Practice Eye Contact to Generate "Reality Distortion Field" Charisma

Some people, like Bill Clinton and Steve Jobs, have undeniable charisma that even their most ardent detractors are forced to acknowledge. Master the art of eye contact and personal space management to create "Reality Distortion Field" level charisma.
Practice Eye Contact to Generate "Reality Distortion Field" Charisma

How to Find the Person behind an Email Address - Reverse Email Search

You get an email from a person with whom you have never interacted before and therefore, before you reply to that message, you would like to know something more about him or her. How do you do this without directly asking the other person?
How to Find the Person behind an Email Address - Reverse Email Search

Don’t Sleep, Prevent Standby, Hibernate, Shutdown In Windows

The power configuration in Windows determines if the operating system initiates a system state change. This can be an automatic shutdown, a switch to standby mode, hibernation or changes that have less of an impact like turning off the computer monitor.
Don’t Sleep, Prevent Standby, Hibernate, Shutdown In Windows

Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Cheesy Action Movie Edition

This Friday, we’re taking the term “weekend warriors” quite seriously. Today’s YouTube Roundup theme is “Cheesy Action Sequences,” curated by everyone’s favorite former invalid, The Fully Sick Rapper.
NOTE: If cheesy violence — or shouting men — offend you, you may want to skip this roundup.
Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Cheesy Action Movie Edition

9 Notable Tech Flops That Live in Infamy

Not every gadget is destined for greatness. Despite the hype before launch, or the promise of how a shiny new device will change your life, there are some gizmos that just don’t cut it.
9 Notable Tech Flops That Live in Infamy

Win a Coin Toss by Volunteering to Flip the Coin

The person flipping the coin has a significantly higher chance to calling the outcome. Stack the odds in your favor by volunteering to be the flipper.
Win a Coin Toss by Volunteering to Flip the Coin

Top 10 Holiday Travel Tips and Tricks

Traveling in general isn't always fun, but it's especially miserable during the holidays. Long lines, long drives to the airport, and frequent delays make the process hard to endure. Here are our top ten tips and tricks for surviving holiday travel.
Top 10 Holiday Travel Tips and Tricks

Use Toothpaste to Fix Car Body and Headlight Scratches

Toothpaste: it restores old sneakers, de-stains MacBooks, un-clouds drinking glasses, and, it seems, heals whatever minor scratches ail your car, whether on the body, or the problematic kind that reduce your headlights' brightness.
Use Toothpaste to Fix Car Body and Headlight Scratches

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 24/2010

The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 24/2010

Jet Lag May Cause Long-Term Memory and Learning Problems

Any frequent long-distance flier can tell you about what jet lag does to their energy, sleep, and awareness functions. But scientists who exposed hamsters to frequent jet-lag-like conditions—equivalent to flying from New York to Paris every three days—found that it affected neuron birth in the hippocampus, and likely the related problems hamsters had with finding desirable rooms in a maze and other memory tasks.
Jet Lag May Cause Long-Term Memory and Learning Problems

5 Fresh Places to Find Great Online Video

Fortunately, more and more sites and services are stepping up to help sift through the vast, expansive wasteland of online video. Here are five of Mashable's favorite sites for not just finding the goods, but also making it easy to share and exchange videos with friends and family members.
5 Fresh Places to Find Great Online Video

Backup Your PC Securely With FBackup

Are you searching for a back up program which is safe, user friendly and free at the same time? If yes, then your search may end here. Usually users don’t go for backup programs, since they have a fear in mind regarding the loss or damage of important data stored in the PC.
Backup Your PC Securely With FBackup

Yahoo! Labs and Zombies

Interested in game theory, advanced mathematics, classical economics, and budget allocation problems? No?
Let’s try again. Are you interested in commanding a legion of Zombie warriors in a pitched battle against your friends and random people online?
Yahoo! Labs and Zombies

Internet Filter Delayed Until At Least 2013

We’ve known since mid-year that the ludicrous Internet filter concept was on the backburner pending a classification review. Based on current plans, that means there’ll probably be no chance to introduce it before 2013.
Internet Filter Delayed Until At Least 2013

Check if the ISP is Limiting your Download Speed

You have a fairly good Internet connection at home and regular websites load pretty quickly in your browser. However, the speed seems to go down while you are watching videos on YouTube or are trying to download files through a torrent client.
Check if the ISP is Limiting your Download Speed

Facebook’s New Messaging System Explained [VIDEO]

Facebook has just finished sharing its new messaging system with the world. And while the social networking site says that “it’s not e-mail” or designed to be what many pundits wanted to call an “e-mail killer,” it represents a big overhaul of a system that’s being used by more than 350 million people to send more than 4 billion messages daily.
Facebook’s New Messaging System Explained [VIDEO]

The Best Optical Illusion Videos And How They Trick Your Brain

The human brain is one of the most remarkable things on this planet… but that doesn’t mean it can’t make mistakes, particularly when it comes to how we see the world. Here are five mind-blowing optical illusions and how they work.
The Best Optical Illusion Videos And How They Trick Your Brain

What You Need to Know About the New TSA Screenings (and Gropings)

The days of simple, inconvenience-free flying have been gone for awhile but the latest security measures have elevated personal privacy concerns. Here's what you need to know about the latest TSA security measures and what you can (and can't) do about them.
What You Need to Know About the New TSA Screenings (and Gropings)

Crocodile attacks elephant

A tourist visiting Zambia's South Luangwa National Park caught this intense scuffle between a crocodile and mother and baby elephants at a watering hole.
Crocodile attacks elephant

7 Search Engines Google Obliterated

Today you don’t use a search engine – you google it. Google is search. And it’s fast becoming the only search in town as Google’s competitors one by one crumble away, crushed by Google’s exponentially growing techno-power.Read more.
7 Search Engines Google Obliterated

How to Dance Without Embarrassing Yourself

If you're too embarrassed to dance in public, you may be missing out on a lot of fun and energetic partying with friends. It doesn't take much to hustle up some basic moves and enough confidence to sidle onto the dance floor, even if only briefly, and it'll ensure that your friends stop picking on you for avoiding dancing. This article takes you through an easy progression to help improve your sense of dancing and to get you onto the dance floor free of embarrassment.
How to Dance Without Embarrassing Yourself

Discovery Health "10 Mysterious Pains You Shouldn't Ignore"

All of us have experience with random, mysterious and sometimes lingering pains at some point in our lives. Most of us shrug it off, and usually the pain leaves the same way it arrived -- on its own and without explanation.
Discovery Health "10 Mysterious Pains You Shouldn't Ignore"

If You Begin a Sentence with Well, There's a Good Chance You're Lying

If you think someone's lying, you can't really subject them to a polygraph test. But, it turns out that if they start their sentence with the word "well," you won't have to.
If You Begin a Sentence with Well, There's a Good Chance You're Lying

The 10 Most Incredible Google Bombs

Chances are that even if you’re unfamiliar with the term, you’ve experienced a Google bomb in action somewhere on the internet. Once, they were a rarity, a novelty even, but now there are hundreds of them out there on the web. Many are politically motivated and most include some kind of derogatory reference.
The 10 Most Incredible Google Bombs

Permanently Delete Files In Windows Explorer With RightDelete

It is sometimes necessary to delete a file permanently from a computer system. It may be after you have read a business document on a public computer, watched or viewed media on a work computer or to protect family members from accessing files on a home computer.
Permanently Delete Files In Windows Explorer With RightDelete

How to Most Effectively Battle the Common Cold

Things You Can Do at Home (That Won't Cost You an Arm and a Leg).
How to Most Effectively Battle the Common Cold

Get Your Loaned Item Back with These Simple Tracking Systems

Remember when you completely forgot to ask your friend to return your favorite DVD? It’s time to start using a good system to keep track of the items that you lend or borrow to your friends. In this article we will cover two simple tracking systems: ReturnMyPants to keep track of your personal inventory and BillMonk to keep track of money.
Get Your Loaned Item Back with These Simple Tracking Systems

Deaths, Australia, 2009

Deaths and mortality rates, Life expectancy at birth, Infant deaths.
Deaths, Australia, 2009

Nutrition Professor Loses Weight On Junk Food

If you want to lose weight you’ll see results faster if you eschew fancy and complicated dietary rules and focus on reducing the number of calories you take in — though we might suggest not measuring them out in Twinkies.
Nutrition Professor Loses Weight On Junk Food

HOW TO: Tastefully Use Social Media at Your Wedding

As social media becomes more and more a part of our lives, etiquette failures can occur when there are so few precedents. A wedding day is the perfect example of this. You want to share your special day with your social circle, especially those who can’t attend, but where do you draw the line?
HOW TO: Tastefully Use Social Media at Your Wedding

Manually Restore System Files from Your Windows Installation Media

If you’ve ever had a missing or corrupt system file in Windows you sometimes end up in shady parts of the internet downloading files from who knows where. Why not restore the files directly from your installation disks?
Manually Restore System Files from Your Windows Installation Media

No more drunk Facebook thanks to tool

The Social Media Sobriety Test, a free Firefox application from online-security company Webroot, allows users to select the social media sites they use in which they must pass a sobriety test before being able to log on during their pre-set "hours of intoxication".
No more drunk Facebook thanks to tool

How To Protect Your USB Device At Cyber Cafes

While traveling, one cannot be assured of always having a personal computer. Though a few high end hotels provide personal laptops to guests, not everyone can afford to stay at such hotels. If you don’t have access to a personal computer, you have no choice but to go to a cyber cafe, or a public internet center where you use a computer for internet for a pre-paid price usually fixed per hour. Browsing at an internet cafe brings a mixture of many things that need to be considered.
How To Protect Your USB Device At Cyber Cafes

Windows Auto Login And Lock

Do you sometimes power on your computer and leave immediately afterwards for other activities, like making coffee or breakfast, taking a shower or going into a meeting. There are two possible scenarios here. If you have not configured auto login, you will see the the logon screen where all user accounts of the Windows operating system are shown. When you are back, you need to log in and wait until the desktop has been loaded. Not an optimized way of logging in.
Windows Auto Login And Lock

How To Hide Hard Drives And Partitions In Windows

Hiding a hard drive or partition in Windows can be an effective way of preventing access to the drive’s contents. The method is not foolproof though, and users with enough time on their hand will eventually find a way to access the contents of the drive, for instance by booting from a Live CD. Still, it works pretty well to hide it from inexperienced users.
How To Hide Hard Drives And Partitions In Windows

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 23/2010

The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 23/2010

Holy Cow! Microsoft Doesn’t Know Simple Maths

Microsoft has been selling their Windows operating systems ever since 1993. That’s a good lord 17 long years. They have had more than eight different versions of Windows OS in those 17 years, and all of them were aimed to do simple & complex computing.
Holy Cow! Microsoft Doesn’t Know Simple Maths

Weird 1940s advice for moms who want their boys to tuck in their shirts

To cure boys of the habit of not keeping shirttails tucked in.
Weird 1940s advice for moms who want their boys to tuck in their shirts

Terrible Beauty: A-Bomb Tests - Photo Gallery - LIFE

Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, which invented the atomic bomb, was a brilliant physicist and theoretician who is often viewed today as either 1) an irresponsible scientist of unchecked hubris who set humanity on the path to eventual nuclear annihilation, or 2) a sensitive seeker after truth whose ideas and insights were perverted by right-wing militarists for their own nefarious ends. Both views are, of course, absurd oversimplifications of the man and his legacy.
Terrible Beauty: A-Bomb Tests - Photo Gallery - LIFE

Bart Cummings shares his Cup tips

Bart Cummings gives his verdict on So You Think and which horses will give it a run for its money in tomorrow's Melbourne Cup.
Cummings shares his Cup tips

Google-eye view of a nuclear test site - Boing Boing

Yucca Flat was the site of 739 nuclear tests between 1951 and 1992. Once an anonymous stretch of desert, it's now pockmarked with subsidence craters left behind by underground nuclear detonations. Among them is the Sedan Crater, a massive, 1200-feet-wide, 320-feet-deep pit.
Google-eye view of a nuclear test site

The Ultimate Router Battle

You’ve been getting by with the cheapie router you bought two years ago, so why should you upgrade now? Performance. And features. We asked seven manufacturers to send us the best consumer routers in their stables regardless of price tags.
The Ultimate Router Battle

How to Break Into a Windows PC

Whether you've forgotten your password or you have a more malicious intent, it's actually extremely easy to break into a Windows computer without knowing the password. Here's how to do it, and how to prevent others from doing the same to you.
How to Break Into a Windows PC

Take the ultimate intelligence test -- New Scientist

You might think it's obvious that one person is smarter than another. But there are few more controversial areas of science than the study of intelligence and, in reality, there's not even agreement among researchers about what this word actually means.
Take the ultimate intelligence test

Lost camera reveals divers' survival snaps

A camera which was lost on the ocean floor for almost four years has been found with its dramatic images still intact.
The camera contained rescue shots of two men who became lost at sea off the New South Wales north coast when the anchor rope on their dive boat snapped.
Lost camera reveals divers' survival snaps

The 2010 Choice Shonky Awards

With the Shonkys now in its fifth year, the contenders for the gongs continue to roll in. While you’d think most companies would be doing their best to keep their heads low and travel the well-worn path of the straight and narrow, it sometimes seems they’re begging for a lemon gong.
The 2010 Choice Shonky Awards

Is that Windows Process Legitimate or a Virus?

Start the Windows Task Manager at any point of time and you’ll find that dozens of processes are running in your system. Some of these process names are obvious – if there’s iexplore.exe in the list, you have Internet Explorer open on your desktop – but other processes like csrss.exe or dwm.exe will often make no sense to most of us.
Is that Windows Process Legitimate or a Virus?

Remarkable Unicycle Riding

This footage prepared for the North American Unicycling Championships and Convention contains some pretty unbelievable footage, including jumping over a picnic table, up a flight of 7 stairs in one hop, and the you-gotta-see-it-to believe-it "maxwhip."
Remarkable unicycle riding

How to Defeat Big Brother

Nobody likes being watched (perhaps with the exception of exhibitionists) and most of us, even in today's very public culture, appreciate our privacy. If you're tired of Big Brother watching you, here are a few ways to fight back.
How to Defeat Big Brother

Ultimate List of Free Windows Phone 7 Apps

Earlier this month, Microsoft unveiled a big list of Windows Phone 7 handsets for over 30 countries which arrive soon. Though the initial impressions of the WP7 OS was mixed, it has still managed to evoke enough interests amongst the developer community who have already brought out some cool Free WP7 Apps in the Windows Phone 7 market place.
Ultimate List of Free Windows Phone 7 Apps

How To Sync Browser & Delicious Bookmarks to Your iOS Device

Having an iOS device is essentially like having a mini computer with you all the time. If you browse the web with it, syncing your browser bookmarks between your computer and device is a must and we’ll show you how.
How To Sync Browser & Delicious Bookmarks to Your iOS Device

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 22/2010

The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 22/2010

Four Reasons Why You Choke Under Pressure (and How to Avoid Them)

In her book Choke, author Sian Beilock examines the science behind why we choke under pressure. Here, Beilock explains a few of those reasons, and offers a few solutions.
Four Reasons Why You Choke Under Pressure (and How to Avoid Them)

How to Manually Repair Windows 7 Boot Loader Problems

If you’re having boot problems on your Windows PC, it’s often helpful to repair the MBR (Master Boot Record) to restore the Windows 7 boot loader—and you can do it easily from the Windows installation disc.
How to Manually Repair Windows 7 Boot Loader Problems

Solar eclipse witnessed from space

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded its first lunar transit when the moon passed directly between the spacecraft and the sun. In this newly released image, the dark edge of the moon forms a partial eclipse of the sun. This sharp edge can be used to help calculate the effects of light diffraction on the telescope's optics, allowing operators to correct for this effect.
Solar eclipse witnessed from space

Choosing Different Passwords for Different Websites

You don’t want to use the same password with all your online accounts but it is also impossible for you to remember so many different passwords. What do you do then?
Choosing Different Passwords for Different Websites

Use Verbose Boot Messages to Troubleshoot Windows Startup Problems

If you’ve ever had problems with your PC starting up or shutting down slowly, there’s lots of different troubleshooting techniques that you can use—today we’ll talk about how to enable verbose messages. Enabling these verbose messages is not going to magically solve your problems, of course—the point is to use this to identify a problem, which you can then solve through other means, generally by uninstalling a problem application or upgrading a faulty driver.
Use Verbose Boot Messages to Troubleshoot Windows Startup Problems

25 Of the Most Inspiring Quotes Ever Spoken

An inspiring quote may be just what you need to turn your day around. Here are 25 of the most inspiring quotes ever spoken or written.
25 Of the Most Inspiring Quotes Ever Spoken

NASA captures amazing image of Hurricane Paula

A few days ago, Hurricane Paula was bearing down on Honduras and Mexico. While it caused some substantial flooding and destroyed some homes, it weakened rather quickly and is now a tropical storm near Cuba. However, three days ago as the storm was battering the coast of Honduras, NASA's MODIS captured a stunning image of the hurricane.
NASA captures amazing image of Hurricane Paula

Edit, Resize Photos With BImageStudio

It takes time to manually edit or resize photos. While it is not possible to automate every photo editing tasks, some can easily be automated to save time and speed up the process. BImageStudio is a free photo editing software for the Windows operating system that can batch process a set of photos that are loaded into the application. The program supports many popular image formats including jpg, png and gif.
Edit, Resize Photos With BImageStudio

How to Make Your Own DVDs from Almost Any Video File

If you’ve got a lot of AVI videos in your media collection, you might want to be able to play them on your DVD player—or even more likely, give a DVD to a family member to watch. Here’s how to create your own DVDs easily.
How to Make Your Own DVDs from Almost Any Video File

Five Best Recipe Search Tools

Here's a look at five of the best tools for finding great recipes online.
Five Best Recipe Search Tools

33 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

Social Media is stocked with a list of memorable viral video or smile-worthy social good campaigns. Tech & Mobile showcases some great robots, tips for your iPad, and trends in web app design. Business rounds out our list with how to gain inexpensive online exposure, use mobile credit card payments or start a digital business.
33 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

Top 10 Fast Food Recipes You Can Make at Home

You can complain about it all you want, but it's a fact: some fast food is delicious. It gets a whole lot better with fresher, tastier ingredients. Here's our top ten favorite fast food recipes that you can make at home.
Top 10 Fast Food Recipes You Can Make at Home:

Cold snap brings snow to Victoria

Snow has fallen in parts of Victoria as the state shivers through a cold snap. Temperatures plummeted as a cold front brought heavy rain, strong winds and snow flurries. (and check the photo of the road to Kinglake, a bit different to the raging bushfire scenes of not long ago!)
Cold snap brings snow to Victoria

Snow, wind and rain whip eastern Australia

Snow, floods and gale-force winds have swept across eastern Australia overnight, transforming parts of New South Wales and Victoria into springtime winter wonderlands.
Snow, wind and rain whip eastern Australia

Business Name FAIL

Crappy scrap?
Business Name FAIL

What Is in a Barrel of Oil?

Whether you're watching CNN discuss the effects of the recent oil spill in the gulf, or you're watching MSNBC discuss how the price of oil has shifted throughout the month, you probably hear them use the term "barrel," which defines oil in volume.
What Is in a Barrel of Oil?

Your Best Solutions for Massive, Multi-Terabyte Storage

The best ways to safely store tons of data (at least 6TB)? Here's a round up of some of the best and most creative answers.
Your Best Solutions for Massive, Multi-Terabyte Storage

Airport Security Might Soon Be Scanning Your Ears

New research says your ears are like snowflakes – completely unique in the world. Which is neat! But it also means you have two giant fingerprints on the side of your face, and airport security wants a look.
Airport Security Might Soon Be Scanning Your Ears

Asteroid 2010 TD54 flies by really close Oct. 12, 2010

Asteroid 2010 TD54 will fly by the Earth on Tuesday, October 12, 2010, and will pass at a distance of only about 46,000 kilometers (28,500 miles) from our planet’s surface.
Asteroid 2010 TD54 flies by really close Oct. 12, 2010

Understanding the Food Group Pyramid and How to Use It For Better Eating

The food pyramid was designed to offer an easy-to-understand look at healthy eating, but for the average person it's too simplistic, vague, and sometimes way off. Here's how food pyramids work and how you can actually use them in your day-to-day eating.
Understanding the Food Group Pyramid and How to Use It For Better Eating

The Best PDF Writer and Reader for Windows

Nitro Reader gives you the best of both worlds. It’s a PDF Reader for Windows that you may also use for creating PDFs from Office documents, web pages and virtually any other Windows application that has the print button.
The Best PDF Writer and Reader for Windows

7 Resources for Handling Digital Life After Death

Death is a fact of life. When someone dies, they’re no longer physically here, but their digital self lives on. There are more than 5 million accounts on Facebook that are inactive due to death, according to the calculations of BlackBook Media’s Executive Editor Chris Mohney. And that’s just Facebook. Think about all of the other social sites and online services out there – the number of abandoned accounts due to death must be enormous.
7 Resources for Handling Digital Life After Death

Armless pianist wins on "China's Got Talent" TV show

Liu Wei, 23, has won "China's Got Talent" for his piano playing. He has no arms.
Armless pianist wins on "China's Got Talent" TV show

Top 40 burgled suburbs in Melbourne

In Victoria, on average, one in 71 homes is burgled each year; that equates to one burglary every 19 minutes. A review of crime statistics in Metropolitan Melbourne has identified the top 40 suburbs most at risk of a burglary.
Top 40 burgled suburbs in Melbourne

New Aussie Invention Lets You Move Two Wheelie Bins – AT THE SAME TIME!

In a completely rubbish statistic that I just made up, 98% of all Australian inventions are designed for the sole purpose of getting us milliseconds closer to beer. Take this multi-bin creation from South Australian inventor Mark Bradshaw, that allows users to wheel out not one, but two wheelie bins at the same time, therefore reducing the amount of time spent taking out the rubbish before cracking a beer.
New Aussie Invention Lets You Move Two Wheelie Bins – AT THE SAME TIME!

Five Best Disk Image Tools

Disk image tools allow you to take physical discs and drives—DVDs, hard drives, and other media—and turn them into virtual images for ease of storage and manipulation. Here's a look at five of the most popular disk image tools.
Five Best Disk Image Tools

10 Useful Apple iPad Tips and Tricks

From managing the sound levels of your tunes, to organization your apps, to muting in the case of emergency, we have 10 handy hints for you to work your way to iPad ninja status. Check out our tried and tested iPad tips, and impress your friends when they come to you for help with their iPad.
10 Useful Apple iPad Tips and Tricks

Join the birthday salute to John Lennon

Today we join Yoko Ono in asking fans around the world to upload video tributes to John Lennon on what would have been his 70th birthday.
Join the birthday salute to John Lennon

Specialty of 10/10/10 – Virus Alert, Chinese Wedding & More

There is something really special about today’s date. For all those who are strong believers in the “perfect ten” concept, here’s a date you should look forward to. Today is 10/10/10. A day which is special for everyone because of it’s numerical rarity which occurs once in 100 years. But there is more to it than just the numbers. While some Astrologers consider this day to be lucky for money, others believe it’s a bit unlucky. Well, astrology is just one of the many interesting things happening around the world.
Specialty of 10/10/10 – Virus Alert, Chinese Wedding & More

Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

Today is 10/10/10, but it’s even more than that. Today is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. How? Keep reading.
Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 21/2010

The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 21/2010

4 Amazing Life Lessons from Scrooge McDuck

Like in every person and duck, there are both good things and bad things in Scrooge. We can learn from both the positive and negative sides of the world's richest duck. Maybe there is something that he has done right to get into the financial position he is, or maybe his greediness is a something we should avoid. It is up to you how you decide to see it.
4 Amazing Life Lessons from Scrooge McDuck

“I Like it on” Facebook Status

The “It” within the status refers to the purse and not anything else as you might have imagined. If you didn’t get the link/idea yet, don’t worry. We didn’t get it either. But the idea of the grass-roots effort seems to be that the sexy-yet-enigmatic updates will encourage women and men to think about breast cancer, according to Time magazine.
“I Like it on” Facebook Status for Breast Cancer Awareness Goes Viral

Over 52? Then you're probably grumpy

Britons find being older than 52 is nothing to laugh about because that's the age when they start becoming grumpy, according to a survey.
Over 52? Then you're probably grumpy

New Earth View Is The True Blue Marble | Gizmodo Australia

From this point, looking down the Pacific Ocean, Earth still looks like a virgin jewel in space – a precious gem untouched by toxic human hands, no sign of our species’ uncontrolled greed. All water, it’s the true blue marble.
New Earth View Is The True Blue Marble

What's the Best Way to Share Files with a Nearby Computer?

There are numerous ways to share files using the various file-sharing capabilities built into your OS; all you need is few minutes of prep before you can get sharing. (Though after setting it up once, it'll be a snap to get sharing again in the future.)
What's the Best Way to Share Files with a Nearby Computer?

How to Make the Most of Getting Bumped from a Flight

Getting bumped from a flight could be either a blessing or a curse. Here's how to make the most of getting bumped, whether it's voluntary or not.
How to Make the Most of Getting Bumped from a Flight