The 2011 TIME 100

Meet the most influential people in the world. They are artists and activists, reformers and researchers, heads of state and captains of industry. Their ideas spark dialogue and dissent and sometimes even revolution. Welcome to this year's TIME 100.
The 2011 TIME 100

iOS devices secretly log and retain record of every place you go, transfer to your PC and subsequent devices

Security researchers presenting at the Where 2.0 conference have revealed a hidden, secret iOS file that keeps a record of everywhere you've been. The record is synched to your PC and subsequently resynched to your other mobile devices. The file is not transmitted to Apple, but constitutes a substantial privacy breach if your PC or mobile device are lost or seized.
iOS devices secretly log and retain record of every place you go, transfer to your PC and subsequent devices

10 Marvels Of Underwater Photography By National Geographic

What was the first colour underwater photo, and how was it taken? What exactly was Jacques Cousteau’s influence on the underwater photography field? How were photos taken of the Titanic, 12500 feet below the surface? National Geographic has a fascinating little slideshow of the history of underwater photography, though one question it failed to answer for me is exactly what the photographers say to the fish to get them to smile for the camera. Krill?
10 Marvels Of Underwater Photography By National Geographic

Unfriend Finder for Facebook

Unfriend Finder is a realtime script that allows you to know wich one of your friends removed you on facebook.
Unfriend Finder

A Guide to Smartphone Manners

A Modest Proposal for a Digital Détente: 10 Rules to Make Sure Smartphones Don’t Make Us Stupid.
A Guide to Smartphone Manners

Wirelessly Transfer Photos For Free From iPhone To Computer

Transferring pictures from your iPhone to computer can be annoying! Plugging in a cable and waiting for Image Capture to load and then syncing pictures over? Not cool. Apps like Photosync are great (and do two way transfers) but cost money, Wi-Fi Photo Transfer for iPhone is completely free.
Wirelessly Transfer Photos For Free From iPhone To Computer

How to Properly Clean Your Camera Lens [Video]

Everybody is familiar with the most rudimentary of lens cleaning techniques–a swipe with a clean sleeve–but what about giving your lens a thorough and lens-friendly cleaning? This detailed video shows you how to get the cleanest lens around.
How to Properly Clean Your Camera Lens [Video]

Microsoft Safety Scanner, Free On-Demand Virus Scanner

Microsoft has just released a program called Microsoft Safety Scanner, a free on-demand virus scanner for the Windows operating system. The program’s main task is to run a virus scan on a Windows system. The core difference to conventional antivirus software is the fact that it scans the PC but does not add protection to the operating system at the same time.
Microsoft Safety Scanner, Free On-Demand Virus Scanner

Not Dead Yet: The Ultimate Guide To RSS In 2011

RSS is dead, they say! They, being all of you who now get your news, information and various social updates from one of the many online platforms you subscribe to. But let it be said that all the Twitters, Facebooks and Reddits in the world can’t put a stake through the heart of the undying Really Simple Syndication feed. It’s a powerful part of the information distribution system that makes up the general Web, and its use on the mobile platform is unquestioned: Tablet PCs plus RSS equals sublime.
Not Dead Yet: The Ultimate Guide To RSS In 2011

Excel Transpose Trick

This one minute video shows you how to take a list of items in a column and copy it to a row. It is pretty simple, but when you need it this can really save you a lot of time.
Excel Transpose Trick

A gallery of doctored cosmonaut photos

Wired has a gallery of before-and-after photos showing how the Soviet Union airbrushed some cosmonauts out of history. These are absolutely fascinating, not just because of the uncovered lies—but because what was being lied about turned out to be much less horrible than anybody in the West had guessed.
A gallery of doctored cosmonaut photos

Watch Jumbo Jet Spin Tiny Jet In JFK Runway Collision

What happens when the world’s largest commercial jet clips the tail of a much smaller plane? Some tarmac turbulence that left the passengers of Comair Flight 6293 spinning.
Watch Jumbo Jet Spin Tiny Jet In JFK Runway Collision

How to Send Pictures from the Digital Camera to your Mobile Phone

Eye-Fi memory cards let you wirelessly transfer pictures from the digital camera to your computer without cables. They are compatible with most digital cameras and, other than transferring pictures to the computer, Eye-Fi cards can also upload photos to sites like Flickr and Facebook straight from the camera.
How to Send Pictures from the Digital Camera to your Mobile Phone

How to Find Thousands of Free Ebooks Online

You’ve got an ebook reader (or a laptop or netbook with ebook reading software) now you just need some free books to put it to good use. Read on as we show you the best places to score free books online.
How to Find Thousands of Free Ebooks Online

3 Free Online OCR Tools for Your Paperless Office: Online Collaboration «

One of the reasons that it’s so hard to create a truly paperless office is all the printed materials that you receive, such as invoices, receipts and other documents. You can scan them, of course, but to do anything useful with those scans, you’ll need to use optical character recognition (OCR) software, which can turn the images into text that you can then import into other apps. OCR software can also come in handy when a colleague or client emails you a PDF or image containing text that you’d like to use in another app.
3 Free Online OCR Tools for Your Paperless Office

Battleground trenches unearthed in Gallipoli

Australian archaeologists have located trenches, tunnels and cemeteries in the Gallipoli battlefields of Turkey as part of the first survey of the area since World War I.
Battleground trenches unearthed in Gallipoli

Problems revealed 50 years after Yuri Gagarin's space flight

The first manned mission to space by any human from planet Earth did not go off without a few hitches. Russia is releasing former secret documents on the fiftieth anniversary of the famous flight of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961.
Problems revealed 50 years after Yuri Gagarin's space flight

Vintage Ventriloquists Dummies

There is possibly no simpler gadget that is more creepy than a vintage ventriloquists dummy. A primitive automaton that threatens to come to life and haunt you. Here are a collection of slightly unsettling old ventriloquy puppets with their often equally unsettling owners.
Vintage Ventriloquists Dummies

50 Years In Space: Was It Worth It?

It was 50 years ago when people first flew in space. Here’s an infographic that shows you the spacecraft humans have flown to reach that great void over the past half-century.
50 Years In Space: Was It Worth It?

Coffee vs. Tea; An Infographic Breakdown

Over at Killer Infographics they have a detailed infographic breaking down the differences between drinking coffee and tea including levels of caffeine, health benefits, and health risks. Hit up the link below for the full infographic.
Coffee vs. Tea; An Infographic Breakdown