Skip to content

Archive for February, 2012

Feb 29

How To Maximize Your Returns When Selling Back Textbooks

As an inveterate student, I know of the egregious costs of a traditional education. One of the most gut-wrenching experiences is when you return to the bookstore at the end of a semester to sell back unneeded textbooks, only to discover that your like-new tomes are no longer wanted or only fetch a fraction of their original price.

If you value your hard-earned money and you’d like some assistance navigating this torturous process, read on. Read more

Feb 27

Make Your iPad Into A Second Monitor For Your PC Or Mac

Even though the iPad is an extremely useful and entertaining device, you may find that there are times when it is nothing more than an aesthetically pleasing paperweight. If you want to get more utility out of your expensive investment, you could use it as a second monitor for your Mac or PC. Read more

Feb 24

Sync Online Media To Your Desktop With Social Folders

Cloud services, such as Facebook, Flickr and Google Docs, are great for their convenience and rapid development cycles, but many of us are uncomfortable with leaving the master copies of our data on someone else’s computers.

If you’d like an easy way to keep local copies of your online pictures and documents, you should try Social Folders. Read more

Feb 22

Keep Track Of Your Online Purchases With Slice

E-commerce is a significant contributor to the global economy and, odds are, if you use the Internet, you have probably made a purchase online. If this is something you do with increasing frequency and you’d like a way to organize your online receipts, you should try out Slice. Read more

Feb 20

Create A 3-D Panorama With Microsoft’s Photosynth

Windows only: While Apple, Google and Facebook often get the lion’s share of the tech industry’s attention, one would be unwise to dismiss Redmond’s sleeping giant. Regardless of its lack of mind share, Microsoft is still home to thousands of intelligent, talented engineers that are working on innovative technologies.

Today, we are going to cover one such example. Let’s learn about Microsoft Photosynth. Read more

Feb 17

Activate Night-Reading Mode For Any iOS App

If you are an information connoisseur, you probably have preferences for how you like your text formatted as you move through your daily feeds. Since we are now consuming an increasing volume of information on our mobile devices, finding ways to attractively present text on-the-go is a substantive issue.

The latest iteration of Apple’s e-book app, iBooks 1.5, introduced a new Night Theme designed to make text more legible in low-light conditions. Activated through the fonts menu, Night Theme takes the default white-on-black color scheme and reverses it, leading to less eye strain when reading in the dark. Other apps, such as Instapaper, have comparable modes.

If you find this reversal beneficial, and would like to utilize it in any iOS app, read on. Read more

Feb 15

2 Comments

Use Google Flights To Discover And Book The Most Affordable Fares

If you’re a technically inclined traveler, you are likely acquainted with myriad services for finding the cheapest flights. Yet, for some people, these services and their various options may seem overwhelming.

For those desiring the simplified interface that Google products often bring to bear, check out their newest tool, Google Flights. Read more

Feb 13

A Love Song

No tips today. Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and a few last-minute preparations are in order. Whether it is a spouse, significant other, friend or your resident geek, please try to find a way to show appreciation for the ones you love.

And for the truly hardcore, here’s a love letter to humankind’s greatest creation.

Oh, but I can’t get by unless there’s WiFi

Is this a drug that I need

There is no other way

I am at home all day

So that my torrents can seed

You just don’t get it

Cause you’re not on Reddit

And if you want me to go out

Just make sure that there’s

Internet

We know just how you feel. Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

Source YouTube 1, YouTube 2

Feb 10

Create A Desktop Pandora Experience With Pianopub For OS X

OS X only: Pandora is an excellent, online music service that enables you to create custom radio stations and stream your favorite tunes through a web browser or through the apps they provide for popular mobile operating systems, such as iOS and Android.

Although the basic service is free, you can enjoy higher quality streams without intrusive ads for a nominal fee ($36 per year), referred to as Pandora One. In addition, you get access to their desktop client, which enables you to control Pandora through a native application for your operating system.

If you enjoy using the service and have the requisite funds, I highly recommend upgrading, but if your financial situation is tight and you want to enjoy the benefits of a native desktop Pandora experience, give Pianopub a try. Read more

Feb 8

Find The Best Package Tracker For iOS

The holidays are over and, if you’re anything like your peers, you are probably getting used to doing more and more of your shopping online. During the process, you might have discovered that keeping track of all of your packages is a hassle, and desire a way to better organize your online shopping experience.

If you are an iOS user, you might want to check out the following apps. Read more

« Older Entries