Here’s a quick tip for tonight. I’ve mentioned this in passing in prior blogs but it’s worth a mention by itself. Sometimes, you need to keep an eye on the weather if you have pets at home who don’t fancy thunderstorms or if there is a hailstorm warning and you want to track its trajectory. …
Category: Technology
Feb 10 2012
Visualise the Scale of the Universe
Thanks to John Tomic for sharing this with me 🙂 If you’ve ever wanted to get a visual idea of the scale of stuff in the universe then there’s a great Flash-based tool that shows you a variety of objects and scales all the way from the length of a planck through to the estimated size …
Feb 09 2012
Meet and Seat – Social Networking in the Skies
Here’s something that might potential float your boat or sink it depending upon your inclination. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has launched a new “meet and seat” service which allows people to select “seatmates” by looking through the social profiles of other passengers who have selected the same flight. Your individual social profile is created and …
Feb 08 2012
Clean Up Your Social Media Accounts With mypermissions.org
For the vast majority of us, managing privacy and security across the various social media sites probably isn’t at the forefront of our minds. Over time, more and more apps end up having access to our information or otherwise you might inadvertently allow access to a malicious app. There’s no time like the present to check the …
Feb 06 2012
Automatic Updates Coming in Internet Explorer
Here’s something to keep in mind when using Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Vista and 7. For a while now, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have possessed auto-update capabilities (Firefox being more explicit about it while Chrome silently updates itself in the background and applies the changes when it is restarted with nary a peep). …
Feb 05 2012
Another Way to Close Windows in Windows
Here’s a quick tip for tonight for Windows users. Back in Windows 3.1 there wasn’t a dedicated button to close a window so instead you had to double click the menu button in the top left corner. It wasn’t until Windows 95 that a dedicated close button made its appearance in the top right corner …
Feb 04 2012
CCleaner for Mac OS X
Here’s a quick software pick for the Mac users out there. CCleaner, which I have covered in a prior post, has now been made available for Mac OS X. Windows users have been able to use this utility for quite some time to remove a lot of the built up cruft from their computers and …
Feb 03 2012
Use Caffeine to Stop Your Mac From Sleeping
No, I’m not recommending that you try pouring coffee into your favourite Mac but if you hate having to go into the Energy Saver preferences to frequently change the settings then this might be for you. There’s an app called “Caffeine” in the Mac App Store that allows you to toggle whether or not your …
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