DIY Power Brick Laptop Stand [Clever Uses]

DIY web site Instructables posts a simple laptop prop stand that dual-purposes your laptop’s power brick as the stand. All you need is some sticky velcro strips, which you affix to the bottom of your laptop and the side of the power brick. Whenever you want to prop up your laptop, just stick the velcro […]

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CampTune Non-Destructively Resizes Your Boot Camp Partition [Featured Mac Download]

Mac OS X only: Free-for-now boot CD CampTune resizes your Boot Camp partition when the size of the Windows installation on your dual-booting Mac bumps against its limits. Without …
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Summer To-Do’s: Free Music—Jazz, Beethoven, and Showtunes

Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 The summer symphony orchestra had their first of two performances last night at Hertz Hall, and will be closing the curtains tonight. We say this figuratively, of course, as Hertz doesn’t actually have a …
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Make Firefox 3’s Bookmarks Available to Launchy and Quicksilver [Firefox Tip]

Firefox 3 doesn’t store your bookmarks in the plain old HTML file that Firefox 2 did, so desktop launchers like Quicksilver and Launchy can’t index them properly. But the HackCollege blog has a solution: a Firefox 3 about:config tweak that makes Firefox automatically export your bookmarks to a file. Change the …
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Remove Your Mac’s Hard Drive from the Desktop [Mac Tip]

Mac users who like to keep their workspace free of shortcuts and folders will love this “oh, duh!” tip for removing your hard drive from the Desktop. In Finder’s Preferences pane, in the General tab, …
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MeD’s Movie Manager Catalogs Your DVD Collection [Featured Download]

All platforms (with the Java runtime): Free software MeD’s Movie Manager is not as feature-rich as heavier-weight media managers like Griffith, but it still makes tracking your movie collection on your …
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Systems & Processes Will Help You Do What You Really Want

If you have ever wondered about creating systems in your business, then consider reading the post I’ll introduce now. Rich Schefren, owner of Strategic Profits, had a great post today. He titled it “Anybody Seen the Instruction Mnual?”
Rich talks about how taking the time to outline a process can really help your business (and any […]

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To do: Wednesday 23rd April

Catch up with all the notes I’ve scribbled down “to write up on the blog later” Stuff on desk and also post-it bookmark NB: perfectionism, felt I had to …
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OPINION: Earth Week To-Do List

I’m about to go against everything I usually preach, but that’s okay. It’s time for action. Carrying around my ECO mug for late-night chai, making sure I recycle that Sunja’s …
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from the desk of the super disappointed

In the second week, he made an appointment with me to tell me that he had no idea how to do an assignment because I had provided no vocabulary or instructions–he had not read the directions and procedures on the course website that I …
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