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MakeUseOf's Lesser-Known Google Maps Features

Some of you might me Google Maps aficionados that are already hip to the tips and tricks that get your from point A to point B more easily. But for those of us still learning the ropes, MakeUseOf.com ...

When DIY Goes Wrong: There, I Fixed It

We already try to put a little TLC into our gadgets and gizmos before we throw them out to pasture. But sometimes, it's better to just let go (or go without, as we'd hoped those tech-craving pool-dwel...

MakeUseOf's 5 Ways to Propose With the Internet

So you've found the girl or guy of your dreams. You both love playing Tetris, defragging hard drives and taking long walks on the beach with your iPods on. You're ready to take the plunge and ask your...

Packwhiz: Online Tool Helps Pack a Home-Away-From-Home

For techies like us here at Unplggd, we know that there are plenty of tools and tech tips that can help make your house (or apartment, or loft, or rented garage studio...) a home. But what about using...

Make the Most of Tech When You Work from Home

We all spend a lot of time and money getting our home offices looking good (That's why we're all here reading Unplggd, isn't it?). It makes you want to spend every minute that you can in there. You mi...

Hulu Goes Browser-less, Now a Desktop Resource

We—and everyone else who enjoys the flexibility to watch their favorite shows on their own time—gush non-stop about the amazing, brilliant and oh-so-addictive online resource Hulu. You can...

NY Times Untangles the 'World of Cables'

So, admittedly, some of us are not all tech experts. Even though we love a sleek MacBook and couldn't do without our iPod dock, we aren't exactly well-versed on all things home tech. Like we still get...

iHandy Carpenter: The Tech Handyman's Companion

With the Apple iTunes App Store reaching 50,000 downloadable applications to extend your iPhone or iPod Touch into nearly every realm of life, we're starting to see a slew of helpful home improvement...

The Best Free Web Sites to Find Foreclosed Homes

With the twisted shape the housing market is in right now, everyone's got something at stake. But if you're among those right-place-right-time-ers who are in a position to buy a home, others' misfortu...

Laundry Pal iPhone App Helps With Household Chores

Laundry might just be the most tedious chore out there. There's some super heavy lifting involved if you wait too long and overflow a few baskets, a lot of mental challenge in the organization of clot...

Luciol's Digital Bookmarks Organizes Your Real World Library

While placing bookmarks may seem like an everyday, even mundane, task for some, there's always room for improvement when you make it go digital. In comes Luciol, a digital bookmarking device by Defne ...

Voet Cranf ∞ color synthAxis Color Generating Software

Call us easily entertained. We're still trying to get a grasp of it, but a minute of playing around with voet cranf ∞ color synthAxis has us completely immersed. The free software generates complim...

Another iPhone Decor App: Sherwin Williams ColorSnap

Last week we posted about the upcoming (in June) iPhone app from Benjamin Moore, the Color Capture. In response, we heard from the folks at Sherwin Williams......

RunPee: Never Miss The Good Parts Again

RunPee is the kind of brilliant Web service that makes you wonder why it hasn't been thought of before. With all of the collective knowledge available to us on the internet, it's about time somebody h...

64 Things Every Geek Should Know (via Laptop Logic)

If you've been reading Unplggd, you might already have an arsenal of geek skills at your disposal. You probably already know how to display the date and time in Mac's finder bar, how to skip automated...

Wrong Side of the Format War? Go Red2Blu

Be honest, did you go out and stock up all your favorite movies in HD DVD because they were gonna be the next big thing? Plenty of people dove into high-def and then one day (March 28, 2008 to be exac...

It's Earth Day! 5 Tech Energy Facts to Help You Conserve

Earth Day, founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 as an environmental teach-in, is designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. But just because the day is all a...

Get a Free Computer Online! Kind of...

No, this isn't a scam. Nor is it exactly what it seems. G.ho.st, an acronym for Global Hosted Operating SysTem, is a service that lets everyone have an online computer workspace that they can access w...

StillTasty.com Tells You When to Clean Out the Fridge

Where was this when I needed it in college? I always needed advice on which food expiration dates are strict rules and which are just guidelines, I never knew how to defrost different foods safely and...

Make a Little Extra Money Online With a Little Extra Hard Work

You stop eating when you're full and you stop buying beautiful furniture when you've run out of space. But there is still at least one thing in life that everyone wishes they had a little more of: Mon...

Bookmark This: Free Downloads Curator
Fonts, Wallpapers, Greeting Cards...

As mentioned in the past, your printer isn't just for publishing digital photos and inking tax forms. You can use your printer for plenty of other things like filling your home with free artwork and ...

Explore the BlackBerry App World on April 1st

No mater what you need to do—from extending your laptop keyboard with a numeric keypad to comparing prices while you're out shopping ...say it with us: There's an app for that! The iPhone has go...

Calling all Architecture Freaks!

Isn't technology great? Before, when a dude was really into building architecture and wanted to check out thousands of pictures of beautiful buildings, he'd have to go to a library and check out hundr...

Home Remedies For Common Electronics Mishaps

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about her Indian mom who has a convenient library of home remedies stuck her in brain, kinda like the "Put some Windex on it" dad from My Big Fa...

Gazaro Sifts Through Not-Worth-It Electronics Sales

So, kind of off-topic, but has anybody noticed that Subway is offering footlong subs for $5? Of course you have, they won't shut up about it. But did you notice that the footlong tuna sub is regularly...

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