Apartment Therapy: software

How to Improve iPhoto

We take a lot of digital photos. While some are for pleasure, the majority of our pics are for business -- the business of blogging, selling, and cat rescuing. Being bloggers, we end up using a lot...

Product Re(al)view: Blackberry Desktop Manager for Mac

If you've owned a Blackberry and a Mac you know that the relationship between the two devices is tense, hairy, and oftentimes nonexistent. With that kind of dysfunction it's a surprise if your mobile...

Improve Laptop Battery Life with the Right Browser

It looks like we're not the only ones seeing the decline of laptop battery life over time. However, there are tips and tricks out there to help you counter battery drain as much as possible (or at lea...

How To: Fix a Stuck or Dead Pixel

Chances are sooner or later you'll experience the annoyance of a dead or stuck pixel on your display. You can always try to massage it back to life physically using a massage or tapping technique, but...

WiFi HD Turns Your iPhone and iPod Touch into a Wireless Hard Drive

What did you do this weekend? Oh yah. Cool. Well, I found the coolest iPhone/Touch app ever. Swear to God. WiFi HD uses your wireless network to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into an external hard ...

Slick Home Theater Uses MacBook as Digital Library

We personally only watch TV through the Mac Mini plugged into our flat screen. It's seriously the best way to watch anything. No cable bills, no limits to what the networks are airing right now, it's...

Personal Shopper: Firefox Extension Helps Find Sales

There have been rumors for months now that the Playstation 3's price tag is on the verge of dropping, but you can't be expected to check Amazon every day for that day to come. Instead you can use a ne...

Microsoft Joins Google, Dropbox in the Cloud Race

It's hard to ignore the cloud now. Google's been all over it and are working on their own cloud OS. File syncing cloud services like Dropbox have made it even easier for us to keep all of our files wi...

Your New Business Trip Companion: A Card Scanner!

If you're the kind of guy who thinks business cards are silly and would rather just trade info with a connection by typing on your Blackberrys, you might also be the kind of guy who has a small, lid-l...

Twitter Magnets: Use Virtual Magnets to Compose Tweet

If you've finally caught up in the Twitter rage, then you must have started typing away on your cell phone or laptop, trying to come up with interesting tweets. I've read today that 60% of Twitter use...

Rumor Mill: Microsoft's Newest Version of Office To Be Online, Completely Free of Charge

Here's some good news for all you cloud computing fans out there. According to reports in the United States and Japan, the next iteration of Microsoft's widely used Office suite may be offered complet...

Twistori Screen Saver for Mac

So, I buckled and joined Twitter this weekend. The personal jury of me, myself and I are still out on whether or not Twitter is an innovative social medium or a way for attention addicts to get their ...

Design and Furnish Your Home With This Software

It's like clockwork. Every 4-5 months we get tired of how our home is set-up and start rearranging. Maybe the TV should be here? This new artwork would look great on this wall, but then we need to mo...

How To...Create a Back-Up System for WebMail

If you use any kind of web-based email account you're probably aware of the occasional hiccups of doing so. One example is when Gmail users couldn't access their accounts for several hours in Februar...

IKEA Home Planner Helps Reimagine Your Rooms In 3D

Sure, some of us may not have the creative genius that lets us re-imagine rooms like the finest designers, but that's a-ok with us. We can't think of many friends' spaces that don't have one or two th...

UNIQLOCK: Idiosyncracy Meets Japan In This Clever Clock Screensaver

It's been a while since we've added a new pick in our ultimate collection of sweet screensaver finds. We stumbled upon this screensaver as we were going through a few of our international blogs, only ...

Ubuntu Goes Under The Unplggd Magnifying Glass

If there's one thing great about Ubuntu Linux, it's the fact that it's completely free and encouraged to stay that way. There's also their unique approach to the Linux platform, essentially "dumbing i...

Survey: Do You Video Chat?

Ah David Pogue -- the tech oracle. What say you this week? Well, actually it was last week, but who's paying attention anyway. In his weekly column, on the heels of the release of Skype 4.0 for Windo...

Free Leica Icons Bring German Craftsmanship to Your Desktop

When I was growing up, my parents had an old 35mm Leica they would take everywhere. I was never allowed to touch it though. It was like a rare museum piece that just so happened to be sitting on the ...

The Coolest New Tricks From iLife, iWork

You MacHeads all probably already know that the 2009 updated versions of iWork and iLife, two of Apple's software bunches for your business and pleasure(respectively), were announced earlier this mont...

PS3 Media Server: A Great Tversity Alternative

For those who don't know, we're big fans of multi-purposing home tech here. Whether it be a DIY project turning your pencil eraser into a USB thumbdrive or creating a free media streaming hub from you...

Tech Tour: Americana With a Silicon Valley Twist via Sweden

Names: Henrik Nyh and Johanna Öst Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Size: The entire home (a condo) is 63 square metres/678 square feet. Years Lived In:: Just over one year now. >>Enter Slideshow We fe...

The Condom USB: Protecting Your Flash Drive From Harm

USB flash drives are becoming an essential part of living in our modern times. I can't remember the number of times that I've used mine. They are also getting bigger and bigger, meaning that they are ...

Survey: Do You Pencil or Type Things In?

In the past, a new year brought a spanking new day planner. As soon as the clock would strike midnight we would whip out our new calendar and start plugging in events, birthdays, and to-dos. It was l...

Helvetireader Streamlines Google Reader

Google recently updated its RSS reader's look. We don't like it any more than what they had before. There's just too much going on with all the little modular squares within squares. That said, we we...

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