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The Mint Calculator: Real Life Windows and OS X Calculators

Love this amusing concept of drawing upon the designs of operating system calculators from both Windows and OS X widgets as the basis of real world calculators for the (home) office. Designers at Mi...

How To: Remix an IKEA Media Shelf Into a Window Seat

We've seen bookshelves turned record storage and vice versa. We've also seen them turned into desks, as well as other types of workable surfaces. But what about a window seat? This is where Instructab...

Mac Applications to Increase Productivity

We could spend ages making our workspaces gorgeous and perfectly comfortable. But the reality is that the less time you spend distracted by Facebook and Twitter is more time you could have to... &mdas...

How To: Share Files Between a Mac & PC

Do you happen to be a Mac that lives with a PC? Oh yeah. Interested in sharing files through your network? No problemo. Though it does require a little elbow grease and networking know-how, we've made...

Apple's Slow Path Towards the Ultimate Home Media Server

Even with all the new Apple gadget and OS upgrades released recently, we couldn't help but wonder where all of the home focus has gone. Surely, we can't be all portability maniacs playing around with ...

Geco: Solar Powered Robot Cleans Windows

If there's one thing that frustrates us it's cleaning windows. Don't get us wrong, the glass on the inside is easy to clean, but a lot of us live in condos or apartments, making it impossible to clean...

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...

Good Questions: Vista - A Mysterious Black Hanging Screen of Death?

Hey Unplggd, It goes like this: my Vista system occasionally boots up to a black screen with a mouse cursor. That's it, no rest of the user interface, no nothing to do. It also does this sometimes whe...

Final Frame: A Place to Create

Creation by Oliver Valle. And if you're wondering, the screensaver is one amongst our favourites....

Final Frame: Internet Explorer Image Error

Photo by Andreas Solberg...

Look!: Techie Grafiti

Check out this gallery of found street art over at Kontraband, all with some tie to the geek world of computers, software and video games. Some are clever, some are cool and others are just there to m...

Seamlessly Blending Desktop Info with Your Wallpaper

Hi my name is Taryn and I am a desktop-aholic. Sometimes it seems like I can't go a week without changing the backdrop to my cyber-life. Sometimes it's pictures of friends and good times, sometimes it...

Where Your Laptop's Power Goes

When you're almost out of juice and reach for your laptop's power cord, you just see two things: your power-draining thousand-dollar hunk of metal (couldn't it keep a three-hour charge last year?) and...

Which Version of Windows Are You Running?

We've been playing around with Windows Vista Ultimate on a test system over here and it's taking us a little time to get our footing (we have XP installed on the MacBook Pro, but it's simply for gamin...

Roundup: Ten Best Looking (Free!) Screen Savers

We know that you guys eat these screensavers up whenever we post them. There's always tons of comments and the posts (Like the ones featuring Fliqlo and the Word Clock), are always making thier way in...

Final Frame: Windows Window

From the designer of the Paint Or Die But Love Me table, John Nouanesing, comes a new concept in his collection. FenĂȘtres 3.1, a real window complete with "code" shades, is not on the horizon for pro...