Until recently, Sara Rimer had the kind of home office where a filing cabinet ended up as just another surface for clutter piles. Then she called some home office designers, reconfigured everything, and shared her experience. Rimer's story in the New York Times goes into detail on how her design consultants determined what she'd need as a writer, how it was implemented, and why the softer stuff&m
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Designing the Perfect, Personalized Home Office
Posted by anonymous 348 days ago (http://lifehacker.com)Computer, Connector or Communicator – What Is The Name for You?
Posted by zeeshan 348 days ago (Editorial)
I sometimes feel that we use way too many words that don’t really fit the objects and substances they are intended to describe. Like the word “computer” - have you thought about how inappropriate it already is? Really, when was the last time when you actually did some computing on your computer?Personally I can hardly remember when I computed anything on my notebook - only some
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Facebook Responds to Criticism Over Latest Redesign
Posted by zeeshan 348 days ago (http://mashable.com)
Facebook users have been very vocal about protesting the latest changes to the social networking site, which were rolled out earlier this month. Some wondered whether or not the company would even respond at all, after it was reported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that “the most disruptive companies don’t listen to their customers.”Tonight though, the company has responded to those cus
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An hour for the Earth
Posted by admin 348 days ago (http://feedproxy.google.com)
Cities around the world will participate in Earth Hour on Saturday, turning off their lights to raise awareness for energy conservation.You might remember that last year we “turned the lights out” on the Google.com homepage during Earth Hour to symbolize our own commitment to sustainability. We won’t be turning out the lights on our homepage again this year. Our users come first, and while we
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First Look at Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" Beta
Posted by anonymous 349 days ago (http://lifehacker.com)
The name's ridiculous, but "Jaunty Jackalope," the next release of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is seriously focused on the user experience. Dig what's new and improved in the beta of Ubuntu 9.04, due out today. We've covered bits and pieces of what's coming up for Ubuntu 9.04 in the past few months, such as Mac/Growl-like notifications (that you can grab now, if you want), some stylish
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YouTube EDU Brings Free Education to the Masses
Posted by anonymous 349 days ago (http://lifehacker.com)
YouTube has just released a new sub-site called YouTube EDU, aggregating thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities across the country, including MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and oh-so-many more. On Tuesday we highlighted another similar application that we described as Hulu for academic lectures called Academic Earth, and just two days later, here comes YouTube EDU. It's incr
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Skype Now The Largest International Phone Calls Provider. And eBay Still Wants To Sell It?
Posted by zeeshan 349 days ago (Editorial)
Despite of the fact that we keep talking about how Skype is not profitable enough for eBay to keep it instead of trying to sell it, Skype now proves to be growing at impressive rates as a provider of international calls.According to a report published by TeleGeography, Skype has increased the number of minutes in international calls by huge 41% over 2008 and currently holds a total of 8% of inter
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Share Netflix Ratings on Facebook
Posted by zeeshan 349 days ago (http://feedproxy.google.com)
Netflix API is resulting in some cool mashups lately. The other day we wrote about semantic movie search engine Jinni making use of the API. Today, Netflix has announced integration with Facebook Connect. This integration lets you post movies you’ve rated on Netflix in your Facebook profile. To start using the feature, go to www.netflix.com/facebookconnect and use the “Connect”
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