It’s a simple concept: take the three rows of letters that constitute the QWERTY keyboard and consolidate them into one, then touch-type as you normally would.The software will then guess your intent, so you don’t actually have to hit the right letters. It apparently works, and →
Analyze choices and make better decisions with ‘Odesys’
All of us have important decisions we need to make, but can a piece of software help us make better ones? Odesys, a free online web app, wants to be exactly such a tool. Created by self described ‘decision theory researches’, Odesys takes you through a →
Omea Reader: may be the only RSS aggregator which lets you attach tags and notes to RSS posts
Now that Google Reader users are looking for a replacement, we wanted to highlight Omea, a desktop-based reader and organizer for RSS and newsfeeds that has some unique features that are not typically available in other RSS aggregators. It was designed to organize every bit of →
Three awesome online RSS aggregators that you (probably) didn’t know about
Now that everyone is looking for an RSS aggregator to replace the outgoing Google Reader, there’s been a host of articles published on the best services that you can migrate to. Aside from the usual suspects that everyone is talking about (Feedly, The Old Reader, and →
Three Reasons why Google Reader shutting down may not be such a bad thing
You may have heard that Google Reader is being phased out, and will be out of commission by July 1st. And although I like Google Reader and was disappointed to hear the news, there may be a silver lining. Here are three reasons why Google Reader’s →
Five Free Android Games That You Must Play!
We recently published an ambitious article entitled ‘The Best Free Android Games: our Top 5’, which should have had a better title like ‘The Top Five Free Android Games’. In any case, we had to install and play many dozens of free games in order to write →
Groupnotes lets you annotate any web page and have on-the-spot conversations with collaborators
Groupnotes is a cross between a web clipper and social-media style note taking app. It will let you have a conversation with your team right on top of any webpage, which can be useful in all manner of collaborations such as web design or research projects, →
How to send ebooks and documents to Kindle or Kindle mobile app WIRELESSLY
So you have some ebooks or documents on hard drive, but how to transfer these to your Kindle or your iPad Kindle app or other device? Typically, you would need to attach the device to the PC via a USB cable, but wouldn’t be easier to →
Bypass the UAC prompt for any program, with ‘ElevatedShortcut’ for Windows 7 and Windows 8
UAC security prompts have becoming a mainstay of Windows since Vista, but especially with the introduction of Windows 7, and they remain so with Windows 8. We’ve written about how to go around these on Windows startup by using the task scheduler to bypass the prompts (see →
Restrict access to adult and inappropriate sites, with ‘Dns Angel’ for Windows
Do you have small children in your household using the internet? Are you concerned about inappropriate access to adult and other problematic sites? If so, this program may be exactly what you need. ‘Dns Angel’ is a portable freeware for Windows that can switch your computer’s →
WizTree is a LIGHTNING FAST utility to find the large files and folders hogging your hard drive
If you don’t know where all of your hard drive space went and are struggling to clear up large files, this terrific FREE program can help. You may be thinking ‘but I’ve already seen excellent programs like this on this very site’, but WizTree has a →
How to use a custom background image on the Google Search Homepage in Chrome
A few months ago, Google removed the option to add custom images and wallpapers to the Google search homepage. If you loved this feature or if you like the idea of customizing your Google homepage, try ‘Background Image for Google Home’, a handy Chrome extension that →
