Author of the upcoming book The Power of Less Leo Babauta offers a companion ebook that’s free to download now. Thriving on Less—Simplifying in a Tough Economy tells you how to do just that.
The 27-page PDF describes advice garnered from Babauta’s own journey from clutter, debt, and scarcity to a simpler, frugal lifestyle that focuses [...]
This past week proved that you can’t rely on something as simple as a web browser to keep your personal data and identity safe from harm.
Critical flaws were found in the Internet Explorer and even Firefox web browsers, leaving users potentially vulnerable to spyware, viruses, and password-sniffing. But don’t throw up your hands in defeat—with [...]
iPhone/iPod touch only: Free money management webapp Mint rolls out an iPhone app that puts most of its basic data-mining, alerts, and money-watching tools in a few simple screens.
From the Mint app’s home screen, you can see your total balances and click through to check out transactions on balances on everything you’ve registered over at [...]
While much creative insight happens while your mind wanders, the key is being able to interrupt your daydreams in time to notice, scientists say.
News site Boston.com tells the story of how Arthur Fry dreamed up the multi-million dollar idea of Post-It Notes while daydreaming in church.
Many scientists argue that daydreaming is a crucial tool [...]
Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Search Cloudlet adds a click-on tag cloud to your Google and Yahoo searches, helping you find deep-seated terms and phrases and refine your results, as you’ll see below.
The free add-on, developed by the International Software and Productivity Engineering Institute, can adjust the number of keyword results you see below each search, and automatically [...]
Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Search Cloudlet adds a click-on tag cloud to your Google and Yahoo searches, helping you find deep-seated terms and phrases and refine your results, as you’ll see below.
The free add-on, developed by the International Software and Productivity Engineering Institute, can adjust the number of keyword results you see below each search, and automatically [...]
Around my house, hacked email accounts were something that happened to other people—relatives with weak passwords, generally, or Dateline story subjects. Until yesterday, when my wife emailed everybody about “gps ,TV LCD,cell phones …”
She didn’t really blast-mail everyone about a spammy electronics site, of course—whoever broke into her Gmail account did. They also changed her [...]
Author David Allen’s follow-up to his best-selling productivity bible Getting Things Done is called Making It All Work. Due out this month, it’s all about how to become a better self-manager.
In a series of excerpts published by tech site BNET, Allen discusses the two axes of self-management—control and perspective—and asks you to place [...]
Popular user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia has finally released a mobile-friendly version of the web site at mobile.wikipedia.org.
The site offers a trimmed down version of Wikipedia proper, supports 14 languages, and even has a mysterious Spoken Wikipedia setting that—though currently not enabled, may presumably one day read Wikipedia articles to you.
We’ve seen plenty of tools for [...]
Like Firefox, the open source media player Songbird is a pretty neat alternative to a big-name competitor on its own, but the ability to extend it through add-ons is what really makes it boss.
We considered the release candidate of the potential “iTunes killer”—Songbird a sloppy mess, then backed up a bit when it’s 1.0 release [...]
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