If you are an iDevice and Google Reader user, an app you might want to look into is Reeder which adds lots of functionality to your Google Reader service. Feature of interest include:Sync’s with Google Reader (as you can probably imagine) Mark as unread Option to order by oldest first (for unread items) Post to TwitterThe ability to change the sort...

Have you ever copied something to your clipboard and before you pasted it, you copied over it? This can obviously be frustrating, especially if you cannot easily go back and grab the data you lost. To help with this problem, try the Nirsoft utility Clipboardic. Clipboardic is a small utility that listen to the clipboard activity, and each time that you copy...

There are no shortage of URL shorteners out there, many which offer features such as statistics and other metrics. While many times the shortened URL is perfectly safe, you never know where clicking the link will take you. Even if you do check the full URL before visiting, how do you know it is safe? This is what the mcaf.ee URL shortener service provides some...

As system tweakers and power users probably know, not everything can be configured through the dialog screens provided by Windows. While there are many utilities which provide interfaces for performing "undocumented" tweaks, digging into the registry itself gives you ultimate control… if you know where to look. That said, a great article which...

If you are ever curious about the "dirt" people can pull up on you, run a background check on yourself. If you don’t know how to get started with this, check out this article on The Consumerist titled "Do A Total Background Check On Yourself". This article lists everything from credit bureau’s to utility reports and includes a...

About a month ago, I ran an article which showed how different browsers would offer varying loan rates on the same site. It seems this practice is somewhat common according to an article recently published on Slate: In its most brazen form, it works like this: Retailers read the cookies kept on your browser or glean information from your past purchase history...

Odds are whenever you unload your camera you have loads of picture files in high quality. While high quality is ideal for keeping on your system or printing, their large size makes for a long upload time to online services. So to quickly get your files pushed to your online photo album you can resize them to a more "web friendly" size. A tool which can...

If you have exhausted your Google Reader articles and are looking for some time to kill or something new to read, than an interesting tool to look at is Google Reader Play. In Google Reader Play, items are presented one at a time, and each item is big and full-screen. After you’ve read an item, just click the next arrow to move to the next one, or click...

As you may know, program icons can be embedded directly into application resource files. For example, an EXE or DLL file can contain an entire library of icon files that programs can utilize. To easily view and extract embedded icons in these type files, check out IconViewer. IconViewer is a shell extension, a plugin for Windows Explorer. When you open the...

Gmail offers the ability to automatically check external accounts via a POP connection which can be very useful when one of your email accounts does not offer forwarding ability or you want to bypass the Gmail spam filter. The only drawback to this is the frequency of automatic checking is determined by the email volume of the respective account. Simply put, the...

If you are a bargain hunter and want to make sure you are snagging the item you want at the right price, a Firefox add-on you need to look at is Camelizer: Add price history charts and price watch features to product pages on sites like Amazon, Best Buy, and Newegg. Use it to make informed purchasing decisions and to receive price drop alerts via email, Twitter,...

For a little Friday fun, play around with the beatboxing skills of Google Translate. As this post on Reddit explains:Go to Google Translate Set the translator to translate German to German Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch Click "listen" Be amazedFor...

First off, this is not simply a Dropbox clone, Pogoplug is something completely different and is somewhat hard to explain. Their description does a good job of elaborating on what this device/service does: Each Pogoplug comes with a free online service for remotely accessing and sharing your files through any web browser or mobile device. To use My.Pogoplug.com,...

Here is something I came across which is a pretty awesome gift for any tech enthusiast who is a "Back to the Future" trilogy fan: a 500GB external hard drive with a DeLorean enclosure. Flash Rods’ latest 1:18 scale replica, which not only faithfully reproduces the DeLorean Time Machine (complete with Mr. Fusion reactor from Back to the Future...

If you like to keep an eye on historical content of certain websites to note any design changes (such as on sites you develop or monitor), then it can be a good idea to occasionally take a screenshot of the home page every so often. Doing this allows you to have a timeline of how a site has evolved its look over time. A utility which can make this a "set it...