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This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

Posted 9 hours ago

GrabUp Makes Screenshot Sharing Effortless (Mac) "Freeware application GrabUp automatically uploads screenshots to the internet and pastes the URL in your clipboard for quick and easy sharing."Dock… [Cache] [Link]

Best Video Feeds? [Ask The Readers]

Posted 10 hours ago

We love bringing you good video clips that show off hacks or give clever advice or different perspectives; Check out our weekend watching tag for a few we've posted so far. But what are your favorite… [Cache] [Link]

VeeDee-Eyes Offers Pre-Configured Linux Distros for VirtualBox [Virtualization]

Posted 11 hours ago

If you've been checking out the newest VirtualBox beta for Mac OS X, or you're intrigued by Linux but not ready to deal with virtualizing it, the Sun xVM VirtualBox VDI Index—or, as it's… [Cache] [Link]

Get Google Maps Screenshots to Go [Iphone 2.0]

Posted 12 hours ago

Reader Chimera says that you can use the iPhone 2.0 software's built-in screenshot-taking ability to save images of Google Maps to your device before you leave the house (and the fast Wi-Fi… [Cache] [Link]

Look Around Corners and Over Walls with a DIY Periscope [Weekend Project]

Posted 13 hours ago

Peek over walls and look around corners with a periscope—a long tool that uses two mirrors to show you hard-to-reach places. Over at how-to site Instructables, they've got the step by step for… [Cache] [Link]

Forgo a New Car Purchase with Online Hourly Rentals [Cars]

Posted 14 hours ago

My pal Susie decided not to replace her totaled car and happily opted to rent by the hour with Zipcar instead (possibly NSFW link there). With rising gas and insurance prices, her choice is more… [Cache] [Link]

Take Psychedelic Pictures with Your iPhone [IPhone]

Posted 15 hours ago

Wired's How-To Wiki demonstrates how to exploit the iPhone's unusual shutter to take distorted photographs. The trick? Just twist your camera as you're taking a picture. The reason? The iPhone uses a… [Cache] [Link]

Set Up a Movie Theater in Your Backyard [Weekend Project]

Posted 16 hours ago

With a projector, DVD player, a bed sheet, and an extension cord, Wired's How-To Wiki runs down how to make a movie theater in your backyard this summer. [Cache] [Link]

Hitchsters Helps You Catch a Cheap Airport Ride in NYC [Travel]

Posted 17 hours ago

Find yourself in New York City without an airport ride, but don't want to pony up the disheartening full fare for a cab ride? Hitchsters.com hooks you up with other taxi riders taking the same flight… [Cache] [Link]

Get Better Vacation Photos [Photography]

Posted 18 hours ago

Macworld runs down how to get vacation photos that don't look just like everyone else's with some power tips on gear, camera settings, perspective and more. [Cache] [Link]

How to Hack a Technical Job Interview [Weekend Watching]

Posted 19 hours ago

Job interview master Vj Vijai describes how make the best impression at a technical interview using people skills (versus technical skills). His talk, which happened at O'Reilly's awesome Ignite… [Cache] [Link]

Back to Basics: Your Task List

Posted 24 hours ago

Everyone makes a task list (or “todo list”) at least now and again. Usually, we wait until we’re overwhelmed with stuff to do, and then we’ll sit down and list everything we need to get done in the next day or two. Then, one by one, we go through the items on our list, do them, and cross them off. … [Cache] [Link]

Where Are the Blokes?

Posted 24 hours ago

Today’s post is not so much a personal development ‘lesson’ as it is a discussion and exploration into how men and women are wired; a look at something which interests me. As always, I don’t have all the answers but I do have plenty of questions and thoughts. Being as I’m not a female (mostly), I may be completely off … [Cache] [Link]

Dealing with Downsizing: How to Prepare

Posted 24 hours ago

It’s awful to hang around an office where everyone knows that job cuts are coming. There’s a sense that everyone’s just waiting for the shoe to drop. No one in the office wants to lose their job and go through the horrors of the job hunt. At the same time, though, no one wants to be the guy left at … [Cache] [Link]

Apply a Noise Gate to Your Life

Posted 24 hours ago

Chances are you’ve heard — or rather, not heard — the effects of a noise gate, but unless you’re into audio engineering, you probably didn’t realize it. Ever been at a concert or listen to a radio broadcast where it sounds great when there’s music playing or a voice speaking, but no hiss in the pauses between? Unless the signal … [Cache] [Link]

This Week's Best Posts [Highlights]

Posted 32 hours ago

Subscribe to our top stories feed to get only our best posts without the extras on a daily basis. This week's most popular posts include: One Hundred Push Ups Takes You from Zero to a Hundred in Six… [Cache] [Link]

Mount a Camera on Your Bike [How To]

Posted 33 hours ago

Photography enthusiast blog Photojojo details how to mount your point-and-shoot camera on your bicycle for fun and creative shooting. The supplies are cheap (under $10), and putting it all together… [Cache] [Link]

DropUpload Does Quick Drag-and-Drop FTP [Featured Windows Download]

Posted 34 hours ago

Windows only: Free, open-source application DropUpload is a lightweight FTP client designed to provide simple drag-and-drop file uploads to any folder on your FTP server. To use it, you set up… [Cache] [Link]

QuickSend Sends Simple, One-Hand Emails from Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]

Posted 35 hours ago

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application QuickSend creates and sends simple emails in a flash through a one-hand-friendly interface. When you fire up the app, you get two scrollable sections: the… [Cache] [Link]

Task-Defined Binder Clips for Your Hipster PDA [Hipster PDA]

Posted 36 hours ago

If you get things done with a classic Hipster PDA—i.e., simple notecards with a binder clip—but would like to expand your hipster PDA to more complex realms, DIY web site Curbly offers a… [Cache] [Link]