I was thrilled when Google announced back in March that Sprint customers(that’s me!) could now use their existing Sprint mobile number as their Google Voice number. Up to that point, I had relied on Google Voice for free text messaging, but it was a hassle to tell people to text me at a different number.
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Heading out and taking your earbuds with you to listen to some music? Rather than wrestle with the tangled mess that you pull out of your pocket before you can listen to your favorite Michael Jackson song, here’s a technique from Lifehacker on how to properly wrap your earbud headphones.
I recently noticed one of my friend’s Facebook update was a tad bit…peculiar. Under the message, the status said that it was posted “via Gameboy Color.” I was confounded, curious, and ultimately madly envious. A quick Google search led me to the answer posted in a reddit thread.
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Above: The Wall Street Journal; Below: The New York Times
With newspaper revenues dwindling in the age of the Internet, mobile devices, and social media, popular news publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have implemented paywalls to limit users’ access to their content. To combat that, a number of solutions have popped up to bypass this roadblock and avoid paying for a subscription.
Remember the good ol’ days of Vista? Sorry, hardcore Apple fans. Mac OS X is no exception (I’m looking at you Lion). Annoyances enough to make you rip out your hair abound, driving users insane. Despair no more, lost one. I’ve dealt with my fair share of headaches and hope to spare you from another. The following is a list of some of my biggest gripes in OS X, and how to fix them.
I don’t purport this tutorial as being the ideal way to download Youtube videos to your computer. A simple Google search will lead you to an assortment of options that requires less technical expertise. However, if you’re like me, and are relatively new to the command-line (think your OS without the GUI and a mouse), this might be an interesting way to accomplish something relatively useful (download Youtube videos to your computer) and also learn how to directly communicate with your computer.
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Recently, I began serving my static files(images, css, javascript files) via Amazon’s Cloudfront and S3 services to reduce the bandwidth on my web host and also speed up the delivery of web pages to visitors. I wrote a tutorial on how to set this up using the plugin W3 Total Cache on my other blog.
Mac OS X’s built-in Archive Utility is a handy tool that lets you easily expand ZIP files downloaded to your computer. However, the zip files by default stay behind, leaving your Downloads folder cluttered. Luckily, there’s a way to modify the preferences and have the downloaded zip files sent to your Trash.