Sometimes the best geek tips aren't something huge and revolutionary — sometimes they're "duh" things that you either forget you can do, or they're so simple you feel like you should have known but just never learned for some reason.
My "duh" geek tip is being able to use drag and drop in Google Reader to organize your feeds. I've been using the "Manage My Subscription" button ever since I've been a Reader user, and manually going to arrange and organize my feeds. I just found that you can simply drag the feed name in the right margin and drop them into new folders, and out of alphabetical order (which is the default) into whichever order you want.
For a whole new search experience, you must check out Viewzi, a visual search engine that presents info in a variety of interesting formats. When I typed in "laptop" for my search, unlike a regular list of results like typical search engines, I can choose from all sorts of fun view displays such as web screenshot view, simple text view, basic photo view, video X3 view, and 3D photo cloud view.
With the 4 sources view (in this pic), I was able to view search results from sites like Yahoo, Google, Ask, and MSN in visual form. There are so many ways to explore content that it's really one of those sites that you have to explore to understand its potential and effectiveness! See more screen caps below to get an idea about the variety of searches available.
I have a box of stationery that sits on my desk and never gets used. Aside from the occasional thank-you note, I never sit at my desk and just pour my feelings out onto a sheet of paper with pen and ink.
Everything important gets an email — which is also what the New York Times is saying this week, as well as questioning what happens when emails don't get received. A lost email though, will never be as sad as a lost letter, and I think this is what Chris Noth's sentiment on Mr. Big was really about. But I'm still concerned with the letters — do you write any anymore?
On Tuesday, Lori Mehmen from Iowa ran out her front door to see this. She quickly grabbed her digital camera before taking cover. — The New York Times
MySpace may still dominate Facebook in the US market, but because of Facebook's growth internationally, it has more visitors worldwide. — TechCrunch
Women with long nails are said to have some difficulty typing on the iPhone's touch screen and are hoping that Apple will soon offer a stylus so they don't have to cut off their nails! — Shiny Shiny
OK, so you have a ton of burning questions about the iPhone 3G. Have no fear, Gizmodo answers practically all of them. — Gizmodo
A new study indicates that gamers who spend more than 50 hours or more a week playing video games surprisingly don't have signs of shyness or low self-esteem, something the study was looking for. — Switched
By now, you should know my school of thought on laptop bags: more, more, more! Even if I don't end up purchasing every laptop bag design that catches my fancy, I can't get enough. It's another level of geek eye candy, and the changing seasons are just another excuse to switch out your laptop tote. Check out my slideshow for the best of the bright, summery laptop bags and sleeves!
My phone is attached to my hip, and if I ever happen to lose it (knock on wood), I would be lost! Especially since I use my cell to do so many more than just make calls and send texts!
I use it to remember shopping lists, find out where I'm going, and wake my butt up after a late-night bender. It's amazing what our phones can do these days. Just to show you that the possibilities are endless, I've compiled my favorite uses for my cell phone — when I'm not using it as a phone of course.
Keeping my del.icio.us bookmarks handy is a definite perk to using Mobilicio.us. I can check them out on my phone's web browser!
Since I'm addicted to Netflix, and am constantly updating my queue, the iFlix app for my iPhone became a fast favorite. Log in, update, and browse the top 100 rentals right from your iPhone.
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Unless you live on another planet, you've probably been bombarded with iPhone 3G news after last week's big announcement. I enjoyed following along with Gizmodo's live coverage of Steve Jobs' keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference, but if you happened to miss it, and don't want to watch the full version online, I have a solution: the 60 second version. Thanks to Maholo, who whipped up this condensed keynote speech video, you get the juice of the speech — fast with all the facts!