A few months ago something caused my Google Reader to load improperly in my Firefox browser. I tried re-installing Firefox, playing around with the styles of the Reader, but to no avail. I had to turn to Safari in order to get my news. But no more! Enter NetNewsWire, an application […]

Even though I have spent a great deal of my life bopping back and forth between America and Japan, I had never gone past paperback dictionaries to help me in tough conversations. Little did I know that electronic dictionaries existed! Until I discovered their existence at the beginning of fall semester, I was […]

An avid Gmail user, I have converted many a friend and family member to this free, magical online service with integrated chat function so my dad can badger me about nothing in particular whenever he sees my name light up.
One of my favorite mags, Wired, has a little how-to on how to get the most […]

I am excited because Macworld has an article on some streaming television resources you can find online. I imagine the sources are PC-friendly as well since a lot of the programs are playable in Media Player. I haven’t tested it out yet–probably will give it a go this weekend when I have free […]

If you use your computer a lot, you should treat it as you would a home: clean it, organize it, give it a good pat on the back some days.
If you use your computer without regular cleanings, scans, and getting rid of files you don’t use, your computer is going to be sad and build […]

According to this article from the New York Times, there is a chance that we are merely living in someone else’s simulated fantasy:
Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or “posthumans,” could run “ancestor simulations” of their […]

A while back I made a post on how to get mp3s off of your iPod for Windows.  Wired’s How To Wiki offers a tutorial on getting them for your Mac too!  It involves a little elbow grease, but it’s worth it to protect your sanity and mp3s.  Check out the instructions (which also include […]

Once in a while, my iPod will decide to play a joke on me.  It will work perfectly fine, only to freeze on occasion.  Holding down the menu button and the select button simultaneously will fix this.  However, yesterday my iPod decided it wanted to up the extremity by giving me a little picture, of […]

A lot of jobs these days require you to know your WPM–the average amount of words you can type per minute. This nerdy but cool-looking flash game turns this into a game in which you can compete to see where you fall among the other players. See my score right–I think I averaged […]

Working with computers for so long, sometimes I forget that not everybody knows about shortcuts that would make using computers easier. Here is a list of my most commonly used shortcuts! (For Mac, replace ctrl with the apple key next to the space bar)
General (these shortcuts will work in most programs, including graphic editing […]