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  • Review: Netflix for iPhone and iPod Touch

    So I’m sitting at work, enjoying my 150th consecutive minute of Warren Miller films on Netflix when my iPod pauses the movie to tell me I have 20% battery life left. One worry I had when I downloaded the free Netflix app for iPhone and iPod Touch was what the battery life was going to…

  • Twitter Gives the Fail Whale a Break and Updates its Site

    Dear people of the world:  Stop everything…right now.  This is a momentous occasion.  Are you sitting down?  Well, stand up.  Then sit down again.  Okay, here it goes: Twitter, the mogul of all things 140 characters, has made an announcement this week.  And here it is. They have redesigned their site!  Well, it’s not final as…

  • First North-Central Cleantech Open Attracts 55 Sustainability Innovators

    On October 6, 2010, Cleantech and renewable energy entrepreneurs will meet at the North-Central Cleantech Open in Minneapolis, Minnesota to be judged on their solution to the green economy. “It’s like American Idol for clean technology companies,” says North Central Regional Director and Co-Founder Justin Kaster. Applicants are accepted from across the Midwest, including Minnesota,…

  • Why Buying Music Legally Still Kinda Sucks

    For some reason, I take some small amount of pleasure in buying music legally.  It’s not just because most people my age have devalued digital media to such a point that they don’t even pause before downloading an entire album illegally – a friend of mine recently told me that she wanted to “preview a…

  • Save Energy and Lower Your Electricity Bill without Losing the Tech You Love

    Most people are worried about how much power they are using and what their carbon footprint might be. Most people think, “I am just one person, what can I do to help?” I have said this same thing before, then I realized a few easy steps can help me save money and help save the…

  • 3 Easy Ways to Improve Search in Windows 7

    One of my favorite features of Windows 7 is the improved search.  Windows Search is quickly available in the Start menu or in any open Explorer window. To improve search performance, Windows 7 uses a background indexing feature.  Indexing pre-searches specified locations on your computer and compiles the results into the search index.  When you…

  • Share, Organize, and Store Your Digital Files Online with Quanp

    The world of online storage is a growing one, with different services and new features coming out all the time. Quanp, pronounced “Quan-Pah”, is one which I’ve found to be quite useful not only for its online storage, but the way in which it organizes and displays your files on your desktop. Quanp, short for…

  • Get Great Deals at Amazon.com Anywhere on the Web with Shopping Assistant

    Google Chrome & Safari only: I’m a big fan of shopping online at Amazon.com (in fact, I usually check Amazon before even considering getting in the car and driving to a brick-and-mortar store).  If I’m checking out gadgets online at a different website, I almost always end up going back to Amazon to make the…

  • Forecastfox Weather 2.0 Brings Weather Awesomeness To Firefox

    If your job involves a lot of work in front of a computer, chances are that you don’t get outdoors throughout your work day.  You enter the office in the morning and it’s sunny, but when you leave it’s windy and snowing (which isn’t uncommon in my part of the world).  Even worse is if…

  • Surf the Web, Better the World

    You’re busy. You work for a living and when the 9-5 ends, you relax, have fun and do things that you care about (or, work more). You don’t always have time to give back as much as you want. BetterTheWorld.com changes all that. It’s an online social change community that strives to make it easy…