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news toread - Thu, Nov. 20, 2008

Five More Useful Portable Apps For Your USB Stick | MakeUseOf.com (464pts)

I am a big fan of my USB stick and so one of my favourite websites is John Haller's Portable Apps. However, it's been some time since I last checked the site and when I finally took a look at it again at the weekend, I was pleasantly surprised to see that he has been busy. ..
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-more-useful-portable-apps-for-your-usb-stick/
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google (461pts)

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google Search LIFE images People Franklin D. Roosevelt Louis Armstrong Marilyn Monroe Jacqueline Kennedy Marie Curie Pablo Picasso Places Fort Peck St. Peter's Square Yangtze River Events 1930s oil boom March on Washington Winter Olympics Academy Awards ..
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
springpad (410pts)

View Demo Springpads are free online notebooks that help you manage your life. Use your springpad to keep track of notes, photos, maps, to-do's, contacts, appointments & more. Springpad News 11/18 springpad update - Server issues 11/10 springpad update - Getting Ready for the Public ..
http://www.springpadit.com/
How To: Customize Your Own Killer "Enigma" Desktop (353pts)

Windows desktop tweaker extraordinaire and Lifehacker reader Kaelri—who brought us the gorgeous Lightning at Sunset desktop and then showed us how to do it ourselves—is back, this time with ..
http://lifehacker.com/5087956/customize-your-own-killer-enigma-desktop
Weekend Watching: Merlin Mann on Maximizing Your Time (315pts)

12,361 views Google asked productivity blogger Merlin Mann to visit their campus and share some insights into getting things done. His presentation covers several interesting aspects of time management ..
http://lifehacker.com/5089100/merlin-mann-on-maximizing-your-time
50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine (293pts)

Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model. Below we present ..
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of-tilt-shift-ph..
XMind - Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping (286pts)

Bugs, pricing, problems, questions, suggestions? Let us know what you think of XMind. Using XMind/XMind Pro with XMind.net's sharing service is a revolutionary way to enable both team brainstorming and personal mind mapping. With ..
http://www.xmind.net/
Help! Some idiot partitioned my giant hard drive! - Download Squad (227pts)

Now what? Fortunately, there are a number of good, free apps that will allow him to combine the two partitions into a single large one, or resize them to more reasonable capacities. Easeus Partition ..
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/16/help-some-idiot-partitioned-my-giant-h..
Cord Management: How to Wrap Large Cords and Hoses (138pts)

10,996 views DIY home web site FineHomebuilding has a nice guide demonstrating how to wrap large cords and hoses for clutter-free storage while avoiding twists and kinks. With a medium-gauge cord, for example: ..
http://lifehacker.com/5087203/how-to-wrap-large-cords-and-hoses
Oxford compiles list of top ten irritating phrases - Telegraph (114pts)

I like ones that have local color and also serve a genuine purpose. "Y'all" and "youse" and "you'uns" fill a grammatical hole and they just sound friendly. The use of "might could" in North Carolina ..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3394545/Oxford-compiles-lis..