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If You Want to Truly Enjoy Something, Limit How Often You Do It [Mind Hacks]
A study showed that the perfect salary for happiness is $75,000, meaning additional amounts of money won't affect how good you feel from day to day. The New York Times suggests the reason for this...
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How to Ask Someone to Shut Up on an Airplane (Without Being an Asshole)...
A lot of factors contribute to whether or not you have a good flight, but often times it comes down to the people. If you're seated next to someone you like, you'll probably enjoy your flight. If...
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iDreamBooks Gathers Critics' Book Reviews, Shows You What to Read Next [Reading]
iDreamBooks is a new webapp designed to help you find the best books to read, by aggregating book reviews by professional critics. Self-dubbed "the Rotten Tomatoes" of books, iDreamBooks makes finding...
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QLStephen Makes Any Plain Text File QuickLook-Able in the OS X Finder [Mac...
OS X: Plain text is plain text, but if it has an unusual file extension that the Finder doesn't understand then it'll assume it's something else. This is particularly problematic with QuickLook, the...
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Answer: Where Can I Get That Book? [Search Research]
Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in...
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A Better Way to Ask for Career Advice [Jobs]
By now you're smart enough to follow the lead of people who are ahead of you in their career. Watching these people and figuring out how to mimic their success is one of the most effective ways to...
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The Psychological Math of Being Overwhelmingly Busy [Happiness]
You hear it all the time: the rich and successful can feel just as overwhelmed, unhappy, and generally "busy" as people with those scraping by on fewer resources. But it always seems disingenuous....
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Android File Transfer Takes the Pain Out of the Mac/Android Combo [Mac...
Mac (10.5 and later) with Android (3.0 and later): Plug an Android into a Windows or Linux machine, turn on disk mode, and your phone is basically a drive. Plug into a Mac, and you get a warning....
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Best Android Web Browser? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]
You already know which web browser we think is best for Android, but just because we like it doesn't mean you have to. Thankfully, there are dozens to choose from, all with different feature sets....
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Remains of the Day: Sparrow for Mac Gains Notification Center Support [For...
Sparrow for Mac updates with Notification Center and Retina display support, NBC brings live streaming of the Olympics to mobile devices, Twitter introduces "age-screening" feature for age-restricted...
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Don't Underestimate the Kitchen Calendar for Big-Picture Planning [Organization]
By all means, throw your appointments, reminders, and do-this-then tasks into Google Calendar, Outlook, or your other grid of choice. But don't banish paper calendars, centrally located in your house,...
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Intro to 3D Modeling, Lesson 4: Object Selection and Transposition [Video]
This week we've been learning 3D modeling with Rhino 3D. Today we're taking a look at object selection and transposition. Almost there! If you've been following along this week, you have an...
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RoadTrip Mixtape Builds the Perfect Road Trip Playlist, Stuffed with Bands...
Planning a road trip this summer? RoadTrip Mixtape is a new webapp from The Echo Nest that takes your start and end points, gets driving directions from Google Maps, and then creates a playlist for...
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Timer for Android Is the Most Elegant and Functional Timer We’ve Ever Seen...
Android: Most of us don't normally associate words like "elegant" with an app like a timer, but Timer for Android is a perfect example of how function doesn't have to be sacrificed for form. It's...
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Sparrow, Our Favorite Email Client for Mac, Is $4.99 This Weekend Only [Video]
OS X: Whether you're pondering a new desktop email client or you just want an alternative to Thunderbird, Sparrow, our favorite email client for the Mac is available now for $4.99 (50% off) in the Mac...
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Brewster Is an Address Book That Pools Together All Your Social Contacts and...
iOS: Keeping track of contact information for everyone you know can be tough. Brewster is an iPhone address book that works to bring all your contacts across various social services together in one...
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Map Your Procrastination Patterns to Get to the Root of the Problem...
We all procrastinate from time to time, but if you find yourself really struggling with it, Psychology Today recommends you start keeping a log of your procrastination so you can map it out....
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DeadMouse Opens Links with Just Your Keyboard [Video]
Chrome: You can do almost all of your web browsing with just keyboard shortcuts, but in Chrome one of the missing features is the ability to open links inside a page. With the DeadMouse extension, you...
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A Facebook Guide for Musicians [Facebook]
Facebook is the largest marketing channel for most musicians and bands. Surprisingly, it's also the one they know least about. This guide breaks down why Facebook is important, how it works, and most...
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Google Unit Conversions Become an Interactive, No-Refresh Gadget [Conversions]
If you use Google for on-the-fly measurement conversions, your days of multiple searches are over. The search engine now brings up an interactive, no-refresh-needed tool when you search for something...
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