Commonly found in retail and food establishments, the suggestion box is one of the most underused and underrated relationship building devices and all it takes is a pencil, a pad of paper and a small drop box.

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Web Worker Daily posted this very insightful article on the 20-Hour Work Week of the Future. Many have really shifted to be freelancers especially with work-at-home jobs getting more and more lucrative and quite easy with the Internet. The article cites a Gartner research.
As IT becomes woven into the fabric of people’s lives and traditional [...]

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It’s been a week of launches from our friends from Google. Let’s see what they’ve been doing for the past few days - Street View for Google Maps, Google Gears, and with Gears, they also launched the Google Mashup Editor.
By the sound of it, it is going to be Google’s match for Yahoo! Pipes. [...]

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This tweak is for those sites that still force your browser to open a new window. That behavior is too IE for my taste. In any case, you can always set Firefox to open these links in a new tab. It’s pretty easy to do from the interface, just click Tools -> Options -> [...]

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StumbleUpon changed my computing life. It lessened my time looking for relevant sites and reduced my battle with Google and search keywords. And this news will probably affect all that. StumbleUpon has just recently been acquired by eBay for $75M.
As far as the news goes, there really isn’t a concrete picture of what one [...]

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Hot off the news and into your computer. Google just made available Google Gears (BETA). It’s “an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.” These include:

Store and serve application resources locally
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Imagine web [...]

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Mozilla just released the latest incarnation of Firefox 2 with 2.0.0.4. The release notes emphasize on these important updates:

Security Update: The following security issues have been fixed.
Windows Vista Support: More enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista are included, with the following caveats.
New Languages: Afrikaans (af) and Belarusian (be) are now available. Beta releases for [...]

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If you ever done a paint job and cleaned all your brushes, you would probably have sent your used paint thinner down the drain. I mean what would you have to do with paint thinner with all sorts of colors in it, right? But anything you’ve discarded would definitely have some dollar values to it [...]

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An unfinished bag of chips needs to be restored in a re-sealable container to lock in that fresh crunch. Otherwise, you’ll be dealing with stale chips. Not good, not good at all.
Provided that you opened the bag of chips with finesse, not just ripped the bag to shreds, here’s a video to let you [...]

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Now being a self-professed keyboard ninja, I’ve been a bit biased on featuring shortcuts. Sorry. My bad. So let me make it up to you with this summary of mouse shortcuts for Firefox for mouse ninjitsu practitioners.
These include navigation and display shortcuts that you execute with a some keyboard modifiers. Yes, it involves a [...]

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Microsoft unveils a new line of surface computer products named Surface.
Surface computing is an advanced touch interface. Apart from just being a hand-gesture interface, it is able to recognize real-world physical objects. It just offers a whole new paradigm on how we would rethink input devices.

This will be mainly targeted to hotels and restaurants [...]

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This has been a long-delayed post. A few weeks ago, Cybers Music officially joined the Bloggy Network fold. CybersMusic promotes the best music from americana, blues, classic rock, country, funk, jazz, latin, metal, pop, R&B, rock ‘n roll & zydeco.
So for your music news and reviews fix for the day, head over to [...]

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I was cleaning some of the old files in my computer and found this little picture I used for one of my reports in an anthropology class back in college. It’s a report on whether our perception of good and bad and what’s safe and not are all constructs.
In any case, what I have [...]

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Barbecue is not just an excuse to binge on meat, it’s a lifestyle. Many a lawn is accented by the grill. Some barbecue fanatics even make it the centerpiece of their lawn. However, regardless of what grill you have (if you just have a simple grill or those Rolls Royces of garden grills), you still [...]

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This tip has been around for a while but I think it’s a really nifty feature to merit a reposting. This works with Cocoa text editing engine that’s practically replicated across multiple applications. Pressing Option-Escape calls up a word completion drop-down that provides you with word choices. This was made available in OS X [...]

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