Just when you think you’ve tried every Twitter app out there, a few more appear on the scene. For Mac users that might have either grown tired of, or are looking for alternatives to, Tweetie, Twitterrific, Kiwi or Socialite, never fear, there are indeed other native Mac OS X options

The following is an excerpt from Shoo, Jimmy Choo!: The Modern Girl's Guide to Spending Less and Saving More, reprinted with permission from SHOO, Jimmy Choo!, © 2010 by Catey Hill, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. Top 10 items you probably waste money on: 1. Clothes. Where do I begin? Just because

ABC held a sweepstakes which resulted in 815 winners receiving an exclusive message in a bottle, with a digital key containing the opening scene to the final season premiere of LOST, days before it premieres on television. Sl-lost has photos of one of the winner’s bottle, and spoilerfiles has

Filed under: OS Updates, Apple, iPhone You've probably noticed a complete lack of iPad/iTablet/iSlate news around these parts. That's because we don't cover gadgets, nor do we cover hyperbolic crotch-grabbing fanboy speculation. But now that it's finally been announced (forever will it go down in history that we watched Steve

I don't know whether to go to an Apple store or the feminine care aisle to purchase an iPad. Oh, don't groan! You cracked similar jokes. And let's face it: They're all kinda lame and won't bother Steve whatsoever. There's no escaping the iTampon, iMaxiPad, iMenstruate quips. Hell, they're

An anonymous reader wrote to us to ask what he should do about unexpected bills from a medical clinic. He chose the clinic precisely because he can't afford hospital bills in the hundreds of dollars, and was led to believe that there'd be no out-of-pocket cost. It turns out

“Uh-oh,” is the reaction we can imagine Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had when watching today’s unveiling of the eagerly awaited Apple iPad tablet. The new Apple device looks, at least upon first glance, like it will completely eat Amazon’s lunch. In fact, Steve Jobs even eulogized the Kindle in his

We all have days when we just don’t feel with it. Maybe we were up late the night before, maybe we slept badly, or maybe we’re simply tired for no clear reason. But when you’ve got work to do – whether in your day job, on your small business or

From the realm of sci-fi to Steve Jobs' stage: The iPad is official. What is it? What can it do? How does it work? Here's everything you need to know about Apple's newest creation, all in one place.It's almost impossible to overstate the buzz leading up to this device. Immediately

With everyone trying to guess what the new iSlate will look like, let’s take a step back. Expectations are high, and are probably overwrought for what could very likely be a niche product. A few caveats first: I’ve long been an Apple fan boy, since my Mac Classic (and I

Without any mention of hardware or software, The Doghouse Diaries pretty much nails a list of what we can expect from the tablet. Or rather, how we're all going to react to it. Look out for 19! [The Doghouse Diaries]

Apple’s press event, scheduled for Wednesday, is likely to include the introduction of the relentlessly rumored Apple Tablet. We’ve taken a lot of time to track down the rumors, innuendo, and even a few sparse facts about the device since the first whispers of its existence some two and

FCC investigation be damned, Google has finally managed to bypass the App Store and release Google Voice to the iPhone (and webOS, too) the same way it pulled off Latitude, i.e. via a HTML5-based web app. According to Senior Product Manager Vincent Paquet, it should work with any HTML5-compliant

Geeks like books and we want our kids to like books. If you are obsessive like me, you have the urge to catalog those books. Or maybe, in this age of online information consumption, you’ve made a New Year’s resolution to read more books this year. Or maybe you

You don’t have to ask too many of my friends, or my wife, to learn that I am not a fan of waiting. I hate sitting in traffic, especially if it’s just “congestion,” and I really hate waiting at the post office, where it seems as if there are always

New pictures claiming to be the Apple Tablet have surfaced, and they’re the most realistic ones we’ve seen yet.The images, posted by designer and user interface guy Dustin Curtis, reveal what appears to be the tablet on top of a MacBook pro. He posted the images on his Posterous.While we

Let's be honest, guys: A season pass of The Office on iTunes costs $60. On DVD, it'll be half that. So, phew: Apple is reportedly pushing the networks to lower their prices for iTunes TV purchases way down to $1. This rumor comes from the Financial Times, a reputable source

Amber MacArthur provided a list of the five social-media tools that small business should begin with. They aren’t the latest—but you might not want to be at the cutting edge at all times. Read her posting to learn how to get going.

Here’s a great video by Lewis Howes on how companies should use social media. In less than six minutes, you can learn the elements of good social-media practices. More on social media.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) recently released an updated list of the twelve greenest cars of 2010. The council rates each car with a score, with higher scores going to those cars produce less pollution and are more fuel efficient, resulting in lower energy consumption and carbon

For being such a dollars and cents type of issue, personal finance sure has a lot of psychology involved, doesn’t it? If it weren’t for psychology, ideas like Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball method would be dead on arrival. The debt snowball works because it taps into human psychology, not mathematics.

If you’re waiting on a bus, getting coffee, or taking a quick break from work, instead of playing your favorite game, why not use an iPhone app that can help you do some good?These three apps allow you to get involved in everything from finding missing persons in Haiti, to

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Mary Jaksch of Goodlife ZEN. What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union. ~ Sharon Salzberg Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered who is staring back at you?

It's no surprise that self confidence plays an important roll in our performance, but findings published by the American Psychological Association suggest all it takes to boost your smarts is believing that you can be smarter.Photo by Adam UXB Smith. Despite a lot of evidence to the contrary, many people

Big screen LCDs and plasma TVs are so 2009. If TV manufacturers are to be believed, the hottest consumer electronics product of the next few years is likely to be a 3-D TV. Almost every major TV maker including Sony, LG, Panasonic and Mitsubishi showed big screen 3-D TVs

Rather than studying the cold, hard spec lists, we think the best way to chose a new camera is to consider how you’ll use it. After all, there’s no point in having a sky-high megapixel count if you’re never going to print your pics, or a huge optical zoom if

Associated Press It is rare to be truly unplugged from work. With the ever-increasing penetration of BlackBerrys along with the pressures of the economy’s limping recovery, it seems harder and harder these days to carve out time away from work that’s truly sacrosanct. We’ve looked here at the encroachment

Beans, beans. [Photograph: Robyn Lee] According to Restaurants & Institutions, the top 10 most-Googled recipes of last year were: Chili Meatloaf Cheesecake Banana bread Pancake Salsa Hummus Lasagna Apple pie Meatball Does that gibe with your own cooking-search behavior in 2009?

Personal finance blogger Girl with the Red Balloon put together a list of 11 ways she saves money at grocery stores. The key to many of her tips is to restrict your exposure to impulse-buy opportunities. An excerpt: 5) Learn where your food is in the store and only

Sundance is so close you can almost smell the slush-stained Uggs. Even if you can't make it to Park City - although you can watch some of the Sundance features on VOD! - we've cobbled together a handy guide to the movies that look the most interesting, have the

Are you concerned that people might be trying to read your text messages or e-mails while your iPhone is left unattended? As the saying goes, there’s an app for that.iTrust (iTunes link) bills itself as the first keylogger for the iPhone or iPod touch. While it isn’t quite a true

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter with others to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code ‘Mashable‘ for a discount when registering.Social media allows us to discover, connect, and engage with new

Amazon's user reviews for books are problematic because they serve more than one master. They're meant to help inform consumers, sure, but they're also meant to drive sales, and sometimes they're even used by angry consumers as a form of protest. If you're looking for more honest feedback on

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Features, Social Software I originally intended this to be a guide on Facebook gaming. Then I realized that if I inducted you all into the bottomless and eternal pit that is social and casual multiplayer online games, you'd never have time or the willpower to come

January 27 has been circled on the calendars of Apple Tablet enthusiasts for a couple of weeks as a potential launch date for the long rumored device, and now it’s confirmed that Apple will be holding an event next Wednesday to show off its “latest creation.”The event will take place

If you really want to get down to business and get things done, you need to create an environment conducive to productivity. I do it by eliminating everything that might distract me from accomplishing what I want.The goal of creating a minimalist desktop is to eliminate the distractions and focus

It was the moment all the Avatar fans were waiting for. At least if you believed the announcer going into the final commercial of last night's Golden Globes. Apparently anticipation was building amongst the blue faithful, right up to the moment that James Cameron's film took him the award

While I enjoy the idea of green living, the following documentary talks about extreme ways of living green as well as somewhat reasonable ways (especially if you live in climates like California experiences). I enjoyed the approach of the documentary, as well as the fact that it was a project

Today is Martin Luther King Day in the United States. On this day we celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. I want to take a few minutes and reflect on what is commonly referred to as his “I Have a

It only takes a few minutes to help out your favorite cause online. At The Extraordinaries, take just a few minutes to complete a micro-task for a cause you're passionate about (for example, tag photos for a museum or...

A great children's books and reading blog, The Diamond in the Window is written by a mom with help and suggestions from her daughters. In the ongoing "We Recommend" feature, readers can write in to ask about reading recommendations...

Admit it, just the other day you were thinking to yourself: "Ya know, I'm gonna watch the Golden Globes this year, but I wish the show came with a whole bunch of intelligent, life-changing snarky commentary from some of my favorite Cinematical writers." Well, we heard your cries for

Want a Collector’s Edition Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien Carry-On Bag? Head on over to eBay, where Conan O’Brien’s team has listed the item for the very affordable starting price of $399.99.On second thoughts… perhaps not — someone has just put in a fake bid of $999,999, essentially preventing further

According to New York Magazine, the New York Times may soon announce they'll begin charging for web site access, putting one of the most popular and venerable online news destinations behind a paywall. NY Mag speculates that they'll be metering access so that readers can sample a set number of

Are you as sick as I am of blogs, ebooks and gurus all promising to teach you how to "make money online"? In many cases, they're people flogging a product that they swear any idiot could use to make a fortune … overnight … on the beach … in just

The Kindle — Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ “iPod of reading” — has seen a similar (if scaled down) explosion of accessories, peripherals, add-ons and adornments as the Apple MP3 player. Finding great products to compliment your e-book reader can be a bit of an up-hill struggle, however.To help you out,

We’ve long speculated as to when Facebook might get its own version of Twitter’s retweet, and it appears that the time is now. This evening, the site rolled out a “via” feature that lets you repost another user’s shared items, with a “via” link attached for attribution.It appears the feature

Ever take a trip to a city you're excited to visit, then realize shortly after arriving you've got no idea how to get around, where to go, and what to do? Next time, arrive as an expert with these tips and tools.In March, I'm attending SXSW Interactive for a second

With the current economic climate, it seems that everyone knows at least one person who is looking for work. We love helpful iPhone apps, whether they are for home design or helping you find the best price while shopping, so with the intent on aiding those looking for work, we

Filed under: Security, E-mail People around the world are rallying together to help those affected by the crisis in Haiti. Despite the kindness and goodwill, there are always a few that will take advantage of such a situation. Gaming the search trends and people desperate to help, some internet hackers

Let's face it, whoever said technology was going to make our life any easier was lying! From where I stand, I see we are busier than ever trying to keep up-to-date with our email inbox, our twitter pages, our Facebook accounts, our offline friends and least not forget our family.Quite

The Job Bored is a careers blog devoted to tips and tricks to help you get ahead, both on a day-to-day basis and in your career in general. There are tons of great ideas here about getting organized in...

Describing itself as a "minimalist home cooking" site, stonesoup is "about reducing the number of ingredients, the amount of equipment, the number of steps involved and the time we spend in the kitchen to a minimum so we can...

Nick Malis created a blog that features Cute Things Falling Asleep. via Boing Boing This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Email, Twitter & Facebook.

Smart Money lists 10 things not to buy in 2010 as follows: DVDs Home telephone service External hard drives Smartphone also-rans Compact digital cameras Newspaper subscriptions CDs New college textbooks Gas-guzzling cars Energy-inefficient homes and appliances Here's my take on each of these: 1. I don't think we've purchased more

There’s a 99-cent iPhone app in the App Store that will let you know when an old friend, coworker, ex or family member decides they’ve had enough of you on Facebook. Defriended [iTunes link] keeps track of who your Facebook friends are and lets you know when you lose someone.

Men! Do you smell so bad that even your laptop has started stinking? Desperate times call for desperate measures, which means you might just have to consider this USB scent flower. As your lookey-holes can see, it's in the shape of a flower, but don't let that put you off.

Many of the people whose homes we photograph and feature on Apartment Therapy are creative types. Artists, designers, writers, architects, collectors...you get the idea. Their individual sense of style comes through in every element of their homes, but their workspaces in particular give us a glimpse into the way

I think I’m over the happiness thing. I think I am thinking that the pursuit of happiness is, well, vacuous. I don’t think people are happy or unhappy. Because I think knowing if we are happy would require knowing the meaning of life, or the ultimate goal, or the key

Update 2: Sprint has also announced that it is waiving fees, retroactive to Wednesday. (Thanks to changebumpin!) Update: MSNBC has updated their article, and they say that AT&T has announced it will waive fees for donations, and apply the exemption retroactively to those who have already donated. (Thanks to

When the Haitian Earthquake news first broke, it appeared to be only minor damage. Since those reports, we have learned this was an enormously damaging quake, one that has wreaked havoc across the island nation. The Red Cross is now estimating deaths at over 50,000. The State Department has set

The hilarious Let's Panic! is written by mom bloggers Alice Bradley (finslippy) and Eden Kennedy (Fussy and yogabeans!) and is "the only website that accurately explains the journey from morning sickness to third-degree tears to keeping that baby alive...

Nobody said having a new baby was easy, but these gadgets might make it a little less difficult. LilSugar has "10 Go-To Gadgets for Protective Parents," including a cry analyzer. Coolest Gadgets reviews the Beaba Babycook, which cooks and...

The Doomsday clock, a measurement of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, biotechnology, and climate change, has been moved back one minute, to six minutes before midnight, signaling a more "hopeful state of world affairs." The Bulletin of Atomic Sciences cited the increased discourse on climate change and further developments

As someone who makes their living off the Internet, I get a lot of email every day and some days it’s very difficult to keep up. While I’ve never gotten to the point of declaring email bankruptcy, there are times when I’ve forgotten about emails because they’ve fallen off the

Image by Ken Denmead Whether you’ve been using Twitter since 2006, are determined never to use it unless dragged kicking and screaming, or are somewhere in between, you probably know that it’s wildly popular with all sorts of people. In addition to the celebrities who make a big deal about

The launch of the Google Nexus One is one of the most hyped phone releases in recent memory. Only the iPhone, Palm Pre, and Droid really compare to the hype.Yet now we’ve learned that around only 20,000 Nexus Ones have been sold in the first week, a dismal number compared

Paramount Pictures has released the first five minutes of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones online. I had a chance to see this film at the Butt-num-a-thon, and was actually quite shocked at how terrible it is. It’s a complete mess with a few moments of brilliance. However, you won’t

Scouring the App Store for the best games is a full time job. Luckily, it's a job held by the guys over at Touch Arcade. Here are their picks for the best games—and only games—available on the iPhone. While the App Store had clearly been a huge success in 2008,

Ales, stouts, porters, pilsners… so many beers, too little time. To help you navigate this vast and varied world of beer, you can always turn to your iPhone. There are plenty of beer apps available on iTunes — everything from beer games to reference guides — even apps that attempt

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I need some inspiration along my journey. Pretty much every day, if I can get it, in fact. I usually turn to blogs for that inspiration, for whatever I’m doing. When my wife and

Following a series of cyber attacks (including the hacking of Chinese human rights activits' Gmail accounts) in December, Google warned it may pull out of China completely: "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks

There exists a small percentage of people who can wake up early in the morning without the aid of an alarm clock. But if you are not one of those lucky people there’s no need to get a boring alarm clock. Good design deserves to be at your side,

One of the new features in Word 2010 is the ability to take screenshots and paste them directly into your documents. It should allow quicker document creation, and today we will show you how easy it is to use. Screenshots in Word 2010 To take a screenshot select the Insert

Brette Borow is the President and Founder of Girls Guide To, the “ladies only” guide to life, and spends most of her days engaging with the community’s over 140,000 members.There are over 56 million women using Facebook in the United States, and for marketers this means one very important thing

It seems like until Apple decides to officially announce its tablet, the rumors just aren’t going to stop. Next up, we’ve got the folks over at Boy Genius stating that they’ve got some leaked specifications. It’s hard to tell if it’s accurate or not, but let’s check it out,

For me personally in 2010 , I'm afraid that I am focusing on two seemingly contradictory things: growing the Serious Eats community while losing weight. Consider the following New Year's resolutions I made on the site:1. No more empty calories....

What do I want the new year to bring to serious eaters everywhere? Lots more passionate, inclusive, discerning conversations on Serious Eats about the pleasure, culture, and business of food. I love the fact that on Serious Eats a food...

A basic fact of doing business in this modern technological age is that you must have a web site. Whether you are a corporate leader, looking to promote your own personal brand, or just plan a family reunion establishing your online presence is important, both personally and professionally. In order

The Google Wave Preview has been available to one million+ people for over three months now, but questions about Wave still abound, even by the early adopters who have gotten in and taken it for a test drive. After publishing a book on everything I know about Wave, I still

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brings together staff from tech companies with neuroscientists, Zen teachers, and others to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code ‘Mashable‘ for a discount when registering.Tweeting is easy. Tweeting and using social media with

I've written a lot about 3DTV and that I consider it occasionally incredible. But the entire concept is tough to explain because, let's face it, I can't just embed 3DTV example videos and you've probably never seen it. Allow me: I stood on a crowded CES floor with an assignment

Calendar management software has moved in a couple different directions in the last few years, and the crowded field is filled with solutions that offer a wide range of benefits and features. The list below is a partial list that I put together top help you navigate the field. To

Over on the economics blog Marginal Revolution, a reader asked Tyler Cowen how to determine the financial value of his free time. Cowen responds in the post “What’s the value of your time?” As usual, the correct answer is “it depends,” but here are a few principles: Don’t value your

If you’re moving from XP to Windows 7, you’ll notice that Windows Media Player 12 is a different than previous versions. Today we will take you through the process of managing your music collection in Windows 7 with Windows Media Player, and look at some of the new features. Windows

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jai Kai of SharingSuccess.tv. As we move through our daily routines we are often faced with obstacles and challenges which can lead to some degree of stress and anxiety. So to become more relaxed and free of tensions it is important to

Boston’s renowned school for sonic geeks Berklee College of Music launches its winter session Monday, and it’s schooling students online to help them stay ahead of the music biz’s future curve. “Our five-course artist management certificate program is designed to empower musicians and business folks with the information they’ll need

Brian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook.An overnight success ten years in the making, social media is as transformative as it is evolutionary. At last, 2010 is expected to be the year that social media goes mainstream for

The Los Angeles Times says that people tend to get weirdly fixated on pedometers when they have them, and will try harder to hit their daily activity goals. A San Diego State University professor tells the paper, "We don't know why exactly, but keeping a number, a prompt, in

If you’re like us, you’ve been salivating over the all of the fresh green gadgets presented at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It wasn’t easy, but we managed to narrow down the list to our five favorite gizmos unveiled at the show. From fun new approaches to

If you allow applications to save your passwords, anyone with physical access to your PC can decode them unless you're properly encrypting them—and chances are pretty good you're not. Let's walk through the right and wrong ways to store your passwords. For the purpose of this article, we'll assume that

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards will air live on NBC on Sunday, January 17, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. EST. Honoring both film and television, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s yearly gala might not be quite as formal as the Oscars, but it’s every bit as glamorous. The TV Guide

Travel around the world without leaving your computer--and hit the spots most armchair travelers will miss. Atlas Obscura's goal is to catalog "all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional...

Though 2010 is already a few weeks in, it’s never too late to come up with some good New Year’s Resolutions. While “I will go to the gym” and “I will stop smoking” seem to be at the top of most lists, here are some tips and ideas to help

I have always had a fascination with the future, and what great technologies it would bring to make my life easier. As a child, I held Star Trek as the gold standard in technology, and so watching what people envision in the next few decades thanks to Discovery Channel made

Not only should you follow these moms on Twitter, you'll love discovering their blogs, too. Kelby Carr (@typeamom) is a social media blogger and consultant. Evergreen Moms (@evergreenmoms) run a Pacific Northwest shopping blog and share their favorite finds...

I'm trying yet another task management system and I think I've found a keeper. I've been on a search for quite some time, and while many people have strong opinions on their favorite apps, the best one for you will...

The modern American school faces rough challenges. Budget cuts have caused ballooning class sizes,  many teachers struggle with poorly motivated students, and in many schools a war is being waged on distracting technologies. In response, innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. Technologies

Filed under: Fun, InternetJoining 'unfriend' (the Word of 2009), 'Google' has just been dubbed the Word of the Decade by the American Dialect Society. It's probably the first time you've ever heard of the American Dialect Society (founded in 1889!), and almost certainly the last... until 2020! There was also

Aircell may have skipped out on having a presence at CES this year, but that doesn't mean that nothing is going on in the wide, wacky world of in-flight internet. The company confirmed to us via email that it's planning a new video download service for 2010, a little

When it's already dark at 4 PM and snow and wind are shaking the windowpanes, don't hide in bed and wait for spring--let there be light right now with these gadgets, which will chase the winter blues away....

As a parent, you're expected to have all the answers--but sometimes you've forgotten high-school algebra, junior-high sentence diagramming or even grade-school multiplication tables. At times like these, it's good to know there's some backup out there....

Since desktop anything is practically dead, the only thing that proliferates faster than mobile devices these days is mobile-device Web sites. These 10 sites should help you navigate through today's blizzard of ever-smaller, ever-more-powerful devices to find what's most...

Whether moms stay at home or head out to work, they increasingly use the Web and mobile devices to stay in touch. The sites below showcase a wide variety of work-family balances and their authors use the Web to...

At times, social media can seem like an onslaught more than a set of separate, useful tools, what with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter already household names and more social-networking sites undoubtedly on the way. Consult the following blogs for...

If your job feels like a monkey on your back, your loved ones don't see you and you're considering changing your middle name to BlackBerry, maybe it's time to slow down and consider a little life-work balance. As a...

Almost Frugal is a blog about learning to be more frugal. We love that the author, Kelly Rigotti, isn't an expert--she's learning along with the rest of us. "For me, being frugal doesn't mean deprivation, it means being smart...

Do you have poor cell phone reception in your home? You could pay your carrier $150, then $20 per month for a mini cell tower, or femtocell, that lets you make calls using the magic of the Internet. Or you could pay a tiny fraction of that amount for

3D is set to be the next big thing in home cinema this year, as the multitude of three-dimensional television launches at CES have shown.While many of you may have caught a high profile 3D flick in cinemas over the last year with Up, Monsters vs Aliens, and of course,

Inspired by The Simple Dollar's article on Trimming the Average Budget: Food at Home, I put together my own list of 10 ways we keep our bill at roughly half the national average. 1. Cook from scratch - consistently. Convenience foods may be tempting and some may even seem affordable,

Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Macintosh, Social Software Facebook is the biggest photo sharing site in the world, so it's pretty likely your friends have some photos posted there. The thing is, nobody's pretending that browsing photos on Facebook is fast or user-friendly. In fact, the whole experience totally, in the

2010: A Year of Uncertainty “Rocking Even Me” Prisoners of Our Preconceptions The Statistical Recovery The Great Experiment Whither the Fed? London, Monte Carlo, Zurich, and Stocks ~~~ “Lying here, during all this time after my own small fall, it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what

One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions is to get organized. Organized in your home, in life, on your calendar, and in your finances. So many people feel disheveled and disorganized in every area of their lives — and when you can’t see the trees from the forest,

Alice.com, the useful household product shopping website, now has a very useful blog focusing on "easy home management through interesting finds and practical advice for your life." Posts cover how-tos (Food: Waste Not, Want Not; How to clean out...

Top Stories for Week of January 4 - 8, 2009 Aha! So there is an Apple tablet! There is a Google superphone! Woo hoo! All secrets are revealed as as 2010 begins. Well, a couple. "The Tablet project is real," says Daring Fireball, and the long-rumored Apple device won't

My first thought watching Skype be demonstrated on a 55" Panasonic Viera Cast TV was that it's going to be incredibly useful—though a bit laggy—way to keep in touch with family and friends. My second: Ac-TING! Skype 4.2 on TV really is a natural fit, even if the Panasonic

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced on Thursday that it will begin to release 3D movies on Blu-ray Disc worldwide for the first time, beginning this summer with the computer animated release Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. And I’m not talking about the paper red and blue glasses that

This post is part of Mashable’s Fab Five series with Jalen Rose, which highlights trends in the social media space. Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous University of Michigan Fab Five.

Alexandra Levit is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a career expert who knows a thing or two about balancing work and parenting. If you've resolved to spend more time with your family this year, she's got six helpful suggestions. My first child, Jonah, was born two weeks

Windows 7: If you have a terminal in your home or business that you want to restrict to certain applications, you don't need a third-party application. Use the built-in policy editor to build a whitelist of safe applications. Over at The How-To Geek they've put together a tutorial for using

The holidays are behind us, and that means one thing – dreams of sugarplums dancing in our heads have turned to nightmares of cellulite chasing our posteriors. Because even the best eater is going to sample a homemade white chocolate chip mocha cookie when it’s offered piping hot from

We all need energy for every thing we do in life. Being able to tweak more energy from our minds and our bodies is a worthwhile pursuit. If you can change your energy levels by a few per cent you will achieve a hell of a lot in life and

Facebook apps aren't limited to playing Farmville--they can actually be useful! Here are a bunch you might want to install: Divshare lets you send documents, photos, music, and video to your friends individually or post them for download from...

SuperCook is a recipe search engine that helps you decide what to cook based on the ingredients you already have at home. To start, just enter the ingredients you've got in stock, and get back your results, divided into...

Okay, so it isn't the HP Slate, but this Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered, Android-running Mini is definitely a departure from all the netbooks they've been putting out lately. At this point, this is just a concept and the white plastic chassis is far from pretty or final, and frankly it just

Ford has just announced the latest evolution of the Ford SYNC system called MyFord Touch. It takes the device integration features that have made SYNC so cool and streamlines it to encompass navigation, climate control and audio options — in addition to connecting with your phone and the Internet. MyFord

We’ve been drooling over a number of leaked images and details about a rumoured slab of awesome from Microsoft heretofore dubbed the Courier. Tonight at CES Microsoft unveiled the real deal — kind of. Microsoft is making a tablet-like device — several in fact, with different partners (Pegatron, Archos and

Save for slight variations in storage mediums and capacities, resolution, and lenses, Sony's 13 new Handycam Camcorders aren't radically different from each other. The ones that matter the most are Sony's XR550 and CX550, which (yes), has everything mentioned below, but either adds to or improves on its underlings' offerings

We are loving the range of selection that online stores are providing these days. No longer are you stuck with just 3 fabric or color choices, now you can pick your own color, texture and style to suit your own design palette. Check out a few sites that encourage

The day before CES 2010 certainly wasn’t a disappointment, especially with tablet devices going around , as expected. Here’s a short list of cool stuff that we’ve gone through today: Pure Sensia: A modem alarm clock that sports a touchscreen display, and is capable of updating your status in

As the New Year kicks off to a start many of us are taking the opportunity to take stock, examine and make changes. For many this can be somewhat of a painful process. Even though change is truly a part of our lives on a daily basis and on a

The Better Business Bureau has come up with a list of 10 resolutions that could help protect you from being ripped off--and best of all, they're easy to keep. Here are five that you should already be doing. 1. Beware of “job” offers to make easy money. Unemployment in

This is a guest post by Alexandra Levit, career advice columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Self doubt has been something I’ve struggled with all my life, from debating whether I could get into a top tier university to believing I could succeed as a writer. It’s a very human

Know Your Meme is a database and web series documenting internet culture: "viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more." If you keep hearing about something and aren't quite sure what it is, head here: Recent episodes covered...

If you're like most of us, the new year means vows to eat better and spend less. A few sites that help you do that: First of all, of course, there's the original Cheap, Healthy, Good, "a blog dedicated...

A few online tools to make your day-to-day life easier: Backup all your online accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, Flickr, etc.) with Backupify--sign up free through January 31. Online backup tool Carbonite backs up your entire computer and stores your...

Simply having a presence on various online networking platforms won’t work in the social media sphere. The key is spending time to build relationships to not only engage with site users, but to get them to interact with each other. While a lot has been said about how to do

The Nexus One, the Google Phone, is really here. And everything you need to know about it? Right here. What Is It? It's the latest, maybe greatest, Android phone. Google calls it a "superphone" that's an "exemplar" of what you can do with Android. It was designed by Google and

In addition to seeing proof of the 3D TV concept at CES, we’re also going to see TVs from Panasonic and LG Electronics that incorporate Skype into the family and living room experience. At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, Skype is announcing partnerships with LG and Panasonic, both of which

Alexandra Levit is the author of “New Job, New You: A Guide to Reinventing Yourself in a Bright New Career.” Learn more at www.newjobnewyou.com. A popular misconception is that networking is about getting a job or landing a client. In reality, networking is about establishing relationships that provide you with

Yahoo Finance put together a list of 10 secrets about movie theaters, dropping some interesting factoids, including this justification for why concession snacks are so expensive: Recessions com and go, but it seems concessions are here to stay. The average amount each customer spends at the candy stand keeps

Heading into a new year, we will see if bloggers have the stamina to continue trying to grow their blogs through providing great content that engages their audience. As part of that, I am going to start tracking the top twenty-five blogs in my niche and letting you all know

One of my favourite things about the end of the year is the lengthy roundups that people create of the top blog posts over the course of the year. Some lists are short, only having a few links to their most prized articles, while others are laundry lists of nearly

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” ~ Buddha Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. We’re several days into the New Year, and many of us are still basking in the glow of a fresh start. Every year, January brings

When Apple filed a patent for tech that would let you control your home computer with your iPhone or iPod touch, that was neat and all, but the functionality already existed in third-party apps. Now a product from a company called L5 will help iPhones seize control of the home

Have you ever felt like you could never run a marathon because it was too hard, long or just impossible due to some “bad genes” passed on from your parents? Well, Nova looks at turning some reasonably fit, regular people into Boston Marathon runners in under a year. This documentary

There is so much information about exercise, diet and fitness that it is hard to decipher what is truth and what is fiction.  This is where the internet comes into it’s own and helps us to decipher what is best for our bodies.  There are a lot of experts

Several times in 2009, I came across this thoroughly interesting infographic, originally from VisualEconomics.com: You can click on the image to see a larger version of it over at Visual Economics. The picture depicts how the average American family spends their income based on Department of Labor data. For those

Phones, GPS, computers... Do we really want to give Android the power to control our washer-dryers and ovens and printers too? Would someone hack them to microwave your underpants, wash your soup, and dry your pizza? It probably doesn't matter. I do it all the time. But better get used

Ah, the new year. The perfect time to get your life back on track. If one of your goals for 2010 is to take control of your finances, this crash course in financial basics can help guide the way. Here are ten simple but effective steps you can take to

By early January we're usually ready to pack up the holiday kitsch and get on with the New Year, but returning all the cheery Christmas decorations to their boxes inevitably leaves our home feeling empty and a little cold. So, how to embrace a clean slate home and warm

Ready or not, 3D HDTV is going to take the television scene by storm in the coming decade, at least according to our buddies over at HDGuru. Here's why they think the future is more Avatar than anything else: First, even though manufacturers might be rushing things, considering their last

That's right, humans -- Engadget has its very own Nexus One. You've seen leaked pics and videos from all over, but we're the first publication to get our very own unit, and we plan on giving you guys the full story on every nook and cranny of this device.

Like many Americans this year, I received a GPS unit as a Christmas gift. Its first real test was navigating to an unfamiliar town for New Year's Eve, and it sent me on a circuitous, traffic-clogged route to the nearest freeway entrance after picking up a friend. "What? No!"

If there is something that bothers us most in our home office it’s the constant battle with wires. We’ve tried tagging the cables, taping them down, enveloping them in plastic tubing but they continue to be an eyesore. As we move to a more wireless environment we still manage

Nothing but the strength of your convictions can keep a self-improvement promise going for at least 365 days. You can, however, boost your chance at success and outwit your worst habits with some motivational devices and clever thinking. Image from Monina Velarde's New Year's Resolution Generator. 10. Roll 12 habits

It’s a new year, which means it’s time to make resolutions, take on fresh challenges, learn new things and change our lives for the better. Perhaps you want to lose 10 pounds, travel more, or get the job you really want? Mashable has been building a vast archive of how-to

I love the week between Christmas and New Year’s. For me, it is always a time when things slow down. I can reflect on the past year and look forward to the new year. I especially enjoy the time with my family and reconnecting with what’s really important. Photo courtesy

Holy smokes! A ton of unannounced HP laptops and desktops just came across our desk, in addition to those Envy models we saw just a few days back. Ahead of what we presume will be their formal announcement next week right around CES, we've got some details on 14

Now that computers and software rarely come with an authoritative owner's manual, it's helpful to know where you can go online to figure out additional features for hardware and software--or why those same items don't work at all. These...

The Web is awash in medical advice, which can range from solid and authoritative to sloppy and frightening. The following sites provide good starting points for health and wellness, not to mention the motivation to make some tough lifestyle...

Guys don't stop using (and abusing) tech just because they become parents. These blogs relate the experience of raising kids online and dispense humorous and useful advice on the art of being a post-millennial dad....

It's not enough to have a job, you've got to manage a career. These blogs have useful tips and other information on the psychology, politics and timing--not to mention care and feeding--of your journey through the world of work....

It's not enough that clients, coworkers and friends know you're good at your job--you've got to create a brand that expresses that to the rest of the world as well. These blogs help you market yourself into a brand that's...

Anyone who's searched for an apartment on Craigslist knows how deceiving (and occasionally downright hilarious) these ads can be. Lovely Listing is great for a quick laugh during the day--see the weirdest, funniest, worst real estate listings from around...

Books on the Nightstand suggests great reading recommendations (in blog and podcast form) from two publishing colleagues. Recent podcasts covered anthologies and buying books for people you don't know well. Books on the Nightstand also features book clubs from...

The ecosystem for Twitter add-ins is incredibly rich. Here are a few that are especially useful. Twittercal lets you connect your Twitter account with your Google calendar. TweetBeep sends you an e-mail alert when somebody tweets about you (or...

Credit: jmussuto via Flickr. It's January, a time when many people realize their daily planner has run out of pages. Time to buy another refill from the store. Twelve months of the popular FranklinCovey pages will set you back $25 or more. That company and others offer recycled paper products

photo by Cliff DesPeaux (The Seattle Times) The Big Picture has a great roundup of photos featuring 2010 New Year’s celebrations around the world. Happy New 2010 everyone! This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Email, Twitter & Facebook.

Cyrus Patten writes at TheBestofJoomla.com. He specializes in the role of technology in politics. The Internet uses vast amounts of energy — one Google search reportedly requires enough energy to boil a cup of water. However, the web is slowly but steadily “going green.” The trouble is this means different

Filed under: Security, Productivity, Lists The new year is here, and it's time to make some resolutions! I've got plenty of habits that need some reworking, so here's what I've resolved to do in 2010: Back up my important files regularly. I've always sucked at doing this, and it's time

Actually, it's more like Joystiq's Top 3 of 2009, followed by Joystiq's Top 7 That Were Left In The Dust By Said Top 3. We agonized over the bottom seven choices, trading positions just as we traded tantrums and highly unprofessional insinuations with each other, but nobody on the

Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, put together these tips for making and keeping New Year’s resolutions: 1. Ask: “What would make me happier?” Think more of something good – or less of something bad. 2. Ask: “What is a concrete action that would bring about change?” Avoid abstract

Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry, or through the @Mobclix handle. Everyone loves a new year. It’s a