The Yahoo Loophole: How to transfer Facebook friends over to Google+
Facebook has been doing everything it can to keep people from exporting their contacts to bring them into Google+ ever since the search giant's new social...
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Lenticular lenses guide pedestrians to the right
The same technology used in 3D postcards and glasses-free 3D televisions is being used by a Japanese research group at the University of...
How to Unswindle a Kindle: Removing DRM from Legally Purchased eBooks
Fair use. If you buy a device and decide later to switch to a different one, should you be forced to buy the exact same media over again?
How to Pop Popcorn... With Lasers!
In case you had no idea what you were going to do this weekend, here's a suggestion: popcorn. With lasers .
Cell Phone Shake Up: A Guide to Picking Your Mobile
The announcement of the Verizon iPhone launching next month has a lot of people considering changing providers.
Erasing A "Friend": An Examination of "Friends" On the Internet
I remove people from Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks on a daily basis — not by choice, but because there is too much information — but I never…
Windows Calculator: I Am Error
I've been using PCs for the better part of two decades, and in all that time, I've used Windows' calculator maybe four times.
How To Make a Juno iBurger Mobile Phone
Nothing screams hipster like anything from "Juno", most notably her iconic hamburger phone. Now, you too can haz Juno hamburger , if you are ready and…
How To Fix An Xbox 360's RRoD, As Told by Marines
I'm gonna come right out and admit I've never owned an Xbox 360 - but most of my friends have one, so I've still experienced second-hand the Red Ring of...
Paper Tweets, Handly Like A Paper Calculator
Reading the headline there's few surprises here for those bothered to read on. Someone has invented the Paper Tweet. You know those notepads that every...
Something Tells Me A Dog Doesn't Know How To Install Webcam Drivers
Behold the tale of two inseparable interspecies buddies, a monkey and dog (only Japan, right?), whose...
Stephen Hawking Tells Us How To Build A Time Machine
How many times have you wished you had a time machine so you could go back and do something a different way? Well, according to the really super-amazing...
Building the Google Killer: A Step-by-Step Guide
Google is the greatest company on Earth. So if someone plans to dethrone the greatest company on our small planet, it's going to require more than a...
Weta Legs: A Dummies Guide To Public Indignity
Do you ever wonder why more people don't make fun of you? Do you long to be insulted more, to be the butt of...
How To Save The Earth? With Cows on Treadmills
That headline up there may sound like Monty Python-esque absurdity, but it's quite real. Or at least half of it is. At a farm in Northern Ireland, farmer...
How to Use Any Bluetooth Keyboard With Your iPad
For those of you not content to wait until Apple rolls out the iPad keyboard, or those of you who don't want...
Why Flash is Dying and How to Save It
Adobe's Flash plugin has become a stalwart in online multimedia content with a massive install base, so why is it suddenly the least popular kid on the...
Researchers Say Video Gaming Makes Boys Stupid
Parents may at last have a winning argument to kick their youngsters off their Xbox, Wii or PlayStation - too much video gaming can inhibit learning in...