Travel: Use a map to keep track of your vacation photos

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The HP Digital Photography site has a list of camera bag essentials that can make your travels a bit easier to document.The most intriguing tip for me was this:


Whether you've planned your trip right down to the last detail, or you're just seeing where the wind takes you, bring along a map to keep track of what photos were taken where. This will help you better remember your trip when you return, and also serve as a nice complement to a slide show or scrapbook.

And of course, with all the awesome Google Maps mashups out there, this would be pretty easy to spice up.— Wendy Boswell



Traveler's camera bag - get tips on what to take [HP Digital Photography via etc ]

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Efficiency: Eliminate chronic lateness

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Are you chronically late? Productivity blog ZenHabits suggests getting in the habit of overestimating:


Make a conscious effort to start getting ready earlier, and to leave earlier. This also makes driving less stressful. Time yourself to see how long it actually takes to get ready, and how long it actually takes to get somewhere. You've probably been underestimating these times. Once you know these times, you can plan backwards so that you show up 10 minutes early each time. It's a good feeling.

A good habit to get into, that's for sure. Have you conquered the lateness monkey? Let's hear how in the comments. — Wendy Boswell



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Twitterrific 2.1

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You either love or hate Twitter, the simple web phenom that asks, 'What are you doing?' We here at TUAW are unabashedly in the 'love' column, and our love for Twitter is greatly enhanced by the Iconfactory's free Twitter client, Twitterrific.

We wrote about the Twitterrific 2.1 Beta not too long ago, and now the final version of Twitterriffic 2.1 is available for download. New in 2.1 are:


  • Support for multiple logins

  • Enhanced Applescripting

  • Growl support

  • Dragging of tweets into other apps (it pastes the tweet's permalink into the app)


And a host of other small enhancements. Twitterriffic 2.1 is free, Universal, and available now.
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Parallels Desktop 3 officially released

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After teasing us by announcing a release candidate for beta testers (and a sale that is now over) and posting videos of Quake 4 - a very resource-intensive game - running impressively well in Parallels, this powerful new v3.0 of the leading virtualization suite for Mac OS X has been released. Offering significant new features like we already mentioned, such as the highly-anticipated 3D acceleration (XP for now, Vista to come) and SmartSelect for specifying files types to open in apps across virtualized OSes, this could easily be called the most significant release of Parallels since the advent of Coherence Mode.


Parallels Desktop 3.0 sells for $79.99 and is ready for download now, with 15-day trial keys are available to those who already used trial keys for previous versions.
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Wikipedia’s Nerd Bias

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Something Awful has a flat out hilarious (if somewhat long in the introduction) article on the nerd bias of wikipedia. The point isn’t to say that one article or another on Wikipedia has factual inaccuracies, but rather to show how much more attention certain topics get than others. They suggest opening up two somewhat related articles, where one appeals to the nerds and the other does not, and see how much longer and more complete the nerd-related entries are. Some of my favorites are below. If you want the quick results, just click on Lightsaber Combat and you’ll get the point (”The master practitioners of Form IV make extensive use of acrobatic maneuvers often thought physically impossible without the aid of the Force.”). People contribute to articles they care about. And Wikipedia’s community cares about light sabres, fantasy characters, video games and acne.



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