Tech Stuff
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Here is a handy table for a quick comparison of the different online backup services that I have reviewed. This table compares the personal or home online backup plans that each company offers.
Online Backup Comparison
Britain's back-room... Internet censorship regime
Ed Vaizey, the UK Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries has admitted that he is in talks with ISPs to create a voluntary national firewall. Big copyright companies would petition to have sites they don't like added to the secret national blacklist, and the ISPs would decide -- without transparency or judicial review -- whether to silently block Britons from seeing the censored sites.
We've posted a lot of IKEA hacks but today's featured desktop is the first digital IKEA hack. It's a really simple desktop idea that takes an IKEA shelf and uses it to organize icons on the desktop. Today's desktop comes from Aye Moah, who has graciously shared the simple instructions for how to make it yourself:
IKEA Shelf Desktop
God Folder
By default, Windows' 7's Control Panel broadly groups its options, tucking the nitty-gritty stuff you might be looking for into very general categories. You can, however, create a shortcut that lists all your Control Panel options in one list. If you're a tech news follower, you might have seen this listed recently as a "God mode" explorer hack.
Annyong Turns Any Directory On Your Computer into a Local File Server
Annyong is a Ruby executable that runs cross-platform and can quickly turn any directory on your computer into a local fileserver.