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POPSUse your mobile phone like a business card: myDropcard.com Kind of a cool idea. When you meet someone (in real life) and want to exchange contact information, send an SMS to this site with their email address, and they will be forwarded a link to a simple, professional-looking page with your email address, phone number, web link, and social networking profiles. Posted by Orli Yakuel.
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POPSSpeedyMarks Like the Firefox extension Speed Dial, this tool creates thumbnail shortcuts to your favorite web sites. This one, however, saves them to the web so they're accessible from anywhere.
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POPSA face you can trust
When deciding who to trust, the research suggests, people use shortcuts. For example, they look at faces. According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot. By studying people's reactions to a range of artificially-generated faces, Oosterhof and Todorov were able to identify a set of features that seemed to engender trust. Working from those findings, they were able to create a continuum: faces with high inner eyebrows and pronounced cheekbones struck people as trustworthy, faces with low inner eyebrows and shallow cheekbones untrustworthy. In a paper published in June, they suggested that our unconscious bias is a byproduct of more adaptive instincts: the features that make a face strike us as trustworthy, if exaggerated, make a face look happy - with arching inner eyebrows and upturned mouths - and an exaggerated "untrustworthy"
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POPSThe Three Most Under-Utilized Keyboard Shortcuts The second handy shortcut is ^Home. This takes you to the top of a document or web page. Similarly ^End takes you to the bottom. It's much faster than scrolling. Try it now. techsupportalert.com gizmo.richards If you really want more, there's a complete list here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449 * Tutorials / How-tos
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POPSFREE All-In-One Utility To Optimize, Clean PC Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder and more. All Glary Utilities tools can be accessed through an eye-pleasing and totally simplistic interface.
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POPSMouse-less Firefox: Nice Keyboard Shortcuts Navigation from the toolbar The address bar shortcut should be as instinctual as breathing by now, but there's a few more shortcuts to that top bar that you should keep in mind * Select location bar: Ctrl/Cmd+L or Alt+D * Select search bar: Ctrl/Cmd+K * Back: Backspace or Alt/Cmd+Left * Forward: Alt/Option+Right or Shift+Backspace * Change search engine: Ctrl/Cmd+Down (Next) +Up (Previous) The last shortcut, used to change the search engine A less-known feature, Caret browsing, inserts a cursor into the text of the page and is very useful for highlighting and copying text.
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POPSIs Language a Window into Human Nature? the way it parses the world around us, the way it uses shortcuts and assumptions would have served our hunter-gatherer ancestors well, but it is less than perfect for dealing with some of the problems we face in the 21st Century.
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POPSNo Shortcuts to First-World Wealth New cluster-analysis of the world's product export space reveals the differences in connectivity and diversity between nations' production capacities as well as the very sizable developmental gaps in this network that keep poorer countries on the industrial fringes. The rich countries of the industrialized world tend to have broad portfolios of industries, and accordingly occupy large areas of the product space, usually including much of the network's core. Fast-growing developing countries such as China, Thailand, and Hungary are strong in some of those central, well-connected regions. The poorest countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, tend to specialize in a few of the peripheral products—such as oil for Nigeria and copper for Zambia. EDIT :My first title was too generic ("Mapping the Wealth of Nations.")
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POPSClipCast tip: keyboard shortcuts A lot of people have posted comments and sent us emails about having a difficult time using your mouse inside the clipcast. Just wanted to post a clip letting you all know that you can use keyboard shortcuts to easily perform just about any function inside a clipcast. No joke, after i got used to the keyboard shortcuts it made the clipcast experience 100x more enjoyable for me. I recommend trying them out. FYI...there is a little icon at the top right of the clipcast that shows the shortcuts.
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POPSGoogle Reader Tips While this post at Lifehacker is almost a year old, it still answers questions many may have on how better to use Google Reader. Read away...
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POPSCheat Sheets for Computer Users Basically a web page with links to just about every kind of "cheat sheet" imaginable - many are PDF files, a lot contain keyboard shortcuts for different applications and web sites.
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