• Yahoo Mail Offers Random Subject Lines in a Click

    Discovered a fun little feature in Yahoo Mail this week that made me wish for the same in Gmail: the Subject-O-Matique, a random subject line inserter. When you just can’t think of the right subject for your message, click the subject button in the new version of Yahoo Mail to automatically fill in something cheeky…


  • How not to blow your download limit at the iTunes Store

    The news earlier this week that Apple was finally selling TV shows through the Australian iTunes Store was welcome for people keen to legally purchase and download television using the familiar and well-regarded iTunes interface. But as several readers have pointed out in emails, downloading shows will use up much more bandwidth than music. With…


  • Lose Weight Publicly with Twitter

    Blogger Dennis Best is peer-pressuring himself into losing weight by using Twitter to broadcast his progress and setbacks. Twitter’s 140 character update limit makes for an easy, low-overhead method of staying accountable to friends. [via]