TechLifeBlogged

cre.ations.net - Creation: iBrickr: Easy iPhone ringtone / app management for Windows
Easy iPhone ringtone / app management for Windows
(tags: howto iphone)

“Skype blames Windows Update for 48-hour outage.” How dare Microsoft not warn us about updates.
(tags: skype voip microsoft)

Adding PowerToys-like programs to Windows Vista
(tags: windows vista)

Astronauts are returning to earth as NASA fears Hurricane Dean could disrupt flight operations. Space agency managers ordered space shuttle Endeavour back to Earth from the international space station a day early.

Hurricane Dean forces NASA officials to bring Shuttle Endeavour’s home a day early.
AP video:

Technorati Tags: Shuttle, endeavour, NASA

Boing Boing: Reporters sue Hewlett Packard over spying claims
Several journalists with CNET and Associated Press and their family members filed suit Wednesday against Hewlett-Packard and former executives
(tags: spying hp boingboing)

CTUpdate (WSUS Offline)
This is a nifty little utility that enables you to perform an offline update of all Microsoft patches
(tags: software tools utility Windows update)

SpaceMonger
SpaceMonger is a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system.
(tags: hard disk hdd space utility)

Super solution for Rubik’s cube
The ultimate [...]

A couple days ago I mentioned WebRunner, the chrome-less browser from Mozilla that lets you run web applications like Gmail and others as if they were stand alone applications. They are still on-line, just in their own distraction free window. I thought it might be interesting to see if the functionality could be ported over [...]

NASA cut short a spacewalk by two astronauts outside the international space station after one of them noticed a hole in the outer layer of his glove Wednesday.
Raw Video:

Technorati Tags: spacewalk, glove, tear

Producers howl over sound cut out by MP3 compression
It could be that MP3s actually reach the receptors in our brains in entirely different ways than analog phonograph records. The difference could be as fundamental as which brain hemisphere the music engages.
(tags: mp3 music)

A couple months ago Twitter took a habit of users and turned it into a feature. When people wanted to reply to someone else they would start their tweet something like “@yourtwitterusername I completely agree with you!”. Posts like that get grabbed by the system and put into your replies tab in twitter.
The [...]

NASA has released footage of Endeavour’s booster rocket falling into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after its launch last week.

Technorati Tags: NASA, boosters, Endeavour