Technology

I never really used a "home" page in my browser before and I always set my browsers to open a blank page for new tabs. But I just found the Speed Dial add on for Firefox, which lets you load thumbnails of sites you visit regularly so you can see what the latest updates to the site are in one screen. Really nice. Fast Dial is another one with a lot of customization options, but I liked the simplicity of this one.

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Ever wonder where your kids go during the day? Or perhaps you're curious how many miles you travel, point to point, in a typical week? Heck, maybe you're the suspicious type and want to know where your spouse drives the car while you're working?

All of these questions can now be answered by devices called GPS tracking systems that combine the geolocation capabilities of a GPS with a rudimentary recording system and a simple computer interface, typically all packaged as a chunky USB memory stick.

The Telespial Systems' Trackstick II is one of the more interesting GPS tracking systems on the market and I was pleased to get one from the company for review. It's clunky, but performs as advertised, offering a wealth of interesting data and answers to all of the questions I posed above.

I just got a new iMac, after years of working on Windows XP systems, and a pal was telling me that one of the coolest features of Mac OS X is that you can redirect any printout and turn anything into a PDF. That's awesome because I constantly send Web pages to clients and PDFs will be a lot more reliable than the HTML source. Can you show me how to do this?

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I've read all your other Sony PSP articles fanatically, but I haven't found anything you've written about how to access the Skype service from the PSP. Can you show me how to connect with my Skype friends through my Sony PSP, please?

I'm new to Google AdSense my website is a social networking. My page views of a single day is about 10000, but my Google AdSense impression shows only 4000-5000 impressions. Could you tell me why?

It's New Years eve and my friends and I are debating: how many time zones are there on Earth? I say that there can't be more than 24 time zones, but my buddy says there are more. Seems like that'd define how many times New Year is celebrated each year.

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I got a great gift from my folks, an Apple iTunes gift card. Nice. And I have an iPod. What I don't have is any clue how to redeem an iTunes gift card. Help!

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These are just more illustrations of the process I've been using for design iterations. When I have the notebook available, I'll be doing some screencasts to describe this process in detail, and why I felt the need to make these graph paper notebooks and pads.

More info here: konigi.com/notebook/doing-sketch-iterations

One of the reasons I bought the Sony PSP was so I could listen to some of the radio broadcasts available via the Internet from Switzerland, where I grew up. Can you explain how I can do that?