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One year ago, I experimented with Google Hosted - 5ThirtyOne - Google Hosted Email - and soon moved and began managing all of my email accounts using Google's services. Why? Because it was convenient, accessible, simple, quick, and everything email ...

Have you ever caught yourself questioning a purchase at the cash register - the energy drink, the triple shot, a new piece of hardware, or a new article of clothing? I know I have. Unfortunately, the disciplined side of me ...

UPDATE #2: A variant of the Grid Focus is now available for download. Feel free to visit the project page for details. UPDATE #1: Comments on this article are closed. The WordPress Chinese Forums have implemented a stricter sense of intellectual ...

Firefox bookmarks bar [screenshot] with various bookmarklets for resizing & repositioning the browser window On a fairly regular basis, I find myself resizing & repositioning the browser window in order to "work happy". Be it general web browsing, web development, or ...

If there was ever a free fonts download website to garner any excitement it would be Fonts 500. The website has an incredibly large collection of free font downloads worthy of adding to your bookmark(s) collection. Font popularity is based ...

Syl and I took a look a few different internet options aside from the usual: cable, DSL, or FIOS. The requirements were that the service would need to be a) temporary, b) able to be shared, c) free of obtrusive ...

UPDATE: Joost loaded the invites pool. Nearly unlimited invites available as of this update. Drop your request in the comments and I'll make sure to send the invites out as soon as possible. The closed beta (as of this posting) service ...

UPDATE: I spoiled Syl's surprise... Ergh, her April Fools' Day joke. It would have been amusing to see her drop such a question in front of the family - timing would have been everything and I definitely would have played ...

Not too long ago I posted a review & comparison of three online collaboration applications - Basecamp, Goplan, and activeCollab. Through personal experience, as well as input from readers, I realized that the online collaboration tools niche is one of ...

Although I have thoroughly enjoyed the Apple TV over the past few days, I raise an eyebrow when I think about Apple's reasoning for dismissing the idea of Parental Controls for streaming video content. Due to the number of iTunes ...

One more excuse to be unproductive and lazy, I took home the Apple TV. Yes, that's right, I succumbed to the alluring draw of one more shiny Apple gadget. The net is full of recent reviews and I do not ...

For some time, I've left a small Crazy Egg <script> at the bottom of my site which provided information as to where readers were more inclined to use their mouse. My impression(s) of the service has changed little from when ...

UPDATE 11/18: activeCollab is no longer offered as a free project management collaboration download. From the design, development, and product strategy company Webreakstuff comes a new contender in online project management and collaboration known as Goplan. In its newly released form, ...

Two days ago I noticed a saddening spectacle as I witnessed a dark irregular shape creep across the corner of one of my 23" Apple Cinema Displays. In stark contrast to a previous Apple service visit with ProCare membership in ...

Anyone who inserts contextual advertisements into their pages - like Google Adsense - are aware of the fact that some readers block advertisements. Oftentimes, methods for removing advertisements from view alter the structure of a page, in turn, changing ...

After much deliberation, I decided to take a few minutes out of the weekend to clean-up shop here on 5thirtyone.com. I have always known that my WordPress database was a little on the high side considering how few posts I ...