Uber Geekdom

Uber Geek Extra on Sciencetext.com. The site’s Uber Geek Extra section gets added to almost every day with new direct links to tips, tricks, hacks, and blogging and browsing help.

Working from beach Apr 16, 2008
If you’re a homeworker but fancy a trip to the beach, now you can spoof your whereabouts using your iPhone to convince your boss you’re actually in your boring, old office, thanks to Swiss researchers.

Big Pando power - Apr 11, 2008
Share files up to 1 Gigabyte via any email or instant messenger (IM) regardless of other limits.

Searchable Google Docs - Apr 9, 2008
Google Docs now lets you run advanced searches for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You can search by document type, date modified, who the documents are shared with and more. Once you set up a search, you can save your search criteria to easily run the same search at a later time.

OpenOffice ver 3 - Mar 22, 2008
Version 3 of OpenOffice could be the Microsoft Office killer we’ve been waiting for. Check out the sneak preview.

Prase - Page Rank Assisted Search Engine - Mar 19, 2008
Praise for Prase (it’s web 2.0, dontcha know?). Actually, it is an interesting tool, although the fundamental meta search concept is years old and has been implemented before in a lesser form. What Prase brings to the table is searching with Pagerank/rank as a parameter.

Emotionally hard-hitting headlines - Mar 12, 2008
Check whether your headlines pack emotional punch before you submit that blog post. This headline scored in the 30-40% bracket, which is roughly what most professional copywriters would achieve, hitting 50-75% is a gift.

Backup your GMail - Mar 11, 2008
Google’s Matt Cutts explains the ins and outs of backing up your GMail with Linux/Unix or via Thunderbird or Outlook.

Higher Res YouTube video hack - Mar 6, 2008
Just add “Add &fmt=18″ to the end of a youtube URL (without the quotes) and for some newer video uploads you will get to see an MP4-encoded version, with better audio and a 480×360 resolution. “&fmt=6″ is a lesser hack that bumps up res to 448×336. Meanwhile, there’s now Firefox extension to make use of the new YT features - http://snurl.com/213n7

Study computer science at Harvard - Mar 3, 2008
Harvard, hot on MIT’s heels, has made available it’s 14 lecture computer science course available on the web for free.

Amazon mp3 downloads - Mar 3, 2008
If you’re on Linux and been itching to get at Amazon’s mp3 downloads then your time has come (but only if you’re in the US).

Get more geekiness through the Uber Geek Extra section and over on Sciencebase on the Geeky Bits page. By the way, that’s most certainly not me in the headphones photo on this post…far too much hair.