NPR has been reporting on privacy this week, too. In particular, they have a story that includes a reporter that spent a year trying to delete herself and, ultimately, failed.

A really useful side effect is that, because this uses SPMediaKeyTap, it will also control certain desktop media player apps, including Spotify, VLC, Quicktime, and MPlayerX, while preventing iTunes from opening.

It does not work in Firefox on OSX.

I'm pretty sure that, because of the way this program works, it's only for the keyboard media keys for now. I've tried it with the buttons on plugged-in earbuds and it doesn't work on those (they still trigger iTunes).

Pentel Twist Erase III.

+1 for jumplists. You can even pin items to your jump list. It's probably the Windows feature I miss the most after switching to Mac.

Slackware Linux (on the Walnut Creek CDROM).

The article just shares the advice of one doctor, and does not cite any particular studies on the "actual" effects of bad posture. From the title, I was kind of expecting more scientific detail than just "the whole skeleton changes". Actually, the main advice from the article is to just get up and walk around…

Good tips. I'll add two more:

Awesome Screenshot is also available for Firefox and Safari, not just Chrome.

My brother and I did a variation of that laundry basket thing when we were kids. The variation was that one of us sat in the basket (grabbing misplaced items off the floor as we passed) while the other pushed it around the house as fast as possible. Oh, and we made car noises.

My high school soccer coach used the exact same words. I now use it as advice to my own students, but with a different emphasis: practice doing what you will have to do. Need to take a math test? Practice solving math problems. Need to take an English essay test? Practice writing essays.

Silent PC Review has a lot of good articles about quiet computing. Here are a few things I did to make my HTPC quieter:

The older (ATI) tuner cards can only record/view one channel at a time. If you you want to record/view two, you would need a second tuner. You would probably only get one of these if you found it used on ebay or something, though.

It depends on timing. The price over time of computer parts usually has a u-shaped curve. It starts high when new, then drops as production ramps up (and really drops when new models are released). However, if you wait too long, then the price starts to rise again (after production stops and inventory is depleted).…

A Mac app called Vitamin-R has worked really well for me. It makes you type in your goal, sets up time slices into work-break intervals, and also has the option of blocking certain apps during the work time. The combination of breaking down my work into smaller goals, writing down those goals, and working in timed…

It's already been suggested, and it seems like lots of people do it, but I happened to have a picture: I connect my laptop to ethernet (which is often much faster than their wifi), rebroadcast it as wifi with internet connection sharing to my phone, tablet, and AppleTV, which is hooked up to the tv.

The actual chemical that does the cleaning is d-limonene. It's mostly present in the orange/yellow skin (not the white pith), so you might be better off using a zester or a sharp knife and adding only the zest. I remember doing a limonene extraction lab in organic chemistry in college, but it was a little more…

Yep, it's been available as an optional addon (PDF Viewer by Mozilla Labs) since Dec. 2011 (around when Firefox 9 was released) and then was built-in to Firefox 15 in Aug. 2012.

"... if the third-party site is compromised, your Facebook, Twitter, or Google account aren't"