Most of us hook up our Google accounts with our iOS devices using Exchange, which pushes new mail to your iPhone. But if you sync Google Calendar using Exchange, your calendar colors don’t sync. Luckily they can, and there’s a simple solution. More »
We love a strong password management solution, but if you prefer to keep your passwords in your head, you can do so without picking weak passwords or using the same password at every site. Here’s how. More »
If you’re keen on the as-you-type search results you get from Google Instant, you’ll really like Instant integrated with Chrome’s omnibox. Just launch your dev/canary release, type about:labs, enable Instant, restart Chrome, and prepare for some interesting browsing. More »
Bad video interlacing leaves distracting horizontal lines across your screen during video playback (especially when there’s a lot of on-screen motion). Tech blog Tested details how to fix video interlacing on the fly. More »
Windows: Mulve is a portable, single-minded, lightning-fast MP3 search-and-download application. It’s not pretty, but it sure does work. More »
Paste a link to any web-hosted file into webapp Burnbit, and it'll turn the file into a torrent you can download and share with other people—particularly handy for quickly sharing large files with multiple people. More »
We’re actually kind of excited about the new Google Instant, but if you don’t like the distraction of as-you-type, predictive search results and filtering, it’s extremely easy to turn off. You can either toggle it on or off to the right of the search box, or you can head to your Google search settings, scroll to the Google Instant section, and select Do not use Google Instant. Then simply hit the Save Preferences at the bottom of the page. (Video best watched in 720p.) More »
iOS/Windows/Mac/Linux: Free service Notifo is a kitchen sink of push notifications for your iPhone or desktop, pushing Twitter updates, your favorite RSS feeds, Google Voice alerts, and more straight to your iPhone or desktop notification utility. And it’s extremely hackable. More »
iOS: You could already watch Netflix on your iPad—or an iPhone with a clever hack—but now the popular streaming service is available as an official iPhone app. More »
