Easy Ways to Track Holiday Flights [Travel]
You or someone you care about is probably boarding an airplane this holiday season, so arm yourself with the best flight tracking tools available before you head to the airport.
If you're at a computer (or have a schmancy phone with a Google search box readily available), just type the airline and flight number and hit the search button.
For a quick mobile lookup of when a flight's supposed to land while you're on the go, send a text message to either Google (466453) or 4INFO (44636) with the airline and flight number to get the status texted back to you immediately.
To see exactly where a plane in-flight is right now, check out a real-time flight tracker tool. For example, the Aeroseek tool (pictured) will give you an auto-updating map that shows you the plane's current location as it moves toward its destination.
These are just a few of dozens of ways to track flights online. What's your preferred method of making sure you get to the airport on time to pick up your loved ones? Post it up in the comments.
ReadWriteWeb's Top 100 Products of 2008 [Best Of 2008]
One of our favorite tech blogs, ReadWriteWeb, has been rocking out with best-of-2008 lists all month, and today they list their mega-list of the top 100 products of 2008, a solid list packed with good stuff.
Download Free Computer-Generated Christmas MP3s [Featured Download]
Load up your iTunes playlist with some holiday cheer but save a few bucks in the process with almost 20 classic holiday recordings that are available as a free download from the Garritan music community.
The Garritan Community Christmas album includes tunes from O Holy Night to Auld Lang Syne. What's most interesting is how they were recorded:
A community of musicians from all over the world met on the Garritan community forum and agreed to submit their own recordings of holiday music, to be freely distributed. Each of these orchestral recordings were made not with large live orchestras in vast recording studios at huge expense, but rather were created by a single person working on their own desktop or laptop computer. What they have in common is the use of Garritan libraries representing software musical instruments based on samples of real instruments.
Preview the tunes on-site before you download, then grab the entire album (with art) to add to your collection for free.
Spark a Lifetime of Do-It-Yourself Projects [Advertisement]
It's not too late to give the gift of making: MAKE Magazine has gift subscriptions and gift certificates to the Maker Shed store available with downloadable cards you can make yourself!
MAKE Magazine is the first magazine devoted entirely to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) technology projects. MAKE Magazine unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages.
Can't decide what to get your favorite Maker, Crafter or Hacker? Give them a gift certificate good for anything from the Maker Shed with the amount you choose. And best yet, you can choose to email it to them and avoid those long postal deliveries. A great last minute present that could spark a lifetime of making!
Mac-Like Vista Christmas Desktop [Featured Desktop]
Reader Tom0630 has decked the hall that is his Windows Vista desktop with a merry Mac-like look. Here's the rundown of what he's got going on:
Docks:
Yahoo Widgets:
Rainmeter stuff:
- Rainmeter
- Glitch
- 10ft HUD (Editor: See how to set up the 10-foot HUD here.)
- Mojo
Here's my wallpaper. I'm also using a modified theme for Vista SP1 called Vista OSX 09.
Click through to the Flickr page and mouse over the various components to see what's what. Nice job, Tom0630. We had to look at this desktop twice to make sure it really was Windows. Share your tricked-out desktop in the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell group.
How to Bulk-Edit Your Mac's Address Book Data [Mac Tip]
That company moved to a new location and now you need to update the address in your contacts for everyone you know there. Address Book doesn't allow for bulk-editing, but Macworld runs down how you can get the job done without doing it one by one.
Since Address Book doesn't allow for multiple entry editing natively, this is an export, edit, and re-import exercise. Still, nice to know it's possible.
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