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I'm a 30 year old guy living in Somerville, MA. I work for Intuit QuickBase supporting customer success with the product. I'm a technology junkie with an insatiable appetite for learning about the latest trends and products in the market. I've given up (for now) posting new original content, and am instead aggregating links to articles that I come across in my day to day reading. I hope you enjoy these finds!

Do Not Track Plus Stops Ad Companies and Others from Tracking You Online

Chrome/Firefox/Safari/IE: Whenever you visit a website, data about your visit is likely sent to advertisers, social networks, and other companies. Free browser add-on Do Not Track Plus not only tells you what data is being collected, it also blocks those attempts to share your information. Although “Do Not Track” browser options are available and there…

QuickMailer Is a Snappy Way to Send Email from the Menu Bar

Mac: Sometimes you just need to quickly send out an email without all the distractions of actually opening up your email client. QuickMailer is a simple email client that allows you to quickly send emails from the menu bar without having to worry about getting distracted with other tasks. QuickMailer automatically uses your primary email…

How to Get a Refund from the App Store

There are something like a bazillion apps in the App Store. Do you know what that means? A lot of craptacular apps that should never be put on your iPhone. But sometimes you download an app not knowing it sucks or doesn’t work or is buggy or isn’t what you thought. Can you get a…

How to Get a Refund from the App Store

There are something like a bazillion apps in the App Store. Do you know what that means? A lot of craptacular apps that should never be put on your iPhone. But sometimes you download an app not knowing it sucks or doesn’t work or is buggy or isn’t what you thought. Can you get a…

Mr. Money Mustache vs. Tim Ferriss

“Who is this Tim Ferriss guy?”If find yourself asking that question, then congratulations, you get five extra Mustache Points for not tuning into US mainstream media for the last several years. In fact, I myself was blissfully unaware of his existence until I started this blog last year and noticed everyone either worshiping or criticizing him. For…

How to get alerted of new Netflix ‘watch instantly’ titles | How To

Receiving an alert when a new title is added to Netflix’s instant section would be a dream come true, wouldn’t it? Great news: dreams really do come true! We previously told you about IfThisThenThat (ifttt) when it was in a closed beta, and had a limited selection of channels and triggers. Fortunately, the list of…

Privacyscore will alert you to potential privacy risks when using a website

For the first part of 2012, privacy has been a big topic and massive source of pain for companies like Google and Path. Most of us use the Internet and assume that we’re protected from our personal information being shared with others. That’s not always the case as we’ve found, especially when it comes to…

How To Supercharge Siri On Your iPhone 4S

How To Supercharge Siri On Your iPhone 4S [Jailbreak] Alex Heath (10:00 am PDT, Feb 20) If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone 4S, you have access to some great tweaks for adding functionality to Apple’s digital assistant, Siri. You can turn Siri into your personal translator, launch apps and toggle system settings, tweet, and and even…

Photosweeper: Take Charge of Your Photos and Free Up Disk Space

For many of us, our computer’s hard drive has become a vast repository of digital images. Everyday, we snap photos with our smartphones and digital cameras which are then deposited into countless folders. But let’s face it, when our hard drives start to get full, who enjoys the tedious process of navigating these folders searching…

RSS Talk Feeds Your Need For News On The Go

Given the surplus of RSS reader apps available in the App Store, and especially with the gorgeous and efficient Reeder currently leading the pack, is there any more space left for yet another one? Perhaps in the case of RSS Talk, you can be persuaded to make room for it in your already crowded home…