Tips

Cameras

What Are The Best ISO Settings For Canon DSLR Video?

8:00AM May 2, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Self, I’m glad you asked that question, because DSLR video is becoming the norm, it would seem, and it’s going to be really important to know the answers to such queries. More »


Geek Out

A Gentle Reminder For Aussies Wanting To Nuke Their Yellow Pages Delivery

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9:36AM February 2, 2011 | Nick Broughall

The US team were in celebration mode overnight as it finally became possible for them to cancel their Yellow Pages delivery. And as commenter Molokov pointed out, we’ve been able to do it to our Yellow Pages deliveries for a while now. If you want to cancel your Yellow Pages (and White Pages) deliveries, here’s how: More »


Computing

Leave Your Hard Drive Damp To Help Save Your Data

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4:30PM January 19, 2011 | Nick Broughall

Gus over at Lifehacker has picked up on an exceptionally useful blog post from data recovery experts Kroll Ontrack with tips for data recovery if your hard drive gets wet. Given that half the country has been swimming in their loungerooms these past few weeks, the advice is particularly timely. More »


Software

How To Remap Any Keyboard Shortcut In Mac OS X

2:00AM January 1, 2011 | Adam Dachis

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/YWbEBipLxKA&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":332.5,"ratio":0.615,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); Is a particular keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X giving you grief? If you want to remap it to something you’d like better, there’s a handy little setting in System Preferences that can help you out. More »


Mobile

So This Is How You Clean Your iPhone

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12:09PM March 12, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Lifehacker is the greatest site on the net for discovering ways to get things done. But sometimes getting things done can take an ugly turn, like the tip editor Gus received for cleaning the iPhone. More »


How To Replace A Lost Mobile Phone Charger (For Free)

2:20AM January 23, 2010 | Mark Wilson

From an AskReddit member: “Go to a hotel and say you think you lost it there. It’s the #1 most left behind item at hotels, so most places have a big bin filled with every phone charger imaginable. More »


News

Let’s Make Giz AU A Better Place For Everybody

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3:19PM January 4, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Ah, 2010. It seems like only yesterday you were little more than a section in the calendar that I could only find if I continually scrolled through month after month during those depressing down times in gadget land. But you’re here now, so it’s time to try and take the time to see how we can make Gizmodo a better place for everyone in the community. More »


Gadgets

How Tiger Woods Should Have Used Technology To Cheat On His Wife

10:00AM December 3, 2009 | Jason Chen

It’s a story doomed to repeat for all of time: Man cheats on wife, wife catches man, wife eagle-claw-slaps man, man runs away, wife chases after man with a golf club, man crashes car. This could have been prevented. More »


Software

Every Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcut You’ll Ever Need

5:53AM October 27, 2009 | John Herrman

Whether by force of tradition or out of respect for the keyboard-clinging power users out there, Windows 7 has more—and more useful—keyboard shortcuts than ever before. Like, enough that a definitive guide would be very, very useful. Oh! More »


Software

Update Your Life With LH’s List Of The Top Software Update Tools

5:30AM October 19, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Automate your software update process with one of these specialised software tools, won’t you? The complete list is available for your consumption over at Lifehacker. Enjoy. [Lifehacker]