How To: Turn your laptop into a wireless hot spot

If you've only got one wired ethernet connection and a room full of internet-starved laptop users, you can quickly turn your laptop into a wireless hot spot without any extra software. CNET TV has a video tutorial that demonstrates how you can turn Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Mac OS X laptops into wireless broadcasting hot spots. CNET even shows how you can add security to the wireless signal to keep intruders out. The process is painless in Vista and OS X, but requires a few steps in XP. Anyone know how to accomplish the same task in Linux? Share in the comments.

How To: Turn your laptPublish Postop into a wireless hot spot

Extend Your Brain With Evernote (Private Beta Invites)

We are all dealing with information overload. Some of the most useful Web startups are the ones that help us deal with the never-ceasing flow of data washing over us every day. Evernote is one of those startups. A Windows version of Evernote has been around for a few years, but it is now releasing a Web version in private beta, as well as a new Windows client, mobile software clients for Windows Mobile and PocketPC phones, and a mobile Web version. (A Mac client and mobile clients for Java phones, iPhones, and Android phones are in the works). The first 200 TechCrunch readers to sign up here can try it out before its more general release in March.

Extend Your Brain With Evernote (Private Beta Invites)

Wakerupper.com - Free Wake-up Calls and Telephone Reminders

Schedule wake-up phone calls. Lots of useful features.

Wakerupper.com - Free Wake-up Calls and Telephone Reminders

File Destructor 2.0 - Hype Magazine

Want to play games on your Playstation but got a deadline for an exam or report that didn’t match your gaming ambitions?

Then you have come to the right place.

Send trashed files and blame your faulty computer, instead of confessing that you are a lazy bum who just wants to play videogames.

File Destructor 2.0 - Hype Magazine

Call the Future.org

CallTheFuture calls the specified number with the given return name.Please understand that this is a demo only and the limit is often maxed out. If so, please try later.

Call the Future.org

Conversion: Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents

The Digital Inspiration blog offers up five email addresses that offer free file conversion for Word docs, PDFs, and even MP3s with no fuss, no muss—just attach a file, send it, and wait for the reply with the converted file attached. For mobile device users who can't read or open certain formats or desktop users who need a little audio formatting without downloading software. The full list of addresses, after the jump.

Conversion: Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents

Howcast - Browse Videos

Howcast is also announcing an $8 million series A financing, led by Tudor Investment Corp. In addition to their own site, they already have a Youtube channel (where they split advertising revenues with their former employer). The Howcast team also has signed distribution deals with Myspace, Verizon for its Vcast phones and FiOS TV, Joost, and ROO. JetBlue is the launch advertiser. Howcast faces competition from Expert Village, 5min, and Instructables (even though the latter uses step-by-step images more than video).

The site is launching with professionally-shot instructional videos on everything from “How to Paint a Wall” (see embed below) and “How to Groom Your Cat” to “How to Get Laid.” There is a familiar formula for each one: The Howcast graphic, an intro explaining what you’ll need for the task at a hand, and step-by-step instructions explained in a voiceover. The video player on the site lets you jump to different chapters or steps, lets you zoom in for a better look, and provides the transcript as well. Viewers can add comments in the form of tips, warnings, and facts to each video. And the Flash-based site lets you browse the video directory on the left hand side while you are watching a video without interrupting it or going to a different page.

Howcast - Browse Videos

Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information

We're really excited to bring you forms! Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. Creating the form is easy: start with a spreadsheet to get the form, or start by creating the form and you'll get the spreadsheet automatically.

Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information

VMware: Virtualization, Virtual Machine & Virtual Server Consolidation - VMware

Virtualization is changing the computing landscape. Learn how virtualization can help you save time and money while achieving more with the computer resources you already own.

VMware: Virtualization, Virtual Machine & Virtual Server Consolidation - VMware

TripIt | Organize your travel

TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans. TripIt is free and makes it easy to...

• Quickly organize your vacation and business travel - no matter where you book
• Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more
• Easily access your itineraries via paper, email, personal calendar or mobile device
• Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues

TripIt | Organize your travel

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | Know-How | Smashing Magazine

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | Know-How | Smashing Magazine