Filed under: Internet, Productivity

Have you ever bookmarked a web page only to forget what it was you were supposed to be looking at on that page? Wired Marker is a Firefox add-on that lets you highlight text on a page in one of 8 colors. Next time you load the page the plugin will remember your annotations and reload them for you. If you don’t like the default colors, you can also customize them.

This isn’t the first application we’ve seen that lets you markup web pages like old textbooks. But unlike Awesome Highlighter, Wired Marker is integrated with your web browser, so you don’t have to enter the URL of the page you want to mark into a separate web application first. Just right click anywhere on any page, choose Wired Marker, and pick your color.

[via Digital Inspiration]

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Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, Apple, Freeware

If you’re anything like me, you’re probably at least a little bit addicted to your world wide web connection. The first thing I do when I wake up is check my email and RSS feeds, and it’s also the last thing I do before going to sleep. But that addiction can sometimes be a problem.

Staying on-task these days isn’t easy, particularly if you work at an internet-connected personal. The possible distractions are virtually limitless. So what is a geek to do? One option is to simply pull the plug. The network plug, that is.

But of course, these days nearly all personal have wireless capabilities, so turning off your internet connection isn’t quite as simply as just pulling the plug. If you’re on a Mac, you can use Freedom.

Freedom will turn off all of your Mac’s wireless and ethernet networking for a set amount of time. So if you need to put your head down for an hour and get some work done, you can set Freedom to an hour, and know that you won’t be tempted by any distractions.

If you absolutely need to get back on the internet before the chosen duration is up, the only way to do so is to reboot your personal.

This is one of those apps that’ll be a life saver for some people, and seem absolutely ridiculous to others. Which are you?

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Filed under: Management, Marketing and advertising, Blockbuster Inc ‘A’ (BBI), Circuit City Stores (CC)

You might think that corporate train wreck Circuit City (NYSE: CC) would have a lot of things to worry about — like, oh, I don’t know, the fact that it lost $165 million last quarter. Or the stock price, which has gone from $30 to $2 in less than three years. And with fellow wreck Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) having withdrawn its proposal to acquire the company, Circuit City is even out of the running for the prestigious Stupidest Merger in History That Doesn’t Involve the Company Which Owns This Website Award.

You might think that Circuit City management has plenty to keep it busy, but you’d be wrong. Circuit City banned its stores from selling an issue of MAD Magazine that made fun of the company, referring to it as “Sucker City.” Hah.

But yesterday the company reversed course and allowed the magazines to be sold, with a PR spokesman blaming “some overly sensitive souls at our corporate headquarters” —

We apologize for the knee-jerk reaction, and have issued a retraction order; the affected stores are being directed to put the magazines back on sale . . . The parody of our newspaper ad in the August MAD was very clever. Most of us at Circuit City share a rich sense of humor and irony . . . but there are occasional temporary lapses.

Now there’s a PR guy who deserves a raise — turning a pretty pathetic situation into a funny situation, even offering the editor of MAD a $20 gift card toward the buy of a Nintendo Wii, if he could find one.

And as for the “overly sensitive souls at corporate headquarters,” maybe they should put down the magazine and do some work. Maybe lose only $50 million next quarter. It would be progress!

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