When driving, you can get directions hands-free by asking Siri. You can also make general map searches, show a location’s details, call a query’s phone number, and view traffic details. However, Siri defaults to Apple Maps for all those. If you prefer Google Maps, Waze, or another third-party navigation app, the map-based Siri commands won’t work. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still use Siri.

Article compares the facts presented in the book Why We Sleep with the scientific literature and concludes the book consistently overstates the problem of lack of sleep, and misrepresents basic sleep research and contradicts its own sources.

Ryan Terpstra’s blog in Forbes

This article explains 10 things that should be done on Facebook in order to avoid identity theft.

This website is an experiment that uses Color Theory to randomly select a color scheme that is supposed to look nice with every refresh.

Sets of minimalistic icons

Tiny rss is an open source RSS feed reader project that you can install on your own server . It’s very similar to Google Reader with all it’s features nad eye candy (even more!), and also integrates a filtering system to tag and categorize articles. If you want to get off Google (Reader)’s grip, that’s a good start :)

This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.