Title says all. No explanation needed. It's basically just a to-do list of useful stuff that you can do when you're stuck in your house because of cold, icky snow, with nothing but your trusty laptop. Well, let's get going...

1. Empty your inbox. Many people have thousands of emails in their inbox, where many are already read and left in the inbox because "they may be important later" but "later" never seems to come. You need an Archive folder (In Gmail, this is the button "All Mail". In other email programs, you have to make your own folder, but it is so worth it.) Inbox clean in no time.

2. Sort out your computer calendar. Even if you don't have one, consider desktop application Rainlendar. It rocks.

3. Sort out your browser's bookmarks. Same as with the email, you ought to have lots of "read me later" stuff in your bookmarks that you just forgot about. Clean them. Now.

4. Decorate your laptop. Mine looks exactly like a 4-computers-in-one Vista, but it's a one computer XP. Amazing, the stuff you can do with an old XP, eh?

Honestly, have you ever seen such a small start menu? I bet you haven't, and neither did I, until I stumbled across SMOz (Start Menu Organizer), a program that lets you easily drag-and-drop the stuff in your start menu into a set of files, so that your start menu significantly shrinks.

Thanks, Lifehacker!

Black saves energy. True?

It sounds silly, but a screen displaying stuff that is mostly black with (for instance) white text saves more energy than displaying mostly light colors.

One example can be found at blackle.com, which is the same as Google, but black. Make a difference!

I know this looks like a bit of a ripoff so you guys will download Rainlendar, but it is sooo cool. This is what my desktop looks like now:

The dark blue things are Rainlendar. (By the way, the rest of it is from widgets.yahoo.com.)

It looks cool, doesn't it?