If your mornings seems to get away from you, it’s time to take stock in where the time is going and make sure the routine you have is a realistic one. Photo by wanfauzan . Over at the organization blog Unclutterer, they highlight the plight of a friend who is never on time. We all have that friend and sometimes even are that friend. I know I have a good friend who despite getting up nearly three hours before she needs to be at work is perpetually late because she underestimates how long it will take her to do things.

Mac OS X only: Never been entirely happy with the way your Mac reacts when you plug in your various camera-sporting devices? Wish it could do something different when you plug in your iPhone versus your DSLR? Cameras can help. Cameras is a free preference pane that keeps track of cameras you’ve plugged into your Mac and allows you to set custom behavior for each device. For example, whenever I plug in my point-and-shoot, I want to import photos into iPhoto.

Reader Paul writes in with an interesting tip for using relative paths in a batch file: you can use a special code to represent the current path—useful for batch files on a Flash drive. We’ve previously covered a similiar way to create shortcuts that run off a USB stick —but if you need the full path to the batch file regardless of the machine you plugged it into, you can substitute %~dp0 anywhere you want to use the current path of the batch file.

Last week we showed you how to crack a Wi-Fi network’s WEP key using a live CD and some command line fu. Today we’ve got other cracking options—but more importantly, clarification on the point of all this. Even Easier Ways to Crack WEP The cracking method we covered last week involved typing in 10 tedious commands you can easily fat-finger. While there’s no super-simple GUI with a giant button that says “Crack this network” and plays James Bond theme music, a couple of windowed options are much more usable.

Google’s search results have long included a “View as HTML” option tacked next to PDF files it indexed. Now it’s increasingly just “View,” as the native viewer app used in Google Docs is available for quick document scans. Google’s converting PDFs to PNG files for faster loading and skimming, but you can still search for individual words inside the viewer. The pages of a PDF can be viewed in page-by-page or grid alignments, and there’s still a “Plain HTML” click option for those who like the stripped-down versions.

Windows : If you’re eager to try out VLC 1.0’s new features , or find yourself at a lack for decent media players at others’ computers, PortableApps has bundled VLC’s latest release in USB-drive-friendly form. The changes, bug fixes, and new features are the same as in VLC’s 1.0 desktop release , but the portable version, weighing in at 20MB, doesn’t require an installation and plays without leaving many traces on a Windows system. It works launching on its own, or from PortableApps.com’s handy thumb drive launching menu.

Image via CrunchBaseIn a sudden, if not unexpected, announcement this morning, Google said it would release an open-sourceoperating system based on its Chrome browser. The OS will be free, geared at first toward netbooks, and focused on “speed, simplicity, and security.”Google executives told the New York Times that Google Chrome OS would be available online “later this year” as a free, open-source download, while specially tailored netbooks running the operating system are targeted for the second half of 2010.

Chair covers, colored napkins, a specific hour range on a Sunday—these aren’t the things that make wedding memories. All of them, and a few other supposedly sacred marital cows, can be tweaked for less debt-inducing weddings. Photo by thefuturistics . Out of the blue, a Doubletree hotel in Tarrytown, NY drops a 10-point list with some surprisingly rationed and helpful ideas on how to save a good deal of cash on what can easily become an exercise in willful overspending.

If you frequently examine the source code of web pages while using Firefox, this handy trick will load the source code directly in your favorite editor. Over at The How-To Geek, they’ve shared a handy trick for ditching the basic source viewer included in Firefox. Load your Firefox configuration file by typing about:config in the address bar and then follow these steps: 1. Type or copy & paste “view_source.editor.external” (without the quote marks) into the Filter Address Bar.