Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
It was only ten days ago that Mashable first offered a brief peek into LaterLoop, a bookmarking service created by the Greg Hochmuth, founder of Mento and zoo-m.com, which offers easy online/offline access to pages saved for later reading or referral through the use of a FireFox add-onContinue Reading....
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Web-based account manager Zefty helps kids understand spending and parents manage what they owe the little ones. Manually or automatically "deposit" money into kids' accounts, and they (and you) can see what they've saved. If your tyke's tech-proficient, they get their own login to enter what they withdrew and why, ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Updated (Bottom): If you’re part of the indie music scene, you’re often likely to hear that one of the best ways to get your digital media out to the virtual shelves of stores on the Web without much initial investment in distribution is to seek the services of CD BabyContinue ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Web site Appropedia describes in impressive detail how to convert your gas-powered lawnmower to solar power. The process involves some serious hacking of your original push mower and an investment in parts, but when you're finished you'll be hacking down grass with nothing but the power of the sun. Not ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Do you recall that tax bill sent into law in New York State which requires some Internet retail businesses to require customers to fork over some cash and coin? It received the designation of “the Amazon tax” as a result of sheer caliber of business conducted by the online sales ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
There are a number of technologies whose origins could be found in NASA’s history books. But microblogging most definitely is not one of them. Still, the space agency has developed its own little fascination with Twitter, and Veronica McGregor, the news services manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
You can find some great deals buying video games used and secondhand, but there's often the trade-off of not getting a manual or the original maps and cheat sheets with your disc—annoying with some games, near-deal-breakers for others, (I'm looking at you, StarTropics.) ReplacementDocs has over 1,000 manuals and reference ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
YouTube may be dominating the Web video world in traffic - hugely so - but it hasn’t yet been made into the moneymaking heavyweight its parent company, Google, wishes it to be.
That may be changing, say Quentin Hardy and Evan Hessel of Forbes.com. Though the company - or, more specifically, ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
One of the side effects of having so much stuff to help us get work done is dealing with the clutter it creates in our workspace. But just like you can defragment a hard drive—organize the bits and bytes so that related ones are closest to one another for faster ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Though Opera may only see iterations of its mobile browsers maintain a truly popular presence among Web users, while its standard desktop-based client holds a significantly smaller portion of its respective market, the company is pressing forth with development across its entirely lineupContinue Reading....
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Early in March we brought you word that The WB, the original Warner Bros. television network which merged with UPN to form The CW, was putting together a new website to to host archival content as well as original Web-only productionsContinue Reading....
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Web site RateBeer contains an enormous user-rated database of beers to help you find your new favorite beer. Last weekend we highlighted Beer Suggest, a new site scouring the net to bring you a good beer, but several commenters pointed out RateBeer (and <a href="http://beeradvocateContinue Reading....
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Add a little eye candy to your most frequently used folders on your Mac by assigning a background image to the window. To do so, from the View menu, choose "As Icons." Then again from the View menu, choose "Show View Options." Under Background, choose Picture, ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Windows only: Freeware application Hotspot Shield secures your public web browsing by connecting you to the internet through the Hotspot Shield virtual private network. What more people seem to use Hotspot Shield for is to access US-only websites from outside the US. We post a lot of content on Lifehacker, ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
The first and last thing you need to remember about martial arts is that it is a field of discipline that is supposed to prepare you for combat. It is not simply a set of movements that look great to spectators. Every movement, every breath done by the...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
The following is a list of some software solutions that can be utilised to resolve certain network management and monitoring problems. These can also serve as important backup tools..Continue Reading....
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
If you’re not a fan of Radiohead, you may not be particularly interested in the inside entertainment business news going on between Thom Yorke and Prince, but for those of us that follow the battle between the old and new guard in the mainstream music business, quite an interesting juxtaposition ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
TGIF, people! Before you head out to happy hour, get a load of this week's most popular posts:
Read Full Magazines for Free, With or Without an iPhone"Digital magazine provider Zinio offers up the current issues of 20 magazines—including Popular Mechanics, PC Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report—for free ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Windows only: Copy MP3s and other files to and from a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch with iPhoneBrowser, a free Windows file-browsing utility. iPhoneBrowser is a pretty no-frills file browser, as you can see in the screen above, but it's less hassle then the FTP method included in our <a ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Incorporating a new habit into your routine can be difficult, especially if it's not an everyday activity, so personal development blogger Steve Pavlina offers several tips for maintaining that new habit. For example: Suppose you want to exercise 5 days a week, and you really want to keep those off ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Matt Schlicht, a UStreamer and avid Twitter user, advanced a proposed solution to the PR issues the Twitter-folks are currently facing - do a live townhallContinue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Windows only: Freeware application Start Killer hides the Start menu button, freeing up extra space on your Windows taskbar. You can still access the Start menu by hitting the Windows key, but Start Killer frees up a good chunk of taskbar real estateContinue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Wired's How-To Wiki dives into home automation, offering advice for beginning "smart house" hackers looking to take their homes to the future. The article focuses on the X10 standard for automation, covering the devices and software you can use to save energy and look cool by automating devices in your ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Do-it-yourselfer Kipkay doesn't have a backlit keyboard, so he repurposed the pointless Scroll Lock LED on an old school keyboard to light up all the keys instead. The end result does indeed make typing in the dark possible, but it doesn't look anywhere near as cool as a commercial backlit ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
All platforms running Thunderbird: Thunderbird extension Zindus syncs your Google contacts with Thunderbird's address book. Just install the extension, give it your Gmail username and password (it supports both @gmail and Google Apps domains), and hit the Sync Now button to synchronize names, email addresses, phone numbers, IM handles, and ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Mozilla product manager Alex Polvi's state of Firefox 3-compatible add-ons report points out that while top extensions like Gmail Manager, Forecast Fox, and <a href="https://addonsContinue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Google-owned FeedBurner is set to launch AdSense for RSS next week according to a post on the company’s blog. Much like the AdSense for Web sites, AdSense for RSS will show contextual text advertising in publisher’s RSS feeds. In other words, if you’re reading a blog post ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Zombies are effing real. Or at least at LostZombies.com they are.
The new site is focused on creating the first ever community generated zombie documentary/mockumentary. Lost Zombies asks its members to upload proof of zombie existence through short video clips, audio, and photo submissionsContinue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Will Steve Jobs ever write a book? It’s an interesting question that you can ask your friends, but what if you had the chance to ask the man himself?
ZotFish, a free site that just launched this month, allows anyone to ask a question to over 400 celebrities, politicians, artists, athletes, ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Development on the Xbox Media Center Mac port continues apace, with the new beta 3 which dropped today. Grab the update to get more fixes and additions from the Linux version, and see how XBMC turns your Mac into a better media centerContinue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Got some downtime at the office but don't feel comfortable pulling out a paperback to get some reading in on-the-job? Web site Read at Work serves up public domain works in PowerPoint-looking chunks. The site boasts a convincing Flash application that runs in fullscreen and looks exactly like a Windows ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
In this article, learn application-strengthening tools, including Firefox tools and add-ons, which you can use to improve or solve security problems within your Ajax applications. Certain vulnerabilities within Ajax applications can allow hackers to reek havoc with your applications.read moreContinue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Imagine being able to navigate to the rich function of a Rich Client Platform (RCP) application just as easily as you can navigate to a Web page today. Follow along to enable the opening of specific business objects in your Eclipse RCP application simply by clicking a URL.Continue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
There as many applications and methods for copying music from an iPod to your computer as there are iPod models themselves, which makes finding a sure-fire, free solution a matter of tedious trial and error. To save you the work, today we're rounding up the best tools and techniques for ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Webapp MyFolia organizes and tracks your garden's progress using all the current "Web 2.0" tools out there—tags, a wiki, Google maps, and social networking. Sign up for an account at MyFolia to:
Track your gardening progress - list your current plants with planting dates, track your seed stashes and note ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
As a follow-up to Michael Stutz's excellent article, this article provides 10 more good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up!Continue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Miss anything good this month on Lifehacker? Have a recap:
Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera"If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box."Get Vista's Best Features in XP"Despite the fact that ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Gmail's newer, less-refresh-required version 2, unveiled back in the fall of 2007, hasn't been readily accessible to users of Opera's browser. Tech blog CyberNet notes, however, that by using Opera's <a href="http://www.operaContinue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Free eBay search tool Auction Bloopers does the exhaustive work of finding slight misspellings and typos in and around every word you type in, throwing them all into the online auction giant and returning with search results that include pretty much every possible result you might not find otherwise. We've ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
You might have heard about the power of mind mapping from studious co-workers or, say, a certain blog, but never had the drive to jump in and start sketching. Text2MindMap, a free visualization web app, makes turning your ideas into node-based maps as easy as hitting Tab. Type or paste ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Lynette Chandler of Tech Based Marketing has put together a short-and-sweet guide to setting up a data-gathering web form using <a class="autolink" rel="nofollow" title="Click here to read more posts tagged GOOGLE DOCS" title="Click here to read more posts tagged GOOGLE DOCS" href="http://lifehackerContinue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Web app Bradicon is a super-simple tool to convert most of the major graphics formats—JPG, PNG, BMP, or GIF—into icon files. We've previously posted a similar tool, but Bradicon's wider file range and two-step process make it a great bookmark for anyone fixing a desktop or personalizing a file packageContinue ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Windows only: When you dig up that old Outlook PST (Personal Folders) file from years ago you cleverly secured with a hard-to-guess password—and now you can't guess it—you want PstPassword. Turns out that Outlook passwords aren't that difficult to figure out, because this handy utility detects the PST's on your ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Last Monday, I wrote an editorial piece supporting Senator Joe Lieberman in his plea to Google to show some restraint and start voluntarily censoring and pulling down videos by those known to post terrorist content and terrorist propaganda. Many of you in the comments left on the editorial piece were ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
With the recent news that Israeli military jets scrambled to shoot down Tony Blair’s jet after a failure in air-to-controller communications ( (the jets had taken a firing position above and behind Blair’s jet, the perfect firing position), we decided to come up with a list of ten jets that ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Twitter, apparently, has closed it’s much rumored $15 million funding round. That’s the news being reported by PaidContent today (a bit of news that seems to have been lost in the shuffle today)Continue Reading....
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Workbook Project’s own Lance Weiler is currently touring the USA and Europe with his ..... Add 'Filmmakers That Think Outside the Film' to Del.icio.us · Add ...Continue Reading....
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