This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights] 16 hours ago
When there's too much Lifehacker and too little time, switch to our trimmed-down top stories feed to skip the extras and get right to the good stuff. Don't care about Windows-only downloads or the .......
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Create Holiday Art at Google Docs [Friday Fun] 17 hours ago
Four Googlers show off their artistic skills as well as Google Docs' collaboration capabilities in the time-lapse video above of a spreadsheet holiday art project. Hit the play button to watch them .......
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LittleShoot Adds P2P File-Sharing to the Browser [File Sharing] 18 hours ago
_ New peer-to-peer file sharing web service LittleShoot finds and downloads files right inside your web browser. LittleShoot founder (and former LimeWire engineer) Adam Fisk says he created LittleS .......
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Is Beta Culture a Bad Thing? [Snap Judgment] 19 hours ago
At our brother site Gizmodo, Jesus Diaz posts a ripping rant against what he calls "beta culture," and consumers' tolerance for half-baked software and hardware that breaks more often than it shou .......
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QuoteURLText Copies Highlighted Text and Source URL [Featured Firefox Extension] 19 hours ago
Firefox only: If you like to copy and paste snippets of web pages—but want to include the source URL and date and time in one shot—the QuoteURLText add-on's for you. Once installed, ju .......
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Tap the Hive in Today's Open Thread [Open Thread] 20 hours ago
_ We spend all day typing at you, so now it's your turn to type back at us. This comment thread is officially open: post your cries for tech help, reader surveys, questions about the meaning of lif .......
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Happy People Watch Less TV, Study Shows [Happiness] 21 hours ago
Researchers at the University of Maryland found the one activity unhappy people do more than happy people is watch TV. The New York Times reports: "We looked at 8 to 10 activities that happy peop .......
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Mmm Free Declutters Busy Context Menus [Featured Windows Download] 22 hours ago
Windows XP only: When you right-click on your desktop or on a file, do you have to go through two dozen useless menu items before you hit the one you want? Free utility Mmm offers an easy interfac .......
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Lifehacker's Mobile Site Revamped [Announcements] 22 hours ago
We just pushed an update to Lifehacker's mobile-friendly site version, located at m.lifehacker.com . Mobile users on the Blackberry, iPhone, and other handsets who visit Lifehacker will be automat .......
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Plex 7 Adds iTunes and iPhoto Support and More [Featured Mac Download] 1 day ago
Mac OS X only: The latest version of the free Plex Media Center for Mac now includes iTunes and iPhoto support , iTunes visualizations , TV theme music , and the ability to play songs you've purch .......
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iTunes 8.0.2 Adds Screen Reader Support [ITunes] 1 day ago
Along with the release of the iPhone 2.2 software , Apple also drops a new iTunes update to version 8.0.2, which includes bug fixes and integration with VoiceOver (Mac) and Window-Eyes (Windows) .......
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Spicebird 0.7 Beta Adds Google Gadgets and Instant Messaging [Featured Download] 1 day ago
_Windows and Linux only: A new release of the open-source, all-in-one email, calendar, and task manager Spicebird is now available for download. Kevin took you on a tour of Spicebird 0.4 back in Ja .......
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360 Cities Panoramas in Google Earth [3D] 1 day ago
Prague-based virtual panorama company 360 Cities is offering its entire collection of nearly 10,000 spherical images on Google Earth. Head to the "Featured Preview" layer in the 3D tool to enable .......
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iPhone 2.2 Firmware Update Now Available [IPhone] 1 day ago
The long-awaited 2.2 firmware updates for iPhones and iPod touch models hit iTunes at midnight last night, pushing a good deal of new features and long-awaited fixes to the mobile devices. We've al .......
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Spice up Your Desktop With Lightweight Wallpaper Shifter [Featured Windows Download] 1 day ago
Windows only: Wallpaper Shifter is a lightweight wallpaper randomizer. The installation is 8.11MB which by portable-application standards isn't super light, but the system resources consumed by Wal .......
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Q-Dir Explores Files with Multiple Panes and Custom Views [Featured Windows Download] 1 day ago
Windows only: Free file browser Q-Dir makes for a good USB drive app or installed replacement for Windows Explorer for those who do a serious amount of file swapping, or just like to be able to keep .......
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Get One Year of PC Magazine Free [Magazines] 1 day ago
Publisher Ziff Davis has printed the last edition of PC Magazine and announced it would go online-only , but fans can get a free one-year "subscription" emailed to them every month at GoReadGreen. .......
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OrbLive Apps Stream Media and TV to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download] 1 day ago
iPhone/iPod touch only: Streaming media server Orb has released free and $9.99 versions of an app that lets you watch videos, listen to music, check documents and even stream live or recorded TV to .......
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Google Launches SearchWiki for Custom-Ordered Search Results [Google] 1 day ago
Some logged-in Google users are seeing an interesting new feature enabled on their results pages this morning. SearchWiki adds two buttons to the right of each result that let users move their favo .......
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