Tag: LIFEHACKER

Gawker Media, the company behind Lifehacker, Gizmodo, and several other major blogs, has been hacked. This has been an ongoing story for a couple of days now. At first it seemed only the user database had been compromised, but as further details emerged, it became evident Gawker's content management system had also been breached. A group going by the name 'Gnosis' appears to be taking credit for ...

Even though Xmarks is shutting down due to competition from the built-in bookmark syncing features in Chrome and Firefox, it can live on ... on your own server! The only catch is that this trick only works with Firefox for right now, but Xmarks could open source their code when they close down and open the door for a cross-browser build. But I digress! Here's how to get Xmarks up and running. ...

Kevin Purdy, senior editor of the Lifehacker website, has just released his Complete Android Guide. The guide costs $9 to download an EPUB version, $19.95 to buy the dead-tree version, or you can read it all for free on the Complete Guides website. Whether you are switching from another mobile phone platform or operating system, or you've just bought your very first smartphone, this guide ...

Have you ever wanted to compare how fast one site loads against another one? Instead of futzing around with multiple browser windows or a stopwatch, just head over to Which Loads Faster, and load the URLs into the split window interface. When you hit the GO button, it will load both sites in side-by-side frames, then make a judgment. Keep in mind, there are a lot of variables at play, and you'll ...

Google Wave is an innovative new communication tool, but part of innovation is that it's not always intuitive to use. Early adopters have been jumping into Wave with little guidance on how to take advantage of all its features. I guess you could watch the 90-minute Wave video, but that's not exactly a quick-start guide. Well, there's a saying almost as old as computers themselves, and it goes: ...

Moneyseize is a very straightforward single-screen platformer with charming 8-bit graphics and music. The goal in Moneyseize is to, well, seize all the money. You're in charge of the 'gentleman', and your job is to jump around in each level and collect all the gold coins. Your gentleman is attempting to build a skyscraper, and needs to collect 1000 coins to complete it. There are critters in most ...

Do YouTube and other Flash-based videos stutter when you view them in Firefox, but work fine in other browsers like Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari? This appears to be a problem that affects both the Windows and Mac versions of Firefox, and the problem (surprisingly enough) turns out not to be Flash - it's Firefox's session restore feature. Lifehacker has a post based on information that ...

What do massacres and bloodbaths have to do with your Gmail account? Lifehacker has discovered that they could be the key to getting rid of the pesky, hard-to-block text ads that show up next to your messages in Gmail's web interface. It turns out that advertisers don't like being associated with certain keywords, falling into categories like profanity and tragic violence. Rather than risk an ...

Since I wrote a post about ten great Firefox userscripts, I've been excited to see how user scripting is progressing for other browsers. Apparently, in the case of Chrome, it's come along far enough that Lifehacker's insanely popular Better Gmail script collection now has a Chrome version. Many Gmail addicts swear by these, so this could make the difference in choosing a browser for some. So, ...

You would think that Google Chrome would be the perfect web browser for people who spend most of their day using Google applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, and GTalk. But Chrome lacks some of the features that draw many people to browsers like Firefox. So one Firefox user who uses a ton of Google services decided to mash the two together and create an alternate browser he calls FoxGLove, ...

Want to tweak the heck out of your Gmail interface, but don't want to install dozens of Greasemonkey scripts one at a time? Lifehacker's Gina Trapani has whipped up an updated version of her awesome Better Gmail 2 extension for Firefox. The latest version adds support for Firefox 3, plus a few other nifty features. Here are a few of our favorites: HTML signatures Gmail Redesigned skin, which ...

Google Reader is the RSS aggregator of choice for many a Download Squad reader, but everyone has an idea of how it could be improved in one way or another. There are some popular Greasemonkey scripts that enhance the experience, but what if these scripts could be rolled into one Firefox add-on? Lifehacker has set out to do just that. A while back they released Better GReader, a Firefox add-on ...

Ever wish you had a butler who would regularly come visit your PC and pick up after you? The clever folks over at Lifehacker have released a virtual Mr. Belvedere called, well... Belvedere. The program is basically a clone of Hazel for Mac, and lets you create rules for dealing with the files that start to clutter up your Desktop and PC folders over time. Belvedere comes as a single executable ...

There's good new and bad news in the fact that Google is rolling out an updated version of Gmail. On the one hand, pages load quicker and there's an advanced contact manager. On the other hand, many of your favorite Firefox extensions for tweaking Gmail may have stopped working. For a while now, personal productivity site Lifehacker has been rolling up some of the best Greasemonkey scripts for ...

Lifehacker has updated their Windows Janitor script for keeping your Windows "junk drawer" clean. Most of us have a folder or two on our hard drives that are filled pretty much with things we don't need. This could be your web browser's default download directory, which fills up with e-mail attachments, installer files, music, and videos. But whatever directory it is, odds are it's taking up more ...