Tag: LIFEHACKER

The system clipboard is possibly one of man's greatest inventions. Just think how often you use that little piece of functionality, and how much time it saves you every single day. But, are you using it as effectively as you could? Lifehacker put together a list of 10 clipboard tricks you can use to increase your productivity, and amaze your friends -- ok, your friends probably won't be amazed. ...

Lifehacker has been on a bit of a tear lately, releasing their very own utilities as downloads, like the Better Gmail Firefox extension. This latest one is a Windows-only utility called Swept Away, which will automatically minimize running applications that are not in focus based on a timer. The application is very reminiscent of Spirited Away for the Mac, (warning, link is not English, but the ...

Gmail could very well be one of the most hackable web services of all time. One only needs to check our Gmail tag to see what tools are available for enhancing one's experience, and now we have a slick new cross-platform Firefox add-on to link to from our friends at Lifehacker: Better Gmail. As its name suggests, Better Gmail rounds up a number of popular Greasemonkey scripts and other extras ...

Lifehacker organized a battle royale between the two common desktop drive encryption schemes available on Mac and Windows. It's a head to head that's a long time coming, although it may not be a fair fight until Leopard makes its appearance. In one corner, the lightweight FileVault with its home directory encryption designed to keep your files reasonably safe without too much intrusion. In the ...

Side by side on your PC, happily... Well, you get the idea. Lifehacker points to a neat new beta installer for Ubuntu that will drop a little Ubuntu love on your XP box (Vista not supported yet), without the need for a brand-new partition. It's kinda like a liveCD without the CD. Get it? Pretty neat if you just wanna be an Ubuntu voyeur. It's still pretty beta-fied, so YMMV (and you have been ...

What will happen in 2007? Who knows what the future holds, right? I am willing to bet that you already have a good idea what will happen next year. Care to share? I want to hear what you are most looking forward to this year, are there any apps that you think will go critical and be the next big thing? Also, what was your favorite app of 2006? Let me know. In case you can't remember your ...

I'm a big fan of services that help me keep spam out of my inbox, and I'm an even bigger fan of services that make it dead easy like 2 Prong. Like many, many other services 2 Prong gives you disposable email addresses that you can use when registering for web sites that require a valid email address and clicking on an emailed validation link. What makes 2 Prong special is that it reduces this to a ...

Gina over at Lifehacker has a wonderful Geek to Live post up today called Essential tools for the placeless office. I found the term "placeless office" to be interesting, and apparently Gina picked it up from our (Weblogs Inc's) very own Barb Dybwad. Basically, it's the virtual place that you work if you don't have a consistent office you go to every day, or maybe it's the virtual place you work ...

In her never-ending quest for interface perfection, Lifehacker Gina Trapani has written a great Geek to Live tutorial called Consolidate Firefox's chrome. In it she teaches you how to pare down Firefox's menus, toolbar, address back, and bookmarks toolbar until all that's left is what you absolutely need. To be specific, you'll learn how to eliminate entire menus from the menubar, how to keep ...

Step 1: Download Firefox 2. Step 2: Bend it to your will. Lifehacker has printed a nice set of tweaks for Firefox 2 to make your browsing experience happer. There's six tweaks, including changing the tab scrolling behavior, modifying prefetching settings, and limiting its RAM usage. None of them are mind-blowing, especially to Firefox power-users, but there's few things that make me happier than ...

Text Link Ads is providing an interesting utility that will allow you to index your blog's importance in some specific categories versus other blogs in the same space, called the Blog Juice Calculator. You can also compare your site's relative importance to the top performers. For example, Download Squad gets a very respectable 8.4 in the Computers / Technology category, which puts us about tied ...

I've long been meaning to give Ubuntu a more serious look, and Adam Pash's Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks over at Lifehacker is all the more motivation. Pash identifies ten ways you can improve your Ubuntu experience, including Automatix (application installation automator), Beagle (desktop search), Gnome Deskbar Applet ("a great app launcher and then some"), VLC (video player), Firefox (web ...

Yesterday at the WWDC Apple had a bit of fun with Microsoft just before showing off Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard," pointing out a few features in Windows Vista that look more than a little similar to current features in Mac OS X. But how do Leopard's and Vista's new features really compare? Lifehacker attempts to answer that question with this side-by-side comparison of the two. The article isn't ...

Lifehacker has a great tip on launching your most-used programs really quickly. It relies on the little-known (well, I didn't know it, at least) fact that when the Windows Start menu is open, pressing a letter on your keyboard will launch the first "pinned" shortcut that begins with that letter. Armed with this knowledge, you can prefix the names of shortcuts pinned to your XP Start menu with ...

Lifehacker is doing what it does best with its list of the Top 10 free and cheap productivity tools. Not all of them are downloads--#1 on the list is Pen and Paper, a recommendation I'll second--but they're all good tips for streamlining your life. Think they missed something? Post it in the comments. ...