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Shades of Gray, Steel, and Cigars: A Garage to Office Conversion [Featured Workspace]

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 16:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Shades of Gray, Steel, and Cigars: A Garage to Office Conversion" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/featuredworkspace/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"featuredworkspace/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Shades of Gray, Steel, and Cigars: A Garage to Office Conversion" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624853/shades-of-gray-steel-and-cigars-a-garage-to-office-conversion" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Shades of Gray, Steel, and Cigars: A Garage to Office Conversion" alt="Click here to read Shades of Gray, Steel, and Cigars: A Garage to Office Conversion" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_2010-08-29_141832.jpg"/ /a/div /div Today's featured workspace is a from-the-ground-up conversion of a garage into an awesome home office complete with a custom polished steel desk, well-done lighting, and a cigar smoking station. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624853/shades-of-gray-steel-and-cigars-a-garage-to-office-conversion" title="Click here to read more about Shades of Gray, Steel, and Cigars: A Garage to Office Conversion [Featured Workspace]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=5QOOP_qqQls:WUVexxy9NNI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=5QOOP_qqQls:WUVexxy9NNI:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=5QOOP_qqQls:WUVexxy9NNI:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=5QOOP_qqQls:WUVexxy9NNI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=5QOOP_qqQls:WUVexxy9NNI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=5QOOP_qqQls:WUVexxy9NNI:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Build a Durable Underwater Camera Housing [DIY]

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 15:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Build a Durable Underwater Camera Housing" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/diy/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"diy/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Build a Durable Underwater Camera Housing" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624933/build-a-durable-underwater-camera-housing" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Build a Durable Underwater Camera Housing" alt="Click here to read Build a Durable Underwater Camera Housing" src="http://cache-04.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_underwater-housing-for-minidv.jpg"/ /a/div /div While a href="http://lifehacker.com/5493621/build-a-waterproof-camera-case"cheaper/a DIY a href="http://lifehacker.com/361448/diy-waterproof-camera-enclosure"waterproof/a solutions will work for most things, if you're going snorkeling or scuba diving with a camera, you might want to splurge on parts for a higher quality housingmdash;you'll still save a ton of money over buying. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624933/build-a-durable-underwater-camera-housing" title="Click here to read more about Build a Durable Underwater Camera Housing [DIY]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=ayXsc6QS71U:z4xqgA-hj0c:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=ayXsc6QS71U:z4xqgA-hj0c:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=ayXsc6QS71U:z4xqgA-hj0c:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=ayXsc6QS71U:z4xqgA-hj0c:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=ayXsc6QS71U:z4xqgA-hj0c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=ayXsc6QS71U:z4xqgA-hj0c:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 14:30
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" /div ullia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28268445"Is Word worth the extra money over OpenOffice?/a/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28239124"Anybody have any good suggestions for a backup system for a small office?/a/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28235515"Is it bad to not let the engine warm up when starting a vehicle?/a/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28230698"What are some tips on reducing computer eye strain?/a/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28224886"Does anyone have experience with powerline adapters? How's the signal?/a/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28222003"I sleep with my earphones a lot, and go through pairs very quickly. Am I damaging them?/a/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28220185"I have a virus that has severely infected my computer to the point where it can't even boot a live Linux CD. Any ideas?/a/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28219619"Are Health Savings Accounts worth the cost?/a/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28216893"What's a good way to cool off the leather seats in my car during the summer?/a/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/28215954"I'm considering waiting to buy my textbooks until I know whether I emreally/em need them for that class. Is this a bad idea?/a/li/ul a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624922/ask-the-commenters-roundup" title="Click here to read more about Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=_v4KB_idkDw:xYxoPNd8Ric:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=_v4KB_idkDw:xYxoPNd8Ric:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=_v4KB_idkDw:xYxoPNd8Ric:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=_v4KB_idkDw:xYxoPNd8Ric:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=_v4KB_idkDw:xYxoPNd8Ric:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=_v4KB_idkDw:xYxoPNd8Ric:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

DIY Built-In Home Theater from IKEA Bookcases [DIY]

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 14:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read DIY Built-In Home Theater from IKEA Bookcases" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/diy/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"diy/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read DIY Built-In Home Theater from IKEA Bookcases" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624752/diy-built+in-home-theater-from-ikea-bookcases" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read DIY Built-In Home Theater from IKEA Bookcases" alt="Click here to read DIY Built-In Home Theater from IKEA Bookcases" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_bookcasetb.jpg"/ /a/div /div We already know a href="http://lifehacker.com/5539684/turn-a-bookcase-into-an-entertainment-center"bookcases/a make good a href="http://lifehacker.com/5595971/add-doors-to-your-cheap-media-center-for-a-cleaner-look"entertainment centers/a, and you can even a href="http://lifehacker.com/5614549/double-your-tv-stand-storage-by-combining-two-ikea-lack-tv-units"double them up for more space/a. Ikea Hacker LittleMy17, though, took it a step further by combining multiple bookcases, DVD racks, and benches into one giant home theater unit. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624752/diy-built+in-home-theater-from-ikea-bookcases" title="Click here to read more about DIY Built-In Home Theater from IKEA Bookcases [DIY]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=7ywr1N0O0ZU:2_guw1eLC9E:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=7ywr1N0O0ZU:2_guw1eLC9E:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=7ywr1N0O0ZU:2_guw1eLC9E:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=7ywr1N0O0ZU:2_guw1eLC9E:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=7ywr1N0O0ZU:2_guw1eLC9E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=7ywr1N0O0ZU:2_guw1eLC9E:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Repurpose Baking Tins as Popsicle Molds [Clever Uses]

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 13:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Repurpose Baking Tins as Popsicle Molds" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/cleveruses/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"cleveruses/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Repurpose Baking Tins as Popsicle Molds" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624823/repurpose-baking-tins-as-popsicle-molds" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Repurpose Baking Tins as Popsicle Molds" alt="Click here to read Repurpose Baking Tins as Popsicle Molds" src="http://cache-04.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_2010-08-29_130802.jpg"/ /a/div /div There's no sense in getting dedicated popsicle molds if you already have baking molds in your kitchen. Check out these delicious looking popsicles formed in mini baking tins. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624823/repurpose-baking-tins-as-popsicle-molds" title="Click here to read more about Repurpose Baking Tins as Popsicle Molds [Clever Uses]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=i_U-8UOWxng:iNS8PXky5vs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=i_U-8UOWxng:iNS8PXky5vs:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=i_U-8UOWxng:iNS8PXky5vs:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=i_U-8UOWxng:iNS8PXky5vs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=i_U-8UOWxng:iNS8PXky5vs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=i_U-8UOWxng:iNS8PXky5vs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

CyanogenMod 6.0 Released, Brings Custom Froyo Goodness to Tons of Android Phones [Downloads]

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 12:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read CyanogenMod 6.0 Released, Brings Custom Froyo Goodness to Tons of Android Phones" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/downloads/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"downloads/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read CyanogenMod 6.0 Released, Brings Custom Froyo Goodness to Tons of Android Phones" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624778/cyanogenmod-60-released-brings-custom-froyo-goodness-to-tons-of-android-phones" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read CyanogenMod 6.0 Released, Brings Custom Froyo Goodness to Tons of Android Phones" alt="Click here to read CyanogenMod 6.0 Released, Brings Custom Froyo Goodness to Tons of Android Phones" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_top.jpg"/ /a/div /div Android: Cyanogen's been putting up release candidates for the Froyo-based version 6.0 for awhile, but if you've been waiting for something more stable, you can now get the unbeatable combination of Froyo and Cyanogen for your Android device. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624778/cyanogenmod-60-released-brings-custom-froyo-goodness-to-tons-of-android-phones" title="Click here to read more about CyanogenMod 6.0 Released, Brings Custom Froyo Goodness to Tons of Android Phones [Downloads]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=IeXXzFabCn8:uAfGHx5xyTc:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=IeXXzFabCn8:uAfGHx5xyTc:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=IeXXzFabCn8:uAfGHx5xyTc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=IeXXzFabCn8:uAfGHx5xyTc:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=IeXXzFabCn8:uAfGHx5xyTc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=IeXXzFabCn8:uAfGHx5xyTc:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Five Best Text Recognition Tools [Hive Five]

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 09:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Five Best Text Recognition Tools" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/hivefive/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"hivefive/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Five Best Text Recognition Tools" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624781/five-best-text-recognition-tools" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Five Best Text Recognition Tools" alt="Click here to read Five Best Text Recognition Tools" src="http://cache-04.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_2010-08-29_104401.jpg"/ /a/div /div Working with text on your computer offers a range of possibilities in searching and editing that simply aren't available with hard copy text. Check out these five text recognition tools to get your printed text into your computer. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624781/five-best-text-recognition-tools" title="Click here to read more about Five Best Text Recognition Tools [Hive Five]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=abVWBD4HkdQ:D6V65cNYoqI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=abVWBD4HkdQ:D6V65cNYoqI:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=abVWBD4HkdQ:D6V65cNYoqI:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=abVWBD4HkdQ:D6V65cNYoqI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=abVWBD4HkdQ:D6V65cNYoqI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=abVWBD4HkdQ:D6V65cNYoqI:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Mount Your Smartphone to a Tripod [DIY]

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 08:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Mount Your Smartphone to a Tripod" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/diy/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"diy/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Mount Your Smartphone to a Tripod" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624756/mount-your-smartphone-to-a-tripod" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Mount Your Smartphone to a Tripod" alt="Click here to read Mount Your Smartphone to a Tripod" src="http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_diy-iphone-smartphone-tripod-connector.jpg"/ /a/div /div You probably won't be making Sundance-worthy movies with your iPhone, but if you need to keep it stable for, say, FaceTime, here's an easy way to mount it to a tripod using a cheap mount, some glue, and a nut. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624756/mount-your-smartphone-to-a-tripod" title="Click here to read more about Mount Your Smartphone to a Tripod [DIY]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=RN_NVnUwibE:yStm_96SJvA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=RN_NVnUwibE:yStm_96SJvA:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=RN_NVnUwibE:yStm_96SJvA:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=RN_NVnUwibE:yStm_96SJvA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=RN_NVnUwibE:yStm_96SJvA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=RN_NVnUwibE:yStm_96SJvA:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 17:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" /div ullia href="http://lifehacker.com/5622476/"Remember the Milk for iPhone Now Free for All/a (iOS)br /emPopular to-do list application Remember The Milk is releasing their iPhone app for free to all users. And yes, there is a catch./em/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/5619064/"W7 Theme for Ubuntu Brings Windows 7's Familiar GUI to Linux/a (Linux)br /emW7 Theme is a free script that skins your Linux desktop with a familiar Windows 7 look and feel./em/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/5619730/"Google Mobile Brings True iPhone Push Notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar/a (iOS)br /emGoogle just updated their Google Mobile app to bring push notifications for Gmail and (previews included) Google Calendar to the iPhone./em/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/5622046/"How to Cut and Paste Files in the OS X Finder/a (Mac)br /emOne of the key features missing from Mac OS X is the ability to cut and paste files in the Finder; you can only copy and paste. With two handy Automator Services, though, you can do either through simple keyboard shortcuts./em/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/5623510/"SetCPU Overclocks (or Underclocks) Your Rooted Android Phone/a (Android)br /emWe briefly discussed overclocking in our Android rooting guide, but today we're taking a closer look at SetCPU, the app that makes it happen-as well as other ways to use it./em/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/5622730/"Boxee Beta Updates with a New Movie Library/a (Windows/Mac/Linux/Apple TV)br /emOpen-source media center application Boxee gained a lot of popularity for seamlessly integrating web-based TV shows with a remote-friendly, ten-foot interface. Now they're aiming to bring more web-based movies to their Movie Library./em/lilia href="http://lifehacker.com/5620151/"Note-Taking Service Simplenote Adds Tags, Collaboration, and Version History/a (iOS)br /emSimplenote, the plain-text, note-taking service that's at the center of my holy grail of plain-text capture, released a significant update today (to both their web site and iOS app) with new features including tagging, version history, sharing and collaboration, and more./em/ul a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624512/this-weeks-top-downloads" title="Click here to read more about This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=1MZKrkdQF1I:iIztXj8wCh8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=1MZKrkdQF1I:iIztXj8wCh8:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=1MZKrkdQF1I:iIztXj8wCh8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=1MZKrkdQF1I:iIztXj8wCh8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=1MZKrkdQF1I:iIztXj8wCh8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=1MZKrkdQF1I:iIztXj8wCh8:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Countertop [Beverages]

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 16:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Countertop" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/beverages/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"beverages/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Countertop" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624509/how-to-open-a-beer-bottle-with-a-countertop" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Countertop" alt="Click here to read How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Countertop" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_g4ycw3nbumo.jpg"/ span class="play_icon"/span /a/div /div !-- videoId: g4YcW3nbuMo --!-- /videoId: g4YcW3nbuMo -- We've featured a href="http://lifehacker.com/243642/video-demonstration--open-a-beer-bottle-with-a-piece-of-paper"numerous/a a href="http://lifehacker.com/5082121/open-a-beer-bottle-with-a-ring"ways/a to a href="http://lifehacker.com/184067/open-a-beer-bottle-with-another-bottle"open beer bottles/a a href="http://lifehacker.com/5296623/open-beer-bottles-with-bic-lighters"without bottle openers/a, but for this method all you need is a ledge, gravity, and a steady hand. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624509/how-to-open-a-beer-bottle-with-a-countertop" title="Click here to read more about How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Countertop [Beverages]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=mCrlqiHOWyA:piNtbiwuZLI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=mCrlqiHOWyA:piNtbiwuZLI:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=mCrlqiHOWyA:piNtbiwuZLI:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=mCrlqiHOWyA:piNtbiwuZLI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=mCrlqiHOWyA:piNtbiwuZLI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=mCrlqiHOWyA:piNtbiwuZLI:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Get the Linux Mint GNOME Menu in Ubuntu [Linux Tip]

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 15:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Get the Linux Mint GNOME Menu in Ubuntu" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/linuxtip/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"linuxtip/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Get the Linux Mint GNOME Menu in Ubuntu" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624445/get-the-linux-mint-gnome-menu-in-ubuntu" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Get the Linux Mint GNOME Menu in Ubuntu" alt="Click here to read Get the Linux Mint GNOME Menu in Ubuntu" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_linux-mint-7-menu.jpg"/ /a/div /div Ubuntu is far and wide the most popular Linux distrobution, although Mint certainly a href="http://lifehacker.com/5469575/why-linux-mint-might-be-a-better-beginners-linux-than-ubuntu"has its advantages for beginners/a, such as the menu organization. Ubuntu Forums member KdotJ shows us how to add Mint's GNOME menu to your Ubuntu desktop. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624445/get-the-linux-mint-gnome-menu-in-ubuntu" title="Click here to read more about Get the Linux Mint GNOME Menu in Ubuntu [Linux Tip]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=64AU8_yKQxs:1li-RiAiixo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=64AU8_yKQxs:1li-RiAiixo:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=64AU8_yKQxs:1li-RiAiixo:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=64AU8_yKQxs:1li-RiAiixo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=64AU8_yKQxs:1li-RiAiixo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=64AU8_yKQxs:1li-RiAiixo:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Hide Unsightly Air Conditioners by Turning them Into Landing Strips [Apartments]

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 14:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Hide Unsightly Air Conditioners by Turning them Into Landing Strips" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/apartments/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"apartments/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Hide Unsightly Air Conditioners by Turning them Into Landing Strips" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624440/hide-unsightly-air-conditioners-by-turning-them-into-landing-strips" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Hide Unsightly Air Conditioners by Turning them Into Landing Strips" alt="Click here to read Hide Unsightly Air Conditioners by Turning them Into Landing Strips" src="http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_082510_heathide1_rect540.jpg"/ /a/div /div There are many different kinds of ugly air conditioners, but if you have an upright "motel-style" A/C unit, you can keep it from being an eyesore by turning it into a stylish landing strip. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624440/hide-unsightly-air-conditioners-by-turning-them-into-landing-strips" title="Click here to read more about Hide Unsightly Air Conditioners by Turning them Into Landing Strips [Apartments]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=dzS_lKh-I9Q:HQpEVbxxTQo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=dzS_lKh-I9Q:HQpEVbxxTQo:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=dzS_lKh-I9Q:HQpEVbxxTQo:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=dzS_lKh-I9Q:HQpEVbxxTQo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=dzS_lKh-I9Q:HQpEVbxxTQo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=dzS_lKh-I9Q:HQpEVbxxTQo:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Use a Dab of Vaseline to Take Vintage-Style Photos [Camera Hacks]

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 13:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Use a Dab of Vaseline to Take Vintage-Style Photos" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/camerahacks/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"camerahacks/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Use a Dab of Vaseline to Take Vintage-Style Photos" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624416/use-a-dab-of-vaseline-to-take-vintage+style-photos" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Use a Dab of Vaseline to Take Vintage-Style Photos" alt="Click here to read Use a Dab of Vaseline to Take Vintage-Style Photos" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_2010-08-28_094518.jpg"/ /a/div /div The low-quality lenses and loose tolerances of vintage consumer cameras often gave photos a slightly distorted and dream-like quality. Capture that vintage-feel with little more than a dab of Vaseline. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624416/use-a-dab-of-vaseline-to-take-vintage+style-photos" title="Click here to read more about Use a Dab of Vaseline to Take Vintage-Style Photos [Camera Hacks]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=T-SrqCm-tzg:TXM0WWwHKuw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=T-SrqCm-tzg:TXM0WWwHKuw:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=T-SrqCm-tzg:TXM0WWwHKuw:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=T-SrqCm-tzg:TXM0WWwHKuw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=T-SrqCm-tzg:TXM0WWwHKuw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=T-SrqCm-tzg:TXM0WWwHKuw:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Use Two Identical Camcorders to Create Simple DIY 3D movies [3D]

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 12:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Use Two Identical Camcorders to Create Simple DIY 3D movies" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/3d/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"3d/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Use Two Identical Camcorders to Create Simple DIY 3D movies" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624432/use-two-identical-camcorders-to-create-simple-diy-3d-movies" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Use Two Identical Camcorders to Create Simple DIY 3D movies" alt="Click here to read Use Two Identical Camcorders to Create Simple DIY 3D movies" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_2010-08-28_130922_01.jpg"/ span class="play_icon"/span /a/div /div Whether you're borrowing a buddy's or you've got two on hand, this clever guide will help you turn the output from matching video sources into 3D video. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624432/use-two-identical-camcorders-to-create-simple-diy-3d-movies" title="Click here to read more about Use Two Identical Camcorders to Create Simple DIY 3D movies [3D]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=dgDLdEQ7bbk:wKs8-iKz4vs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=dgDLdEQ7bbk:wKs8-iKz4vs:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=dgDLdEQ7bbk:wKs8-iKz4vs:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=dgDLdEQ7bbk:wKs8-iKz4vs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=dgDLdEQ7bbk:wKs8-iKz4vs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=dgDLdEQ7bbk:wKs8-iKz4vs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Top 10 External Hard Drive Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 09:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Top 10 External Hard Drive Tricks" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/lifehackertop10/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"lifehackertop10/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Top 10 External Hard Drive Tricks" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624331/top-10-external-hard-drive-tricks" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Top 10 External Hard Drive Tricks" alt="Click here to read Top 10 External Hard Drive Tricks" src="http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_dsc_0007.jpg"/ /a/div /div So you've been computing for quite a few years now, and you've built a nice collection of hard drives, internal or external, collecting dust in the corner. Here's how to put them to good use. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624331/top-10-external-hard-drive-tricks" title="Click here to read more about Top 10 External Hard Drive Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=-eGBWGRrork:d2jGkMALWR8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=-eGBWGRrork:d2jGkMALWR8:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=-eGBWGRrork:d2jGkMALWR8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=-eGBWGRrork:d2jGkMALWR8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=-eGBWGRrork:d2jGkMALWR8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=-eGBWGRrork:d2jGkMALWR8:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Learn the Science Behind Glow Sticks by Making Your Own [DIY]

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 08:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Learn the Science Behind Glow Sticks by Making Your Own" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/diy/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"diy/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Learn the Science Behind Glow Sticks by Making Your Own" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624365/learn-the-science-behind-glow-sticks-by-making-your-own" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Learn the Science Behind Glow Sticks by Making Your Own" alt="Click here to read Learn the Science Behind Glow Sticks by Making Your Own" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_titoopyjp5k.jpg"/ span class="play_icon"/span /a/div /div !-- videoId: tItOOpyJP5k --!-- /videoId: tItOOpyJP5k -- It doesn't matter how old you are, glow sticks are always cool, and the science behind them is even cooler. DIY web site Instructables show us how to make our own. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624365/learn-the-science-behind-glow-sticks-by-making-your-own" title="Click here to read more about Learn the Science Behind Glow Sticks by Making Your Own [DIY]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=OKotcypn5h4:-6oYk5ORXII:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=OKotcypn5h4:-6oYk5ORXII:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=OKotcypn5h4:-6oYk5ORXII:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=OKotcypn5h4:-6oYk5ORXII:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=OKotcypn5h4:-6oYk5ORXII:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=OKotcypn5h4:-6oYk5ORXII:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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From the Tips Box: iTunes Auto-Add, Dock Magnification, and Shopping Lists [From The Tips Box]

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 17:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read From the Tips Box: iTunes Auto-Add, Dock Magnification, and Shopping Lists" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/fromthetipsbox/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"fromthetipsbox/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read From the Tips Box: iTunes Auto-Add, Dock Magnification, and Shopping Lists" href="http://lifehacker.com/5624116/from-the-tips-box-itunes-auto+add-dock-magnification-and-shopping-lists/gallery/" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read From the Tips Box: iTunes Auto-Add, Dock Magnification, and Shopping Lists" alt="Click here to read From the Tips Box: iTunes Auto-Add, Dock Magnification, and Shopping Lists" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_autoadd.jpg"/ /a/div /div Readers offer their best tips for installing applications on OS X, organizing your music library, and installing QuickTime on Windows without Apple Software Update. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5624116/from-the-tips-box-itunes-auto+add-dock-magnification-and-shopping-lists/gallery/" title="Click here to read more about From the Tips Box: iTunes Auto-Add, Dock Magnification, and Shopping Lists [From The Tips Box]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=3DK4wgVsea0:gAvCnzxtKQE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=3DK4wgVsea0:gAvCnzxtKQE:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=3DK4wgVsea0:gAvCnzxtKQE:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=3DK4wgVsea0:gAvCnzxtKQE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=3DK4wgVsea0:gAvCnzxtKQE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=3DK4wgVsea0:gAvCnzxtKQE:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 16:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read This Week's Most Popular Posts" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/highlights/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"highlights/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read This Week's Most Popular Posts" href="http://lifehacker.com/5623818/this-weeks-most-popular-posts" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read This Week's Most Popular Posts" alt="Click here to read This Week's Most Popular Posts" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_500x_android-title-image.jpg"/ /a/div /div This week we pulled together our favorite, must-have Android apps, downloaded torrents anonymously, fixed up Facebook, started using private browsing mode for more thanmdash;well, you knowmdash;and more. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5623818/this-weeks-most-popular-posts" title="Click here to read more about This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=28mYvUop0eQ:gX1V5r0A8mQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=28mYvUop0eQ:gX1V5r0A8mQ:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=28mYvUop0eQ:gX1V5r0A8mQ:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=28mYvUop0eQ:gX1V5r0A8mQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=28mYvUop0eQ:gX1V5r0A8mQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=28mYvUop0eQ:gX1V5r0A8mQ:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Stream Audio to Your Airport Express Speakers in Linux [Linux]

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 15:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Stream Audio to Your Airport Express Speakers in Linux" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/linux/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"linux/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Stream Audio to Your Airport Express Speakers in Linux" href="http://lifehacker.com/5623684/stream-audio-to-your-airport-express-speakers-in-linux" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Stream Audio to Your Airport Express Speakers in Linux" alt="Click here to read Stream Audio to Your Airport Express Speakers in Linux" src="http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_dsc_0002.jpg"/ /a/div /div If you dual boot OS X and Linux (or you just think Apple's AirPort Express is awesome), you may be looking for a way to stream music wirelessly through your house with Linux. How-to blog MakeUseOf shows us how. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5623684/stream-audio-to-your-airport-express-speakers-in-linux" title="Click here to read more about Stream Audio to Your Airport Express Speakers in Linux [Linux]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=mG5FpnbdWoo:ny9twxlQcOo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=mG5FpnbdWoo:ny9twxlQcOo:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=mG5FpnbdWoo:ny9twxlQcOo:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=mG5FpnbdWoo:ny9twxlQcOo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=mG5FpnbdWoo:ny9twxlQcOo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=mG5FpnbdWoo:ny9twxlQcOo:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Repurposing an Old Computer for Any Room in the House [Computers]

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 14:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Repurposing an Old Computer for Any Room in the House" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/computers/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"computers/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Repurposing an Old Computer for Any Room in the House" href="http://lifehacker.com/5623270/repurposing-an-old-computer-for-any-room-in-the-house" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Repurposing an Old Computer for Any Room in the House" alt="Click here to read Repurposing an Old Computer for Any Room in the House" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/08/160x120_custom_1282937572836_500x_untitled-8_01.jpg"/ /a/div /div Most of us have our computers on our desks or our laps, but there are so many other places in and out of our homes that can make a great spot for an old PC. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5623270/repurposing-an-old-computer-for-any-room-in-the-house" title="Click here to read more about Repurposing an Old Computer for Any Room in the House [Computers]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=WdVQmLmowEI:5XzFHzNpwXw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=WdVQmLmowEI:5XzFHzNpwXw:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=WdVQmLmowEI:5XzFHzNpwXw:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=WdVQmLmowEI:5XzFHzNpwXw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=WdVQmLmowEI:5XzFHzNpwXw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=WdVQmLmowEI:5XzFHzNpwXw:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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