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Trash Can Adds Selective Tab Reopening to Chrome [Downloads]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 13:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Trash Can Adds Selective Tab Reopening to Chrome" 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 Trash Can Adds Selective Tab Reopening to Chrome" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552716/trash-can-adds-selective-tab-reopening-to-chrome" 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 Trash Can Adds Selective Tab Reopening to Chrome" alt="Click here to read Trash Can Adds Selective Tab Reopening to Chrome" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_sshot-2010-06-01-_15-24-45_-_1_.jpg"/ /a/div /div Chrome only: Google Chrome extension Trash Can adds a menu that lets you restore a recently closed tab directly from the main toolbar; useful when you've closed a number of tabs quickly. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552716/trash-can-adds-selective-tab-reopening-to-chrome" title="Click here to read more about Trash Can Adds Selective Tab Reopening to Chrome [Downloads]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=1VqH3jHNxVM:jOenQFIRcok: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=1VqH3jHNxVM:jOenQFIRcok:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=1VqH3jHNxVM:jOenQFIRcok:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=1VqH3jHNxVM:jOenQFIRcok:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=1VqH3jHNxVM:jOenQFIRcok:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=1VqH3jHNxVM:jOenQFIRcok:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Firefox Sync to Incorporate Bookmark, Password, Preference, History, and Tab Sync Directly in Firefox [Updates]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 12:30
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Firefox Sync to Incorporate Bookmark, Password, Preference, History, and Tab Sync Directly in Firefox" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/updates/" 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;"updates/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Firefox Sync to Incorporate Bookmark, Password, Preference, History, and Tab Sync Directly in Firefox" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552688/weave-is-now-firefox-sync-will-be-incorporated-in-firefox" 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 Firefox Sync to Incorporate Bookmark, Password, Preference, History, and Tab Sync Directly in Firefox" alt="Click here to read Firefox Sync to Incorporate Bookmark, Password, Preference, History, and Tab Sync Directly in Firefox" src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_ffsync.jpg"/ /a/div /div Firefox: Mozilla's previously mentioned a href="http://lifehacker.com/5459321/weave-10-syncs-nearly-everything-about-your-firefox-setup"Weave project/a has been a great way to sync nearly everything about your Firefox setup between computers for awhile, despite its experimental label. The add-on has finally graduated from Mozilla Labs, though, renamed Firefox Sync and set to be packaged with future versions of Firefox. You can still get it as an add-on now, under the new name and complete with a few new features such as availability in 15 languages, a simpler setup, and one-click access to all your synced tabs. Plus, it's built to be the perfect companion to the upcoming, a href="http://lifehacker.com/5548771/firefox-home-app-will-sync-your-browsing-to-your-iphone"previously mentioned/a a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/firefoxhome"Firefox Home/a, so you can keep your data synced between emall/em your devices. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552688/weave-is-now-firefox-sync-will-be-incorporated-in-firefox" title="Click here to read more about Firefox Sync to Incorporate Bookmark, Password, Preference, History, and Tab Sync Directly in Firefox [Updates]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=278OAaXEyps:9XEGDkyeLxY: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=278OAaXEyps:9XEGDkyeLxY:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=278OAaXEyps:9XEGDkyeLxY:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=278OAaXEyps:9XEGDkyeLxY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=278OAaXEyps:9XEGDkyeLxY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=278OAaXEyps:9XEGDkyeLxY:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Shades of Gray: A Bedroom Home Office [Featured Workspace]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 12:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Shades of Gray: A Bedroom Home Office" 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: A Bedroom Home Office" href="http://lifehacker.com/5551966/shades-of-gray-a-bedroom-home-office" 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: A Bedroom Home Office" alt="Click here to read Shades of Gray: A Bedroom Home Office" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_2010-06-01_140200.jpg"/ /a/div /div Most people would advise you against doing a bedroom or workspace in dark gray. Today's featured workspace is a combination of both wrapped in dark colors and intense lighting with great outcome. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5551966/shades-of-gray-a-bedroom-home-office" title="Click here to read more about Shades of Gray: A Bedroom Home Office [Featured Workspace]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=Rud4zSMlvBc:gLOdWL6JEq0: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=Rud4zSMlvBc:gLOdWL6JEq0:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=Rud4zSMlvBc:gLOdWL6JEq0:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=Rud4zSMlvBc:gLOdWL6JEq0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=Rud4zSMlvBc:gLOdWL6JEq0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=Rud4zSMlvBc:gLOdWL6JEq0:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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The 4 Best Sunscreens According to Consumer Reports [Summer]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 11:30
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read The 4 Best Sunscreens According to Consumer Reports" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/summer/" 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;"summer/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read The 4 Best Sunscreens According to Consumer Reports" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552610/the-best-sunscreens-according-to-consumer-reports" 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 The 4 Best Sunscreens According to Consumer Reports" alt="Click here to read The 4 Best Sunscreens According to Consumer Reports" src="http://cache-04.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_sunscreen.jpg"/ /a/div /div If your skin's too sensitive for a href="http://lifehacker.com/5317343/diy-combination-sunscreen-and-bug-repellent"DIY sunscreen solutions/a and you'd rather avoid using a href="http://lifehacker.com/391792/soothe-your-sunburn-with-vinegar-and-other-home-remedies"sunburn home remedies/a, hit up Consumer Reports' rundown of the best sunblocks available. The top four include Up Up's Sport Continuous SPF 30, Walgreens' Sport Continuous SPF 50, Banana Boat's Sport Performance Continuous SPF 30, and Aveeno's Continuous Protection SPF 50. Just make sure you a href="http://lifehacker.com/5503233/apply-sunscreen-on-commonly-missed-spots-to-avoid-burns"don't a miss a spot/a. The Consumer Reports post has a subscriber block, but you can get most of the meat of their test results at a href="http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/news/20100525/best-sunscreens-a-consumer-reports-ranking"WebMD/a. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552610/the-best-sunscreens-according-to-consumer-reports" title="Click here to read more about The 4 Best Sunscreens According to Consumer Reports [Summer]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=8keGR09oDiU:w7E3Azst5h8: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=8keGR09oDiU:w7E3Azst5h8:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=8keGR09oDiU:w7E3Azst5h8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=8keGR09oDiU:w7E3Azst5h8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=8keGR09oDiU:w7E3Azst5h8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=8keGR09oDiU:w7E3Azst5h8:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

VLC 1.1 Release Candidate Supports Google's WebM, Hardware Acceleration [Downloads]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 11:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read VLC 1.1 Release Candidate Supports Google's WebM, Hardware Acceleration" 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 VLC 1.1 Release Candidate Supports Google's WebM, Hardware Acceleration" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552531/vlc-11-release-candidate-available-includes-webm-support" 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 VLC 1.1 Release Candidate Supports Google's WebM, Hardware Acceleration" alt="Click here to read VLC 1.1 Release Candidate Supports Google's WebM, Hardware Acceleration" src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_vlc11_01.jpg"/ span class="play_icon"/span /a/div /div Windows only: We've mentioned a few of the a href="http://lifehacker.com/5518417/test-out-vlc-media-player-with-rough-hardware-acceleration"new, exciting/a features a href="http://lifehacker.com/5461375/vlc-gets-extension-capabilities-in-nightly-builds"coming in VLC 1.1/a, but now you can download the more stable release candidate and try them out, including support for the open, royalty-free a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM"WebM video format/a. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552531/vlc-11-release-candidate-available-includes-webm-support" title="Click here to read more about VLC 1.1 Release Candidate Supports Google's WebM, Hardware Acceleration [Downloads]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=9Vi5NcKssYw:TNA7sHhTvRo: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=9Vi5NcKssYw:TNA7sHhTvRo:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=9Vi5NcKssYw:TNA7sHhTvRo:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=9Vi5NcKssYw:TNA7sHhTvRo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=9Vi5NcKssYw:TNA7sHhTvRo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=9Vi5NcKssYw:TNA7sHhTvRo:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Talking Out Loud Improves Memory Retention [Mind Hacks]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 10:30
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Talking Out Loud Improves Memory Retention" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/mindhacks/" 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;"mindhacks/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Talking Out Loud Improves Memory Retention" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552556/talking-out-loud-improves-memory-retention" 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 Talking Out Loud Improves Memory Retention" alt="Click here to read Talking Out Loud Improves Memory Retention" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_memory.jpg"/ /a/div /div Libraries are quiet places because people are often concentrating intensely, but according to a recent paper, muttering to yourself and talking about things out loud helps improve your memory and the knowledge that you retain. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552556/talking-out-loud-improves-memory-retention" title="Click here to read more about Talking Out Loud Improves Memory Retention [Mind Hacks]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=TEwvCRHYa3U:cDQ0wE3gdUA: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=TEwvCRHYa3U:cDQ0wE3gdUA:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=TEwvCRHYa3U:cDQ0wE3gdUA:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=TEwvCRHYa3U:cDQ0wE3gdUA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=TEwvCRHYa3U:cDQ0wE3gdUA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=TEwvCRHYa3U:cDQ0wE3gdUA:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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May 2010's Most Popular Posts [[this Is Good]]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 08:30
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read May 2010's Most Popular Posts" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/thisisgood/" 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;"thisisgood/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read May 2010's Most Popular Posts" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552454/may-2010s-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 May 2010's Most Popular Posts" alt="Click here to read May 2010's Most Popular Posts" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_500x_google_maps_splash.jpg"/ /a/div /div This month we highlighted a few of the coolest tricks you didn't know Google Maps had up its sleeve, helped you quit Facebook without emreally/em quitting, shared our favorite geeky Windows tricks, and more. Here's a quick look back. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552454/may-2010s-most-popular-posts" title="Click here to read more about May 2010's Most Popular Posts [[this Is Good]]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=QQu2kILJ8dU:M7dyujzBhtk: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=QQu2kILJ8dU:M7dyujzBhtk:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=QQu2kILJ8dU:M7dyujzBhtk:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=QQu2kILJ8dU:M7dyujzBhtk:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=QQu2kILJ8dU:M7dyujzBhtk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=QQu2kILJ8dU:M7dyujzBhtk:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Use Vinegar for Softer Line-Dried Clothing [Laundry]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 08:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Use Vinegar for Softer Line-Dried Clothing" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/laundry/" 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;"laundry/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Use Vinegar for Softer Line-Dried Clothing" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552313/use-vinegar-for-softer-line+dried-clothing" 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 Vinegar for Softer Line-Dried Clothing" alt="Click here to read Use Vinegar for Softer Line-Dried Clothing" src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_1187853_14992275.jpg"/ /a/div /div It's that summer breezes and sunshine time of year which makes it a perfect time to line dry clothing. Use these tips to ensure you get great results from line dryingmdash;more softness and summer scent and less stiffness and wrinkles. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552313/use-vinegar-for-softer-line+dried-clothing" title="Click here to read more about Use Vinegar for Softer Line-Dried Clothing [Laundry]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=L3k-oQahpi0:LwHqU4WJ2Qs: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=L3k-oQahpi0:LwHqU4WJ2Qs:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=L3k-oQahpi0:LwHqU4WJ2Qs:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=L3k-oQahpi0:LwHqU4WJ2Qs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=L3k-oQahpi0:LwHqU4WJ2Qs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=L3k-oQahpi0:LwHqU4WJ2Qs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Opera 10.6 Alpha Gets Even Speedier, Enhances Interface [Downloads]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 07:30
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Opera 10.6 Alpha Gets Even Speedier, Enhances Interface" 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 Opera 10.6 Alpha Gets Even Speedier, Enhances Interface" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552294/opera-106-alpha-gets-even-speedier-enhances-interface" 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 Opera 10.6 Alpha Gets Even Speedier, Enhances Interface" alt="Click here to read Opera 10.6 Alpha Gets Even Speedier, Enhances Interface" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_opera_yo.jpg"/ /a/div /div Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera's 10.5 browser release caught tech testers off-guard with its a href="http://lifehacker.com/5457242/browser-speed-tests-firefox-36-chrome-4-opera-105-and-extensions"faster-than-Chrome JavaScript engine and page loading/a. An early 10.6 release promises even more speed boosts, along with some tab and Windows-7-focused interface improvements. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552294/opera-106-alpha-gets-even-speedier-enhances-interface" title="Click here to read more about Opera 10.6 Alpha Gets Even Speedier, Enhances Interface [Downloads]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=qbLn45tlME8:hAAOyw9ywXc: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=qbLn45tlME8:hAAOyw9ywXc:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=qbLn45tlME8:hAAOyw9ywXc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=qbLn45tlME8:hAAOyw9ywXc:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=qbLn45tlME8:hAAOyw9ywXc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=qbLn45tlME8:hAAOyw9ywXc:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 07:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/dealhacker/" 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;"dealhacker/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day" href="http://lifehacker.com/5551967/gadget-and-gear-deals-of-the-day" 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 Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day" alt="Click here to read Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day" src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_500x160-dealhacker-template.jpg"/ /a/div /div We've got discounted HDTVs, camcorders, cheap apps, and free tunes. There's something for everybody even if left your wallet at home. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5551967/gadget-and-gear-deals-of-the-day" title="Click here to read more about Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=PLnJGVIY_pY:sDqni5gq7xA: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=PLnJGVIY_pY:sDqni5gq7xA:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=PLnJGVIY_pY:sDqni5gq7xA:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=PLnJGVIY_pY:sDqni5gq7xA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=PLnJGVIY_pY:sDqni5gq7xA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=PLnJGVIY_pY:sDqni5gq7xA:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Early 64-Bit Firefox Builds Available for Testing [Firefox]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 07:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Early 64-Bit Firefox Builds Available for Testing" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/firefox/" 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;"firefox/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Early 64-Bit Firefox Builds Available for Testing" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552383/early-64+bit-firefox-builds-available-for-testing" 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 Early 64-Bit Firefox Builds Available for Testing" alt="Click here to read Early 64-Bit Firefox Builds Available for Testing" src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_firefox64.jpg"/ /a/div /div If you're one of the up-and-coming computer users who have a href="http://lifehacker.com/5431284/the-lifehacker-guide-to-64+bit-vs-32+bit-operating-systems"switched to a 64-bit OS/a, Firefox can now reap the benefits. Automated builds of a 64-bit Firefox release for Windows are a href="http://armenzg.blogspot.com/2010/05/pre-release-firefox-windows-64-bit.html"available for testing and development/a. If you jump in and see a real benefit, tell us about it in the comments. [a href="http://armenzg.blogspot.com/2010/05/pre-release-firefox-windows-64-bit.html"Armen Zambrano's battlefield/a via a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20006380-264.html"CNET/a] a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552383/early-64+bit-firefox-builds-available-for-testing" title="Click here to read more about Early 64-Bit Firefox Builds Available for Testing [Firefox]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=hTQI4WIBYMA:xIIHtRu7gA0: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=hTQI4WIBYMA:xIIHtRu7gA0:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=hTQI4WIBYMA:xIIHtRu7gA0:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=hTQI4WIBYMA:xIIHtRu7gA0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=hTQI4WIBYMA:xIIHtRu7gA0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=hTQI4WIBYMA:xIIHtRu7gA0:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Where's My Droid Helps Locate Your Android Phone Near and Far [Downloads]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 06:30
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Where's My Droid Helps Locate Your Android Phone Near and Far" 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 Where's My Droid Helps Locate Your Android Phone Near and Far" href="http://lifehacker.com/5551969/wheres-my-droid-helps-locate-your-android-phone-near-and-far" 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 Where's My Droid Helps Locate Your Android Phone Near and Far" alt="Click here to read Where's My Droid Helps Locate Your Android Phone Near and Far" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_2010-06-01_073628.jpg"/ span class="play_icon"/span /a/div /div Android: Where's My Droid can help you locate your phone whether you lost it in the couch cushions, left it at a coffee shop, or it's going on a ride across town to call some Nigerian princes. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5551969/wheres-my-droid-helps-locate-your-android-phone-near-and-far" title="Click here to read more about Where's My Droid Helps Locate Your Android Phone Near and Far [Downloads]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=7O4GGVeSYyM:YEYUa_CyMh8: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=7O4GGVeSYyM:YEYUa_CyMh8:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=7O4GGVeSYyM:YEYUa_CyMh8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=7O4GGVeSYyM:YEYUa_CyMh8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=7O4GGVeSYyM:YEYUa_CyMh8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=7O4GGVeSYyM:YEYUa_CyMh8:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
Categories: Technology - General

Lifehacker Pack 2010: Our List of Essential Windows Downloads [Downloads]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 06:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Lifehacker Pack 2010: Our List of Essential Windows Downloads" 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 Lifehacker Pack 2010: Our List of Essential Windows Downloads" href="http://lifehacker.com/5548767/lifehacker-pack-2010-our-list-of-essential-windows-downloads" 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 Lifehacker Pack 2010: Our List of Essential Windows Downloads" alt="Click here to read Lifehacker Pack 2010: Our List of Essential Windows Downloads" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_lh-pack-2010-1.jpg"/ /a/div /div We feature hundreds of different downloads every year at Lifehacker. If all you want is the best of the best, look no further than our annual Lifehacker Pack: One download that installs only our favorite, must-have Windows applications in a few clicks. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5548767/lifehacker-pack-2010-our-list-of-essential-windows-downloads" title="Click here to read more about Lifehacker Pack 2010: Our List of Essential Windows Downloads [Downloads]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=CDIVY6uOlSw:Yd7dpkvRDho: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=CDIVY6uOlSw:Yd7dpkvRDho:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=CDIVY6uOlSw:Yd7dpkvRDho:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=CDIVY6uOlSw:Yd7dpkvRDho:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=CDIVY6uOlSw:Yd7dpkvRDho:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=CDIVY6uOlSw:Yd7dpkvRDho:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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DoubleTwist Adds Android Market Search [Updates]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 05:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read DoubleTwist Adds Android Market Search" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/updates/" 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;"updates/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read DoubleTwist Adds Android Market Search" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552262/doubletwist-adds-android-market-search" 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 DoubleTwist Adds Android Market Search" alt="Click here to read DoubleTwist Adds Android Market Search" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_market_search_thumb_01.jpg"/ /a/div /div Windows/Mac: Search is a feature that's been oddly missing from Google's Android Market since its inception, though it's due to arrivemdash;along with over-the-air syncingmdash;very soon. In the meantime, doubleTwist continues to bolster its Android offerings with a built-in Market search. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552262/doubletwist-adds-android-market-search" title="Click here to read more about DoubleTwist Adds Android Market Search [Updates]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=n7AfG_rW2UU:f4mhe3OJBo4: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=n7AfG_rW2UU:f4mhe3OJBo4:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=n7AfG_rW2UU:f4mhe3OJBo4:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=n7AfG_rW2UU:f4mhe3OJBo4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=n7AfG_rW2UU:f4mhe3OJBo4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=n7AfG_rW2UU:f4mhe3OJBo4:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Are You Happy with Your Bank? [Reader Poll]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 04:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Are You Happy with Your Bank?" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/readerpoll/" 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;"readerpoll/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Are You Happy with Your Bank?" href="http://lifehacker.com/5550339/are-you-happy-with-your-bank" 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 Are You Happy with Your Bank?" alt="Click here to read Are You Happy with Your Bank?" src="http://cache-04.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_banksimple.jpg"/ /a/div /div A yet-to-be-launched banking service called a href="http://banksimple.net"BankSimple/a is attracting a good deal of attention with its promise of a bank built on simplicitymdash;no hidden fees, no overdraft charges, and a simple revenue plan. Does that sound like a promising pitch? a href="http://lifehacker.com/5550339/are-you-happy-with-your-bank" title="Click here to read more about Are You Happy with Your Bank? [Reader Poll]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=V_GfkOMfzAE:Rpzgi3zEpKg: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=V_GfkOMfzAE:Rpzgi3zEpKg:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=V_GfkOMfzAE:Rpzgi3zEpKg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=V_GfkOMfzAE:Rpzgi3zEpKg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=V_GfkOMfzAE:Rpzgi3zEpKg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=V_GfkOMfzAE:Rpzgi3zEpKg:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Keep Your Ringtone Unique to Avoid Unnecessary Anxiety [Ringtones]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 03:10
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Keep Your Ringtone Unique to Avoid Unnecessary Anxiety" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/ringtones/" 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;"ringtones/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Keep Your Ringtone Unique to Avoid Unnecessary Anxiety" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552321/keep-your-ringtone-unique-to-avoid-unintentional-anxiety" 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 Keep Your Ringtone Unique to Avoid Unnecessary Anxiety" alt="Click here to read Keep Your Ringtone Unique to Avoid Unnecessary Anxiety" src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_ringtones.jpg"/ /a/div /div Researchers in Germany have found that the brain does indeed power up and start running whenever it hears the ringtone you've associated with your ever-present phone. Change your ringtone to something very unique, then, to avoid accidental anxiety and interruption. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552321/keep-your-ringtone-unique-to-avoid-unintentional-anxiety" title="Click here to read more about Keep Your Ringtone Unique to Avoid Unnecessary Anxiety [Ringtones]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=B8OJrPPEUE4:in7uJfz7YYk: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=B8OJrPPEUE4:in7uJfz7YYk:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=B8OJrPPEUE4:in7uJfz7YYk:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=B8OJrPPEUE4:in7uJfz7YYk:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=B8OJrPPEUE4:in7uJfz7YYk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=B8OJrPPEUE4:in7uJfz7YYk:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Google Reportedly Moving Employees Away from Windows [News]

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 02:30
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Google Reportedly Moving Employees Away from Windows" href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/news/" 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;"news/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Google Reportedly Moving Employees Away from Windows" href="http://lifehacker.com/5552279/google-reportedly-moving-employees-away-from-windows" 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 Google Reportedly Moving Employees Away from Windows" alt="Click here to read Google Reportedly Moving Employees Away from Windows" src="http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/06/160x120_microsoft.jpg"/ /a/div /div It's coming from an unnamed Google employee, but it doesn't sound entirely far-fetched. Google is, according to a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html"the Financial Times' sources/a, asking employees to work on either Mac OS X or Linux systems, purportedly barring the installation of Windows on Google-owned desktop systems. It comes partly as a result of the cyber-attacks Google experienced in China, but also as part of a wider effort to "run Google using Google products," presumably including the browser-based Chrome OS in the near future. Has your workplace instituted a no-Windows, no-Mac, or (more likely) no-Linux policy? [a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html"Financial Times/a] a href="http://lifehacker.com/5552279/google-reportedly-moving-employees-away-from-windows" title="Click here to read more about Google Reportedly Moving Employees Away from Windows [News]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=4hSSdaM5cuc:6v_Bf8w0p4A: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=4hSSdaM5cuc:6v_Bf8w0p4A:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=4hSSdaM5cuc:6v_Bf8w0p4A:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=4hSSdaM5cuc:6v_Bf8w0p4A:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=4hSSdaM5cuc:6v_Bf8w0p4A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=4hSSdaM5cuc:6v_Bf8w0p4A:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Twelve Awesome Afternoon Projects for the Extra Day of Your Long Weekend [DIY]

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 04:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Twelve Awesome Afternoon Projects for the Extra Day of Your Long Weekend" 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 Twelve Awesome Afternoon Projects for the Extra Day of Your Long Weekend" href="http://lifehacker.com/5551382/twelve-awesome-afternoon-projects-to-tackle-on-the-extra-day-of-your-long-weekend" 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 Twelve Awesome Afternoon Projects for the Extra Day of Your Long Weekend" alt="Click here to read Twelve Awesome Afternoon Projects for the Extra Day of Your Long Weekend" src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/05/160x120_afternoon-projects.jpg"/ /a/div /div Looking for a cool project you can tackle in an afternoon on your extra day off? Here's a quick roundup of some of our favorite afternoon projects you can squeeze into your long weekend. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5551382/twelve-awesome-afternoon-projects-to-tackle-on-the-extra-day-of-your-long-weekend" title="Click here to read more about Twelve Awesome Afternoon Projects for the Extra Day of Your Long Weekend [DIY]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=GAu1m67Zr2s:bEPt4Bfuo4k: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=GAu1m67Zr2s:bEPt4Bfuo4k:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=GAu1m67Zr2s:bEPt4Bfuo4k:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=GAu1m67Zr2s:bEPt4Bfuo4k:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=GAu1m67Zr2s:bEPt4Bfuo4k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=GAu1m67Zr2s:bEPt4Bfuo4k:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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Happy Memorial Day; See You All Tomorrow [Announcements]

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 04:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" /div Today is Memorial Day here in the States, in which we honor all the brave women and men who've lost their lives in military service. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, but in the meantime, join us in a href="http://lifehacker.com/392818/become-the-memorial-day-grill-master"grilling some great food/a and a href="http://lifehacker.com/5551382/afternoon-projects-to-tackle-on-the-extra-day-of-your-long-weekend"tackling some quick afternoon projects/a. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5551383/happy-memorial-day-see-you-all-tomorrow" title="Click here to read more about Happy Memorial Day; See You All Tomorrow [Announcements]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=3H3clTJMV2o:HuoHFnf98nE: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=3H3clTJMV2o:HuoHFnf98nE:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=3H3clTJMV2o:HuoHFnf98nE:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=3H3clTJMV2o:HuoHFnf98nE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=3H3clTJMV2o:HuoHFnf98nE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=3H3clTJMV2o:HuoHFnf98nE:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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The Luxury Loft Desk [Featured Workspace]

Sun, 05/30/2010 - 16:00
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read The Luxury Loft Desk" 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 The Luxury Loft Desk" href="http://lifehacker.com/5551260/the-luxury-loft-desk" 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 The Luxury Loft Desk" alt="Click here to read The Luxury Loft Desk" src="http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/05/160x120_2010-05-30_124221.jpg"/ /a/div /div Buying a loft bed is a simple solution for getting more space in a small room. Building a loft bed, complete with hardwired lighting, speakers, and custom storage? That's a bit trickier and the focus of today's awesome workspace. a href="http://lifehacker.com/5551260/the-luxury-loft-desk" title="Click here to read more about The Luxury Loft Desk [Featured Workspace]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" /div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=R6l_jfu0yZA:nS8b_8W6B_k: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=R6l_jfu0yZA:nS8b_8W6B_k:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=R6l_jfu0yZA:nS8b_8W6B_k:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=R6l_jfu0yZA:nS8b_8W6B_k:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?i=R6l_jfu0yZA:nS8b_8W6B_k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?a=R6l_jfu0yZA:nS8b_8W6B_k:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/lifehacker/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /div
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