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Last night's release of the Google Desktop Gmail Gadget added yet another way for users of the big G's email service to be pinged about their new inbox messages. While constant email awareness isn't necessarily a great thing, as alumnus Keith, author Tim Ferriss, and our site editor have noted, Gmail…
Posted 1hr 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Windows only: NexusFile is a feature-rich portable Windows Explorer alternative. Weighing in at just under 3MB, NexusFile easily replaces a host of other applications. There is a basic file renamer, an ftp client, and a file splitter/joiner. You can export saved file lists in a variety of formats, assign…
Posted 2hrs 29mins ago by Lifehacker.
The New York Times reports that in a study of 61 people, those who took a 2-hour afternoon nap did "significantly" better at repeating verbal, perception, and motor-skill tests from that morning than those given caffeine or a placebo. What's more, the caffeine takers didn't do do much better in verbal…
Posted 2hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Microsoft's Live image search tool added a new button underneath every image result you mouse over: "Show similar images." Close to the functionality of previously mentioned engine TinEye, but with a much wider scope and reach. The complexity of the image, and cleverness of its knock-offs, will of course…
Posted 3hrs 49mins ago by Lifehacker.
Just-released webapp Freckle isn't, as it proclaims, a whole-cloth re-thinking of time tracking, billing, and client management, but it is refreshingly light, agile, and easy to get into. Like Remember the Milk and other text-aware apps, it doesn't require learning an entirely new input system, but…
Posted 4hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
A Family Law Attorney represents its clients in various issues including adoption proceedings, rights of fathers, mothers, and the different statutes of each state, paternity.
Posted 10hrs 18mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
ERISA/Employee Benefits Attorneys can offer their services in various areas including: Current welfare benefit plan issues like understanding ERISA compliance for companies with a third-party insurance agent or administrator.
Posted 10hrs 20mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
by Mike Krumboltz If a story is on the front page of Yahoo!, chances are it's a pretty big deal. We dove into a year's worth of data and tracked down the ten most popular articles from our front page in 2008. It's an intriguing mix. There are beautiful women (of course), sudden tragedies, and minor…
Posted 15hrs 15mins ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
Windows only (running Google Desktop): If you want access to your Gmail on your desktop (literally) without running a full-blown email client, now you can download the Gmail Google Desktop gadget. You'll need the free Google Desktop software installed first, and then you can dock your Gmail gadget to…
Posted 15hrs 22mins ago by Lifehacker.
Cleans cavities where conventional cleaners fail and kills germs. Clearly enhances the performance of your keyboard and other devices!
Posted 15hrs 50mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
If you'll be without your personal assistant when webapp Sandy closes its doors next Monday, you may not have to wait long for a replacement: A group of developers are working to build a free, open-source Sandy, and they're hoping to resurrect as much of Sandy as they can from the startup graveyard.…
Posted 16hrs 24mins ago by Lifehacker.
Be thankful for beer, major league umpires, and the wonder of advertising
Posted 16hrs 26mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Software developer Gustavo Duarte explains exactly what your computer does while you wait, in a thorough, technical answer to the question "Why the hell is my computer taking so long to do something when I have such a fast processor?" This post isn't for anyone who glazes over at measurements of throughput…
Posted 16hrs 45mins ago by Lifehacker.
Windows only: Free text replacement application PhraseExpress updates to version 6.0, sporting a handful of new time-saving features and stability improvements. If you're unfamiliar with text replacement apps like PhraseExpress, they're like digital shorthand for your computer; the user defines small…
Posted 17hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks with Danielle Brigida, a marketing and social media expert working with the National Wildlife Federation.
Posted 18hrs ago by Mixx: Popular.
Firefox with Greasmonkey (and other browsers): The Helvetireader theme for Google Reader strips away the bells and whistles and offers a minimal interface redesign for keyboard shortcut users. Install Helvetireader in Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension, Opera, a Chromium nightly build, or Safari…
Posted 18hrs 29mins ago by Lifehacker.
Online language translation app Frengly autodetects the source language of text and quickly translates it into your language of choice. Just paste any piece of text into Frengly, hit translate, and let Frengly take care of the rest. Frengly actually plugs into the Google Translate API to both detect…
Posted 18hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
On the heels of Sandy's closure announcement, another small startup announces its shutdown and acquisition: previously mentioned file-sharing service Pownce has been acquired by blogging software maker Six Apart, and the service is shutting down on December 15th. Pownce users can export their messages…
Posted 19hrs 42mins ago by Lifehacker.
What's a good webcam setup for my technophobic relative?How can I change white web pages to a darker color?What's a good call forwarding service?Any great ideas for reducing my computer clutter?What's the best way to stream HD media from a PC?
Posted 19hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Google has published official documentation detailing their plans to bring extensions to their beta web browser Chrome. When we asked you a few months back whether Chrome with extensions would convince you to switch, 28% said yes, while a whopping 22% of you said that as long as an Adblock extension…
Posted 20hrs 41mins ago by Lifehacker.
When you find yourself glancing worriedly from your bank account balance back to the calendar this holiday season, it's time to ditch the catalogs and commercials, roll up your sleeves and get to doing it yourself. Everyone's cutting down on expenditures this year, but that doesn't mean you can't give…
Posted 20hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Well.. Good to see he has some interest in volleyball.. Whats with the smile Mr President-to-go?
Posted 21hrs 1min ago by Mixx: Popular.
In the effort to take better care of our hair, many of us follow tried and true rules and tips. Of course many of these have been carried down from generation to generation and somewhere along the way, some of the information gets a bit exaggerated or...
Posted 21hrs 7mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Web site Notify Me When It's Up performs a very simple but worthwhile task: It sends you an email when a downed site you want to visit returns to the internet. Similar to previously mentioned Down For Everyone or Just Me—which helps you figure out if a site you're having trouble reaching is really…
Posted 21hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
iPhone/iPod touch only: Television and movie streaming service Joost officially finds its way to the iPhone and iPod touch. Joost started out as a desktop application, was quickly overshadowed by online offerings like Hulu, then recently moved to the web in an attempt to keep up with the competition.…
Posted 21hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Thank goodness our brother site Gizmodo did all the work of digging up the best online shopping deals today, "Cyber Monday"—and saved us the trouble. Go getchyer Monday-after-Black-Friday discounts on.
Posted 22hrs 33mins ago by Lifehacker.
On Monday most of Mumbai, India attempted a return to normal activity, in the wake of the 60-hour-long siege last week. Some facts about the attacks are a bit clearer now, others still hazy.
Posted 22hrs 37mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
The problem with many online to-do list managers is that they don't support sub-lists for tasks that involve several steps—but outliner webapp Checkvist does just that, and with a clean interface that supports tons of keyboard shortcuts. Sign up for a free account at Checkvist to make your first…
Posted 22hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Virtual machine application VMware Fusion—popular for running Windows and other operating systems on Macs—is for sale at 50% off the regular price today only—down to $40 from the regular $80. Sounds like a good time to grab a copy of Fusion, one of our top 10 new and improved apps…
Posted 23hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Posted 23hrs 6mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
The Wall Street Journal reports that outgoing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to offer free Wi-Fi to all—porn-free Wi-Fi, to be more specific. The no-smut specification is a little troubling, since drawing a straight line through the massive gray area of propriety isn't a simple task, but the…
Posted 23hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
The Get Rich Slowly blog details the ins and outs of the cooling-off period, a three-business-day window the (U.S.) Federal Trade Commission enforces to cancel purchases of $25 or more. There's a good deal of fine print, as J.D. explains: If you make a purchase entirely by mail or telephone, the rule…
Posted 1 day ago by Lifehacker.
Free alert service Exactfactor tracks search engine results by key words, and can email anyone interested in how any web site is doing in the battle for the top Google, Yahoo, or Live.com spot. After signing up for an account, you enter one or two web sites and key words to track them by. You'll see…
Posted 1 day 1hr ago by Lifehacker.
Under pressure to fight terrorism or to pacify repressive governments, Google could track everything we’ve searched for, everything we’re writing on gmail, everything we’re writing on Google docs, to figure out who we are and what we do.
Posted 1 day 1hr ago by Mixx: Popular.
Windows only: The Giveaway of the Day web site is featuring a small, simple, but effective macro recording tool for free until 3 a.m. EST on Dec. 2. Windows Automation Macro Recorder (WAMR), normally $30, has a nicely clean interface that focuses on two main buttons, Record and Execute, and it records…
Posted 1 day 1hr ago by Lifehacker.
Firefox only: Easy DragToGo is a Firefox extension which enables interaction with highlighted text and images via mouse gestures. Text actions are determined by whether or not the highlighted text is a URL or not, and by the variables you assign in the preferences menu. An example setup, and my current…
Posted 1 day 2hrs ago by Lifehacker.
UK magazine Custom PC reports that Windows 7 will feature WARP, which lets any computer with an 800MHz processor run Aero-style desktop transparency and, with a certain performance hit, the Direct3D requirements for video games. Microsoft seems to have learned something from the "Vista Capable/Ready"…
Posted 1 day 2hrs ago by Lifehacker.
The team at the Phoronix site benchmark tested the newly-released Fedora 10 Linux distribution against Ubuntu 8.10 on 32 and 64-bit machines, and found the results nearly identical. Interesting find, and nice to know it's really the features and interface that sets most Linux distros apart these days.…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Lifehacker.
by Claudine Zap You read it. You liked it. You buzzed it up.In the remarkable mix of stories that circulated through Y! Buzz in 2008, people voted on the ones they thought were particularly important, funny, or just worth reading. Let's review the 10 that garnered the most attention—and votes—in…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
We've already pointed out a Greasemonkey script that hides Google's new SearchWiki ranking buttons, but there are viable work-arounds for those not using Firefox or its page-styling Greasemonkey extension. The Google Operating System blog points out four other methods. Most clever and convenient among…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Windows only: Free utility Gladinet Cloud Desktop removes the web interfaces from Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, Windows Live SkyDrive and Amazon S3 Storage, mounting them instead as folders you can add, remove, or open documents from. Gladinet hides most of the back-end technology that pulls it off,…
Posted 1 day 4hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Before December 1st is officially upon us, make sure you didn't miss any of November's greatest hits: How to Burn Any Video File to a Playable Video DVD"With your BitTorrent addiction in full swing, you've filled hard drives with media but can't seem to figure out how to burn any of the videos you downloaded…
Posted 1 day 14hrs ago by Lifehacker.
by Jon Brooks This weekend, the long anticipation over Black Friday ended, the BCS picture became a little clearer, and users turned to the Web to monitor the tragic events in India. Read all about it in this week's Buzz Weekend Recap. Black Friday is overTo read the news, never before has the health…
Posted 1 day 15hrs ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
If you're a fan of the ultra thin All-Ett but you're on a budget, all you need to do is score a free USPS Tyvek mailing pouch and grab a pair of scissors. Over at the DIY site Instructables there is a tutorial on turning those extremely durable Tyvek pouches into equally as durable wallets. The end…
Posted 1 day 15hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Where can I find a fast-booting web browser only flavor of Linux?What music helps you focus and get things done?What advice would you give a high school student interested in a tech industry career?What are some must have applications for a college student running Vista-64?Is it possible to decrypt…
Posted 1 day 16hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Windows only: Cubic Explorer is a robust Windows Explorer replacement. Among the features power users have come to expect from Explorer alternatives you'll find tabbed windows, bookmarking, bread crumb navigation, file previews, detailed file searching and quick search via extension filtering. One area…
Posted 1 day 16hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Unless you had the foresight to stockpile wrapping paper after Christmas last year, you're looking at buying a lot of over priced paper this holiday season. At the business blog Strategize they came up with a cheap solution for wrapping tons of gifts without breaking the bank. [We used the] basic brown…
Posted 1 day 17hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Windows only: Selecting blank media would seem to be a straight forward affair. You discover a certain brand works great for your purposes so you plan to buy more in the future. Simple! The label wrapped around the spindle of DVDs you just purchased doesn't tell the whole story however. While there…
Posted 1 day 18hrs ago by Lifehacker.
A life cluttered with possessions is such a common state of affairs that George Carlin once based a well received comedy routine around the absurdity of the accumulation of material goods. Over at the financial blog The Simple Dollar, Trent decided to stare down his pile of goods through the belly of…
Posted 1 day 19hrs ago by Lifehacker.
TiddlyDu2 is a TiddlyWiki derivative tweaked to serve as a personal information manager. TiddlyDu2 has categories for sorting current tasks, long term projects, life goals, and a context based system task management that will be more than familiar to GTD devotees. Additionally there is a contact management…
Posted 1 day 20hrs ago by Lifehacker.
by Vera H-C Chan Thirty days hath November, and every moment seemed fraught with anticipation. Who would win the election? Why did militants take Mumbai? Would the economy stumble even more? How much hope would be pinned on Black Friday? As 2008 approaches its end, review the historical dramas and prosaic…
Posted 1 day 22hrs ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
The internet has made it easier than ever to share media and data with friends, family, and co-workers, but that doesn't mean burning your own CDs and DVDs is a thing of the past. Blank optical discs are dirt cheap, they work virtually everywhere, and if you bought your computer sometime in the last…
Posted 1 day 23hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Windows only: Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the 747-dashboard of an interface that graces Bulk Rename Utility and you'll be rewarded with an enormously powerful tool. You can rename files, substitute some or all of the file name, apply numbers and lettering, swap extensions, append…
Posted 2 days ago by Lifehacker.
Caledos Manages Your Massive Wallpaper Collection (Windows)"If you like varied wallpaper but find yourself frittering away time digging through your archives picking new ones out, let Caledos Automatic Wallpaper Changer take care of the management side of things."Lazarus Form Recovery Saves Web Page…
Posted 2 days ago by Lifehacker.
Adobe Air: Sure you can export your RSS feeds from Google Reader and import the feed file into desktop RSS reader for offline browsing. Scoop takes offline browsing a step further by allowing you to not only read your feeds but have them remain synced to your Google Reader account. Removing and tagging…
Posted 2 days ago by Lifehacker.
by Vera H-C Chan A note to Broadway fans: Our apologies for taking liberties with the Broadway classic, "Fiddler on the Roof.") A president in waiting...sounds crazy, no? But here in our little country of America, you might say every one of us is in waiting, looking to the future and change, hoping…
Posted 4 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Vera H-C Chan Thanksgiving is no respite, some moment of rest in a hectic holiday season. Rather, America's recognition of its New World roots stands out as a centerpiece that at once honors family and the nation. The year so far has been delirious, exhilarating, frightening and exhausting in so…
Posted 5 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Vera H-C Chan What's a Thanksgiving without the Sexiest Man Alive? While Hugh Jackman got the honors from People magazine this year, who's really the hottest celebrity ticket of the Buzz Multiplex? To level the playing field a little bit, let's take a look back at the past 30 days of searches. 1.…
Posted 5 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Vera H-C Chan The Christmas music may already be playing, but Thanksgiving elbows its way in with an air of gratitude and family warmth. Ah, but now that the presidential elections are over and some people are feeling too economically fragile to shop, what's left to do? Yes, there's always football…
Posted 6 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Vera H-C Chan Are tattoos private? The obvious answer is: Depends on where you ink them. In-your-face skin art tends to be on one's face, neck, or arms. Fashionable marks show up on the ankle, and peekaboo tats get lower-back placement. Anywhere else, well, only bikini season can tell. But with so…
Posted 7 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Gordon Hurd and Vera H-C Chan When the legend of capitalism is studied millennia from now, will future economists recognize discount sales as the slippery slopes that they are? After all, once you knock 50% off a price tag, it's going to take that and then some to get shoppers to come back again.…
Posted 7 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Claudine Zap When times are tough, the tough get crafty. If Yahoo! Search is an indicator, you should expect lots of hand-knit socks, fruitcakes, and other homemade delights this season. Of course, who needs more store-bought stuff when we already have three iPods, seven TVs, and a garage full of unused…
Posted 8 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Jon Brooks There was a lot to stimulate Buzz aficionados this weekend, including “Twilight” and the Stephen Colbert Christmas special. But that’s nothing compared to the stimulus that President-elect Obama has in mind. Buzz clues you in… Boy, is it ever the economy, stupidBarack Obama on…
Posted 8 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Vera H-C Chan The political world swooned over the twists and turns in President-elect Barack Obama's nomination dramas, but other stories preoccupied the Buzz this week. Take a moment to rewind and look back at the survival of the cutest, the 18th-century criminal enterprise that's enjoying a renaissance,…
Posted 10 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Vera H-C Chan Forget boy wizards: Brooding vampires are the literary heartthrobs in books and now on the big screen. Only Disney dares to face a toothy heartthrob, tossing a deluded dog into the fray. The Buzz Multiplex succumbs this week to teenage romance, vampire style. 1. "Twilight" (PG-13).…
Posted 10 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
by Vera H-C Chan In the old days, they were called fans, groupies, maybe even cult followers or stalkers. Now they're all social networkers. World Wrestling Entertainment officially released the WWE Universe, its one-stop grappling shop with blogs, videos, profiles, and every sweaty little detail about…
Posted 11 days ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
Thanks to you, CreateDebate has been officially nominated in Mashable’s 2008 Open Web Awards in the Politics category! You can read the official announcement here. Now it’s time to help us win the award by voting for us! You can vote for one company in each category per day until midnight…
Posted 12 days ago by The CreateDebate Blog.
Mashable is once again holding the 2008 Open Web Awards. Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Help us win recognition by nominating us! Nominations close Sunday, November 16th at 11:59 pm PST so there’s…
Posted 18 days ago by The CreateDebate Blog.
We’ve blogged about the growing number of narrowly focused blogs, but the phenomenon isn’t limited to teh InterWeb. Lisa Katamaya of Tokyo Mango found a store in Akihabara that plies pliers! Link See also: Tokyo broom store (ignore the part about no customers since 1972 - that’s a…
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
Bunker-busting bombs are pretty darned effective against hardened underground bunkers, but maybe it’s not such a good idea to blow up chemical or biological weapons (that may just spread ‘em, which makes things worse). So the Pentagon dreamed up something straight out of science fiction…
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
A team of Princeton University scientists analyzed proteins involved in energy production of cells and discovered that they have the ability to control their own evolution: "The discovery answers an age-old question that has puzzled biologists since the time of Darwin: How can organisms be so exquisitely…
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. is one swanky place - but that’s not the case in other cities. As a new US President is set to move into the famous 1600 Pennsylvania, Ironic Sans blog decided to take a virtual tour of other not-so-famous 1600 Pennsylvania Avenues around America: Link…
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
Carpooling is a really good idea. It saves gas, money, the environment … But if you live in Ontario, Canada, it is also illegal. Well, here’s the story of a startup company called PickupPal, who wants to make it easier for people to find others traveling to the same place and carpool there:…
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
Arvo, the LEGO artist extraordinaire who made the awesome LEGO Iron Man we featured before on Neatorama also made this: the most realistic Alien ever built with LEGOs! Link
Previously on Neatorama:
Alien LEGO
Aliens LEGO Diorama
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
Canadian artist Susy Olivera uses photos and foam to create a 3-D collage. This one above is titled Time is Never Wasted. More on her website: Link [Flash]
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
There were three medieval kingdoms on the shores of a lake. There was an island in the middle of the lake, over which the kingdoms had been fighting for years. Finally, the three kings decided that they would send their knights out to do battle, and the winner would take the island. The night before…
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
Apparently, you can make a rockerless rocker - all you need are two metal strips, wheels, a little Yankee ingenuity and Gandhi. Found at the always-entertaining Modern Mechanix.
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
Don’t flirt with that woman! That’s Miss Alice Reighly, president of the Anti-Flirt Club of Washington, D.C. The 1923 club is for women and girls who have been embarrassed by men trying to flirt with them! So much for the Roaring Twenties! Check out the larger scan at Shorpy Photo Archive…
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
This is not your father’s formaldehyde-filled FEMA trailer … Artist Paul Villinski gutted a 30-foot Gulfstream "Cavalier" trailer of its toxic materials and rebuilt it into Emergency Response Studio, a "green" artist’s studio complete with solar panels and micro-wind…
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.
The Sentio is a digital tactile watch for the blind designed by Matthew Wagerfield. The watch has segments that rise 1 mm from the surface of the watch to signify the hour and minute. The face of sentio exhibits a pair of 7-segment displays that would normally be found on digital alarm clocks, watches…
Posted 19 days ago by Neatorama.