Communicate

Aussies Don’t Mind Censorship, Hate Secrecy

8:30AM Angus Kidman | It’s clear that in the Lifehacker community (and the tech community more generally) than most people believe mandatory Internet filtering is a pretty stupid idea. But what does the broader population think? A phone poll commissioned by the ABC’s Hungry Beast suggests that while a huge percentage are in favour of trying to filter out illegal content, most believe that the process should be much more transparent than the system currently being proposed. More »
Design

Pinta Brings Paint.Net’s Just-Enough Image Editing To Every Computer

8:30AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the coders of Pinta love the heck out of Paint.Net. Luckily, they also want to make it available on every OS, and are faithful to its just-enough interface methodology. More »
Organise

Listary Sifts Through Files With Powerful Search Hotkeys

7:30AM Whitson Gordon | Windows only: Explorer’s integrated search is fine for most things, but more powerful searches or sorting through long lists of similar files isn’t exactly easy — Listary gives you hotkeys, wildcards and commands to help you quickly find anything in a folder. More »
Work

The Rotterdamn Collective

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Many of our featured workspaces are featured for what they contain. The most notable thing about today’s featured workspace is what it doesn’t contain. More »
Communicate

Google Buzz Is Google’s Approach To Sharing And The Social Space

6:00AM Adam Pash | Google today announced a new service called Google Buzz, which automatically brings social networking to Gmail. Whether or not you’re a big on social network sites like Twitter or Facebook, it looks very cool. More »
Design

The Google Map Envelope Incorporates Directions In Your Snail Mail

6:00AM Lisa Hoover | In the age of email, it’s not often we send mail through the regular postal service. Next time you’re mailing a letter the old-fashioned way, do it up right with Google Maps and a colour printer. More »
Work

Move The Users Directory In Windows 7

5:30AM Roobs | Ed. note: If you’ve tried moving the Windows Users directory to a location other than the default, you know it can be quite an undertaking. Reader Roobs wrote in detailing how he moved his Windows 7 Users directory without nasty registry hacks. More »
Work

Add Universal Keyword Control To Your Browsers With Quix

4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Imagine typing the same few keystrokes from any browser to email or clip a page, or start any kind of search. Quix is a universal browser commander on your desktop or mobile, and it’s my favourite new timesaver. Here’s how it works. More »
Fix

Grill A Perfect Grilled-Cheese Sandwich

3:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If your grilled-cheese sandwiches never achieve that perfect golden grill and instead end up a shade too far into burn-marshmallow territory, a simple tweak or two can make your sandwich perfect. More »
Work

1DayLater Tracks And Graphs Your Time, Money And Mileage

3:00AM Kevin Purdy | If it’s time for a self-assessment of where your workday time or cash go, 1DayLater can help. If you’re a freelancer looking for lightweight client tracking, 1DayLater’s also got game. It’s a really lightweight, web-based tool for watching where everything goes. More »