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New flybuys Earns Discounts Faster (But They're Not Good Discounts) I’m pleased to announce that we had a bunch of cooking-or-mouse-related tips submitted for our Ratatouille competition. Congratulations to Dave, whose tip on how to make caramelised grilled bananas won him the hardcover “Art of Ratatouille” book. The four runners up, who will each receive a Ratatuille prize pack including a stationary kit, apron and kitchen timer were: Deepti, Rachel, Alastair and PNit. I’ll post their tips – in fact all the entries! – in the next post.
Thanks to everyone who entered, and thanks to our friends at Disney for donating the prizes! :)
A few extensions, hacks and a little elbow grease can turn your vanilla installation of Thunderbird into a powerful productivity app. Mark Shuttleworth recently professed to us that he uses Thunderbird for email and Evolution for calendar management. While Mark’s confession was enough to push me away from Gmail’s web interface and onto Thunderbird full-time, having separate apps for email and calendar management makes no sense. The Ubuntu Forums has a detailed thread that shows how you can get the most out of Thunderbird by using the Lightning extension and Google Calendar.
AU – Aussie readers will have already seen our reader submitted tip on using lighting to view calendar events in Thunderbird.
Using Google Calendar, Thunderbird and Lighting to full effect [Ubuntu Forums]Windows only: Seamlessly add items to your Todoist task manager from the popular application launcher and then some, Launchy. Once you install and configure the Todoist plugin, you can type Todoist, press Tab, and then enter your item like so:
To add an item, you can do following:Todoist | add “item name” Todoist | add “today @ 19:00 > item name” Todoist | add “today @ 19:00 > item name” to “project name”
To open a project in your browser, you can do following:
Todoist | goto “project name”I’ve covered how to tweak and take Launchy beyond application launching with Remember the Milk, Google Calendar, SMS reminders, and more, but this is the first true web-integrated Launchy plug-in we’ve seen, so kudos to Todoist for that.
Launchy+Todoist plugin [Todoist]I spent the past month collaboratively writing an iPhone book in Google Docs, and frankly, the experience was fantastic. The sharing and organizational features in Google Docs and Spreadsheets are incredible, and if you ever have to collaborate on any document where you don’t have time for file lock-outs and painstaking version control, I’d highly recommend it. The simple fact, however, is that desktop applications—specifically Microsoft Word—rule the word processing roost. Hit the jump to share what word processor you count on, and discuss whether you’d ever consider the move to web-based word processing in the comments.
Turning an unused tripod into an attractive floor lamp is a one-step process, and as weblog Curbly reports, directions aren’t even necessary. All you need to do is purchase a lamp kit and shade and screw it in to the top of the tripod. Who doesn’t love cheap and decorative furniture? Looking for more tripod hacks? We’ve got you covered.
Convert A Tripod Into A Floor Lamp [Curbly]Find out how your Mac can help you get more out of your day with this hourly guide to 40 ways you can use your Mac from MacLife.
Quicksilver’s heretofore elusive creator Nicholas Jitkoff, generally known only as A1c0r, demos Quicksilver at a Google Tech Talk for his employers and co-workers at Google. Aside from providing an exceptionally detailed overview of the ideas behind Quicksilver, it’s also a great guide understanding to the application. If the video whets your appetite, check out our beginner, intermediate, and advanced guides to Quicksilver. While you’re at it, our Quicksilver video extravaganza and time-saving Quicksilver triggers offer some more Quicksilver goodness.
Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action [Google Video via 43 Folders]It’s week one of our Desktop Show and Tell series, and today we’re looking at our readers’ Windows desktops. We’ve got tons of tweaked-out, streamlined and gorgeous Windows desktops to show off, so check out this week’s gallery for a look at some of the best submissions we received and find out how each desktop look was achieved.
We’ve all heard that a glass of wine a day or other light drinking can be good for your heart, but more than one or two glasses and you’re doing much more harm than good, according to a study reported on by CBS News. Specifically, the study defines one drink as “a 12-ounce bottle of beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine, or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof distilled liquor,” and more than one glass for women and more than two for men is far worse than no alcohol whatsoever. For those times you do go well over the healthy one-drink limit, though, these hangover preventions and cures might come in handy.
How Much Booze Is Good For You? [CBS News]Create your own customised email domain (you know, the part after the “@” symbol) for free with a new service from AOL called My eAddress. You’ll only be able to snatch up domains that are not currently in use, so you won’t be able to “fake” being a Lifehacker editor with yourname@lifehacker.com—sorry folks. However, presuming your last name is not already taken you could use yourfirstname@yourlastname.com. Unfortunately, this service is definitely AOL-centric and will not let you forward your emails to any other account (including POP).
Since you can manage multiple accounts with Gmail you’ll be able to send email from your new domain, but you’d have to manually go out to AOL’s web interface to read your email. Another bummer about the service is that AOL forces you to use SMS to confirm your account. While this is a pretty cool service for creating imaginative email addresses, something freaks me out about giving AOL my cellphone number. If you’re in the same boat, you can buy the domain yourself and future-proof your custom email address. Thanks, Aseem!
My eAddress [AOL via Computer Tips From A Computer Guy]
