Twitter users, now you can follow Lifehacker US the microbloggin’ way. Get our top stories plus a sprinkling of meta-commentary on the more ambitious days in your favourite Twitter client. Thanks, Ahsan! More »
Search engine Youlicit calculates the popularity of search results based on user votes rather than web site links. Call it a social bookmark tool if you will: search by URL or key phrase, and related sites ranked by Youlicit users appear. To get in on the voting yourself, install a Firefox extension for recommending sites (registration required) almost like StumbleUpon. Even though it’s still in beta, Youlicit did well in initial tests, listing Hackszine.com, 43Folders.com and lifehack.org as Lifehacker’s related sites.
YoulicitTwo years ago, Lifehacker alum Keith posted some of his best professional email tips and we set up a personal local wiki with Instiki. More »
Webapp Jottit offers no-registration, one-click web publishing wiki-style plus lots of neat advanced features. One part Twitter (just a text box), four parts wiki, Jottit supports special markup for links, images and videos and tracks page revisions. Once you create your first page on Jottit, you can pick a custom Jottit subdomain for your site (like gina.jottit.com) , add new pages, and select page colours and fonts. More »
APC magazine offers up a 10 part guide to replacing Windows with Ubuntu, written by former Atomic editor Ashton Mills.
The thing I liked about this guide was that even though it covers ground which may be familiar to you already, he’s also thrown some ‘scores’ of how well Ubuntu performs, making this part guide, part review. He also gives an overview of where Linux is at in delivering user-friendly applications for the functions users would expect (eg gaming, web browsing, playing DVDs, image editing and printing, and so forth). The section on gaming gave a nice overview of where Linux is at. Nice one, Ash. :)
The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu [APC] More »
Last week we told you about Microsoft’s student pricing for Office 2007.
Microsoft kindly got in touch to confirm that the cheap pricing is available in Australia too. The student price is $75. More »
Search engine optimisation site SEOmoz has a useful video tutorial on the steps you can take to combat online copyright infringement. As presenter Scott says, it’s not uncommon to find your website content has been lifted by other sites – and it can be really annoying if someone’s getting hits on their site which should really be going to you. The video walks you through the steps you can try to get the offending website to remove your content, starting with a friendly ‘please remove’ email. It also has links to some examples of a formal Cease & Desist letter and a DMCA Violation Removal Request (which can be sent to Google requesting removal of the offending links from the index). Note – the author of this tutorial is American, and not a lawyer, so read it as helpful but not legally definitive. :)
Wired’s Compiler blog tells us that Yahoo has launched two new features – Shop by Color and MapMixer – which came to life from an internal staff ‘hack day’.
The new features were written up in a Yahoo blogpost here.
Shop by Color adds a colour picker to Yahoo Shopping so users can filter search results according to colour. Given the fact that since Google Maps the online community has gone map crazy, the second feature may be of more interest…
Yahoo’s blog says MapMixer “allows other maps to be layered over a Yahoo! Map to show additional detail of a location. Now you can mix together the detail of a point-of-interest map — such as airports, college campuses, sports arenas, historic maps — with the web functionality offered by Yahoo! Maps.”
Spring has sprung – which for many people means it’s time to get back into the exercise and healthy eating routine. Blog Zen Habits has a useful post offering 10 tips for healthy breakfasts. I’m happy to be able to offer my own healthy breakfast tip too. I love oatmeal but the instant oatmeals you buy at the supermarket are packed full of sugar. Try this home made one instead:
Put 1/3 cup of rolled oats into a bowl along with 1/3 cup of skim milk and 1/3 cup of water. Microwave for 1 minute 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Stir, microwave for another 1 minute 30 seconds. Stir in 1tsp of cinnamon, 1 tsp of Psyllium husks (if your diet is low in fibre), 1 tsp of brown sugar and around 25g of sultanas. Enjoy! :)
On Thursday we gave you a roundup of Federal Election websites, and told you Google’s election website was launching on Friday. It’s launched, and it’s cool. Check it out.
Google’s 2007 Federal Election website
Thanks for the link, William. More »
