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New flybuys Earns Discounts Faster (But They're Not Good Discounts) Firefox only – thanks to Paul’s comment on our post about how to open a set of bookmarks with one click, I’ve learned of a nifty (admittedly not new!) Firefox extension.
Paul says:
“If you prefer to have different sites open on different days of the week - ie you’ve got your weekday faves and different weekend faves – download the ‘Morning Coffee’ extension. You can then save different sites for different days (individual days, M-F only, weekend only, M, W, F only or the T-days only) – what a choice! Then you only have to click the cuppa icon in the toolbar and the day’s sites automatically open.
What could be easier?!”
You can download Morning Coffee 1.26 here. It works with Firefox: 2.0b1 – 2.0.0. Thanks for the tip, Paul!
Hurting from all your college expenses? Web site HowStuffWorks advises students on how to save cash with ten tips, like buying cheap textbooks, opting-in for an the best meal plan, organising your expenses, and splitting any shared resources with a roommate. My favourite:
Previously posted Google Moon been re-launched with “Street View” on-surface panoramic NASA photos from the astronaut’s perspective. Google’s Lat Long blog explains: This update brings higher-resolution map imagery, text search, and photos and stories from every Apollo landing. We even included Street View-style panoramas of the moon’s surface, taken by the Apollo astronauts … something you won’t see anywhere else. And last but certainly not least, we tossed in scientific charts that are good enough for actual mission planning and science classrooms alike.
Great stuff, but sadly the Swiss cheese Easter Egg’s nowhere to be found.
Google MoonLatest version 2.3 of free, open source office suite application OpenOffice.org is now available for download. The upgrade includes new features, overall polish and security patches.
Dear Lifehacker, I was hoping that it is possible to set up a bookmark in Firefox that would open several distinct pages with one click, but I’m not having any luck working this one out. Can it be done? Yours, Frustrated Multi-Bookmarker
DIY web site Instructables details how to build a simple gadget dock for the low price (less than a dollar) of a large binder clip and a small rubber band. In a nutshell, you just pinch the plug with your binder clip and use the clip’s arms as buttressing supports for the dock. I didn’t have a large enough binder clip, but after fumbling a bit with a smaller one with my iPhone, I can see how this could actually work—though it might put undue stress on heavier gadgets, especially if they use small plugs.
The Ridiculously Clever Dock [Instructables]US-centric – Find plenty of free or cheap cardboard boxes for your next move at U-Haul’s box exchange forum. Their forum is pretty basic, divided regionally into sections for finding free used boxes or for buying and selling boxes—though according to the Cool Tools weblog, there are plenty of people on the forum happy to give away their boxes for free. For small moves, I’ve always found my local supermarket to be a great resource for finding free boxes, but the supplies are normally limited. There’s also Craigslist or previously mentioned UsedCardboardBoxes.com, but both are normally looking to sell instead of give away (though the latter actually delivers the boxes to your doorstep, which is nice). If you’ve got a favourite resource for free boxes, let’s hear it in the comments.
AU - obviously Craigslist is a US site – so maybe a little far away for sending cardboard boxes. :) But I imagine communities like Freecycle and other city-based communities would be a good place to start. U-Haul Box Exchange [U-Haul via Cool Tools]
The default YouTube video size too small for you but don’t want to dedicate all your attention to the hugely pixelated fullscreen interface? With a little URL hacking, you can view a version of the YouTube video that dynamically resizes to fit your browser width. Weblog Digital Inspiration says that all you need to do is grab the YouTube video ID—the string of text following watch?v= and append it to the end of this URL:
http://www.youtube.com/v/video_code_here
So, for example, you would change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PM9yhfYFLw
…to…
http://www.youtube.com/v/-PM9yhfYFLw
It’s pretty simple, and it means that you can still view larger YouTube videos without switching to fullscreen and focusing exclusively on the video. The URL hack is simple enough, but 20 Lifehacker brownie points go to first reader who cranks out a bookmarklet or Greasemonkey script to redirect to the browser-width version of the video.
Stretch YouTube Videos To Fit the Browser Window, Better Than Full Screen [Digital Inspiration]Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Map addresses, get directions, manage locations, and preview Google Earth KML files in your sidebar with Firefox extension Mini Map Sidebar. When you’re browsing the web and you stumble onto an address you’d like mapped, just pull up the Mini Map Sidebar by clicking the status bar icon, then just drag and drop the address into the sidebar drop box. If you do a lot of mapping with either Google Maps or Yahoo Maps (it works with both), this is a nice little extension. Mini Map Sidebar is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.
Mini Map Sidebar [Firefox Add-ons via Google Operating System]If and when that terrible day your Mac dies finally catches up to you, you can be back up and running with all your applications, settings and data in under 5 seconds with a bootable system clone. By mirroring your entire Mac’s hard drive to an external FireWire drive, you can boot from that disk using any other Mac and have your entire system at your fingertips, no tedious software installations, System Preference setting or desktop wallpaper hunting required. Using the excellent free version of SuperDuper and a regular old FireWire drive, here’s how to mirror your Mac onto a bootable disk.
