Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Overlay Calendars in Outlook (like Google Calendar)
11:36PM Gina Trapani | Google Calendar makes it easy to manage multiple calendars and display them all at once, but did you know you can do the same with Microsoft Outlook? The How-to Geek explains that while it’s possible (Update: to keep more than one calendar) in Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 makes it easy to see multiple calendars at once: First you’ll need to change to the Calendar view, and then select more than one calendar in the list. Now if you hover your mouse over the little arrow icon next to the second calendar you’ll notice it says “View in Overlay Mode.” Of course you should just click the icon at this point. The two calendars then merge into one view, and you can switch between them using the tabs. Overlay Calendars in Outlook 2007 (like Google Calendar does) [the How-To Geek] More »
Best of luck to Kyle!
11:15PM Gina Trapani | We editors are very sad to say goodbye to our guy Kyle, who’s moving on from Lifehacker and heading back to school this fall. Thanks to Kyle for all his fabulous work on the site—especially his fantastic *nix coverage. We’ll miss you, Kyle! More »
Mint Manages Your Money
10:30PM Lifehacker US Edition | Personal finance webapp Mint monitors your finances for you. Enter your bank account and credit card details and Mint imports transaction data automatically and provides detailed charts about buying habits as well as suggesting how to save. Purchases are broken down by type (spending, gas, entertainment, restaurants, groceries), and Mint can alert you about any abnormal activity in your accounts. The interface is clean and friendly, and Mint looks like a clear winner in money management. Mint More »Get 32 AA Batteries from a Single 6 Volt Battery
10:00PM Lifehacker US Edition | Don’t want to spend a wad of cash on AA batteries to power your gadgets? Trim down your spending by cracking open the case of a single 6 volt battery which sells for about $5. Inside you’ll find a whopping 32 AA batteries! Considering that you can get 8 watch batteries from a 12-volt battery and 6 AAA batteries from a 9-volt battery, this isn’t surprising, but since AA batteries are the most popular among the three, this should yield considerable savings. Thanks, Richard & Lew! More »
Yahoo Mail Innovates, Gmail Stagnates
11:00AM Adam Pash | Less than two years after their beta release, Yahoo Mail has begun rolling out of beta after releasing an onslaught of innovative feature improvements along the way. On the other hand, a whopping three years into their beta release, Gmail remains one of the most popular but stagnant web-based beta email apps around—and most of Gmail’s innovation since its release has come in the form of third-party hacks and extensions. The short of it: Google makes a great beta, but with Gmail they’ve been much too slow to actually take the application to the next level. Let’s take a look at some of Yahoo Mail’s killer out-of-the-box features in comparison to what Gmail is offering. More »
Get Your Halo 3… Lingerie?
10:55AM Lifehacker US Edition | We’ve all been caught in the tsunami of Halo 3 hype, and it continues to flood us with no floaties in sight. If it’s not clothing, it’s a branded beverage, or a racing car, or even fancy toys. One would think with this diverse range of stuff that Microsoft’s marketing department simply went berko one day and slapped the words ‘Halo 3′ onto anything they could sell. Well, it’s good to know this is not necessarily true. This Reuters story detailing Microsoft’s Halo 3 marketing bonanza mentions a few oddities that never saw the ink of the giant branding machine. Items that did not make the cut were a “Halo”-themed lottery ticket, lingerie modeled after a female hologram character and toy guns based [on] the game’s weapons. Lingerie? It may not have sold well, but I wouldn’t have ruled it out entirely… “Halo” no longer just a game for Microsoft [Reuters] More »Ask the readers – AU specific financial software?
10:52AM Sarah Stokely | Reader Zack sent in a question which I haven’t yet been able to answer, so I thought I’d throw it open to the readers and see what we find out.
Zack asks:
“My wife and I are trying to keep better track of our finances and are looking for an online option so we can each enter expenses as they come in. We had been using Quicken in the States, but since we can’t get it to download transactions from ANZ or correctly interpret Aussie date format, we’ve tossed it. We don’t need anything super special. We just want to see how much we have and be able to see where our money is going.”
So, Lifehacker AU readers – hit us with your tips for financial software – and it doesn’t need to be a commercial accounting package like Quicken either – I’m keen to hear about software apps you use to track expenses on your PC, PDA or online. You don’t need to keep it just about expense tracking either – feel free to nominate your favourite Australian-friendly budgetting tools like The Money Orb, which we wrote about recently. More » 
How to make a Wi-Fi extender
10:44AM Sarah Stokely | Here’s a YouTube tutorial on a quick and dirty way to use aluminium foil, a template and some glue to make a Wi-Fi extender. As a bonus, it looks like a tin foil sail, and it’s called a Windsurfer. Slightly better than a Pringles can, yeah? :)
They use a printout of a template for the which comes from the Free Antennas website.
How to make a Wi-Fi extender [DL.TV] More » 
