Back in September we told you about Google Map’s website for the Australian election 2007. They’ve just updated the “Australian 2007 Election” feature in Google Maps. You can now click on any House of Representatives candidate to see their Google search results or their YouTube channel.
You can also see the location of polling booths in your electorate – which will be very handy on polling day!
Australia’s Election Map Redrawn [Official Google Blog]
Blogger Brett Kelly says you should stop wasting your callers’ time and shorten your voicemail greeting to the bare essentials—no music, no cutesy stuff, no obvious information like “I’m not available to take your call right now.” In the end, he recommends simply saying your name and phone number. While I’m just as cranky as he is about time-wasting greetings, that seems a bit too curt. What’s in your voicemail greeting? Let us know in the comments. (If long greetings drive you nutso, there are ways to skip long greetings and get right to the beep.)
How to Make Your Outgoing Voicemail Message Not Suck [The Cranking Widgets Blog]Facebook users, there’s a new Lifehacker page up, with some old school pictures posted like our original site design, our mascot’s picture, and more.
Windows only: The Giveaway of the Day web site’s offering the full-featured EverNote 2.2 desktop notes app—normally priced at $US50—for free today. Grab the download at Giveaway of the Day, install it and follow the instructions to activate the pay-for version for free. Only 12 more hours left on this one, so get it while the gettin’s still good. Here’s more on what you get with EverNote. Thanks, Amit!
EverNote [Giveaway of the Day]Two years ago, you expanded that 20 gigabytes to 200 gigabytes using Adam’s guide on how to install a new hard drive.
We already mentioned that the recent Gmail revamp includes new keyboard shortcuts, but this one deserves an individual shout: when you’re viewing a Gmail message, you can archive it and move to the next or previous message in one keystroke. Use the square brackets, [ to archive and go to the previous message and ] to archive and go to the next message in Gmail. Alternately, you can press y, then o to archive a message and go to the next one. You must have the keyboard shortcuts enabled in your account (visit Settings to do so.)
Keyboard Shortcuts [Gmail Help]On Tuesday I detailed how how I built a Hackintosh Mac from start to finish on the cheap, but one obvious question remained unanswered: How does my Hackintosh stack up to the Apple-built competition? To find out, I put my Hackintosh, a Mac Pro, and a MacBook Pro through the paces. Here’s what I learned.
Forget calling to order a pizza, now you can text message your Papa John’s pizza order.
