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How To Kill Time Productively On Your Phone A new study shows that a midday nap can help you retain information, as well as learn new skills: The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, found participants allowed a 90-minute nap between learning the first task and the second task, did not show much improvement in the evening, but did show a marked performance improvement on the following morning.
Mac OS X tip: Nothing’s more heartbreaking to a keyboard lover than discovering that a common application action is lacking a keyboard shortcut. Luckily OS X makes it wildly simple to add new shortcuts for any action available in the menu bar. Here’s how it works:
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Copy All Urls copies the URLs of every open tab in the current window to your clipboard so you can quickly round up a list of links from your current browsing session. Let’s say, for example, you’ve been browsing Lifehacker and opening posts you like in separate windows. Then you decide you want to email those posts to a friend. With Copy All Urls installed, just go to Edit -> Copy All Urls… -> Copy (or use the Ctrl-Alt-C keyboard shortcut) and that list will be copied straight to your clipboard. What’s more, you can determine if you want to include the page title, use TinyURL for long addresses, or copy the links in markup formats (like HTML, Wikimedia Markup, or your own markup). Copy All Urls is free, works wherever Firefox does.
Copy All Urls [Firefox Add-ons via NoHeat]One year ago, Gina explained how she turned Lifehacker into a book. Lifehacker the book’s second edition hits shelves in March and is available for pre-order now.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog runs down 10 ways to use Quick Look in Leopard, including one we hadn’t tried before for browsing fonts: Open a Finder window, select Cover Flow view and navigate to the font you’re interested in. Click the space bar and presto! Instant preview.
In fact, the Quick Look font preview is better than the Cover Flow view, because it displays the entire alphabet, not just two letters. Other Quick Look tricks include previewing the contents of ZIP archives, folders, and the Trash. 10 ways to get the most out of Quick Look [TUAW]
Web site Can You Run It determines whether or not your PC can run any of a number of popular video games by checking your computer’s specs against the minimum and recommended requirements of said games. Just browse to the homepage, pick the game you want to check, and click the Can You Run It button. The site will require you to install a Java applet to run the test (presumably so it can determine your hardware configuration) and then quickly returns the results. If you fail a test, Can You Run It offers hardware recommendations for upgrading your system so it can handle those games.
Can You Run It [via Lifehacker AU]Hey, I know you. RIAA lawsuits have scared you off P2P, but the iTunes DRM is both too expensive and too restrictive for your tastes, right? Then it’s time you head to the web. In the past year the number of web sites linking to free downloads and streaming music has exploded, meaning there are more ways than ever to get your music fix. Today I’ll highlight the best web sites—and best search kung-fu—for finding free music online. Photo by MarS.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is now available for pre-order at the Apple Store. Check out Adam’s Office 2008 screenshot tour for a taste of what you get in that yellow box.
Mac OS X only: Much-anticipated task manager for Mac, OmniFocus, has come out of beta and the final release is now shipping. This full-strength to-do manager has a mind-boggling list of features that we’re just starting to get our heads around, but it looks designed for and with Getting Things Done practitioners in mind. OmniFocus is tightly integrated into your Mac with iCal, Mail, and Spotlight hooks, and it’s what our trusted pal Merlin Mann over at 43 Folders uses (and had a hand in creating). The main downside to OmniFocus? Its price tag: a hefty $80 for a license. But you can test drive it for free for a couple of weeks. The 14-day trial is a free download for Mac only.
OmniFocus [The Omni Group via 43 Folders]
