Thursday, May 15, 2008
How Do You Handle the Laptop Dilemma?
10:10AM Adam Pash | You just sat down at the internet café, you’ve got your coffee, your scone, and your laptop all plugged in and ready to roll, but—you need to hit the head. What do you do? Wired’s Lore Sjöberg discusses this situation—what he calls the laptop dilemma—in detail, offering five options: Leave your helpless laptop alone, ask a neighbour to watch it, take your laptop with you to the can, take everything with you, or lock it up. Obviously, for safety’s sake, you should either lock it up tight or—ideally—bring it along, but we don’t always do what we should. On that note, we’d love to hear how you hack the laptop dilemma in the comments. Photo by scottfeldstein. Workin’ at the Internet Cafe: Laptop Dilemma [Wired] More »
Canon Unveils IXUS 80 IS Colour Range
10:00AM Advertisement | Canon Australia’s new IXUS 80 IS digital camera combines aesthetic style with affordability to deliver superior image quality. Advanced technologies to optimise spontaneous capture include Optical Image Stabilizer, Motion Detection Technology and Noise Reduction Technology, which combine to intuitively control blurring.
The IXUS 80 IS features a 2.5-inch PureColor LCD screen, an enhanced DiGIC III image processor that includes in-camera red-eye correction and improved Face Detection with White Balance (WB). Boasting an 8.0-megapixel CCD and 3x Optical Zoom, the IXUS 80 IS ensures image quality in a compact and striking design that’s available in Blue, Camel, Pink, Brown and Silver to satisfy every personal preference (RRP $379).
[IXUS 80IS via Canon Australia]
More » Commercial Games Gone Freeware
8:30AM Adam Pash | Looking to do some PC gaming but the price tag of commercial games conflicting with your money-saving goals? Check out Wikipedia’s list of commercial games released as freeware. It’s bound to be a bit hit-or-miss, but with games released as recently as 2008, it may be worth a look. [via] More »
Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do
8:05AM Gina Trapani | Macs may be more expensive, and Mac users more elitist (ahem), but blind Apple loyalty aside, there are a number of neat features bundled into your Mac that make it super useful and fun. We’ve covered dozens of Mac tips over the years in these pages, but today we’re highlighting 10 lesser-known Mac tricks that come baked into Leopard. From pure eye candy to outright productivity-boosters, read on to get reminded of some of the more obscure things you can do with your Mac, fresh out of the box. More »Reminder: Win an autographed Lifehacker book
8:00AM Sarah Stokely | We are giving away autographed copies of the new Lifehacker book in our current competition. All you need to do is submit your best tip, trick or Lifehack, and you’ll be in the running to win a copy of Upgrade Your Life, autographed by Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani. We’re giving away the first lot of books on Friday, so get your entry in pronto!Check out the original post for details on how to enter, and good luck! :) More » 
Quickly grab multiple photos from the web for editing with Picnik
8:00AM Sarah Stokely | We’ve already talked a fair bit about online photo editing suite Picnik but this tip from Digital Inspiration seemed like such a great way to grab a bunch of photos for editing at once, I wanted to share it.Basically, rather than grabbing images one by one, you can actually paste the URL of a Google image search or other photo site like Flickr photo galleries directly into Picnik. This will import full versions of each image (not thumbnails!) ready for you to edit. The free version of Picnik is ad-supported, you’ll need to pay for the premium version if you want to avoid ads.
How to Quickly Grab Pictures from Web Pages into Picnik for Editing [Digital Inspiration] More » Opera releases Mobile browser Opera Mini 4.1
8:00AM Sarah Stokely | Opera has taken the latest version of its mobile browser, Opera Mini, out of beta this week. The new Opera Mini 4.1 gives the browser a speed bump and offers several new features for quicker scrolling, navigation and page rendering.One feature carried over from the 9.5 Beta 2 version of Opera’s desktop browser is the ability to guess the URL you want when you enter a search term in the address bar.4.1 also supports offline viewing, and users with Java-enabled mobiles supporting JSR-75 will be able to upload and download any file via Opera’s mobile web.Opera Mini 4.1 is not compatible with all mobile phones, so check the full list of compatible phones here. Most Java handsets are supported, including BlackBerry and Palm phones.Opera Mini 4.1 is a beta, so the usual warnings apply. It can be downloaded here. [via]
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Gmail Addons Embeds Any Webapp in Gmail
7:55AM Adam Pash | Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Gmail Addons Greasemonkey script embeds any page you specify inside Gmail’s interface. By default, it comes with Google Calendar and the Google Talk gadget. (If this sounds familiar, it is—Gmail Addons is an update to the previously mentioned Enhance Gmail script.) Add any other web pages to Gmail by following the directions on the script homepage. If you’re willing to dig into manually editing the script, Gmail Addons can embed Google Reader, Notebook, Docs, Remember the Milk, or virtually any other web page you’d like next to or below your inbox. Gmail Addons is free, requires the Greasemonkey extension to run. Gmail Addons [Userscripts] More »
How to Cram All Your Travel Gear in One Bag
7:50AM Adam Pash | Now that most of the major airlines have begun charging an extra fee for checking a second bag, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered tackles the art of one-bag packing, interviewing Doug Dyment, owner of previously mentioned OneBag.com. In the piece, Dyment suggests that the key to a one-bag trip is making a list of your must-haves and sticking to it. In all the story offers some good advice, but since we’ve covered one-bag territory a lot in the past, hit the jump for some of our favourite tips for travelling light. More »
