Sunday, June 8, 2008
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Summize Fast Twitter Search
8:00AM Gina Trapani | If you’re wondering what Twitter users have to say about a certain topic—whether it’s Sex and the City or Barack Obama—run a search for it on Summize Conversational Search, one of the fastest and most conveniently formatted Twitter search engines around. We’ve been really enjoying the Summize search result feed for Lifehacker. More »
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FireNes Brings 2000 NES Games to Your Browser
7:00AM Adam Pash | Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The FireNes Firefox extension integrates over 2000 old-school NES games with your favourite browser. Once you install FireNes and fire it up (either through the Tools menu or the optional toolbar button), you can browse the enormous library of games in your Firefox sidebar and play any one of your 8-bit favourites at the click of your mouse. More »
Design
How To Spot an Edited Picture
5:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | We’ve examined power photo retouching before, but how can you tell when a photo’s been altered? Frequent photo editors often acquire a knack for spotting fake photographs, but what about the rest of us? Scientific American offers several tips on how to spot faked photographs. Among them: look at how the light hits the various people and objects in the photograph—everything in the photo should have matching highlights and shadows indicating they were all photographed at the same time under the same light source. More in-depth scrutiny can reveal other “tells”—eyes often being the giveaway. More »
Design
Build Your Own Wire Photo Wall
2:00AM Gina Trapani | One of the rooms in my new place has a bare white wall that was just crying out for some creative sprucing up—so armed with this previous Lifehacker post on a DIY photo wall project and a few ideas on how to modify it for my own tastes, I went ahead and created a cheap, easily-reconfigured photo wall. For under 20 US bucks, using some wire, black card stock, and mini binder clips, it’s easy to create your own wire photo hanger. Let’s take a photo tour of how to get the job done. More »
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Become a Lifehacker Tip Tester at Flickr
1:00AM Gina Trapani | We just love it when readers try out tricks and tips that we post here on Lifehacker, and now we want to see more of it—and hear how it turned out. We’ve just created the “Lifehacker Tip Testers” Flickr group, and we’re looking for bold readers armed with cameras and hacks in action to join the group, submit photos of the tricks they’ve installed in their lives, and tell us how they worked out. We’ll be subscribed to the group’s photo and video pool feed, and we’ll feature your handiwork here on the site as the new photos roll in. Right now there are only two members of the group—me, and me—so join up, and add photos and videos of your favourite life hacks to get your name in lights here at Lifehacker! Go. Do. Now. (Thank you.) Lifehacker Tip Testers Group [Flickr] More »
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