Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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Ant Movie Catalog Tames Your DVD Collection
11:30PM Lifehacker US Edition | Window only: Free application Ant Movie Catalog manages your movie collection in a personal database. While not as immediately user friendly as other tools covered here, such as Griffith, Ant offers a thorough database that allows you to catalog not just standard fare such as titles, year of release and so forth but also detailed information about the actual media itself such as codecs, audio format, resolution, and so forth. More »
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How to Trim Podcasts and Movies in iTunes
11:00PM Gina Trapani | Save a little time by fast-tracking through podcast intro chatter and cutting off movie credits in iTunes by using the custom Start and Stop times on your songs and videos. Macworld explains that you can right-click on the item in question, and choose Get Info. In the Options tab, check off Start Time or Stop Time to set it. (Use this same technique to create a perfectly timed interval training iTunes playlist for your next trip to the gym or the track.) If you convert the item to another file format, only the snippet will go into the new file. iTunes’ Start and Stop Times [Macworld] More »
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Stash Sandals Store Your Money and ID
10:30PM Gina Trapani | Finding a place to keep your cash, ID, and house key at the beach or carnival can be a pain when your outfit has no pockets—which is why you want to stow them in the sole of your sandal. The Reef Stash sandal has a pull-out storage area in each sole big enough for some bills, a credit card, and even a key. We’d love to see someone mod a non-Reef pair of sandals to achieve the same end. (Tried it? Tell us in the comments.) Just make sure you don’t kick off these suckers while you’re on the Ferris Wheel. Reef Girls Footwear 1527 Stash [via jeetblog] More »
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EASEUS Creates and Manages Hard Drive Partitions for Free
10:00PM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: EASEUS Partition Manager is a hard drive partition utility that bills itself as a free alternative to the popular commercial product, PartitionMagic. EASEUS can resize and move partitions without losing data already on them (unlike many other partitioning tools which erase the data on the drive in order to work). EASEUS can also change partition labels, format easily, hide and un-hide partitions, preview the effect of your changes before you make them, and change cluster size. EASEUS only supports hard disks from 20-800GB (with apologies to those in the terabyte club). For more on partitioning with GParted (also free, but not as user-friendly), see our previous post on drive partitioning and imaging. EASEUS Home Edition is a free download for personal use on Windows XP and 2000 SP4 only. Easeus Partition Manager [via My Digital Life] More »
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Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths
1:43PM Lifehacker US Edition | As a tech writer, one of my biggest pet peeves is the plethora of bad advice littered across almost every web site dedicated to system tweaking. Besides the tweaks that simply don’t work, some of them will actually cause your computer to run even slower—or worse. Let’s examine some of the most offensive myths out there regarding PC performance tweaking, and debunk them once and for all. More »
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Click on iPhone Details and Capacity Bar in iTunes to Get More Info
10:42AM Gina Trapani | Here’s a quick tip for iPhone or iPod touch owners who want to get more details about the device, the software it’s running, and exactly how many days of songs are stored on it: in iTunes, click on the device’s informational details to display additional bits, like software build number, ICCID Identifier (whatever that is), the number of songs and the number of days worth of music you’ve got stored. After the jump, hit the play button to see this in action. More »
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10:34AM Angus Kidman | iiNet continues to bolster its
reputation as the media junkie’s ISP of choice, announcing a deal to
provide free broadcasts of the forthcoming Barclays Premier League
season to its subscribers via a partnership with Fox Sports. As
you’ll recall, iiNet already offers quota-free access to the ABC’s
iView
and to the iTunes Store.
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iiNet offers free Barclays Premier League broadcasts
10:34AM Angus Kidman | iiNet continues to bolster its
reputation as the media junkie’s ISP of choice, announcing a deal to
provide free broadcasts of the forthcoming Barclays Premier League
season to its subscribers via a partnership with Fox Sports. As
you’ll recall, iiNet already offers quota-free access to the ABC’s
iView
and to the iTunes Store.
More »
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9:47AM Angus Kidman | The Australian iPhone Plan Comparison
Calculator which we mentioned last week
has proved to be quite a hit — so much so that developer Andrew
Parry has made a few tweaks. As he explained in an email to
Lifehacker:
Based on the feedback I made a couple
of changes There are now two versions, a Top 10 and a Complete ( the
top 10 version is set as the front page). The reason for the change
is that if I only compare the top 10 it loads much faster and the
model runs faster. I had a lot of positive feedback and I hope I’ve
helped a few people (except Telstra’s exec bonuses, somehow I think
I’ll get a call from them, yikes!)
The app has also been updated to
reflect recent changes in Optus’ plans, including the unsurprising
dropping of its most expensive plans in the wake of its better-value
Timeless options. [Australian iPhone Plan Comparison
Calculator]
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iPhone comparison calculator gets speed update
9:47AM Angus Kidman | The Australian iPhone Plan Comparison
Calculator which we mentioned last week
has proved to be quite a hit — so much so that developer Andrew
Parry has made a few tweaks. As he explained in an email to
Lifehacker:
Based on the feedback I made a couple
of changes There are now two versions, a Top 10 and a Complete ( the
top 10 version is set as the front page). The reason for the change
is that if I only compare the top 10 it loads much faster and the
model runs faster. I had a lot of positive feedback and I hope I’ve
helped a few people (except Telstra’s exec bonuses, somehow I think
I’ll get a call from them, yikes!)
The app has also been updated to
reflect recent changes in Optus’ plans, including the unsurprising
dropping of its most expensive plans in the wake of its better-value
Timeless options. [Australian iPhone Plan Comparison
Calculator]
More »
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