Saturday, September 20, 2008
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This Week’s Best Posts
10:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | This week’s most popular posts include: The Next G Townsville Train Torture Test: How It Worked In Practice “Telstra likes to boast about the coverage of its Next G broadband network, but it’s hard to come up with a practical, real-life way to test just how well that coverage works. Last week I travelled on a train from Brisbane to Townsville armed with a Next G USB modem, a notebook PC and (fortunately on a 24-hour trip) a power outlet in my sleeper cabin.” Foxtel To Patch iQ2 Boxes With Extra Tuner Capability “Recording one channel while watching another is one of the main advantages of a PVR like Foxtel’s iQ2, and iQ2 owners will shortly be able to double their pleasure. “ Carry Your PC On Your iPhone Or iPod Touch“It’d be wonderfully convenient if you could take your important documents and applications with you wherever you go, but lugging a laptop with you every time you step out the door is far from convenient.” How To Kickstart A Low-Productivity Day“You just don’t want to do it anymore. No more task folders, no more email labelling, no more index cards in your back pocket.” Give Your Photos A Vintage Appearance“The millions of plastic bodied cheap lens bearing cameras that flooded the consumer photography market starting around the mid-20th century had flaws that have come to be a hallmark of their time.” Battle Of The Beta Browser Built-In Features“With betas and alphas of every flavor of web browser dropping like snowflakes during a cold winter these days, a whole host of advanced features are showing up built into the default browser of the future.” Make Your Linux Desktop More Productive“Apple has convinced millions that they can make the switch from Windows to OS X, but those curious about Linux have to see for themselves if they can work or play on a free desktop.” “Flickr Bikes” Photo-Map Locales Across The Globe“For their new ‘Purple Pedals’ campaign, Yahoo has dispatched a handful of GPS-enabled bicycles equipped with cameraphones that automatically shoot and upload photos to Flickr to riders in cities all over the world, from San Francisco to New York and soon, to Singapore, Denmark and the U.K..” Five Best BitTorrent Applications“The days of peer-to-peer file sharing tools ushered into popularity by the original Napster are over and done, and today, BitTorrent reigns supreme.” More »
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Five Essential Weight Loss Foods
8:00AM Adam Pash | Yahoo Health rounds up five essential weight loss foods and drinks high on fibre and other nutrients, highlighting millet, asparagus, pomegranates, pine nuts, and green tea as must-haves. Let’s hear your favourite weight-loss essentials in the comments. Photo by pizzodisevo. More »
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QuickPwn 2.1 Hits Windows
7:30AM Adam Pash | Mac users got their QuickPwn on a week ago for iPhones running the latest 2.1 software update, and now the latest QuickPwn is also available for Windows. Happy jailbreaking! [via Gizmodo] More »
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FunctionFlip Customises Function Keys One By One
7:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Free application FunctionFlip adds a new preference pane to your Mac’s System Preferences that lets you choose which function keys you want to operate purely as standard function keys versus special keys on a per-case basis. Say for example that you like the volume keys instead of the corresponding function keys, but you don’t want to dedicate function keys to your controlling iTunes (or some version of this scenario). Normally you can only choose all function keys or all special keys by default. With FunctionFlip, you say which keys operate as special keys and which operate as the default function key (e.g., F1, F2, etc.). FunctionFlip is a simple but smart piece of freeware, Mac OS X only. FunctionFlip [via Download Squad] More »
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Google Chrome Will Support Add-Ons, User Scripts
5:00AM Adam Pash | InformationWeek confirms that Google Chrome will have add-ons, a move that could have an enormous impact on Chrome’s viability among the power users and early adopters in the Firefox camp. In addition to regular extensions, Chrome will also support scripts à la Greasemonkey: More »
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Oosah Hosts Up To 1TB Of Media Online For Free
4:00AM Adam Pash | Web application Oosah hosts a whopping one terabyte (that’s 1,024 gigabytes) of media online for free. In addition to hosting videos, photos, and music you upload directly to the site, Oosah also integrates with Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, and YouTube. Once you’ve connected your accounts, you can actually drag and drop photos between webapps—so, for example, if you uploaded a photo to Oosah that you wanted to add to a Flickr set, you can just drag and drop it onto Flickr in the sidebar. Oosah does have its limitations: Apart from hosting media only (no documents or executables here), you’re limited to 200MB per video and 9MB per audio file. More »
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What To Expect From Google Android (And What We’re Hoping For)
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | A lot of hopes and open-source dreams are riding on a plucky little phone platform called Android, and its public debut on a real-live phone happens Tuesday. Those of us at Lifehacker HQ who didn’t spring for an iPhone, and even some who did, are eager to see how it performs and, more importantly, what kind of useful apps will soon appear for the open Android. That’s not to say we (and many other bloggers) don’t have our reservations and lingering questions. We’ve put together a guide to get you up to speed on the Android platform and the first phone that runs it, along with what we expect, or just hope, to see in Android’s very near future. More »
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Learn A New Language With Busuu
12:30AM Lifehacker US Edition | Language education site Busuu emphasises the social side of learning a language. While Busuu has standard components such as vocabulary exercises with audio and writing units to test out your composition, the most interesting aspect is its ability to connect you with both people learning your language and native speakers of your language. You’re learning Spanish and someone else is learning English? Connect through Busuu and help each other out. While Busuu may not be a substitute for the do-or-die learning of full language immersion, it has a wider range of tools and social interaction than a standalone program or book. For more chances to hone your language learning skills, check out Mango. Busuu [via DownloadSquad] More »
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