Sunday, November 9, 2008

Repurpose A Vertical File To Tame Your Pot Lids

10:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Find a home for narrow, hard-to-store kitchen items like cutting boards, lids, and cookie sheets with a vertical file. A reader over at the organisation blog Unclutter wrote in with the following solution to storing the interchangeable plates on her counter-top grill: I used a vertical, metal file sorter placed on top of a metal, mesh shelf so I can store my Foreman grill underneath the plates. The file sorter that is holding the grill plates is coated in plastic so it won’t scratch the plates, which is vital! Even if you don’t have a plastic coated vertical desk file handy, they are cheap and abundant at office supply stores. For other kitchen storage ideas, check out how to store lids in a drawer. Storing a George Foreman Grill [Unclutter] More »

Gyminee Tracks Your Fitness Goals

9:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Weightloss webapp Gyminee takes your fitness goals to the cloud. Search for new workouts, nutritional information, join groups of like-minded exercisers, participate in challenges, and find “GymBuddies” to serve as accountability partners and morale boosters. The layout of the site is clean and the functions easy to access. The home base of your Gyminee experience is “My Locker Room” where you can track a variety of fitness goals from defaults like body weight, body fat, resting heart rate, and size measurements, to custom user-defined entries like mile times, lap speed, or any other fitness goal you want to track. The locker room also has charts to map out your progress, a journal for detailing your fitness transformation, and a section for progress pictures so everyone can see how you went from Cubicle Jockey to Jacked and Tan. Thanks jonny6pak! Gyminee More »

Memiary Records Your Daily Top Five

7:30AM Lifehacker US Edition | Web application Memiary will help you remember exactly what you did last Tuesday. Memiary helps you record and recall five events from your day in a fusion of twitter style brevity and journaling. After the brief and painless signup process, you begin filling in five daily entries about the activities of your day. You can search by a specific day or display your entries for a set week, month, year or all the entries you have ever made. Memiary is a free web based journaling application. Thanks John! Memiary More »

Are You Going To Ditch These Useless Gadgets?

7:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | The Gadget Lab blog makes an aggressive list of tech toys you should cull from your life because you just don’t need them anymore, like: Printers Scanners Built-In Optical Drives Fax Machines Landline Phones I know I couldn’t make it through the list without letting out a Milton’esque “But, but… that’s my scanner!” Would it make sense for you to ditch your printer, scanner, and internal DVD burner? Sound off in the comments below. Photo by FXR. Five Useless Gadgets You Should Throw in the Trash Right Now [Wired] More »

Play Burned Game Backups On Your Wii Without A Modchip

5:30AM Adam Pash | Ever since video game consoles moved to optical discs, manufacturers and users have battled over backups. Manufacturers fear that if they allow users to burn disc backups, users will download and burn games they haven’t paid for. Users argue that the discs they paid for are so easily scratched and ruined that it’s absurd for the manufacturer to not allow it. Despite manufacturers’ best efforts, every console is eventually hacked to play backups, often using a hardware modchip. Well, if you’ve got a Wii, a friendly Instructables user details how to play game backups on any Wii without using a modchip. All you’ve got to do is hack your Wii for homebrew apps and then follow the instructions in the post. Run Backups on any Wii Without a Modchip [Instructables] More »

Sharepod Frees Your iPod From iTunes

5:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: You don’t have administrative rights or iTunes at work, but you want to be sure you can beat box along to your favourite Kenny G album blasting from the Dell OEM speakers in your cubicle? Sharepod has you covered: it’s a lightweight iTunes alternative you can launch directly from the iPod itself. We’ve shown you how to free yourself from iTunes with YamiPod, but Sharepod has a significantly more refined GUI which makes accessing your music all the more pleasant. More »

Top 10 Things To Look Forward To In Windows 7

2:00AM Gina Trapani | While the next iteration of the ubiquitous Microsoft desktop operating system, Windows 7, isn’t a dramatic overhaul of its predecessor Windows Vista, it does fix several sore spots and add a few welcome features. Rumour has it that Windows 7 will drop in the middle of next year, but last month Microsoft released a “preview” tester build of Windows 7. After living in the Windows 7 Preview for a week now, several features and niceties jumped out at me which promise to make Windows a better place to work come 2009. Let’s take a look. More »

Banish Itchy Shirt Labels Without Scissors

1:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | If you have an itchy clothing label that you’d like to be rid of but you don’t want to risk damaging the seam with scissors, or you want to keep the tag on but decrease the itch factor there is an excellent solution over at parenting blog Parent Hacks: Why did I never think of this before hacking off a bunch of my daughter’s shirt tags? (I inevitably break the thread of the neck and a hole is born.) I got a little piece of iron-on no-sew hemming tape and tacked the tag down. No itching and no chance to ruin the shirt with my over-zealous tag removal. A tiny bit of no-sew tape, an iron, and no more scratchy tags wiggling about your shirts. Photo by Lin Pernille. A Cure For Itchy Shirt Labels [Parent Hacks] More »