Google used to offer up an automatic definition from sources like Dictionary.com or Answers.com. Now there’s a little blue “definition” link on the right side of any word or phrase search, offering Google’s own homebrew definition answers.
Ever wanted to take a step back and look at all the Google apps and data you’re hooked into? Google’s offering that top-down view with Google Dashboard, a central clearing-house for app settings, privacy information and use statistics.
It’s the deal that’s seemingly always on somewhere. The Good Guys is selling two $20 iTunes cards for $30 until November 16. Christmas, anyone? [via OzBargain]
It’s hardly likely to be news to the hordes of Channel BT-loving Lifehacker readers, but even Australians without the benefit of strained download limits are watching less television than they used to.
Lifehacker reader favourite Photoshop has lots of tools to let you change colours in an image, but most of those require you to do some fiddly selection work first. Photoshop guru Helen Bradley runs down some techniques that let you alter colours without lots of magic wand work.
eBay likes to make lots of noise about how it offers the best possible consumer protection — that was the entire basis of its failed attempt to make PayPal compulsory — so it’s rather odd that it’s decided to withdraw the Vehicle Protection Program, which protected buyers of cars on the site in the case of gross misrepresentation.
Readers offer their best tips for using scum-free soap, easily switching rows and columns in Excel charts, and using mobile phones as remote baby monitors without using minutes.
It’s often tempting to assume Australia has five national networks, but we’re frequently reminded that regional viewers have a quite different experience to people in capital cities. In the latest incident, Austar viewers have lost access to their regional ABC stations.
