Thursday, October 15, 2009
Fix
Drive A Car With Your iPhone
11:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | A lot of people have been impressed with how you can find an app for everything. What about driving your car? With this (very) ambitious DIY project you can drive a car with your iPhone. More »
Design
Keep Your Wallpaper Fresh With Cross-Platform Wally
10:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’ve been sporting the same desktop wallpaper for years, it might be time to mix it up a little. Wally is a lightweight wallpaper changer that pulls images from a wide pool of sources. More »
Fix
Increase The Quality Of Cheap Vodka With A Water Filter
9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Save yourself some money and improve the quality of a bottle of cheap vodka with a little at-home filtration. More »
Fix
DIY Sliding Chandelier Stays Clear Of Projectors
8:00AM Sarah Rae Trover | So you bought yourself a brand new projector, but there’s one not-so-tiny problem — your ceiling-mounted lighting is in the way. Check out the DIY sliding solution that Swedish designer Linus Åkesson has implemented in his own living room. More »
Fix
Use A Bungee Cord To Chop Wood More Efficiently
7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Chopping wood is a satisfying, yet laborious task. Give yourself an efficiency boost with this simple bungee-cord organisation video tip. More »
Fix
4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Feeling under the weather? Thinking — as you look around your office — that you might be soon? Hone your home-remedy skill set with a look at 10 of our favourite DIY cures for illnesses and your body’s annoyances. More »
Top 10 Homemade Remedies For What Ails You
4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Feeling under the weather? Thinking — as you look around your office — that you might be soon? Hone your home-remedy skill set with a look at 10 of our favourite DIY cures for illnesses and your body’s annoyances. More »
Fix
Turn A Plank Into A Folding Table
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you need a small table for occasional use but you don’t have the space for permanently storing it, this simple folding table, made from a single plank, packs away neatly. More »
Work
Apple Update Targets Hard Drive Issues In Leopard, Snow Leopard
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Apple pushed a Performance Update out for certain models running Leopard or Snow Leopard last evening, aiming to fix occasional hard drive performance issues the Mac maker says affects a small number of users. More »
Work
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 “Test Build” Now Available
10:40PM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: It’s not the official beta of Firefox 3.6 — that’s been put off for a week. But a “test build” of Firefox 3.6 has landed, with Windows 7 compatible taskbar thumbnails, visual tab previews and a new rendering engine. More »
Communicate
4:00PM Angus Kidman | When we asked earlier this week how readers preferred to access electronic books, we got a wide range of responses. An unscientific summary would be: there’s all sorts of devices in use, the iPhone is popular and we didn’t give enough credit to the Nintendo DS. But there’s clearly still room for a killer e-book reader, though whether that’s the Kindle seems open to debate.
What Lifehacker Readers Use For E-Books
4:00PM Angus Kidman | When we asked earlier this week how readers preferred to access electronic books, we got a wide range of responses. An unscientific summary would be: there’s all sorts of devices in use, the iPhone is popular and we didn’t give enough credit to the Nintendo DS. But there’s clearly still room for a killer e-book reader, though whether that’s the Kindle seems open to debate. 
