Monday, November 16, 2009
Work
An Early Look At Chrome’s Extensions System
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | It’s not officially released, but a gallery-like site for extensions has made itself known into the latest development builds of Google Chrome for Windows and Linux. Take a peek at what’s coming, presumably very soon, in these development screenshots. More »
Work
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Australians get something of a raw deal with mobile phone app stores — Apple skips applications apparently at random, BlackBerry skipped Australia altogether — so Optus’ introduction of a dedicated mobile app store is good news, at least if you’re already an Optus customer. More »
Optus Mobile Application Store Lets You Buy With Your Bill
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Australians get something of a raw deal with mobile phone app stores — Apple skips applications apparently at random, BlackBerry skipped Australia altogether — so Optus’ introduction of a dedicated mobile app store is good news, at least if you’re already an Optus customer. More »
Communicate
2:00PM Angus Kidman | Lifehacker readers clearly think that TV networks aren’t very responsive to viewer needs, so it’s nice to encounter evidence that they occasionally — just occasionally, I admit — pay attention. Ten is crediting its decision to show the US version of The Office in an earlier timeslot to pressure from bloggers. More »
TV Networks Taking Some Notice Of Bloggers
2:00PM Angus Kidman | Lifehacker readers clearly think that TV networks aren’t very responsive to viewer needs, so it’s nice to encounter evidence that they occasionally — just occasionally, I admit — pay attention. Ten is crediting its decision to show the US version of The Office in an earlier timeslot to pressure from bloggers. More »
Organise
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Getting your home more organised is one of those tasks that’s easy to put off endlessly, but after a pipe bursts and floods the entire place, you don’t really have much choice. Welcome to Project Cleanup. More »
Project Cleanup: Reclaiming My House After Domestic Disaster
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Getting your home more organised is one of those tasks that’s easy to put off endlessly, but after a pipe bursts and floods the entire place, you don’t really have much choice. Welcome to Project Cleanup. More »
Work
The Treehaus Workspace
11:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | You won’t find a law that says a workspace has to be in a grey fabric-covered box or a white-walled room. Today’s workspace proves that with the beautiful, airy openness of a childhood tree house. More »
Travel
10:00AM Angus Kidman | It was only last Thursday that we were emphasising the fact that mistakes happen in online commerce, and Virgin Blue came up with a doozy on Friday, emailing everyone on its customer database and mistakenly telling them they’d been upgraded to Velocity Gold. More »
Virgin Blue Snafu Means No Free Gold Membership For You
10:00AM Angus Kidman | It was only last Thursday that we were emphasising the fact that mistakes happen in online commerce, and Virgin Blue came up with a doozy on Friday, emailing everyone on its customer database and mistakenly telling them they’d been upgraded to Velocity Gold. More »
Work
Celestia Brings Interstellar Exploration To Your Desktop
10:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you enjoyed playing with Stellarium, the open-source planetarium software we shared with you earlier this year, but felt strangely tied to an earth-bound perspective, you’ll definitely want to fly through space with Celestia. More »
Fix
Make A Moss Terrarium For Low-Maintenance Greenery
9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you want some greenery in your home or office but you’re not too keen on, or skilled at, tending a high-maintenance plant, a moss terrarium is a hassle-free bit of greenery you practically have to try to kill. More »
Organise
8:30AM Angus Kidman | You wanted new ways of watching TV, you wanted to learn to program, and you wanted to play around with bootloaders. Kick off your Lifehacker Monday by making sure you didn’t miss any of the biggest posts from last week. Picture by revdancatt More »
Last Week’s Best Posts
8:30AM Angus Kidman | You wanted new ways of watching TV, you wanted to learn to program, and you wanted to play around with bootloaders. Kick off your Lifehacker Monday by making sure you didn’t miss any of the biggest posts from last week. Picture by revdancatt More »
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