VMware is a great tool for running Windows and Linux anywhere, but OS X clients are not supported. Snow Leopard can be made to run on Windows, and Mac-hacking blog iHackintosh has the nitty-gritty on getting it working.
Nobody wants to lose their favourite new electronic gadget to a dunk in the drink. One Lifehacker reader saved his phone after an astounding 30 minute soak by sending in to the dry-rice spa.
Mozilla has slightly pushed back its self-imposed deadlines for releasing a final version of Firefox 3.6 and the first beta of Firefox 4.0. Firefox 3.6, currently available as a fifth beta, is set as a first quarter goal for 2010, while Firefox 4, once considered a possibility for 2010, could arrive as a beta in the middle of 2010 and in final form “in late 2010 or early 2011,” according to Mozilla’s wiki.
Windows: You can do a lot more with the free cross-platform utility Dropbox than sync files. In fact, with the free command line tool Akira, you can administer, and grab non-Dropbox files from, any computer linked to your Dropbox account.
If you’ve been having trouble finding free or Creative Common-licensed photos for use in your projects, Sprixi filters out the fluff to help you find the images you really want.
Want a cleaner, less Farmville-filled Facebook experience? Try loading your friends’ and fan pages’ status updates, links, notes and other material into an RSS reader. Facebook doesn’t make it easy, but it can be done with some clever URL copying.
After an attempted explosive attack on a US-bound flight Friday, air travel security tightened and rules were changed. No official procedures were announced, but here’s what fliers and news agencies are reporting as the standards for US fliers the time being.
Two things that always seem to be in surplus around the holidays are empty wine bottles and strands of Christmas lights. Turn the two into a novel lamp with this simple hack.
If you checked out the bike repair stand we shared with you earlier this month and were disappointed because you don’t have a sturdy enough ceiling to attach it to, you’ll want to check out this free-standing design.
