Thursday, February 19, 2009
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SHUURL Creates Secure TinyURLs
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | SHUURL is a URL-shrinking service that adds some security styling to your links, providing everyone who clicks a security rating and thumbnail preview of the page you’re linking to. Every URL you shorten with SHUURL is compared to the database at the Web of Trust, a crowd-sourced website rating service. Anyone who follows the URL will stop first at the SHUURL website and see a thumbnail of the site you’ve linked to alongside its WoT rating. That preview is a nice protection layer, but some images may be too small to tell if its safe for work or not—something you can solve with the more standard TinyURL service by turning on previews. SHUURL is a free service, no sign-up required. SHUURL [via Download Squad] More »
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Show Message Counts, Chat Alerts In Your Gmail Favicon
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Firefox with Greasemonkey: Gmail FavIcon Alerts turns Gmail’s tiny address bar and tab icon into a multi-function ambient alert system, showing an unread message count and changing colour for new events, like chat messages. Consider it an upgrade from the previously featured Gmail Unread Message Count script, with similar handy features but a bit more functionality. Its favicon—the little graphic that shows up on the left-hand side of bookmarks, address bar locations, and tabs—changes colours to indicate read/unread/chat status, and shows a count of unread messages, capped at 10, in a little text tag. More »
Money
4:30PM Angus Kidman | If you fancy filling up your iTunes library, then there’s a good deal at Myer at the moment: a pair of $20 iTunes cards for $30. Handy if you’ve got an unsated music addiction, or if you’ve left.gift-buying to the last minute.
Myer [via OzBargain]
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Myer Selling Two $20 iTunes Cards For $30
4:30PM Angus Kidman | If you fancy filling up your iTunes library, then there’s a good deal at Myer at the moment: a pair of $20 iTunes cards for $30. Handy if you’ve got an unsated music addiction, or if you’ve left.gift-buying to the last minute.
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | Buying books online offers a much wider range of choices, and it frequently seems that buying from overseas sites gets you a better price than from local stores. But is that really always the case?
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Is Importing Books Always The Cheapest Option?
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Buying books online offers a much wider range of choices, and it frequently seems that buying from overseas sites gets you a better price than from local stores. But is that really always the case?
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1:00PM Angus Kidman | If you’ve taken to visiting the local library as a means of cutting down on book clutter, you could well be faced with a new organisational challenge: keeping track of which books you and family members have due. While most libraries offer online tracking for books these days, if you’re using multiple libraries or can’t get email reminders, then Library Elf could be useful. The basic free service send email reminders for due dates, but is restricted to just one library; there’s an optional premium service if you regularly haunt multiple libraries, and which is also available from participating “subscriber” libraries without cost. By my count, there’s 57 Australian libraries currently included in the service. If you’ve got another tactic for making sure you don’t get hit with overdue fees, share it in the comments. Thanks Tim!
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Library Elf Tracks Your Book-Borrowing Activities
1:00PM Angus Kidman | If you’ve taken to visiting the local library as a means of cutting down on book clutter, you could well be faced with a new organisational challenge: keeping track of which books you and family members have due. While most libraries offer online tracking for books these days, if you’re using multiple libraries or can’t get email reminders, then Library Elf could be useful. The basic free service send email reminders for due dates, but is restricted to just one library; there’s an optional premium service if you regularly haunt multiple libraries, and which is also available from participating “subscriber” libraries without cost. By my count, there’s 57 Australian libraries currently included in the service. If you’ve got another tactic for making sure you don’t get hit with overdue fees, share it in the comments. Thanks Tim!
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Money
11:00AM Angus Kidman | Shopping site RetailFans takes the user-voting model familiar from aggregators like Digg and OzBargains (to name but two) and applies it to fashion and beauty products for sale online. Although developed in Melbourne, the site has an international focus, and we found examples from across the globe during a quick visit. My own personal fashion sense is distinctly lacking so I couldn’t possibly comment on the accuracy of the selections or commentary, but if you are a fashion addict, this could be a fruitful source of ideas. RetailFans is free to use, requires signup to vote and contribute.
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RetailFans Shares Fashion Bargains Online
11:00AM Angus Kidman | Shopping site RetailFans takes the user-voting model familiar from aggregators like Digg and OzBargains (to name but two) and applies it to fashion and beauty products for sale online. Although developed in Melbourne, the site has an international focus, and we found examples from across the globe during a quick visit. My own personal fashion sense is distinctly lacking so I couldn’t possibly comment on the accuracy of the selections or commentary, but if you are a fashion addict, this could be a fruitful source of ideas. RetailFans is free to use, requires signup to vote and contribute.
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Communicate
9:00AM Angus Kidman | If Twitter’s your main way of staying up-to-date, then you’ll want to start following Lifehacker’s new Twitter account (lif_au). It automatically updates each time we publish a story, so you can keep track of tech tips without distracting yourself from your timeline. If RSS is more your speed, don’t forget you can easily add our RSS feed to your favourite reader.
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Follow Lifehacker AU On Twitter
9:00AM Angus Kidman | If Twitter’s your main way of staying up-to-date, then you’ll want to start following Lifehacker’s new Twitter account (lif_au). It automatically updates each time we publish a story, so you can keep track of tech tips without distracting yourself from your timeline. If RSS is more your speed, don’t forget you can easily add our RSS feed to your favourite reader.
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Work
Jump To A New Career With A Killer Resume And Plan
9:00AM Kevin Purdy | Whether you’re suddenly unemployed or just looking to change up, starting out in a new career is daunting. Take our advice on how to write—and plan—your way into a new field. Photo by Yo Spiff. More »
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Can I Download Every Attachment From Gmail?
8:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Dear Lifehacker, Over the years, I’ve accumulated lots of images/junk in attachments throughout my email. What I’m looking for is a way to download ALL Gmail attachments in one fell swoop. Sincerely, Gmail is Great Dear Gmail is Great, There may be several ways you can accomplish this, here’s what we like: You can easily download every attachment in one fell swoop using a combination of Gmail’s IMAP capability, Mozilla Thunderbird, and the AttachmentExtractor extension for Thunderbird. We’ll take you through the steps, which might take a little while but will end up with a local folder full of attachments. More »
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