Saturday, April 18, 2009
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Get Your Cord Clutter Under Control With Cable Lacing
9:00AM Adam Pash | We’ve featured tons of cord decluttering tips over the years, but cable lacing is a simple, classic method of cord management that we’ve somehow overlooked. More »
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Gmail Adds Suggested Recipients
8:00AM The How-To Geek | Gmail Labs adds a new feature to save time when composing messages—it can now suggest contacts based on the groups you email most often. More »
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Olive Oil Can Smooth Your Skin, Polish Your Steel, And Heal Your Eararche
7:00AM Adam Pash | Want smoother skin, nicely polished steel, or a quick earache remedy? Plenty of products are available designed specifically to tackle the tasks at hand, but if you’re in a pinch, try olive oil. More »
Design
The LCARS For Mac Desktop
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader momoses’ desktop is the answer to an often-requested customisation—turning his Mac desktop into a lookalike for the computer display in Star Trek: The Next Generation. More »
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Rolling Outages Frustrate Gmail Users
5:30AM Adam Pash | Gmail acting a bit flaky for you lately? You’re not a lone. According to CNET, several Gmail users were unable to access their email yesterday. Ditto, according to a couple of your Lifehacker editors. In fact, we’ve been seeing quite a bit of flakiness from Lifehacker’s Google Apps Gmail lately—another sobering reminder that reliance on the web can be problematic. The small silver lining: With Offline Gmail, you can at least continue to access any email you’ve got downloaded for offline access. If you’ve been affected by the recent Gmail outages, let’s hear about it in the comments. [CNET] More »
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Google Fx Adds Loads Of Features To Google Search
4:00AM The How-To Geek | Firefox with Greasemonkey: User script Google Fx adds a ton of features to the Google search interface—from related searches and Wikipedia results to thumbnail previews and search suggestions. More »
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We Are Hunted Digs Up The Web’s Most Popular Tracks
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Looking for some new tunes? We Are Hunted is a music aggregator that pays attention to what people are actually listening to, not what the radio plays. More »
Design
National Geographic’s Infinite Photograph Is A Giant, Beautiful Photo Mosaic
2:30AM Adam Pash | National Geographic’s new Infinite Photograph turns over 300,000 amazing photographs into a “boundless picture of the earth.” More »
Work
BitTorrent Site The Pirate Bay Admins Found Guilty, Sentenced To A Year
2:00AM Adam Pash | Administrators at popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay were found guilty of contributory copyright infringement by a Swedish court this morning and sentenced to a year in prison, according to Wired. More »
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