Saturday, April 25, 2009
Work
Polaris Brings Google Analytics To Your Desktop
9:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux (with Adobe AIR): Polaris is a free Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics (Google’s statistics tracking tool for web publishers) to your desktop with an attractive look and feel. More »
Design
The Friendly Netbook Desktop
8:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader mattjb’s netbook desktop is designed to make Windows XP more friendly for the tiny display—with giant icons for each of his most important tools. More »
Design
Star Trek Icons Take Your Desktop To The Final Frontier
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | You weren’t interested in the top icon sets of 2008, you were unswayed by swanky Mac icons, we understand. You were holding out. For what? For this awesome set of Star Trek icons. More »
Work
Carbonite Adds Remote File Access For Grabbing Backups From Web
4:30AM Adam Pash | As one of our Lifehacker readers’ favorite backup tool, we already knew that Carbonite offers inexpensive off-site backup. What we didn’t know is that you can also now access your Carbonite backups from the comfort of your browser. More »
Work
SpaceSniffer Does Eye Candy Drive Space Analysis
4:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Drive space visualiser utility SpaceSniffer takes the mundane task of cleaning up your drive and makes it more pleasant with some impressive graphics. More »
Work
ListenToYouTube Rips Audio From YouTube Vidoes To MP3
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | You find a great video on YouTube and you’d love to save the audio or load it on your MP3 player to listen to later. What can you do? You can hop over to ListenToYouTube. More »
Fix
Google Pushes Out Chrome Fix For Serious Security Hole
1:40AM Adam Pash | Google released an update to its web browser, Chrome, last night in order to fix a high-risk security hole. Chrome updates on its own, meaning that the only thing users should need to do is restart their browser to ensure they’re running the latest and greatest (assuming their browser was running and has downloaded the update). [Google Chrome Releases via CNET]
Work
Run The OLPC OS From A Thumb Drive
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | All systems: If you’re keen on trying out one of those clever devices from the One Laptop Per Child project, you can get halfway there by running the OLPC’s operating system from a USB drive. More »
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