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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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]
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 »
If you’re an Internet Explorer user and love you some Google Maps, Google now offers some Toolbar Labs, which are basically the standard Google Toolbar recompiled with experimental features. Along with a Simplified Chinese Toolbar, the other Labs remix right now adds auto-location feature. It’s kind of like Google Maps Mobile’s version, but using nearby Wi-Fi spots to pinpoint you and make your default business searches—pizza, car repair, bicycle shop—pinned to your location.
