If you’d love to do a little at-home gardening but don’t have much space to do your planting, a simple gutter garden might be the perfect option.
Windows only: The Windows Vista for Beginners weblog walks through using the under-used Offline Files feature built into Windows—so you can easily access your network documents while mobile.
Windows: If you’ve considered using remote backup to keep your data safe from disaster but you’re wary of putting your backups on a third party server, Cucku Backup is for you.
Windows only: Tiny portable utility SpecialFoldersView displays a list of all of the built-in hidden Windows folders—giving you quick and easy access without having to remember the path.
One of our favourite features of Firefox (and Chrome) is the undo closed tab option, a feature that resurrects an accidentally closed tab via your History menu or keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+t [Windows]or Cmd+Shift+t [Mac] ); if you accidentally closed a whole window, on the other hand, you were out of luck. According to Mozilla Links, however, the nightly builds of Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 (which will most likely drop sometime this week) include a new Recently Closed Windows entry in the History menu that will allow you to restore accidentally closed windows. We’re in heaven! [Mozilla Links]
Windows: If you’re using Vista or Windows 7 and miss some of the features and transitions that were in earlier versions of Windows Movie Maker, this portable version brings them back.
The Google Operating System blog writes up a quick and easy method for using the latest features in Google Image Search to find great wallpaper for your desktop.
Mobile service Smub.it takes web addresses you put after its URL, like smub.it/http://lifehacker.com.au, and provides a grid of links to email, Twitter, Delicious bookmark, or otherwise share them from mobile phones and web browsers.
