Friday, June 12, 2009
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Use Automotive Window Tint To Make A Glass Desk Mouse-Friendly
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Lifehacker reader Sean installed a new glass-topped desk for himself, only to find his laser mouse immediately stopped working. The solution wasn’t a clumsy mouse pad, but a cheap roll of automotive window tint. More »
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How To Filet A Fish Like A Pro
10:00PM Kevin Purdy | Buying a fish whole almost always means a cheaper, fresher meal, but how do you turn it into dinner? We asked a chef to show us how to filet a fish, and we filmed it for good measure. More »
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Evernote Available In Palm Pre App Catalog
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Palm Pre owners making the jump from the iPhone, or anyone looking to get more organisational synchronisation going, take note: Evernote has quietly dropped an official client in the Pre’s App Catalog for download. More »
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2:30PM Angus Kidman | If (like most people) you’ve abandoned CDs for digital music, then here’s a neat way of using any leftover cases you have lying around: converting them into a photo wall. More »
Build A Photo Wall From CD Cases
2:30PM Angus Kidman | If (like most people) you’ve abandoned CDs for digital music, then here’s a neat way of using any leftover cases you have lying around: converting them into a photo wall. More »
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12:30PM Angus Kidman | The limited search capabilities on Bing Maps, Microsoft’s web map system, might make it look like a poor cousin to Google, but it does have one interesting feature the Big G lacks — a bird’s-eye view of selected Australian cities. More »
Bing Maps Birds Eye View Gives Different Perspective
12:30PM Angus Kidman | The limited search capabilities on Bing Maps, Microsoft’s web map system, might make it look like a poor cousin to Google, but it does have one interesting feature the Big G lacks — a bird’s-eye view of selected Australian cities. More »
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10:30AM Angus Kidman | There’s a prevailing opinion that Windows 7 is a big improvement on Vista — but my own experience of the Windows 7 RC so far suggests that it can be just as bad, if not worse. More »
Windows 7 Reality Check: It Can Still Suck Big Time
10:30AM Angus Kidman | There’s a prevailing opinion that Windows 7 is a big improvement on Vista — but my own experience of the Windows 7 RC so far suggests that it can be just as bad, if not worse. More »
Design
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Using sharpening tools can significantly improve your images — but you need to know what you’re doing. Photoshop expert Helen Bradley has a useful guide to the basics of sharpening technique. More »
Image Sharpening 101
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Using sharpening tools can significantly improve your images — but you need to know what you’re doing. Photoshop expert Helen Bradley has a useful guide to the basics of sharpening technique. More »
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Mozilla Updates JetPack With Three New Additions
8:00AM Azadeh Ensha | We recently introduced you to JetPack, a new Firefox project that allows developers and tech-savvy users to extend their browser using regular HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Today Mozilla introduced a new JetPack update that introduces three new enticing features to the fold. More »
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Google Finally Lets You Disable SearchWiki
6:00AM The How-To Geek | We’ve already shown you how to use a Greasemonkey script to prevent the Google Search Wiki buttons from cluttering up your search results—but now Google has finally added an option to the search preferences to let you disable it yourself. Just head to the search preferences page and check the box for “Hide the ability to share, promote, remove, comment, or add your own results”. [Google Operating System]
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