Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Organise
Use The Day Grid Balancer To Recalibrate Your Work-Life Balance
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Balancing work, family life, personal time and more can be quite a tricky task compared to simply managing your time and tasks in the workplace. Use this handy worksheet to work on your life balance. More »
Work
Flash Arriving On Almost Every Phone OS In October
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Adobe stated during a recent earnings announcment that a beta of Flash Mobile 10 will be released in October, optimised for Android, Symbian, Palm Web OS and Windows Mobile phones. Despite one conspicuous absence, that’s somewhat good news for many. More »
Fix
iPhone 3.0 Unlocking Tool Arrives Via Ultrasn0w
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Mac OS X only: If you’re running a 2G or 3G iPhone with the 3.0 firmware, your (unofficial) carrier options just opened up a bit, as the Dev Team has delivered Ultrasn0w 3.0 for full unlocking. More »
Fix
4:30PM Angus Kidman | We’ve already shown you how to make a quick laptop stand from an IKEA bookend, and now here’s another idea that’s nearly as cheap, this time using a CD rack. More »
DIY IKEA CD Rack Laptop Stand
4:30PM Angus Kidman | We’ve already shown you how to make a quick laptop stand from an IKEA bookend, and now here’s another idea that’s nearly as cheap, this time using a CD rack. More »
Money
3:00PM Angus Kidman | You’ve identified the deductions that go with your job, and you’ll be able to use that information in the years ahead. But what changed regulations (and potential refund enhancers) will apply in 2009 when you submit your tax return? More »
What New Options Affect Your Tax In 2009?
3:00PM Angus Kidman | You’ve identified the deductions that go with your job, and you’ll be able to use that information in the years ahead. But what changed regulations (and potential refund enhancers) will apply in 2009 when you submit your tax return? More »
Money
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Electricity bill price comparison site Switchwise has expanded from Victoria to cover the whole of Australia. Enter your postcode and details of your current area you’ll see a range of power plans for your area, including options for green power. Switchwise is free to use (and certainly beats signing up with the pushy next door-to-door salesperson offering you an energy deal). [Switchwise]
Switchwise Electricity Comparisons Now Australia-Wide
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Electricity bill price comparison site Switchwise has expanded from Victoria to cover the whole of Australia. Enter your postcode and details of your current area you’ll see a range of power plans for your area, including options for green power. Switchwise is free to use (and certainly beats signing up with the pushy next door-to-door salesperson offering you an energy deal). [Switchwise]
Design
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Can’t remember how you achieved that great effect in Photoshop? Keep track of your moments of image-editing genius by beefing up your edit history. More »
Set Photoshop To Log All Your Activity
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Can’t remember how you achieved that great effect in Photoshop? Keep track of your moments of image-editing genius by beefing up your edit history. More »
Fix
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Norton’s security products are much less intrusive than they used to be, but still insist on adding extensions to Firefox without asking (bad) that don’t include an uninstall option (worse). Here’s how to ditch them. More »
Remove Norton IPS And Toolbar Extensions From Firefox
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Norton’s security products are much less intrusive than they used to be, but still insist on adding extensions to Firefox without asking (bad) that don’t include an uninstall option (worse). Here’s how to ditch them. More »
Fix
DIY Magnetic Keyboard And Mouse
10:00AM Azadeh Ensha | If our top 10 magnet hacks didn’t tip you off, we appreciate clever magnet tricks. To that end, weblog Gizmo Projects details how to reclaim much-needed desk space for your analogue work with the help of—you guessed it—magnets. More »
Design
9:35AM Kym Weathersten | Foam and dart weaponry doesn’t usually grace the hallowed pages of Lifehacker. But in the name of recapturing our youth – not to mention scoring a NERF Vulcan EBF-25 or Recon CS-6 – we’re happy to make an exception. To win your very own NERF Vulcan or Recon, simply click through to our sister site Kotaku, and test your trigger finger on their NERF shooter game. There are 8 blasters up for grabs and just five weeks to win one of them. [NERF on Kotaku]
Win One Of Eight NERF Blasters
9:35AM Kym Weathersten | Foam and dart weaponry doesn’t usually grace the hallowed pages of Lifehacker. But in the name of recapturing our youth – not to mention scoring a NERF Vulcan EBF-25 or Recon CS-6 – we’re happy to make an exception. To win your very own NERF Vulcan or Recon, simply click through to our sister site Kotaku, and test your trigger finger on their NERF shooter game. There are 8 blasters up for grabs and just five weeks to win one of them. [NERF on Kotaku] 