Need a simple household repair done but don’t want to pay a huge callout fee? INeedThingsDone.com lets you post examples of work and accept bids from individuals to get the task done.
We’ve offered tips ranging from using unplugged earphones to motivational wallpaper in an effort to help you stay better focused, but now studies suggest that it’s also “crucial” to let your mind zone out.
Reader Raghav writes in with a small, but useful tip: using AutoHotkey, you can re-map the Win+E shortcut key combination to open something other than My Computer.
We’re all about creative cable management here at Lifehacker, so we were instantly drawn to reader Seandavid010′s rain-gutter cable management setup.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Keep your data backups under your control with CrashPlan, a handy backup tool that facilitates local and friend-based remote backups.
Windows only: Tiny utility GDocBackup makes short work of downloading an offline copy of your Google Docs files.
We’ve offered our own suggestions for what to do when your internet goes down in the past, but today weblog WebWorkerDaily weighs in with some additional ideas for using the outage time well by establishing internet-free zones.
If you’re in the market for some real time search results, Collecta offers filtered real-time searching with news, blog comments, images and more.
From the no-kidding files: the New York Times discusses a neither new nor uncommon practice employed by less reputable web sites that ask for your email address and password, then spam every person in your contact list.
Windows only: Lifehacker reader Jeff used his ubergeeky desktop customisation skills to create a Rainmeter config that updates your Twitter status directly from the desktop.
