Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Work

SuperF4 Truly Kills Faltering Windows Apps

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: There’s a certain hierarchy to how you can close Windows apps, including the polite “File->Quit” menu option and the more thorough “End Process” in Windows’ task manager. SuperF4, however, is like DDT for apps you want gone right away. More »
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Money

Grab The Best Picks From 1,000 Free ReverbNation MP3s

9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Microsoft has teamed up with music site ReverbNation to hand out more than 1,000 MP3 and M4A files. You won’t know most of them, but there are likely a few keepers worth an extra click. More »
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Organise

Google’s Top Aussie Searches Show We’re All Media Whores

3:50PM Angus Kidman | The Internet might be killing TV, but when it comes to looking for stuff online, it seems TV still dominates. According to Google’s analysis of Australian search terms, the fastest-growing search terms of 2009 were swine flu, Susan Boyle (of Britain’s Got Talent, YouTube and meltdown infamy) and Masterchef (a TV show you might possibly have seen). Two tech-related terms also made the top 10: Twitter and Bing. For once, words fail us. [Susan, stimulus and swine flu: the fastest rising searches of 2009 so far]
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Fix

HP Launches Top-Secret Takeback Program

3:00PM Angus Kidman | Hewlett-Packard is now offering free takeback on old HP equipment, but trying to work out whether you’re actually near a convenient recycling centre has been turned into a ridiculously contorted process. More »
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Communicate

Apple Half-Revives Singles With Digital 45s

2:27PM Angus Kidman | We’ve already moaned about how singles are effectively dead in Australia. Apple’s new promotion of “digital singles” via iTunes is a partial solution — but only a very partial one. More »
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Work

Bill Gates’ Multiple Monitor Email Management System

12:00PM Angus Kidman | Here at Lifehacker, we’re big fans of the multiple monitor approach, and it turns out Microsoft founder Bill Gates is too. But has he developed the optimal approach to email management? More »
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Design

Warholizer Gives Your Pictures An Andy Warhol Feel

10:30AM Angus Kidman | Got a good but not great headshot? Add a little pizzazz with an Andy Warhol-style transformation using Warholizer. More »
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Fix

DIY IKEA Messenger Bag

9:00AM Angus Kidman | You’ve run wild in IKEA (again) and had to buy one of those big blue bags to get everything home. Rather than leaving it to languish in the garage, convert it into a nifty messenger bag. More »
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Design

First Look At Firefox 4.0 Design Mockups

8:30AM Adam Pash | Last week we took a look at initial design mockups for Firefox 3.7, and now the busy designers at Mozilla are back with some theme mockups for the even further-into-the-future Firefox 4.0. More »
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