(Windows/Mac/Linux): Encrypting a message is an excellent way to protect it from prying eyes. What if you want to protect it against prying eyes and make it disappear? Expiring-message service Vanish can help. More »
Android: Amazon brings the cyborg-like product look-up powers its iPhone application wields to Android handsets, allowing for one-click purchases and “remembering” products through snapshots—but adds in barcodes, too. Your wallet is right to feel endangered. More »
Windows: RoboForm, one of our readers’ five favourite password managers, does a handy job of plugging passwords and form data into web sites. File synchronising tool Dropbox makes RoboForm even more convenient and automatically up to date. More »
Googler Mihai Parparita announces that Google Reader now sends real-time updates to FriendFeed when you share items using the Pubsubhubb protocol. More »
Budding poets and aspiring academics have a common need — tracking where they’ve sent written work and whether it’s been accepted. One easy solution to that problem is to use a specifically designed tracking document. More »
Signing off an email with ‘cheers’ might be too “mock British” for our US counterparts, but the consensus amongst Lifehacker readers is that it’s perfectly acceptable on this side of the Pacific. More »
In 1958, even the Internet was a distant vision — but advice from that era is still useful when you’re trying to live a more frugal lifestyle. More »
We were eager to know what’s happening for Firefox. Mike Beltzner, the open-source browser’s director, was glad to tell us. Here’s what he had to say about future features, competition with Chrome, and keeping thousands of Firefox contributors in sync. More »
