Saturday, October 3, 2009
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From The Tips Box: Bookmark Naming, Online Spending, Text Hiding
10:00AM Dustin Luck | Readers show us their best tips for smart bookmark-naming conventions, spending less impulsively in online, and hiding text in plain sight. More »
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Giz Trials The Sony α550 DSLR
As well as playing with the DSCTX1 at Sony’s Twilight Football event, we also managed some time with their α550. Despite rarely using a DSLR (read: never), we were surprised to find the camera wasn’t nearly as intimidating as we had feared. More »
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Google Wave Invites Is A Site Dedicated To Sharing Wave Invites
8:30AM Adam Pash | Getting invited onto Google Wave can be a challenging task. Web site Google Wave Invites offers a more organised alternative. More »
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Focus Your To-Do List With A “Skydiving List”
8:00AM Azadeh Ensha | To-do lists may work for some, but for others they’re an overwhelming reminder of everything yet to be done. Fed up with his to-do list, Slate’s John Dickerson suggests “blow[ing] up” the to-do list and figuratively going skydiving instead. More »
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PwnageTool Jailbreaks iPhone 3.0 OS With 3G, 3GS And iPod Touch
7:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X: The merry band of iPhone and iPod touch hackers known as the iPhone Dev-Team just released a new version of the jailbreaking app PwnageTool. It supports all generations of the iPhone and every iPod touch except the third generation. More »
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Wallpaper Roundup: Retro Video Games As Awesome 3D Pixel Art
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Metin from the Seven’s Heaven web site creates 3D pixel (Voxel) artwork from retro video games, and he’s released an exclusive set of awesome, high-resolution wallpaper images for Lifehacker readers to enjoy. More »
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DIY Portable Solar Oven From Office Supplies
5:30AM Adam Pash | Even if you’ve worked to make your brown bag lunch more appealing, sometimes the biggest drawback to the brown bag is that you just want a warm meal. That’ where the office worker’s portable solar oven comes in. More »
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Google Removes Pirate Bay’s Front Page From Search Results
4:00AM Adam Pash | BitTorrent web site TorrentFreak reports that Google has removed the front page of popular BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay from their search results due to a DMCA takedown request, regardless of the fact that there are no torrents available to download on TPB’s front page.
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4:00AM Adam Pash | Mac tip: Quick Look is one of the best features introduced in Leopard, and although we’ve highlighted several Quick Look tricks, web site Mac OS X Hints highlights a great folder X-ray mode that’s completely new to us. -
Tweak Quick Look To See What Files Are Inside A Folder
4:00AM Adam Pash | Mac tip: Quick Look is one of the best features introduced in Leopard, and although we’ve highlighted several Quick Look tricks, web site Mac OS X Hints highlights a great folder X-ray mode that’s completely new to us. -
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