Lifehacker’s Hackintosh build upgraded without problems to OS X 10.6.2, but the same wasn’t true for hacked netbooks.
Now that the Firefox 3.6 beta is available for download (portable version is here), it’s time to start updating the Better Firefox extensions. The most popular ones, Better Gmail 2 and Better GReader, are already 3.6-compatible; the rest will come in the next few weeks. As always, join the Google Group to ask questions or make comments about the Better Firefox extensions.
Riding your bike is all well and good, until you have to carry home more than two bags of groceries at a time. Toby from the DIY cyclist website Bike Hacks has assembled a pretty keen towing package for your wheels.
You’ve always wanted to learn how to build software yourself — or just whip up an occasional script — but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time.
If you’ve been using Google Latitude to find your nearby friends, you’re in luck: Google updated Latitude with location history and alerts for when your friends are nearby. If you don’t love having your every step tracked — well, it’s kind of creepy.
Mozilla’s Raindrop project showed us its one-inbox-to-rule-them-all mission, but a Mozilla designer now shows us how Raindrop might actually pull that off on mobile phones. The designs are impressive, combining email, Twitter, Facebook and other conversations into one organised stream.
If you’re a fan of the abstract and grungy vector-based wallpapers floating around, X3Studios is a free tool for creating abstract wallpaper without needing a copy of Illustrator and a pile of stock images.
