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Don’t Miss Your SME Technology Summit Chance

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There’s only a couple of days left in our contest to win one of two passes for the SME Technology Summit in Sydney next week (and don’t forget you can take advantage of our Lifehacker discount code). Hit the original post for full details, and keep those entries coming.


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Backupify Makes Regular Backups Of Your Online Data

Think about how much of your important data is stuck in the cloud. Web service Backupify backs up all your online accounts (including WordPress, Facebook, Gmail and Flickr) so if a service you rely on suddenly goes poof!, you data won’t.


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Speak Clipboard Reads Your Clipboard’s Content Out Loud

Windows only: Professional writers often read their work out loud to make sure it flows well and sounds coherent. If want to kick back and have the reading done for you, then give Speak Clipboard a try.


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Use Food Colouring To Diagnose A Leaking Toilet

If you have a heavy leak in your toilet, it’s easy to diagnose — the faint sound of the toilet tank constantly replenishing is a dead give-away. What about a slow leak? Diagnose it with food colouring.


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My Movies 3 Is A Beautiful Movie Add-on For Windows Media Center

Windows only: My Movies is a free plug-in for Windows Media Center designed to manage and play all of your movies within Windows Media Center, pulling in rich metadata for your movie collection, including cast, trailers, DVD art and more.


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Unclutter Your Workdays To Free Up Your Weekends

Weekends are a combination of playing catch up from things not accomplished in the previous five days, interjected with bits of free time and family obligations. Unclutter one thing a day to leave your weekends wide open for anything you please.


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Imfy.us Generates Shortened, Secure And Non-Indexable URLS

Imfy.us is a URL-shortening service for people who want to ensure the users clicking through their shortened URLs are actually people and not web-indexing search engine crawlers.


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Protect Yourself From Drive-By Browser Malware Attacks

We’ve already shown you that you don’t need to pay for Windows security, but today we’re going to take a closer look at protecting yourself from drive-by malware that infects you by simply visiting the wrong web site.


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Use A Magic Mouse On A Windows PC

If you’ve been intrigued by Apple’s pricey Magic Mouse but run Windows, or want its multi-touch scrolling powers to work in a Windows installation in Boot Camp, you’re in luck. Windows-compatible drivers have been extracted to install at your leisure.