Saturday, December 11, 2010 - Page 2
Work

Cut Out The Fake Work And Focus On Projects That Really Matter

If you’re at a job where you don’t feel like your work’s accomplishing much, business consultants Brent Peterson and Gaylan Nielson have a few suggestions for how to stop spinning your wheels with “fake work” and get real work done.


Organise

Use Google Goggles To Find Desktop Wallpapers

If you’ve ever been on a site and seen a screenshot with a really cool wallpaper, you no longer have to go searching for it yourself—reader jovke1994 reminds us that Google Goggles can do the searching for you.


Fix

Illimitux Removes Limitations Of Megavideo, Veoh And More

Chrome/Firefox: If you’re a frequenter of sites like Megavideo, Megaupload and Veoh, you’re probably annoyed with the constant limitations. Browser extension Illimitux will remove those limitations for you so you can watch video and upload files annoyance-free.


Work

Quickly Uninstall Old Linux Kernels With A Bash Script

We’ve shown you how to clean up your messy Ubuntu boot menu before, but if you’d like to avoid manually uninstalling old kernels, this handy bash script will do it all for you.


Work

Access Chrome Web Apps From A Different Start Page

We love some of the new apps in the Chrome web store, but a few are without obvious URLs and are seemingly only available from Chrome’s new tab page. To get an app’s special URL, though, just add it as a bookmark.


Work

Chrome To Phone For Android Adds Link-Sending History, Gets Much More Convenient

Android only: Google’s Chrome to Phone is all kinds of handy for sending yourself instant links, but what if you close the window or need to get back to something later?


Work

Test Out The Gingerbread SDK On Your Android Phone

If our screenshot tour wasn’t enough to satiate your Gingerbread lust, a bunch of Android developers have already started porting the Android 2.3 SDK to various Android devices, so rooted users can play around with it now and see what’s new.


November 11, 2010
Work

Brain Fitness Challenge Helps Your Brain And Others

Lifehacker AU

Exercising your brain is just as important as exercising your body. The Brain Fitness Challenge lets you test your mental agility and raise money for neuroscience.


Work

Firefox 4 Beta 7 Is Nearly Complete And Much Speedier

Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox 4 Beta 7 is out, and it’s an impressive preview of the final release. Mozilla has let loose the JaegerMonkey engine, enabled hardware graphics acceleration on Windows and Mac, and integrated Sync and the awesome Panorama/”Tab Candy”.


Work

RunMyBox Helps Automate Virtual Machine Launching

Lifehacker AU

If you work with a lot of virtual machines and switch between them frequently, it can be handy to automate the process of launching them. RunMyBox makes it easy to launch specific VirtualBox virtual machines.