Friday, November 12, 2010 - Page 2
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Speed Up Firefox By Moving Your Cache To RAM

We’ve talked about moving your cache files to a RAM disk to speed things up, but it turns out Firefox has this feature built in. Here’s how to turn it on.


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Planhacker: Android Tablets In Australia

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We’ve been promised them since the start of the year, and sure enough just in time for Christmas the Australian market is filling up with Android tablets. Planhacker looks at what’s on offer from telecos and retailers, and what you can expect to pay.


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Turn A Cheap Router Into A Home Automation Server

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We love to automate things in our home here at Lifehacker, and it turns out that with just a router, an Arduino and an RF switched outlet, you can control pretty much any electrical device you want from your smartphone or computer.


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Google Adds Special Searches For Poisons Information, Suicide Helplines

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When you’ve got a problem, chances are you go online to search for the answers. Google has just made two useful alterations to its results output, highlighting Australian phone numbers for people who go searching for poisons information or whose searches indicate suicidal tendencies.


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Healthy Options On A Menu May Make You Choose Unhealthier Meals

A recent study suggests that simply seeing healthy choices on a menu satisfies our desire to be healthy, causing us to be more likely to choose more indulgent foods when we actually place our order.


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Which 3G Network Actually Works Right Here?

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Which Australian 3G mobile network is available in this bush location? Based on remoteness, I suspect the answer most people would give is Telstra’s Next G — and they’d be dead wrong.


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TryAgain Replaces Firefox Error Page With Useful Notifications

Firefox: By default the Firefox error page just tells you that a page is not available. TryAgain replaces the default error page with useful information like whether or not the site is down for you or everyone else.


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How To Enable iOS AirPrint Support In OS X Right Now

With AirPrint shared printer support suddenly absent from Apple’s recent OS X 10.6.5 update, iOS printing support is severely crippled. If you want to ensure you’ll be able to use shared printing on your iOS device, here’s how.


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Popular Start Page Myfav.es Updates With More Sites, User Accounts

Previously mentioned start page Myfave.es (formerly fav4.org) went through a major upgrade this week, bringing many different customisations, new built-in sites and optional user accounts to keep your start page the same across computers.


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Black Hole Clears Out Sensitive Information On Your Mac With Ease

Mac OS X: Black Hole makes quick work of (securely) deleting sensitive files on your Mac, overriding locked files and other common issues. Even better, it automates a number of other deletion tasks based on criteria you specify.