If you read Lifehacker mainly for the featured desktop and design posts, and you’ve graduated from an art or design course recently, then you might want to hit up the ArtStart grant process. The scheme offers up to $10,000 for artists to start their professional careers; applications close March 8. [Artstart]
Twitter has added the capability to restrict its list of trending topics to a specific country or city, a useful way of dodging its generally US-centric content. Unfortunately, despite Twitter’s popularity down under, Australia isn’t yet on the list; a note says Twitter is working on other countries, but given the slow rate at which we’ve got other Twitter features like SMS support, I’m not holding my breath.
Dear Lifehacker, I saw Up In The Air on the weekend and it got me thinking about all of the loyalty programmes that are out there. I currently am involved in a slew of different hotel programmes due to random work travel requirements and am also a member of both Virgin Blue and Qantas FF programmes. More »
Remember the giant, steaming pressure cooker your grandma used to make stews and roasts back in the day? Turns out she was on to something— it’s a great way to make healthy meals in a flash. More »
It’s fairly easy to collect responses to a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet, but harder to respond to them. Lifehacker reader David offers a simple trick to automate email replies to form responses. More »
Windows/Mac: Back in November, Microsoft featured an attractive Facebook client to demo Silverlight 4, and many people wondered where it went. Well, Microsoft has finally released the fancy Facebook client for download, and it has almost everything you could want from Facebook. More »
Australian IT has a fascinating-but-appalling account of how one Microsoft customer who wants to pay for a copy of Office 2007 after using the trial version is now having his product code rejected because he upgraded to Windows 7. Microsoft is weirdly blaming the recent Office lawsuit, but it’s hard to read the story and not be reminded that Microsoft often has no idea how to make its two most successful products work together. [Australian IT]
Waiting for hard- or soft-boiled eggs to cook is boring enough to put you into a coma. Eggwatchers keeps you amused while your eggs cook, and lets you know when time’s up so you can take them off the stove. More »
