Readers offer their best tips for working out at the office, using hooks throughout the house, and keep the bag from slapping you in the face while drinking tea. More »
Nothing says “I’m thinking of you” better than a box of chocolate truffles. Unless of course they’re homemade chocolate truffles, and then, well, that’s just too cool for words. These yummy Valentine’s Day candies come together with only three ingredients. More »
We’ve always liked Weather Underground for its no-nonsense, real-time weather info. Today they’ve released a new service called Full Screen Weather that mashes up Google Maps with weather data for nothing but maps and up-to-the-minute weather info. More »
Windows only: Panda USB Vaccine disables autorun on your PC to protect you from being infected, but also protects your USB drives from spreading viruses when you use them in another PC. More »
In the past we’ve highlighted that many popular websites use flash to track your browser behaviour because it’s not as easy for users to block or remove — for example, even when you go into private browsing mode in some browsers, Flash cookies persist. More »
Giving a presentation is a nerve-wracking experience for most people and they wonder how anyone can ever give a smooth and end-right-on-time presentation. Take a cue or two from popular author and speaker Malcolm Gladwell to give a stronger presentation. More »
Start pages are a dime a dozen, but considering how many times you open a new tab every day, it’s nice to have something attractive to look at. Website Fav4.org is a minimal start page that’s easy on the eyes. More »
Last week Lifehacker reader UnMicD offered a simple bookmarklet for searching Craigslist. Over at the Productive Geek forums, user Brady modified that bookmarklet to search file-sharing site MediaFire. The results: it’s a little like when Napster was good. More »
Erick Schonfeld at tech news blog TechCrunch highlights yet another potential privacy hole in Google’s young social network (which has already been the cause of much concern). This time, it looks like sending an @reply under certain circumstances can reveal a user’s email address. Here’s how: More »
