Monday, March 1, 2010

Work

Opera Chugging Along, Releases Fourth 10.5 Release Candidate In 24 Hours

11:40PM March 1, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Windows: Opera’s development team has cranked out no less than four 10.5 release candidate builds in the last 25 hours. That might signal a final build timed to arrive with Microsoft’s mandatory browser choice screen in Europe. More »


Money

Mag Nation Offers Free Titles If You Visit In Your Undies On Mondays

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4:00PM March 1, 2010 | Angus Kidman

OK, here’s a really odd way to save money. Specialist magazine retailer Mag Nation is offering a free magazine or book to the value of $50 to anyone who visits a store on a Monday in March wearing only their underwear. More »


Communicate

Sensorly Crowdsources Signal Information For Android Users

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2:00PM March 1, 2010 | Angus Kidman

Most phone company web sites include coverage maps, but these rarely include enough detail to be sure of how a given network will perform. Android app Sensorly collates data from individual users and compiles these into coverage maps to give you an on-the-ground perspective on whether you’ll get signal. More »


Travel

Road Worrier Road Tests The Livescribe

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12:00PM March 1, 2010 | Angus Kidman

It’s a pen, it’s a voice recorder — and it’s useful enough to warrant a place in my list of technology travel essentials. Road Worrier gets hands-on with the Livescribe. More »


Work

The Day Trader’s Paradise

11:00AM March 1, 2010 | Jason Fitzpatrick

What do you get when you have space for a custom office setup, a good amount of cash, and the vision to make it all happen? Dozens of monitors and the need for your own personal power plant. More »


Uncategorized

Disk Space Fan Analyses Hard Drive Space With A Dash Of Eye Candy

10:00AM March 1, 2010 | Adam Pash

Windows only: Free utility Disk Space Fan analyses your hard drive usage to help you determine what’s taking up space on your hard drive, representing it all with fancy visualisation eye candy. More »


Organise

Location Search Not On Google Australia Yet

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9:52AM March 1, 2010 | Angus Kidman

Over the weekend, we told you about Google’s new location-based option for filtering searches. A Google Australia spokesperson has confirmed to Lifehacker that this option hasn’t yet been added to the google.com.au site (which is where you’ll end up if you visit google.com from an Australian IP address). However, if you select the ‘Go to Google.com’ option from that page, you can access the location filtering option. It’s hardly the ideal implementation, but better than nothing we suppose.


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Last Week’s Best Posts

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8:30AM March 1, 2010 | Angus Kidman

You wanted to exchange large files and you wanted better start pages. Kick off your Lifehacker Monday by making sure you didn’t miss any of the biggest posts from last week: More »


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Speed Up Your Shirt-Hanging Routine With A Simple Trick

7:00AM March 1, 2010 | Adam Pash

We love the two-second t-shirt folding technique we featured a few years back, but if you’re more of a hanger than a folder, home blog Apartment Therapy’s got a few pointers to help you speed up getting your shirts on hangers. More »


Design

Construct An Ultra-Slow Pinhole Camera To Create Surreal Photos

3:00AM March 1, 2010 | Jason Fitzpatrick

If you were impressed by the interesting results and novelty of a plain old pinhole camera, you’ll want to check out these crazy pinhole cameras and their month long exposures. More »