Sick of mailto: links in your browser opening Outlook or Mail.app whenever you click them? You can tackle this problem with extensions or through other means, but Googler and HTML5 guru Paul Irish offers a simple, no-add-ons-required approach. Here’s how it works: More »
If you’re having trouble remembering where you have filed away an app on your phone’s home screen, consider organising your apps by action. More »
Website musicForProgramming(); distributes a series of roughly hour-long ambient music mixes intended to “aid concentration and increase productivity” while you work. More »
Wired’s Garth Sundem sat down with the Robert Bjork, director of UCLA’s Learning and Forgetting Lab, to discuss how you can best “[pack] things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out”. What he learned? A lot of our basic assumptions are wrong. More »
Google is not having a good run recently. Two weeks ago, Google announced that it was integrating Google+, its brand new social network, with its Google search results, calling the new feature “Search, Plus Your World”. The resulting change to Google search results has frustrated some, angered others, and prompted a new conversation about anti-competitive practices and antitrust laws in relation to Google. More »
A group of engineers from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace released a “Don’t Be Evil” bookmarklet that tweaks the Google+ integration in Google search results. It displays the most relevant social network for an individual rather than simply promoting Google’s (often less relevant) Google+ page. More »
iPhone-hacking group Chronic Dev Team just released the first untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1. We’ve explained why a tethered jailbreak can be such a hassle, which is why we’ve been waiting to recommend jailbreaking your up-to-date iPhone. Luckily, that wait is over. More »
Yes, Wikipedia is blacked out to protest SOPA, the bill that wants to censor your internet. We’re already staunchly anti-SOPA around Lifehacker HQ, so while we’re all for the blackout (solidarity!), it’s kind of preaching to the choir. And while we’ve rounded up a few ways to circumvent the blackout, the best yet comes courtesy of Chris Beidelman. More »
Your Wi-Fi network is your convenient wireless gateway to the internet, and since you’re not keen on sharing your connection with any old hooligan who happens to be walking past your home, you secure your network with a password, right? Knowing, as you might, how easy it is to crack a WEP password, you probably secure your network using the more bulletproof WPA security protocol. More »
