Over the past 12 months, standing desks went from popular life hacking meme to eyeroll-inducing sign of a certain type of tightly-wound techie, similar to emptying your email inbox. Several people have asked me if I’m still standing. The answer is yes. Here’s what I’ve learned from 365 days of being a professional stander. More »
If you’re sending Gmail messages from anywhere other than Gmail itself, they may look like phishing attempts. Up until today, whenever I sent messages using my Google Apps account with the From: address set to my vanilla Gmail address, my Gmail-using recipients got an alarming, bright red message at the top which said “This message may not have been sent by [who it appears to be from]. Learn more Report phishing.” Make sure this doesn’t happen to you. More »
Every day, internet companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google mine your online social life to advertise to you more effectively. Those companies host and control your data, and you don’t. Case in point: if you’ve tweeted more than 3200 times, you can’t page back to your earliest tweets on Twitter. More »
My first Android app, Todo.txt Touch, manages your todo.txt file stored at Dropbox — and it’s now available for beta testing. Before it hits the Android Market, there are some issues to be ironed out, but in the meantime, you can download an early apk to give it a try on your Android handset. More »
When you have lots of ideas for things to make, how do you choose which projects to actually work on? More »
The perennial question we always get from obsessive Lifehacker readers: How are you actually more productive if you spend all your time looking for new ways to get stuff done? More »
Yesterday while I was on the air with Jeff and Leo recording TWiG, Google announced that they are halting development on Wave. The web app will be available till the end of the year — with mechanisms to export your current wave data — and the code will remain open source. More »
Android 2.2, or “Froyo”, was announced months ago, but it’s just now rolling out to popular Android phones like the Droid, Incredible and EVO 4G. So what new and improved features should you look for now that you’ve updated? Take a look. More »
