Posted by Angus Kidman at 3:01 PM on June 13, 2008
Our final Upgrade Your Life contest winner comes from Duane E, who came up with a neat way to develop an AutoHotKey script for searching multiple sites in Firefox with a selected keyword from any applications. Details on how to implement it in Duane's own words after the jump.
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Posted by Angus Kidman at 3:11 PM on June 11, 2008
Our second Upgrade Your Life contest winner comes from Shane P, who went slightly overboard and submitted his entire site filled with tips, techwhimsy.com. Of these, the one that really caught our interest was the in-depth guide to installing popular blogging engine Movable Type on your local machine (handy for development and testing on the go). Check it out for a Flash-based tutorial covering all you need to know.
How to install Movable Type 4 on your local machine
Posted by Angus Kidman at 9:23 PM on June 10, 2008
Our first Upgrade Your Life contest winner comes from Jack M, who submitted a simple but very useful trick: adding Gmail to the search bar in Firefox. Now, if you want to compose an email, you can do it simply by typing the email address into the search bar and hitting return (or clicking the search icon). The plug-in also works in Gnome-do, which is good news for Linux users. Check after the jump for instructions on installing the plug-in.
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Posted by Angus Kidman at 9:55 PM on June 9, 2008
Thanks to everyone who entered our Upgrade Your Life competition and submitted tips for a chance to win an autographed copy of the Upgrade Your Life book by Lifehacker supremo Gina Trapani. We've sorted through the winners and picked out three winners, whose tips will be published on the site this week. Keep your eyes peeled for them!
Posted by Sarah Stokely at 8:00 AM on May 15, 2008
We are giving away autographed copies of the new Lifehacker book in our current competition. All you need to do is submit your best tip, trick or Lifehack, and you'll be in the running to win a copy of Upgrade Your Life, autographed by Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani. We're giving away the first lot of books on Friday, so get your entry in pronto!
Check out the original post for details on how to enter, and good luck! :)
Pocket Mojo competition · Anthony over at Pocket Mojo is running a competition to encourage people to get more use out of their mobile phone. He's giving away an 8GB microSDHC card and a MobileMate Micro Reader to the best reader submission, so head over to his site and check it out.
Posted by Sarah Stokely at 12:43 PM on March 17, 2008
Thanks to everyone who entered our recent competition by sending through their best resume or job hunting tip.
We had heaps of useful tips come through. We've gone through them all and picked out the five winners, they are Tim, Peter, Alvin, Simon and Yi. Congratulations! They've each won a handy Google notebook.
You can see the highlights from each of these winning tipsters after the jump, or go to the original post to see all the entries in full.
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Posted by Sarah Stokely at 8:16 PM on March 9, 2008
Did you kick off the new year by revamping your resume or have you been actively looking for work? Then Lifehacker needs your tips! This week we'll be giving away five notebooks to the top five resume or job search related tips which are submitted in comments on this post.
Google's Open Source programs team have donated some cool prizes - a stack of black "I can't believe it's not Moleskine" lined notebooks. We have five notebooks to give away to the top five tipsters. The competition is open until 5pm this Friday (14 March) so you can enter multiple times if you like. Fine print and competition details are here.
Posted by Sarah Stokely at 9:00 AM on March 7, 2008
It's been a while since we had a giveaway on Lifehacker AU, and our friends at the Google Open Source team have kindly donated some Google swag for prizes so here's some advance notice so you can work on your best tips over the weekend.
Starting on Monday we'll be asking for your best tips on resumes and job hunting. So keep an eye out for the competition announcement on Monday for the details on how to enter.
Tickets · Our gaming pals over at Kotaku are running a competition to give away tickets to the Game On exhibition which opens tomorrow at ACMI in Melbourne. The exhibit, on loan from the Barbican in London is a hands-on celebration of the history of video games - if you're in Melbin, head over to Kotaku to find out how to win tickets.
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