Design

Weekly Wallpaper: Grant Your Desktop Superpowers

It’s that time of the year again — superheroes are hitting the big screen to defend the world from evil. Show your support for the Avengers, Batman and more with these wallpapers.


May 13, 2012
Fix

Top 10 Ways To Supercharge Your Favorite Webapps And Services

We all have webapps and services that we love, but that doesn’t make them perfect. If you want to do more with Gmail, remove annoying parts of Facebook, connect two webapps you love, automate tedious actions and more, you can do all this with a few clever scripts, extensions and services. Here are our 10 favourites.


May 10, 2012
Design

Dashboard X Adds Live Homescreen Widgets To Your iPhone

iOS (Jailbroken): If you’ve ever wanted Android-esque widgets on your iPhone, Dashboard X is a new tweak for jailbroken iPhones that allows you to add widgets created for Notification Center anywhere on your home screen.


Design

The Cloudy Windows Desktop

If looking at the clouds in the sky inspires you as much as it inspires Jonathan Miller, this desktop might be right up your alley. A few well placed and unobtrusive widgets positioned around the top and sides of the screen so they’re in view while he’s working, and some little fluffy clouds in the centre for when everything else is minimised, and you have an attractive, functional desktop that doesn’t get in the way of your work.


Design

Weekly Wallpaper: Give Your Desktop A Break

Your desktop can be a source of stress when it’s completely disorganised, or you can tidy it up and use a simple, relaxing wallpaper to offer yourself a more calming effect. Here are 10 options to get you started.


Fix

Build An Arduino-Powered Doorbell Alert System That Sends You A Text And Photo

Ever wonder who rings your doorbell when you’re not home? Or do you crank music up too loud most of the day to hear it anyway? Make Projects user Clement Storck built a simple Arduino-powered notification system that sends him a text message and an email with a photo every time someone rings the doorbell, and you can do it too.


May 9, 2012
Communicate

How To Make XBMC Easier To Use

So you’ve created an awesome, play-anything media centre with XBMC, but it’s a too hard for your less tech-savvy friends and family members to use. Here are a few ways to make your home theatre PC so easy that your four year old could use it.


Design

The 8-Bit Avengers Android Home Screen

Lifehacker reader Rob created this home screen with an old-school look and some timeless super heroes.


Work

How to Set Up SBProfiles for iOS

SBProfiles is an awesome iOS app that can perform certain tasks on a schedule or when other conditions are met, but it takes a little bit of setup to get working correctly. Here’s what you need to know.


Work

Media Preview Adds Windows Explorer Thumbnails To Nearly Any Video File

Windows: Lots of videos have built-in thumbnails in Windows Explorer, so you can see a quick preview of each file, but this only works with popular video formats that work out-of-the-box in Windows. Media Preview is a small utility that adds preview thumbnails to nearly every video format you can think of.