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