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In brief
11:54PM Gina Trapani | A recent survey shows that being friends with your coworkers can help you get more done at the office: “Employees who have buddies at work are more eager to come to the office and enjoy their workday, which translates to higher productivity.” More »
Find Out if Your Phone Qualifies for a Discount
7:00AM Wendy Boswell | US-centric: If your cell phone bill is giving you the flutters, then mobile enthusiast jkOnTheRun can (possibly) help you out with their list of employer and educational discounts. Just find your carrier (links are all provided) and figure out if you are eligible. Because I’m self-employed, I don’t qualify for diddly, but if you find out you scored some savings please share in the comments. How to score a discount on your monthly cellular bill [jkOnTheRun] More »
Open Text Selection as URL?
12:30AM Gina Trapani | Dear Lifehacker, Is there a Firefox extension or behaviour that automates the following process (which I seem to use a dozen times per day)? More »Microsoft confirms student pricing for Office 2007
12:20PM Sarah Stokely | Last week we told you about Microsoft’s student pricing for Office 2007.
Microsoft kindly got in touch to confirm that the cheap pricing is available in Australia too. The student price is $75. More » 
Where Do You Store Your Digital Stuff?
12:06AM Gina Trapani | We’ve covered hundreds of tools to capture and manage your digital “stuff” over the years: to-do lists, email systems, calendars, photo managers, web clippings, passwords, bookmarks list. But after the parade of the new dies down, you stick with the system that works best for you. So we want to know: where do you store your digital stuff? What are your trusty shelves for stowing away the bits of information that run your life? Let us know in the comments. More »
Internet Explorer keyword bookmarks with “about:”
10:30PM Kyle Pott | You can access your Internet Explorer bookmarks with a quick registry hack and the about: command in the address bar. The gist of the hack shown at the Technoworld weblog is to manually add your bookmarks to the registry so you can quickly navigate to them by putting about:YourBookmark into the address bar. You can access your bookmarks from the dropdown menu, but as you know, mouseless navigation can do wonders for your productivity. Couple this hack with an “about:” entry for Texter, and you can put together a pretty handy ad-hoc mouseless navigation scheme for Internet Explorer. I wouldn’t recommend setting up shortcuts for URLs shorter than six characters (the length of “about:”) but it would be very handy for complicated URLs that you visit frequently like “about:bank” or “about:gasprices”—you get the picture. It is about as close as you can get to keyword navigating for Internet Explorer. Trick : Make use of “about” pages for fast navigation and security in IE [Technoworld] More »
Windows and Linux Terminal Performance Comparison
5:00AM Kyle Pott | The Martin Ankerl weblog performance-tested many popular terminal applications on their text through capabilities (the time it takes to load and display the full content of a very large text file) to find out which terminal application is the fastest and which is best for low performance PCs. The terminal apps tested include the Windows Command Prompt, PuTTY, gnome-terminal, konsole, aterm, wterm, xterm and Eterm. Spoiler alert: The fastest terminal benchmarked was gnome-terminal (followed closely by konsole). PuTTY came in at a distant 30th place and the Windows Command Prompt rolled in at disappointing 35th. Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison [Martin Ankerl] More »
