We’ve already seen your killer desktops, but now it’s time to get a little more granular. It’s time to look at your system tray. We want to see what must-have utilities you run day in and day out in that little strip of screen real estate on the end of your taskbar. Hit the jump for more details and the detailed submission guidelines.
Mac users: Browse a group of photos full-size quickly and easily with trusty Preview.app. Avoid the load of iPhoto and the tiny thumbnails of Finder: highlight all the photos you’d like to see (hold down the Shift or Control key as you click the files in Finder) and Cmd+click. From the context menu, choose Open With > Preview, and the images will open in a single Preview.app window simultaneously, with thumbnails in the drawer for quick navigation between them.
Quick Tip: Open Mutiple Files in Preview Simultaneously [hackaddict.net]Firefox only – thanks to Paul’s comment on our post about how to open a set of bookmarks with one click, I’ve learned of a nifty (admittedly not new!) Firefox extension.
Paul says:
“If you prefer to have different sites open on different days of the week - ie you’ve got your weekday faves and different weekend faves – download the ‘Morning Coffee’ extension. You can then save different sites for different days (individual days, M-F only, weekend only, M, W, F only or the T-days only) – what a choice! Then you only have to click the cuppa icon in the toolbar and the day’s sites automatically open.
What could be easier?!”
You can download Morning Coffee 1.26 here. It works with Firefox: 2.0b1 – 2.0.0. Thanks for the tip, Paul!
Twitter users, now you can follow Lifehacker US the microbloggin’ way. Get our top stories plus a sprinkling of meta-commentary on the more ambitious days in your favourite Twitter client. Thanks, Ahsan!
Last week we took a look at the Windows desktops of our readers, and now we’re back for week two of our Desktop Show and Tell. Today’s focus: Macs. There’s no better way to learn than with a little show and tell from our peers, and we’ve got buckets of good looking, tweaked out Mac desktops for you to look at, so let’s get to it.
Windows users: For the last few sites that only work in Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, you can set up permanent bookmarks within Firefox to automatically open sites in IE Tab.
For existing bookmarks, right click on [the]bookmark, select ‘Properties,’ and add the string ‘chrome://ietab/content/reloaded.html?url=’ to the beginning of the URL in the location field. Voila, one click to IE for those annoying pages that still need it.
If you’re still using Firefox as a file manager, you’ll be able to follow the same routine to create shortcuts to your various directories. Thanks, gmplague!
Just in time for the Twenty20 World Championship, the official Google blog has announced a new tool which simplifies the search for cricket results:
Just type [cricket]in a Google search box and you’ll see a brief score of all the current cricket matches. A single click will also give you access to a detailed cricket score card.
If you’re a diehard India fan, then type [cricket india]or [cricket score India England]to get results for Indian matches. Of course, feel free to replace India with the country of your choice for country-specific results.
Get your cricket scores here [Official Google Blog]
The Rugby World Cup kicked off in France on the weekend, and The Australian has reported that Vodafone has launched its own mini-channel on its mobile phone and subscription TV networks, devoted to the series.
Vodafone kicks off rugby channel [The Australian]
Enough Wikipedia already? Here’s 20 non-Wikipedia online references for researchers and scholars.
One of the best ways to discover new music online is with Last.fm, a music recommendation community. Last.fm serves you up new tunes based on a marriage of your unique preferences and the rest of the huge Last.fm community. Last.fm is a pretty simple way to listen to tunes, but there are a few quick and dirty ways you can oomph it up a little. Keep reading for fifteen ways to tweak your Last.fm listening experience.
Don’t feel like spending money on a new Windows application? No problem – tech site Technology Bites has compiled a monster list of forty free alternatives to popular Windows software. These are all organised into categories: security, file transfer and sharing, multimedia, etc. If you see something missing from this comprehensive list, please share in the comments. 40 Free Windows Apps For You [Technology Bites]
