You know when you’re walking through a large crowd and end up in step with someone else, then have to do that all-too-familiar back-and-forth dance until someone breaks free and you go around each other? Wired wants to help you avoid this.
Need to rename a lot of files in a folder and looking for the fastest way possible to do it? Lifehacker reader Platypus Man offers this quick, new-to-us Windows shortcut.
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Mac OS X’s application Help menu is extremely handy, searching for (and pointing out) any action within an application’s title bar menu as-you-type. Even better? It’s keyboard-shortcut handy, and as such can be a real timesaver for shortcut junkies.
If you want to upload a file to a website, and that file’s already on another site — say, an adorable dog photo from Flickr to your blog — this handy shortcut shaves a few steps off how you’re probably doing it.
It’s very possible that you don’t have time to keep track of every link posted by those you follow on Twitter. Because of that, Paper.li paginates yours or any Twitter user’s followees and lists into an easy-to-read, popularity-ranked online newspaper.
Long showers are something many of us can pull off without thinking about it. Want more time in the morning and less impact on the Earth? Try a custom-made playlist you can sing to for shorter showers.
You like how Flickr handles and displays your photo uploads, but far more friends are on Facebook than Flickr. A new integration between the two services makes it easy to have your photo geekery and share it too.
Wacchen is an online bookmarking service that saves and stores all the online videos you run across in one place via a simple browser bookmarklet. It works very similarly to bookmarking, article-saving service Instapaper, but for video.
Windows only: RecycleBinEx is a souped up Recycle Bin with Windows 7 jump list support that groups files according to the date they were trashed, making it easier to permanently delete items after a specific timeframe.
