Get Back to Your Mac Without Paying for It
Click to viewWhen Leopard was released, one of the most enticing new features was Back to My Mac, a tool that made it possible to access your home computer remotely—including remote control of your desktop and access to your files—no matter where you are. The catch: It requires a $100 yearly subscription to the lackluster .Mac service. Right now I'm working from my laptop in Austin, and I've got t
Set Up a Self-Cleaning Mac with Hazel
Just like in the physical world, it's easy to let digital clutter accumulate on your Mac: in fact, right now your Downloads Stack is filled with no-longer relevant files and your Desktop is covered in documents you finished with last week. The Windows Janitor cleans out files of a certain age from a given folder on PCs, but Mac users have an even more robust, graphical alternative: the automated,
Top 10 Apps That Should've Been in Leopard
Click to viewThe day after a big Apple event like yesterday's WWDC keynote is like the day after Christmas - it leaves you with that letdown, hungover, regretful feeling. Now that Apple's locked down the feature-complete version of the newest iteration of OS X, it's hard not to think about what could have been. While the Leopard improvements to come in October do indeed look cool, OS X still lacks
Rebuild Your Mac with 20 Useful Downloads
Mac OS X only: So you erased your hard drive to install Leopard, and now you've got to load your Mac up with all your essential software. I kept a detailed inventory of the downloads I hunted down all over the internet to load on my Mac this weekend, so I thought I'd save you a few clicks. Here's a list of 20 (mostly) free apps with direct links to their download pages. All downloads are free exce
Top 10 Gnome Desktop Tweaks
Click to viewThe desktop environment for many Linux users, Gnome, is fast, organized and very easy to learn. But Gnome is also very powerful and highly customizable. Today's top 10 lists the various ways you can tweak Nautilus and the Gnome desktop to turn Linux into a productivity powerhouse. 10. Re-theme Root Applications 9. Disable Trackpad While Typing 8. Copy and Paste Without Using the Gnome
Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks
Click to viewIs that a gigabyte in your pocket? And are you putting it to good use? The explosion of USB thumb drives gives anyone the ability to take some serious file storage space along with their house keys. Developers and road warriors have come up with all sorts of innovative techniques for putting these tiny, roomy disks to good use. Step into my office for a list of our top 10 favorite thu
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Download of the Day: Clipmarks 2.0 (Firefox)
Firefox only (for now): Clip, save, share and organize just about anything on a web page, including video, with Clipmarks 2.0. The new version of this insanely useful browser plug-in adds several features, most notably the option to clip videos from Google, Metacafe, YouTube and other sites. You can post clips directly to your blog or send clips via e-mail, all without saving them first. Version 2
Geek to Live: The command line comeback
by Gina Trapani Click to viewThe advent of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) forever revolutionized personal computing. A windowed system with point and click icons made computers usable for anyone who couldn't deal with a black screen and a prompt waiting for arcane textual commands. But in recent years, this enormous interface change is coming full circle. Amongst power users - and more and mor
Learn a language with podcasts
If you're interested in learning a language in '07, iTunes has a whole section of podcasts devoted to language. To get there, just head to the iTunes Music Store, then go to Podcast -> Education -> Language Courses. You can get started perfecting your Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or Italian (to name some of the most popular) in no time, and best of all, they're mostly all free. If
Teach yourself speed-reading with Spreeder
Very similar to previously-posted Zap Reader, the Spreeder webapp trains you to increase your reading speed by displaying single words in succession at a high rate. Several factors affect our reading speed, like subvocalization (the little voice inside our heads that reads along with us and slows us down), backtracing (rereading parts over and over again), etc. The purpose behind apps like these i
Download of the Day: GTDGmail
Firefox extension GTDGmail integrates your Getting Things Done implementation directly in your Gmail account. Gmail has always been a good GTD tool, but GTDGmail makes setting up of all your contexts, projects, and next actions a breeze. Honestly, I already have my own system of labels and whatnot in Gmail that I love, but after looking over and playing around with GTDGmail, I'm very tempted to di
How To Do Pen Tricks - Lifehacker
A little Friday fun for y'all. Pentrix-The Art of Pen Spinning is a Web site that teaches you, step-by-step and with useful illustrations, how to do the most popular pen spinning tricks. I've always wanted to learn some of these, and while they're not as easy as they might appear, but they do work. You can learn how to do the following: The 360 NormalThe Charge NormalThe Sonic NormalThe 360 Degree
Hack Attack: Mouse-less Firefox
by Adam Pash Learning to use Firefox keyboard shortcuts to reduce your trips to the mouse can lead to a much more fulfilling web browsing experience, especially at those times that your mouse just isn't doing the trick. Okay, you got me. I have, on occasion (read: often), neglected to charge my wireless mouse for long enough that, when it's time to get posting on Lifehacker, I find myself totally
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