Archive for October, 2008
Trick or Treat More Efficiently with Halloween Candy Code [Friday Fun]
Give your kids a piece of chalk before they head out to demand candy from strangers, and they can let other kids know which houses are worth visiting and which have angry dogs or cheek-pinching personal space invaders with the Halloween Candy Code. For anyone obsessed with John Hodgman or Mad Men, you’ll instantly recognize [...]
Create New Folders in Explorer with a Shortcut [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Reader Juliana created a simple but extremely useful AutoHotkey script that creates a new folder in Explorer with a quick keystroke of Ctrl+N. If you’re an AHK user, you can download the script source here and just copy and paste it into your own AHK script. (This is a great compliment to the [...]
Enable the New Netflix Silverlight Player on Your Mac or Windows PC [NetFlix]
We told you that Netflix was adding Watch Instantly support for Macs using Microsoft Silverlight earlier this week, but now the official Netflix blog details how to enable the new Silverlight player on your account whether you’re a Mac or Windows user. Just follow the opt-in link to get started with the Silverlight player. The [...]
Would You Buy a $200 Netbook? [Snap Judgment]
According to tech news web site DigiTimes, hardware manufacturer Asustek plans to ship a $200 Eee PC sometime next year. The netbook market has grown significantly in the past year, but to be honest, no one around Lifehacker HQ actually owns one. So we’re sort of wondering:
Would a $200 Pricetag Convince You to Buy [...]
John’s Background Switcher Updates, Supports Photo RSS Feeds [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: John’s Background Switcher—a free utility that rotates your desktop wallpaper using photos from sources like Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, or just your desktop—has updated to support for RSS feeds. That means the popular wallpaper tool now supports sites like deviantArt, LOLCats, and pretty much any other photo site with an RSS feed. If you’re [...]
Trick or Treat in Today’s Open Comment Thread [Open Thread]
It’s that glorious time of the week again, where you get to ask your questions, air your grievances, and show off your productive glory or DIY genius in an open comment thread. Anything goes in the comments here, a magical place where your fellow readers’ Texas-sized brains are available for the picking. Ask your tech [...]
HotKeyz Creates Keyboard Shortcuts for Any Task [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application HotKeyz makes it simple to create and manage keyboard shortcuts to run special commands or launch any file or folder on your computer. Most of what you’re likely to do with HotKeyz can also be accomplished in one form or another using as-you-type application launchers, but if you prefer memorizing a [...]
DIY iPhone Landscape Stand Redux [Tip Testers]
Inspired by Nathan Barry’s iPhone alarm clock stand, do-it-yourselfer gbzphoto also used the plastic mold his iPhone shipped in to mount the phone horizontally, and installed the Alarm Clock app to display the time. Using the 2G clear plastic mold that shipped in the box, a stray piece of wood molding, and a furniture sticky, [...]
Be-A-Magpie.com - Ad Network For Twitter
Some questionsWhat is the frequency of payments?What it doesSelf-defined as an ad network for Twitter. Magpie is there to ensure that you can convert your tweets into pretty green. This is implemented in the following manner: customers register at the site and then create and launch campaigns that consist of tweet ads which appear between [...]
PIcasa 3 Leaves Beta [Picasa]
We took you on a screenshot tour of the Picasa 3 beta a few weeks back, and now Google’s popular digital photo organizer has officially upgraded to 3.0. The download site still says beta, but the actual download is all final. [via]
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