Archive for December, 2008
Weightbot Tracks Your Weight with Pretty Graphs, Friendly Interface [Featured IPhone Download]
iPhone/iPod touch only: Tonight we go on our last major holiday binge. Tomorrow we start to work at shedding the extra holiday heft. Weightbot is here to help.
The Weightbot iPhone and iPod touch application is a simple, attractive application designed to track your weight over time. As a weight-tracking tool, Weightbot stands out for a [...]
Set and Track New Year’s Resolutions with Free Software [New Year]
Put the web to good use in setting and keeping your New Year’s resolutions in 2009. Here are our picks for best free web applications for managing your New Year’s resolutions; and if getting fit and healthy is at the top of your list, check out how to track your fitness goals with free tools. [...]
Dropbox Updates Its Web Interface, Adds Drag and Drop [File Synchronization]
The free, cross-platform application Dropbox—which readers voted the best file syncing tool available—has updated its web interface, adding new and improved navigation and drag-and-drop support for all the files and folders in your Dropbox. If you’re looking for ways to put your Dropbox account to good use after the holidays, the photos section of their [...]
Display Your Unread Message Count in the Gmail Favicon [Featured Script]
Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon Greasemonkey user script displays your unread message count on the Gmail site favicon.
If you’re not familiar with the concept of the favicon, it’s the small icon that appears next to the address bar or in the tab and helps identify which sites are open in [...]
The Great Best of 2008 Roundup [Best Of 2008]
All of us here at Lifehacker wish you a safe and happy New Year. Just in case you missed any of our best-of posts this month, have a recap.
Photo by Joe Shlabotnik. Most Popular Top 10’s of 2008“Almost two years later, our weekly listicle, the Lifehacker Top 10, still proves to be one of the [...]
MoboPhoto Is a Lightweight, Portable Photo Suite [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: MoboPhoto is a portable photo suite. The stand alone 1.6MB executable has a basic photo editor, gallery builder, and a batch tool for mass resizing and renaming.
The basic editor is fairly limited in comparison to standard desktop editing suites, but that can be expected in such a tiny portable application. It is [...]
Windows only: MoboPhoto is a portable photo … [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: MoboPhoto is a portable photo suite. The stand alone 1.6MB executable has a basic photo editor, gallery builder, and a batch tool for mass resizing and renaming.
The basic editor is fairly limited in comparison to standard desktop editing suites, but that can be expected in such a tiny portable application. It is [...]
Power Meter Plus Puts Ambient Battery Meter on Your Desktop [Featured Windows Download]
Power Meter Plus [Matt Collinge]
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Paid Apps, OS Update Coming Soon to Android [Android]
Two big updates coming to the Android/G1 phone—the previously mentioned “Cupcake” update will arrive for G1 phones “in the future,” and paid apps will hit the Android marketplace in the first quarter of 2009. [via]
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Safari+ Adds Useful Functions to the iPhone’s Browser [IPhone]
If you’ve ever needed to search for text on a page on your iPhone, Safari+ has a bookmarklet with your name on it. Oh, and translation, speed-scrolling, and image displaying are covered too.
In general, the Safari+ bookmarklets offer up the same kind of functionality you’d get in a full-size browser through the magic of specialized [...]
