Archive for March, 2009
Remains of the Day: Fixing Facebook Edition [For What It's Worth]
Fix Facebook’s new, much-maligned interface, wave goodbye to Encarta, and enjoy Android tethering while you can in our daily leftovers.
Three ways to hide the Facebook sidebar with userscriptsDownload Squad rounds up three Greasemonkey scripts that correct the wrongs Facebook users feel the new interface has inflicted. [Download Squad]Microsoft to kill Encarta later this yearRemember the [...]
Hide Your HDTV in Style [DIY]
Everybody’s going bigger with the move to HDTVs, but the thinner footprint of flat panel televisions has opened up all kinds of creative methods for hiding the TV out-of-site when you’re not using it.
Over at Apartment Therapy, they’ve detailed how to hide your HDTV by taking advantage of the unused space below a mantle. The [...]
Hive Five Winner for Best Mind Mapping Software: FreeMind [Hive Five Call For Contenders]
Mind mapping is in an increasingly popular way to brainstorm, and last week we asked you to share your favorite mind mapping applications and rounded up the top five. The votes have been tallied and the champion in the mind mapping face off is FreeMind.
FreeMind is both open-source and implemented in Java, making it about [...]
Burn Your Purchased iTunes Movie to a DVD [ITunes]
Unless you’ve got an Apple TV or computer next to your TV, your purchased iTunes movies are limited to your monitor. Wired details how to burn those movies to a DVD for the bigscreen experience.
Their method involves removing the DRM copy protection and burning the resulting file to a DVD using a couple of shareware [...]
Exhibit Transforms Your Spreadsheet into an Interactive Web Page [Webapps]
Turn a boring old spreadsheet into an interactive web-based map, timeline, or table with some simple HTML using the free, open source Exhibit project.
Exhibit takes data sets up to about 500 rows, plots locations on a Google Map, dates on an interactive timeline, and displays images and links in a tabular or thumbnail view. The [...]
Google Apps Adds Support for Themes [Gmail]
According to several readers and our very own Lifehacker Gmail account, Google has finally started a wide rollout of themes in Gmail for Google Apps—meaning all of the very cool Gmail new themes are now an option for Google Apps users.
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Protect Your Windows PC from the Conficker Worm [How To]
The Conficker worm has infected millions of Windows computers—and is set to be unleashed on April 1st, 2009. Here’s what you need to know to keep yourself safe.
What is the Conficker Worm?
Microsoft released an update in October to resolve a critical security hole in the Windows “Server” service. Since people aren’t as diligent about [...]
BrowserMob.com - Load Testing With Real Browsers
What it doesBrowserMob.com can be defined as a new load testing service that can be used in order to test systems exclusively from the client’s perspective. This company is trying something new when it comes to doing these kinds of tests. The system is spinning up thousands of web browsers at the same time and [...]
TribeHQ.com - Where Professionals Network
In their own words“Connect with others in your profession.â€Why it might be a killerIt enables professionals to network and find a true sense of kinship.What it doesIn a nutshell, TribeHQ is an online destination that enables occupational tribalism. In case you wonder what that expression means, it refers to professionals that group together in order [...]
The Office Under the Stairs [Featured Workspace]
Sometimes it can be tough to find space for your home office, but a little flexibility goes a long way. Today’s featured workspace is tucked, of all places, under a flight of stairs.
Lifehacker reader nycGRAEME only had so much space to go around. Putting his workspace under the large metal staircase leading up to his [...]
