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      view feed content Joost Streams TV, Movies to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
iPhone/iPod touch only: Television and movie streaming service Joost officially finds its way to the iPhone and iPod touch. Joost started out as a desktop application, was quickly overshadowed by...
[Featured iPhone Download iPhone iphone 2.0 iPhone Apps ipod touch Joost Streaming Video Television Top TV ]
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      view feed content Notify Me When It's Up Emails You When a Web Site Returns [Email Notification] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Web site Notify Me When It's Up performs a very simple but worthwhile task: It sends you an email when a downed site you want to visit returns to the internet. Similar to previously mentioned Down...
[Email Notification Email Email alerts Notification Web Browsing Webapps ]
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      view feed content "Cyber Monday" Deals Roundup [Shopping] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 h, 54 min and 55 secs ago
Thank goodness our brother site Gizmodo did all the work of digging up the best online shopping deals today, "Cyber Monday"—and saved us the trouble. Go getchyer Monday-after-Black-Friday...
[Shopping Cyber Monday Deals Discounts Gadgets Gift Ideas Holidays in brief ]
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      view feed content Checkvist Simplifies Outlines [Outliner] (Lifehacker Blog)   2 h, 21 min and 16 secs ago
The problem with many online to-do list managers is that they don't support sub-lists for tasks that involve several steps—but outliner webapp Checkvist does just that, and with a clean...
[Outliner Beta Beat Task manager To do list To Do Managers Webapps ]
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      view feed content Get VMware Fusion for Half Price Today Only [Deals] (Lifehacker Blog)   2 h, 22 min and 25 secs ago
Virtual machine application VMware Fusion—popular for running Windows and other operating systems on Macs—is for sale at 50% off the regular price today only—down to $40 from the...
[Deals in brief Mac OS X Virtual Machine virtualization ]
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      view feed content FCC Pushing for Free Internet Plan [Free Wi-Fi] (Lifehacker Blog)   3 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
The Wall Street Journal reports that outgoing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to offer free Wi-Fi to all—porn-free Wi-Fi, to be more specific. The no-smut specification is a little troubling,...
[Free Wi-Fi Fcc Free in brief Internet Internet Service Providers Wi-Fi ]
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      view feed content Know the Facts of the Three-Day Cooling-Off Period [Saving Money] (Lifehacker Blog)   4 h, 4 min and 25 secs ago
The Get Rich Slowly blog details the ins and outs of the cooling-off period, a three-business-day window the (U.S.) Federal Trade Commission enforces to cancel purchases of $25 or more. There's a...
[Saving Money Buying Consumer Protection Money Spending ]
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      view feed content Exact Factor Alerts You When Your Search Rank Improves [Web Reputation] (Lifehacker Blog)   4 h, 36 min and 25 secs ago
Free alert service Exactfactor tracks search engine results by key words, and can email anyone interested in how any web site is doing in the battle for the top Google, Yahoo, or Live.com spot. After...
[Web reputation Email alerts Google Live Search Search Yahoo ]
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      view feed content Windows Automation Macro Recorder Free Today Only [Featured Windows Download] (Lifehacker Blog)   5 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Windows only: The Giveaway of the Day web site is featuring a small, simple, but effective macro recording tool for free until 3 a.m. EST on Dec. 2. Windows Automation Macro Recorder (WAMR), normally...
[Featured Windows Download Automation Downloads macros Scheduled Tasks Scheduling Windows ]
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      view feed content Use Mouse Gestures to Open New Pages With Easy DragToGo [Featured Firefox Addon] (Lifehacker Blog)   5 h, 51 min and 25 secs ago
Firefox only: Easy DragToGo is a Firefox extension which enables interaction with highlighted text and images via mouse gestures. Text actions are determined by whether or not the highlighted text is...
[Featured Firefox Addon Firefox Linux Mac OS X Mouse gestures Windows ]
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      view feed content Windows 7 Won't Require Graphics Hardware for Effects [Windows 7] (Lifehacker Blog)   6 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
UK magazine Custom PC reports that Windows 7 will feature WARP, which lets any computer with an 800MHz processor run Aero-style desktop transparency and, with a certain performance hit, the Direct3D...
[windows 7 3D Graphics Hardware in brief ]
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      view feed content Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10 Eerily Close on Speed [Linux] (Lifehacker Blog)   6 h, 51 min and 25 secs ago
The team at the Phoronix site benchmark tested the newly-released Fedora 10 Linux distribution against Ubuntu 8.10 on 32 and 64-bit machines, and found the results nearly identical. Interesting find,...
[Linux Fedora in brief Ubuntu ]
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      view feed content More Ways to Hide Google SearchWiki Features [Google] (Lifehacker Blog)   7 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
We've already pointed out a Greasemonkey script that hides Google's new SearchWiki ranking buttons, but there are viable work-arounds for those not using Firefox or its page-styling Greasemonkey...
[Google Greasemonkey Search Search engines Search Techniques URL hacking URLs ]
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      view feed content Gladinet Mounts Web Storage Apps as Virtual Drives [Featured Windows Download] (Lifehacker Blog)   8 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Windows only: Free utility Gladinet Cloud Desktop removes the web interfaces from Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, Windows Live SkyDrive and Amazon S3 Storage, mounting them instead as folders you can...
[Featured Windows Download Amazon S3 Downloads Google Docs online documents Online File storage Online storage Picasa Picasa Web Albums Screenshot Tour Screenshots Top Virtual Desktops Virtual Disk Windows Windows Live ]
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      view feed content November 2008's Most Popular Posts [[this Is Good]] (Lifehacker Blog)   18 h, 20 min and 49 secs ago
Before December 1st is officially upon us, make sure you didn't miss any of November's greatest hits: How to Burn Any Video File to a Playable Video DVD "With your BitTorrent addiction in full swing,...
[[this is good] ]
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      view feed content Create an Ultra Thin Wallet From a USPS Tyvek Mailing Pouch [DIY] (Lifehacker Blog)   19 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
If you're a fan of the ultra thin All-Ett but you're on a budget, all you need to do is score a free USPS Tyvek mailing pouch and grab a pair of scissors. Over at the DIY site Instructables there is...
[DIY Crafts Wallet ]
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      view feed content Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind] (Lifehacker Blog)   19 h, 51 min and 25 secs ago
Where can I find a fast-booting web browser only flavor of Linux?What music helps you focus and get things done?What advice would you give a high school student interested in a tech industry...
[Hive Mind ]
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      view feed content Cubic Explorer Saves Your File Management Sessions [Windows Featured Download] (Lifehacker Blog)   20 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Windows only: Cubic Explorer is a robust Windows Explorer replacement. Among the features power users have come to expect from Explorer alternatives you'll find tabbed windows, bookmarking, bread...
[Windows featured download File File Explorer File Management Managers Portable Applications Top Windows ]
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      view feed content DIY Wrapping Paper Saves Money and Personalizes Your Gifts [DIY] (Lifehacker Blog)   21 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Unless you had the foresight to stockpile wrapping paper after Christmas last year, you're looking at buying a lot of over priced paper this holiday season. At the business blog Strategize they came...
[DIY Crafts gift wrap Holidays Recycling ]
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      view feed content DVD Identifier Gives You a Detailed Look at Your Discs [Featured Windows Download] (Lifehacker Blog)   22 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Windows only: Selecting blank media would seem to be a straight forward affair. You discover a certain brand works great for your purposes so you plan to buy more in the future. Simple! The label...
[Featured Windows Download Burning CDs Downloads DVDs Windows ]
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      view feed content Declutter Your Home with the Suitcase Test [Clutter] (Lifehacker Blog)   23 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
A life cluttered with possessions is such a common state of affairs that George Carlin once based a well received comedy routine around the absurdity of the accumulation of material goods. Over at...
[Clutter Cleaning Home Household Productivity ]
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      view feed content TiddlyDu2 Manages Your Tasks on the Go [Productivity] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 d, 0 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
TiddlyDu2 is a TiddlyWiki derivative tweaked to serve as a personal information manager. TiddlyDu2 has categories for sorting current tasks, long term projects, life goals, and a context based system...
[Productivity GTD Linux Mac Mac OS X Tiddlywiki Wiki Windows Windows Vista Windows XP ]
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      view feed content Five Best CD and DVD Burning Tools [Hive Five] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 d, 3 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
The internet has made it easier than ever to share media and data with friends, family, and co-workers, but that doesn't mean burning your own CDs and DVDs is a thing of the past. Blank optical discs...
[Hive Five Burning CDs DVDs Feature optical media Top ]
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      view feed content Bulk Rename Utility Blasts Through Your File Naming Tasks [Featured Windows Download] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 d, 4 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Windows only: Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the 747-dashboard of an interface that graces Bulk Rename Utility and you'll be rewarded with an enormously powerful tool. You can rename...
[Featured Windows Download Bulk renamer Downloads File Management Renamer Top Windows ]
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      view feed content This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 d, 18 h, 21 min and 6 secs ago
Caledos Manages Your Massive Wallpaper Collection (Windows) "If you like varied wallpaper but find yourself frittering away time digging through your archives picking new ones out, let Caledos...
[Download Roundup ]
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      view feed content Scoop Syncs Google Reader to Your Desktop [Featured Download] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 d, 19 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Adobe Air: Sure you can export your RSS feeds from Google Reader and import the feed file into desktop RSS reader for offline browsing. Scoop takes offline browsing a step further by allowing you to...
[Featured Download Adobe AIR Feed reader Google Linux Mac OS X Reader RSS Windows ]
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      view feed content Sharpen Your Chess Game [Gaming] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 d, 20 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Whether you'd like to increase your mental health or just relax after a stressful holiday visit, there aren't many games more classic than chess. Over at tips and tricks blog MakeUseOf, they have...
[Gaming Chess Fun Games ]
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      view feed content Make Your Own Bath Bombs [Weekend Project] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 d, 21 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Bath bombs, for the unfamiliar, are chalky feeling balls about the size of a small orange that you throw into a bath tub. They don't explode but they do react with the water fizzing and spinning,...
[Weekend project DIY gift idea How To ]
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      view feed content WindizUpdate Lets You Update Windows Through Firefox [Updates] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 d, 22 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
Update: Our apologies, support for Windizupdate has been discontinued. For a current non-Microsoft Update way to keep your Windows install up to date check out AutoPatcher. Windows only: If you're...
[Updates Downloads Firefox Windows ]
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      view feed content Pronounce Names Correctly [How To] (Lifehacker Blog)   1 d, 23 h, 21 min and 25 secs ago
We've all been there. You look at a list of names for a meeting or at a new business card and you have absolutely no idea there was a last name with that many vowels. HowToSayThatName.com is a web...
[How To Etiquette Names ]
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