Stuff We Like: Dock Your Old Drives with the Hard Drive USB Dock (2)
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Dock any internal SATA hard drive in this USB dock to turn any internal drive into an external drive on-the-quick. If you've got a few old hard drives hanging around that you'd like to put to good use but they aren't really worth installing in your computer's innards and you don't feel like taking the time to convert that old drive into an external hard drive, this simple dock, which appears to have taken swappable ...
This Week's Best Posts [Highlights] (2)
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The Lifehacker staff is pushing off a bit early this afternoon to get a head start on the holiday weekend. But don't forget: if you find yourself buried under a pile of unread Lifehacker posts, switch to our top stories feed to get the good stuff without any extras. To filter out topics you don't care about, you can also customize our feed URLs. Before you head out to enjoy your Labor Day weekend, get ...
GMDesk Puts Google Webapps into a Single Desktop Application [Featured Download] (25)
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All platforms with Adobe AIR: Free desktop application GMDesk provides quick access to Google services in a standalone window separate from your browser. GMDesk separates Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Maps from the rest of your web browsing, and provides keyboard shortcuts to switch between them (Ctrl+ or Cmd+1 through 6). You can't install browser add-ons like Better Gmail or Better GReader in GMDesk, and currently it displays too-small text in ...
PureText Strips Formatting from Your Clipboard When You Paste [Featured Windows Download] (6)
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Windows only: Free system tray utility PureText adds a global keyboard shortcut to your system to paste text into any application without formatting. PureText strips all of the rich formatting from text—like bold, italics, color, alignment, margins, and more—so that what you're left with is just the plain text (hence the name). If you're all too familiar with the Paste Special -> Unformatted Text feature in Microsoft Word, PureText's simple shortcut—which defaults to Win+V—will save ...
Are You Concerned About Bandwidth Caps? [Ask The Readers] (9)
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Internet service provider Comcast announces it will instate a 250GB per month bandwidth limit for its subscribers starting October 1st. Ultimately the 250GB cap is higher than most users rack up—as Comcast's press release points out, it's equivalent to downloading nearly 125 standard-def movies in a month. Comcast's limit is also much higher than monthly caps other ISPs are testing, like Cox's 5 to 75GB, Time Warner's 5 to 40GB, and Frontier's 5GB. Since the ...
Feature: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux (4)
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You love working inside your Linux desktop, but at the most inconvenient times you've got to reboot into Windows—whether to open a tricky Office file, try out a Windows application, or even just play a quick game. However, with some free tools and a Windows installation disk, you can have Windows apps running right on your Linux desktop and sharing the same desktop files. It's relatively painless, it takes only a little bit longer than ...
Operate Your Computer with Wii Controllers (50)
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Nintendo doesn't exactly advertise it, but the remotes for the Wii gaming console—including the balance board that comes with Wii Fit—have Bluetooth capabilities. That means you can connect your Wii peripherals to your computer to operate the media center hooked to your TV, play emulated games with a Nunchuk, Classic Controller, or even a Balance Board, and pretty much have them do anything you can do with a keyboard. Let's walk through linking up your ...
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Kurt said:
my brother does this with his xp machine
Featured Windows Download: Game Key Revealer Finds the Keys for Your Games (25)
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Windows only: If you have a game installed on your computer but have lost the original documents that came with it, you can still retrieve the product keys for safekeeping. Game Key Revealer is a small portable application that can help you recover your lost game keys. Game Key Revealer supports more than 500 popular computer games from well known publishers like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, THQ and Lucasarts. The game key of games like The ...
Please Don't Block Us. (Please?) [Faceoff Followup] (2)
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In Wednesday's battle of the must-have Firefox extensions, Adblock Plus emerged as the overwhelming favorite, followed by Foxmarks and Tab Mix Plus. See the full result tally here.
Copy a Single File to Avoid Re-Activating Windows XP [Tutorial] (57)
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The Online Tech Tips site offers up a great tip for anyone reinstalling XP off something other than their original CD—such as a slipstreamed and automated installation—or lacking a net connection to run the activation. Before wiping your system clean, grab a file named WPA.DBL from the System32 directory and save it to a thumb drive or other external media. When you load up your new system, skip registration, enter "Safe Mode" from the boot ...
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Simon said:
send a copy of this note - with the wpa.dbl file attached - to your online email account...and you'll have a copy available with instructions should you find yourself needing it sometime in the future.
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Derick Valadao said:
That good advice for reference. I've been contemplating a wipe down prior to the new term starting.
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Bwana said:
This is good to know
Windows Live Search Offers Results with Only Feed-Having Sites [Search Operators] (6)
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The Digital Inspiration blog points out some really cool uses of Microsoft's Live Search engine, including the hasfeed: operator that does what it sounds like: Filters your results to only sites that have live RSS feeds. It's a great tool for feeding your job search reader, and Amit has four other neat Live Search hacks.
How To: Make a Comeback in a Stalled Job Search (16)
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We hate to admit it, but there's a really good chance that even with all the right tools, your first round of resumes might very well end up in the back of a filing cabinet, or in a plastic bin next to the interviewer you thought you charmed. But you don't learn without trying, and having your first efforts to switch positions fail gives you time, and some real data, to reflect on what you ...
PhoneSpamFilter Identifies Telemarketers [Telemarketers] (4)
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Receiving frequent phone calls from a number you don't recognize? If you've ruled out the possibility that it's your Venezuelan stalker, turn to the PhoneSpamFilter web site to figure out exactly who it is that's calling you. Users submit complaints about numbers that have called them at PhoneSpamFilter, and you can see if the same number that's been bugging you appears there. Just this week a mystery number kept calling my wife's cellphone and leaving ...
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Dorn said:
Does anyone know anyone who ever bought something from a random call about a random product?
Частые ошибки в реализации GTD (№6) (1)
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На самом деле заявляемое системой GTD естественное планирование на самом дле не предполагает точных временных оценок или же строгой структуры, но как мы все знаем сроки есть сроки и окружающие от нас ожидают сделанного к определенному дню, часу, минуте. И это неудивительно. Время исполнения важно именно тогда, когда наши дела связаны с другими людьми. Потому даже при при планировании в GTD, когда все ориентировано не на сроки и время, а на собственно исполнение, неплохо бы ...
Health: CalorieLab Counts the Calories of Popular Foods and Restaurants (27)
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Web site CalorieLab provides nutritional information for popular foods and restaurants to help you keep your diet on track. With over 70,000 foods and 500 restaurants in their database, there's a good chance that if you've eaten it, it's in there. If you're looking for that one healthy item on a restaurant's menu, CalorieLab provides full menu overviews along with more detailed nutritional information for each individual item. Keeping your choices healthy and counting calories ...
Get the Best Price with the 15-to-20 Percent Rule (21)
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NBC's Today Show web site rounds up tricks for talking anyone into anything, whether you're negotiating over price, persuading your spouse, or influencing co-workers. A lot of the tips are more about simple manipulation, but the price negotiation tip offered a solid rule-of-thumb: If you are the buyer, offer the salesperson 15 percent to 20 percent less than what you can really afford. For instance, if you absolutely can't spend more than $6,000 on a ...
Best Freebies of (2005-) 2008 [Free] (4)
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Kiplinger's runs down their favorite freebies of 2008, trotting out old chestnuts like your free annual credit report, free 411 directory assistance, the public library, and swap boards like Freecycle. Good stuff, but not all specific to 2008. And, no hugs. Photo by moonwire.
Google Calendar Gets Better a Little at a Time [Google Calendar] (13)
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If you're a GCal lover with the niggling complaint here and there, the Official Gmail Blog highlights several small but worthwhile improvements to the popular web-based calendar. Updates include better meeting request follow-ups and more flexible reminder schedules among a few other nice updates.
Featured Windows Download: Free PDF to Word Doc Converter Is Exactly That (3)
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Windows only: There are many, many tools to convert Microsoft Word files into PDF documents, including those built into the latest office suites, but what about the other way around? Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is a small program that solves a big headache for some office and document workers. Load up a PDF, choose how you want to export the file—including images, shapes, and text layout functions—and hit the convert button. My own ...
Startup Delayer Staggers Your Startup Apps for Smoother Loading [Featured Windows Download] (42)
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Windows only: Free application Startup Delayer staggers the applications that launch when you login to Windows by user-defined increments. The reason: To mitigate the common startup bottleneck caused by all of your startup applications fighting to run at the same time. You'd never try launching eight different applications simultaneously under normal circumstances and expect your computer to handle it well, so why should your startup apps be any different? To use it, just drag applications ...
