ITunes: Keep iTunes 8 from Starting Filenames with Track Numbers (21)
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By default, when you have iTunes set to automatically organize your music library, it saves the files in an /Artist/Album/Track # Song Title.mp3 format. But, if you don't want that track number stuck in the beginning of your music file names automatically, a quick preference change in iTunes 8 will remove it. Macworld explains that you can fire up Terminal, and type the following commands: defaults write com.apple.iTunes create-filenames-with-disknumber -bool FALSE defaults write com.apple.iTunes create-filenames-with-tracknumber ...
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ndench said:
Interesting. I wonder if something similar works on Windows.
Trapster Maps and Alerts You About Speed Traps [Maps] (34)
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Webapp Trapster maps speed traps on roads near you, and offers mobile phone applications that will alert you when you're coming up on one as you drive. Trapster's trap maps are all user-generated—as one Trapster user drives down the freeway and spots a trap, she hits a button on her mobile phone's Trapster app to report it. When you approach the same area running Trapster on your phone, you get an alert, and then you ...
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Neal, wasn't this your idea? We so should have written it!
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Cameron Hatfield said:
Weeeeeeeeeeeee
Tweak Your Windows Theme with Vista Visual Master [Screenshot Tour] (23)
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Earlier this week, Jason de-mystified the process of styling your Windows system with custom themes, along with the tweaks needed to pull it off. Those Windows Vista users who just can't commit to patching, finding and copying themes, however, might find comfort in Vista Visual Master, a free, all-in-one tool for opening up your Vista system to themes, downloading and installing them, and tweaking tons of other graphical elements, including icons, your log-on picture, boot ...
Batten Down Your Hatches for the Financiapocalypse [Economy] (37)
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The economic meltdown on Wall Street during the past few weeks is going to trickle down to your street, whether or not you're a big investor in the stock market. Not to sound all doomsday—because goodness knows we're all stressed enough watching the news these days—but chances are things are gonna get ugly this coming winter and continue into an even worse-looking 2009. While foot rubs, yoga, and deep breathing will certainly help, getting your ...
Understanding the Crisis and Bailout [Money] (15)
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Ramit Sethi at the I Will Teach You to Be Rich blog offers up 10 links intended to explain and detail how the economy got into this crisis, what average investors should be doing, and what's happening with the bailout. Some are a bit inside-baseball, but many answer essential questions. Also see what fellow Lifehacker readers are doing to stay calm and sane in the turmoil.
Food: Why Animal Fat Might Not Be So Bad for You (16)
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Salon interviews Jennifer McLagan, author of Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes, and comes away with the message that animal fat is not the death of your health, or your arteries. Noting that most people now eat less animal fat, but more fat overall, McLagan authors this tidbit to mull over when considering your next seemingly sinful recipe: Animal fats have lots of good fatty acids that fight disease, help absorb vitamins ...
Questions and Answers About Your Money in This Economy [Finance] (10)
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Holy smokes, scary stuff went down on Wall Street today. After the bailout package rejection and the Wachovia bank takeover, regular people with regular amounts of money have reason to be concerned about what they need to do with their retirement investments, savings accounts, and the possibility of unemployment. The New York Times runs down a plain-talk question and answer series that covers everything from whether or not now is the time to buy stocks ...
Peter Wooley shared as favorite Do You Text More Than You Talk? [Reader Poll] (10)
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In an oddly-delayed report, the NY Times notes that for the first time ever in the fourth quarter of 2007, Americans sent more text messages than made voice calls on their cellphones. Since then, the volume of text messages has gone up 64%, while the volume of calls has only reduced a bit. Teenagers are mostly responsible for the big increase in SMS messages, but my guess is that power users are also leading the ...
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speedyop said:
changement de comportement.
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Ely said:
Is the US catching up with us Pinoys?
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k3ith said:
I prefer text over voice. Unless scheduled, phone calls get in the way.
DIY: DIY Hydroponics On the Cheap (15)
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DIY web site Instructables has a detailed step-by-step tutorial for setting up your own hydroponics system on a budget with recycled materials. All you'll need to get started is a few 2 liter bottles, tubing, an aquarium pump, and a few other odds and ends—most of which you can find around the house or at your local gardening store. When you're finished, you've got a completely automated hydroponics system that regularly pumps nutrient-filled water to ...
High Cuisine for Halloween: Eyeball Caprese (4)
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Insalata caprese, an Italian classic, becomes an instant halloween classic as well.The traditional ingredients for this delicate salad are fresh mozzarella, basil, plum tomatoes and olive oil, seasoned with salt and pepper. Our version goes only slightly further, adding a thin slice of olive as the garnish. And, a clever trick produces perfectly round pupils every time. Taking a step back, let us note that this isn't a new sport. Gory, shocking, and other "gross-out" ...
Google Contacts Has a Standalone Site [Google Contacts] (44)
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Whether you prefer managing your contacts outside Gmail or you don't use Gmail but still want to use Google Contacts to manage your Reader or Docs contacts, try the standalone Google Contacts page. The URL isn't type-in friendly, but it deserves a bookmark if you need to do contact management outside of Gmail. [via]
Nodevice Hordes Missing Drivers, Manuals [Drivers] (18)
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If you're stumped trying to find a Windows driver for your hardware (and you didn't back it up when it last worked), try Nodevice has a database of more than 30,000 drivers, and roughly 20,000 each of manual files and DLL files. Looking for something Vista-specific? Check out previously mentioned RadarSync. [via]
The Hungry Scientist Handbook (6)
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Today is the official release date for the Hungry Scientist Handbook, a new book by Patrick Buckley and Lily Binns. The Hungry Scientist Handbook was conceived as a sort of cookbook for geek-centric food and-- using the word a different way-- as an a cookbook for food-oriented electronics-- as evidenced by projects varying from polyhedral pies to LED lollipops. We met Patrick and Lily at the 2006 Maker Faire, where they invited us to contribute ...
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Finally, a cook book that Jamison would appreciate! :-)
Woo pretty fonts (1)
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If you’re like me, you like fonts that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye, are well designed and can be used without fear of typographical suicide. While reading about hidden packages in GTA:VC (yeah, old I know, but I don’t get out much and its not like I’m going to confess my obsession with Freecell haha.. oh crap.), I stumbled across a site for fonts made by Some dude called Larabie. He developed the Price ...
'A Web OS? Are you Dense?' (3)
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With all the recent hype surrounding Google's Chrome, it's refreshing to see someone taking a few steps back and looking at the bigger picture. Superlatives were abound about Chrome (I personally really like it), but some people really took it overboard - take TechCrunch for instance: "Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows." Seeing my nationality, I know a tulip mania when I see ...
How to Block Ads in Google Chrome [Google Chrome] (63)
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One of the biggest reasons most Windows users are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is Adblock Plus. If annoying web site advertisements are the only thing holding you back from using Chrome, a user at the Geekzone forums explains how to block 'em without an extension. In short, you use the free Privoxy web proxy software which blocks web sites serving ...
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Convoluted said:
Wayne, do youthink we could set this proxy up to look through our work proxy and then use this as the middle man we need for chrome to work?
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psi said:
Ajoin joskus privoxyä kotipalvelimella kun tanja vielä käytti windowsia ja IE:tä, se oli ihan hyvä softa siihen. Valitettavaa kuitenkin että chromessa ei tuollaista fiitsöä ole vakiona (eikä varmaan tulekaan olemaan muissa kuin unofficial buildeissa).
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Chrome with an ad block substitute!? Sign me up!
How to Make Money With Affiliate Programs on Your Blog - More Thoughts (10)
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Yesterday I shared 5 lessons on making money with affiliate programs on your blog. As I read through the comments on that post and pondered it some more thoughts came to mind that I think are worth adding: Test and Track Results I’ve written numerous times on ProBlogger about testing and tweaking advertising on your blog (for example - this post on how to run Split Testing). The same principle is true for running affiliate ...
5 Lessons on Making Money with Affiliate Programs (13)
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In the last 24 hours I’ve been interviewed 3 times and on each occassion I was questioned about affiliate marketing and how to make money from it. Here are 5 lessons that I found myself touching on in each interview. Image by foundphotolj 1. Relevancy between Audience, Product and Content One key to high conversion when promoting affiliate products is to align as much as possible the needs of your audience, with the product that ...
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