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Parallels Adds Windows Service Pack Support [Parallels]
The Windows on Mac virtualization arms race continues: On the heels of a new VMware Fusion 2.0 beta, Parallels Desktop issues a software update that adds support for XP Service Pack 3 and Vista...
Powerset Searches the Wikipedia with Natural Language [Wikipedia]
Instead of putting the onus on you to choose the best keyword, just-launched semantic search engine Powerset can find the answers you seek on the Wikipedia using natural language. Type things like...
Phun Teaches Physics Lessons the Best Way Possible [Games]
Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Phun, a free open-source, cross-platform 2D physics simulator, makes you want to pick up blocks, or maybe crayons, and learn more about the way things fall and move...
FontStruct Creates Typefaces Brick-by-Brick [Design]
For certain projects, even the gargantuan list of pre-installed fonts on your system just won't do. When you want to create your own font but don't want to learn the archaic process for doing so, you...
WikiU Schools You in Film Making, Home or Otherwise [Video Editing]
Most home movies are jammed-together affairs, but anyone can make their videos better with a little schooling in the basics of story-telling. The Wikiversity has a free multi-part "Film School" that...
Cure Poison Ivy and Jellyfish Stings with Vodka [Clever Uses]
Next time you stumble into a patch of poison ivy at a picnic, The Daily Green web site suggests pouring a little vodka on the affected area to cure what ails you. In fact, the article offers a total...
Twitterverse Screensaver Visualizes Your Twitter Activity [Mac OS X Tip]
An adventurous Flickr user dug up a file in Leopard's example developer documents called Twitterverse, a screensaver that displays your Twitter world in a circle of thumbnailed activity. To use...
Michael Pollan Speaks In Defense Of Food [Food]
Author of In Defense of Food Michael Pollan explained his "eater's manifesto" at Google last month. Watch the video to hear Pollan discuss his seven word philosopy ("Eat food. Not too much. Mostly...
Digitize Your VHS Home Movies [Weekend Project]
When it's time to finally clear out that dusty trunk full of home movies on VHS tapes, you have a couple of options: pay someone to transfer all that precious video to DVD, or do it yourself. For...
DExposE2 Like Mac Expose but Better [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Freeware application DExposE2 is a clone of Mac OS X's Expose feature for Windows XP and Vista. Aside from the basic Expose features, which we've seen from a lot of clones in the past,...
This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
AVG Free Anti-Virus 2008 Released, Much Improved (Windows) "Aside from a general interface overhaul and faster performance, the updated anti-virus scanner has added several new features with a focus...
Get Your Party On with the Emergency Party Button [Weekend Project]
You're a busy person, with a button-up career gig that takes up most of your waking hours. So when you clock out, you don't have time to put in all the work to get into party mode. What you need is a...
Turn Gmail in an Always-On Baby Book [Parent Hacks]
Blogger Rafe Needleman uses Gmail to record memories of his young son's life. With the hefty storage, easy accessibility and robust filter and search tools, it's a neat way to be able to quickly pull...
How to Water Your Lawn Efficiently [Outdoors]
Spring is upon us, and with a little know-how, you can water your lawn more smarter this year. Tutorial site wikiHow offers strategies to reduce your water usage while maintaining a healthy, hearty...
Sew an Old Sweater into a Cat Bed [Weekend Project]
Give your cat a comfy place to snooze and save some money by turning an old sweater into a cat bed. Step-by-step tutorial site wikiHow runs down how. The result can even be a dog bed (for small...
TimeTube Takes You Back in Video Time [YouTube]
YouTube search webapp TimeTube creates a timeline of video clips for a certain search. Search for something (like "American Idol") and you'll get back a timeline (or "tubeline") of video clips. ...
This Week's Best Posts [Highlights]
Too busy for Lifehacker this week? We forgive you. Have a recap of this week's most popular posts: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera "If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot...
View and Edit iPhone Notes in Your Browser with RemoteNote [IPhone]
iPhone/iPod touch only: The lamest omission in the whole of iPhone development is the lack of sync for Notes. Let's be honest—the iPhone keyboard is nice, but you don't want to have to use it...
Photoshop Express Adds Flickr Support [Photoshop]
Web-based image editor Photoshop Express adds Flickr to its list of importable sources. Now you can grab images from your Flickr account, edit them in PS Express, and put them back all prettified...
Convert Any Text to an iTunes-Compatible Audiobook [Audiobooks]
Web site Mac OS X Hints details how to create an iTunes audiobook (i.e., an M4B audio file) from any text in just a couple of clicks. The process involves installing a new service to your Services...
Tobu Organizes Notes and Lists Like Nobody's Business [Featured Download]
Windows/Linux only: Freeware application Tobu is a tag-based note-taking tool with an emphasis on efficiency and keyboard shortcuts. Like most capture applications of this kind, Tobu may take some...
OrbLive Streams Live TV to Your iPhone or iPod Touch [Featured IPhone Download]
iPhone/iPod touch only: You may be familiar with Orb for its music or TV-streaming abilities (it can even turn your Wii into a media center), but now the folks at Orb have taken on the iPhone and...
The Pilot's Pen Lights and Writes [Office Supplies Fetish]
Whether you're flying a jumbo jet at night or working on a crossword puzzle in the dark, the Pilot's Pen is a nifty solution. The LED-powered penlight illuminates the page while you write, or you...
YouTube Comment Snob Filters Stupid Comments [Featured Firefox Extension]
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension YouTube Comment Snob filters comments on YouTube videos that don't meet your snobbish standards. It does so using a combination of criteria, like a...
Sync Your iPhone Wirelessly in Linux [IPhone]
Apple may open up its iPhone and iPod touch devices to third-party apps next month, but the chances that Linux users will get invited to the party are slim at best. That hasn't stopped some intrepid...
Your Gmail Feature Wishlist? [Ask The Readers]
Once upon a time, gigabytes of storage space and message labels and IMAP access in web-based email was unheard of—until Gmail raised the industry bar and user expectations of what you get with...
Prevent Windows from Making Copies While Control-Clicking [Annoyances]
You've just finished carefully control-selecting all those files you need to move off your desktop and into a container folder, and then, one hand slip later, you have twice as many to deal with. The...
Love and Money [Sponsors]
Thanks to this week's sponsors for the May flowers: Chevy Fuel Solutions, Jet Blue, Kicker, MS Office Small Business, NCTA, Nokia, Symantec, TiVo, Toshiba, Toyota, Unscrew America, VW, and Zune. ...
mytvrss is Won't-Miss-Again Feed For Your Favorite Shows [TV]
No matter how meticulous your programming, or how smart you might think your TiVo is, random scheduling changes can cause you to miss an episode of your favorite series and not realize it until your...
Keep IE7 Removable [In Brief]
Microsoft warns Internet Explorer 6 stragglers users that upgrading to Service Pack 3 with IE7 installed eliminates the ability to uninstall IE7, so wait until after SP3 installs to put it on....
Yahoo Debuts Beta "Glue Page" All-In-One Search Results [Beta Beat]
Yahoo's testing out a new kind of search page layout: when you search for broad-reaching terms (like Einstein, and happily, Lifehacker), you may arrive on their beta "Glue Page," which groups web...
Take the Triage Approach to Information Overload [Coping]
Philipp Lenssen, who's normally blogging about Google products and developments, sent a single question to workers at some of the country's top tech firms on how they deal with all the email, feeds,...
Track Your Domino's Pizza Order from a Terminal [Friday Fun]
Now you can truly see why our commenters dubbed Python the programming language that "can do anything." One intrepid (and hungry) hacker, possibly named Nick Jensen, put together a small script that...
Track Phone Calls with Outlook's Journal [Microsoft Outlook]
Windows only: Microsoft's lesser-known Journal feature can attach transaction details to contacts—which makes it perfect for storing notes about phone calls. When you want to keep careful...
PandoraBoy Brings Streaming Radio to Your Desktop [Featured Mac Download]
Mac OS X only: Free, open source application PandoraBoy pulls the popular streaming internet radio site Pandora out of your browser and integrates it with your Mac desktop. With features like global...
Identify Telemarketers at CallerComplaints [Telemarketers]
Next time you miss a call from an unknown number, check if it's a telemarketer on the CallerComplaints web site. CallerComplaints maintains a user-submitted database of telemarketer phone numbers and...
Advanced Run Opens Programs as Another User [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Freeware application Advanced Run is a replacement for the traditional Windows Run dialog that can run any program as another user without logging you out of your account. Aside from...
Free Wi-Fi at 17,000 AT&T Hotspots Official [Free Wi-Fi]
MacRumors is reporting that AT&T's web site has officially confirmed free access to over 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots for iPhone users, including Starbucks and Barnes and Noble. That means that with a...
Get 91% Off Microsoft Office Ultimate [Deals]
A Microsoft student promotion that slashes 91% off a copy of Office Ultimate applies to anyone with a .edu email address—and most universities offer .edu addresses to their alumni for free. ...
Google Translate Automatically Detects and Translates Languages [Language Translation]
Language translation service Google Translate has added the ability to automatically detect the source language, streamlining translations when you don't recognize the language. When you stumble onto...
Best Online File Sharing Services [Hive Five]
Whether you're trying to share megabytes worth of music with a friend or send an important document to a coworker, nothing outshines a fast, easy-to-use file-sharing service. On Tuesday we asked you...