Readers offer their best tips for using scum-free soap, easily switching rows and columns in Excel charts, and using cell phones as remote baby monitors without using minutes. Don't like the galler...
If you've been disappointed by the lack of Aero-based visual effects when you install Windows Vista or Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine installation, this handy guide will help you crank up the eye c...
Ever had that moment in the grocery checkout line where you wonder if cooking homemade meals could ever be worth the ingredient cost? The Budget Bytes blog wants to show you the exact cost of some ...
Whatever your motivation for wanting to have a dash-cam, this simple hack will help you capture your road travels with a car-mounted camera. Tim Cox wanted to turn his iPhone into a Cops-style dash...
Android: Ustream brings its streaming video service to the Android platform with a new app, allowing shooters to stream feeds instantly over 3G or Wi-Fi, save them for later web sharing, and even c...
What do you do if you want some extra privacy in your office but you're not at liberty to go around tearing walls down and remodeling to fit your needs? Don your DIY hat and set to work. Lifehacker...
If you use disposable razor blades, odds are they get dull more quickly than you'd like. Instructables points us to a video demonstration showing how to extend their utility with a pair of blue j...
The popular web site uptime-monitoring service Pingdom is now offering free accounts. The free account provides monitoring for a single web site, 20 SMS alerts—you can purchase more if you need the...
ZDNet reports that Snow Leopard has changed the way it calculates disk capacity from earlier versions of OS X: now it matches the advertised size of the drive you purchased. When it's running Snow ...
Hard-boiled eggs are a great snack, but boiling them just right isn't a convenient task. Skip the pot of water and use your oven instead. Eggs are a great source of protein and other nutrients, but...
When it comes to taking a great photo, artificial lighting can't replicate what Mother Nature offers—if you know how to put the natural light to good use. Here's how to turn your face towards the l...
Whether you're moving, short on cash, or running out of storage space, you've got plenty of reasons to ditch your physical media. Hard drives are cheap; here are our recommended methods of saving, ...
Mac OS X only: Adium, the popular, open-source, multi-protocol chat application for OS X, updates today to version 1.3.6 with vulnerability fixes and a new and improved Facebook chat plug-in—that i...
If you looked at the Magnetic Light Mine and thought, "Mate that thing with a Gorillapod and then we'll talk" well you're in luck. Joby, the company behind the Gorillapod has released a flashlight ...
Windows/Mac/Linux: Free Adobe AIR application Portfolio Viewer tracks the performance of your investments from your desktop with a handful of helpful charts and graphs. (Click the image above for a...
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