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TGIF: This week’s best posts

Posted by Gina Trapani under Uncategorized

Subscribe to the Highlights feed for a once-weekly listing of Lifehacker's best posts. This (slow holiday) week's highlights include:

• Ask the Readers: E-mail for kids?
  "What do you think about children having their own e-mail accounts? How can I monitor them?"
• Download of the Day: Dexpot (Windows)
  "Aside from providing an Exposé-like feature for individual desktops, Dexpot also lets you preview all desktops in a similar fashion to Leopard's Spaces."
• How to run 50 marathons in 50 days
  "Super-runner Dean Karnazes - who recently ran 50 marathons in 50 days - gives Wired magazine a list of strategies he's used to train and push himself on his long distance running feats."
• Download of the Day: Hazel (Mac)
  "...automatically delete any files more than a week old in your Downloads folder, clear documents you haven't touched in a month off your Desktop or automatically add MP3's to an iTunes playlist."

A Very Merry Friday: This week’s best posts

Posted by Gina Trapani under Uncategorized

Get a weekly update of the best of Lifehacker straight to your newsreader by subscribing to our Highlights feed. This week's best posts include:

• The best apps of 2006
  "...my picks for best new software and web applications that rocked our world in 2006."
• How to digitize cassette tapes
  "It's time to resurrect your collection of Phil Collins albums, Stephen King audiobooks, and other treasures of the 80s. With a few simple tools and your PC, you can turn these forgotten jewels into digital audio files that will live forever."
• Photo projects for the New Year
  "Here's a roundup of easy ways you can do your own year-in-photos with minimal effort - including a simple script that will help you automate photo projects on your Mac."
• Lifehacker Zeitgeist
  "Lifehacker's top dozen most popular posts of 2006, according to our traffic logs."
• DIY gift wrap with Microsoft Word
  "It's the office holiday gift exchange and you need wrapping paper, quick!"
• Download of the Day: Flickr Wallpaper Rotator (Windows)
  "...automatically downloads images from Flickr and sets them as your PC's desktop wallpaper."
• The Hipster PDA in Wordplay
  "Syndicated crossword puzzlemaker Merl Reagle uses index cards and pocket-sized notebooks to capture ideas about new puzzles while he's out and about."
• Download of the Day: VLC 0.8.6 (All platforms)
  "...now supports playback of Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9) and Flash video."
• Schedule meetings with TimeToMeet
  "TimeToMeet aims to help two or more people arrange a meeting with a minimum of fuss."
• Search Google Earth for giant toys
  "Santa has hidden a treasure trove of presents somewhere in Google Earth."

TGIF: This week’s best posts

Posted by Gina Trapani under Uncategorized

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This week's best posts include:

• Alpha Geek: Video Editing 101
  "'Tis the season for sharing home movies--but don't try your friends' and relatives' patience waiting for something good to happen in the hours of tape you shot on vacation."
• Q&A with Microsoft about Windows Vista
  "Just got back from a weekend visit to the Microsoft campus up in Redmond, Washington where I got the chance to hear about Windows Vista and other new MS creations..."
• Hack Attack: How to run Windows and Mac apps side-by-side with Parallels
  "You can intermingle all your Mac and Windows apps on the same desktop. I know what you're thinking: Disgusting! Unnatural!"
• Geek to Live: iTunes power tips
  "Today I'd like to highlight some of the lesser-known but super-useful iTunes features available in the latest version."
• Lifehacker Book Preview, Chapter 7: Organize Your Stuff
  "The more findable your data is, the more effective you can be."
• 15 unusual ways to use Google
  "...including tracking packages, converting units of measure and providing encyclopedic information."
• How NOT to be a Blackberry parent
  "In perhaps the most depressing article about information addiction ever published - or yet another eye-grabbing attempt by the mainstream media to demonize technology - the Wall Street Journal reports on 'Blackberry orphans,' kids who feel neglected by thumb-crazy parents."
• Download of the Day: Google Toolbar 3 Beta (Firefox)
  "Access your bookmarks or your Google Docs & Spreadsheets files from anywhere..."
• Make your own gift wrap
  "Do-it-yourself alternatives to store-bought gift wrap include comics, magazine pages, paper bags and even aluminum foil."