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TGIF: This week’s best posts

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This week's best posts include:

• Encrypt your instant messages with Gaim
  "You're instant messaging your wife from the office and you'd rather the IT guys weren't privy to the conversation."
• Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part I - Level the volume
  "...discover the first secret of a perfect MP3 library."
• Share your iTunes music library over your home network
  "The problem with iTunes built-in shared libraries is it's very limited."
• Hide data in files with easy steganography tools
  "The digital equivalent of invisible ink is steganography software, apps that embed files and data inside other files, hidden from everyone who doesn't know any better."
• Screenshot Tour: The keyboard shortcut goodness of Microsoft Office 2007
  "...what I was instantly in love with is Office 2007's attention to mouseless navigation."
• Windows Vista Tip: Disable annoying "Need your permission to continue-" prompts
  "Windows Vista's User Account Control security feature is bound to drive any power user batty."
• Download of the Day: URL Fixer (Firefox)
  "...automatically correct common URL typos in the address bar."
• Bring back old-school Google Image Search
  "...undo Google Image Search's recent 'improvements.'"
• Ask Lifehacker: Sync my PDA/smartphone to the web?
  "There's a web-sync tool that supports not only the Treo, but a whole bunch of PDAs and smartphones."
• Screencast: Windows Vista Flip 3D
  "If you're wondering whether it's worth upgrading your PC's video card for Vista's new graphics system Aero, check out Flip 3D."
• Download of the Day: Recuva (Windows)
  "Recover deleted files with Recuva, a new utility from the developers who brought you the venerable system-scouring tool CCleaner."

TGIF: This week’s best posts

Posted by Gina Trapani under Uncategorized

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This week’s best posts include:

• How to replace a dead power supply
  “At least hard drives have the courtesy to make that wrenching death-rattle when the end is near. But not power supplies: They just give up the ghost. Poof.”
• Turn your blog into a book, part II
  “How do you organize and rewrite over 5,000 blog posts into book format?”
• Bolster your browsing privacy at work
  “As a firm believer that you can do your job well while getting in a little personal time with Sweet Lady Internet, this week I’m going to highlight a few methods for adding a layer of privacy and freedom to your work browsing.”
• Secure VNC with Hamachi
  “Today we’ll cover how to drive a computer over the internet with the free, secure and cross-platform VNC and Hamachi, the chocolate and peanut butter of remote computing.”
• Screenshot Tour: Jajuk Music Player
  “Jajuk’s full of interesting ways to slice and dice your music.”
• Download of the Day: Xecutor (Windows)
  “Xecutor manages scripts and programs set to start automatically when you boot up, during the day or when you shut down on your PC.”
• Windows Vista Tip: Take screenshots with the Snipping Tool
  “One of the nicer utilities built into Windows Vista is the Snipping Tool, a screengrab application that blows the doors off Windows XP’s measly Alt-PrintScreen and Mac OS X’s Grab.”
• Search Wikipedia with WikiSeek
  “The new search tool, accessible from a web page or within Firefox, promises faster, more accurate results than you get from Wikipedia proper.”
• Install and run Ubuntu without disturbing Windows
  “Forget partitions, dual-boot setups and live CDs: The new Ubuntu Windows installer lets you run the Linux distro while keeping the rest of your system intact.”
• Get refunds with Price Protectr
  “Web site Price Protectr monitors popular online stores for price drops on items you’ve purchased, then notifies you if the price drops at any time during that store’s price protection period (e.g., Amazon’s 30-day price guarantee).”

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TGIF: This week’s best posts

Posted by Gina Trapani under Uncategorized

Get a weekly dose of the best of Lifehacker using our Highlights feed. Or get our daily best stories using the Top stories feed. This week's best posts include:

• The command line comeback
  "Let's take a closer look at this surprising "circle of life" right back to the trusty old command line with some examples of CLI in modern personal computing."
• Alpha Geek: CDs vs. Downloads
  "The novelty of the 99-cent song has worn off. The ugly reality of Digital Rights Management (DRM) has settled in. The music-download revolution is over. It's time to go back to buying CDs."
• Seven New Year's Resolutions for your PC
  "At the start of every new year, people the world over make resolutions to better themselves, with fitness, health, money, and career goals at the forefront of our minds. But what about your poor, neglected PC?"
• Turn your blog into a book, part I
  "It's not surprising that pro writers are becoming bloggers, but "amateur" bloggers getting book deals are turning heads online and off."
• Five ways to clean up your snail mail
  "Sorting through the mail each day and keeping track of what came in became an annoying task and a recipe for misplaced or discarded bills or important letters."
• Download of the Day: USB PC Repair System (Windows)
  "...a USB-drive based collection of software that'll help you resuscitate any ailing PC."
• The fastest method for posting bookmarks to Del.icio.us
  "With a little tweak, I set up the bookmarklet to tag the page you're currently visiting by typing something as simple as tag tech productivity todo in your address bar and hitting enter."
• Download of the Day: CrossLoop (Windows)
  "Connect to and take control of another PC with CrossLoop, quite possibly the easiest remote-access tool on the planet."
• Download of the Day: Ophcrack Live CD
  "Ophcrack is creepy. It cracked my (somewhat mediocre) 13-character alphanumeric password in about 5 minutes."
• Create smart sets in Flickr with SmartSetr
  "SmartSetr works a lot like iTunes Smart playlists - but for your Flickr account."
• Ask Lifehacker: Gmail or Thunderbird?
  "...there are some areas where T-bird simply doesn't stand up to Gmail: search, for one, and message tagging, for another."

TGIF: This week’s best posts

Posted by Adam Pash under Uncategorized

Get your weekly dose of our best posts delivered to your newsreader: subscribe to the Highlights feed. This week’s best posts include:

• A guide for switching to a Mac
  “To ease this transition for all of the new Mac owners out there, I’ve put together a quick guide for Mac newbies making the big switch.”
• Six webapps to help keep your New Year’s resolutions
  “Follow me for a rundown of the best online tools for making, tracking and sticking to new resolutions…”
• How to wrap a headphone cord
  “Tired of constantly having to de-tangle your headphone cord every time you pull your iPod out of your bag?”
• Software for Starving Students (Win/Mac)
  “Th[is] collection includes well-known gems like 7-Zip, Audacity, Blender, and OpenOffice.org…”
• New Year’s weight loss hacks
  “The results from our New Year’s resolution poll are in: almost one third of you are looking to lose weight and get more fit in ‘07.”
• 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.”
• Learn a language with podcasts
  “If you’re interested in learning a language in ‘07, iTunes has a whole section of podcasts devoted to language.”
• Unlimited online file storage
  “…divShare definitely comes in handy when you need to move or share large files.”
• Fix your LCD’s stuck pixels
  “JScreenFix is designed to fix your LCD’s stuck pixels by quickly switching red, green, and blue colors on your monitor.”
• Use a 9-volt battery as emergency AAAs
  “This could come in really handy if you’re in a pinch for AAAs.”

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