Evsion Lab

TGIF: This week’s best posts

Posted by Adam Pash under Uncategorized

Once a week, we round up the cream of the Lifehacker crop in the Highlights feed. If you want to snack of the best we've got on a daily basis, try our top stories feed. This week's best posts include:

• Geek to Live: Encrypt your web browsing session (with an SSH SOCKS proxy)
  "Using a simple SSH command, you can encrypt all your web browsing traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you're on someone else's network."
• Hack Attack: Add music and movies to your iPod from any computer without iTunes
  "When you're done here, you'll be able to add music and movies to your iPod from any computer - and retain almost every other useful feature iTunes brings to your iPod."
• DIY under-desk gadget mount
  "Organized gadget owner Van Mardian cleared his desktop by mounting all his peripherals... under his desk with pegboard and wire."
• Ask the Readers: How do you organize your Gmail?
  "Gmail's labels let you slice and dice your email messages and "file" them under as many keywords as you'd like. But how many labels do you actually use?"
• Todoist online task manager
  "...task management webapps have become as common and similar as geeks at a Star Trek convention; but I was pleasantly surprised by [Todoist's] usability and features."
• UltraNewb: How to move your iTunes library to an external drive
  "iTunes 7 makes relocating an existing media library pretty painless - that is, with a little know-how. Here's how to get it done."
• Screenshot Tour: Manage and organize your virtual desktop with Dexpot
  "Today I'm going to walk through... Dexpot and highlight the features that make it the best, most feature-rich virtual desktop manager for Windows I've seen."
• 10 great web tools for college students
  "Education-finance site NextPath serves up 10 sites designed to help college students work smarter and cheaper."
• The most annoying aspects of Windows Vista
  "PC World publishes a laundry list of irritants in Windows Vista..."
• Download of the Day: Woot Watcher (Firefox)
  "The Woot Watcher Firefox extension keeps you up-to-date with the latest item for sale on the popular electronics liquidator, Woot."
• Update your PC for the new Daylight Saving Time
  "Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. begins earlier and ends later starting this year - which means your PC might not set its clock correctly when the time comes."

TGIF: This week’s best posts

Posted by Gina Trapani under Uncategorized

Get a once-weekly hit of Lifehacker's bests posts in the Highlights feed. For the good stuff on a daily basis, subscribe to our top stories feed. This week's best posts include:

• Back up Gmail with fetchmail
  "...today we'll set up a nightly automated Gmail backup using the command line program fetchmail, which will go out, grab your newest messages, save 'em to your hard drive and exit, all while you sleep soundly in the knowledge that you've got an offline copy of your important email."
• Copy DVDs to your iPod
  "So Apple wants you to pony up $14.99 for Pixar's Cars when you already own the DVD? Nuh-uh. Don't think so. Seems like you should be able to copy that DVD right to your iPod."
• Back up and sync your Firefox bookmarks with your personal server
  "Today I'll detail how to use the Foxmarks extension to back up and sync your bookmarks to your own personal FTP server, whether it's with a hosted account or your own home server."
• Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes
  "Instead of going here, there and everywhere to see all the content you create on the web, combine it all into one master feed using with the newly-launched Yahoo! Pipes."
• Screenshot Tour: Learn everything about your PC with SIW
  "If you've ever lost a web password or software license; needed to troubleshoot a hardware problem on your computer but have no idea what model of motherboard you have or what BIOS you're running; or wanted to take a closer look at what kind of activity your network is open to, there's a catchall application for you, and it's called System Information for Windows."
• Download of the Day: WatchMyCell (Windows)
  "Freeware system tray app WatchMyCell logs into your cell phone account and keeps a watchful eye on how many minutes you've used for the month."
• Early Adopter Download of the Day: Peel Beta (Mac)
  "Pop your favorite music blogs into Peel's very iTunes-like interface and click on a song to give a listen, or right-click to download a track."
• Pick a restaurant with the Wheel of Food
  "Don't know where to go to lunch today? Pop your zip code into the Wheel of Food and give it a spin."
• Office Supplies Fetish: Slingshot monthly planner
  "...a nifty activist alternative to the boring Day Runner or At-A-Glance."
• Download of the Day: My Exposé (Vista)
  "...a Mac OS X Exposé clone for Windows Vista."
• Screenshot Tour: Windows Vista's Task Scheduler
  "One Windows administration tool that got totally tricked out in the upgrade from XP to Vista is the Scheduled Tasks manager."

TGIF: This week’s best posts

Posted by Rick Broida under Uncategorized

Love frosting but don't have time to eat the whole cake? Subscribe to the Lifehacker Highlights feed, which gives you a weekly dose of our best posts--the frosting, as it were. This week's highlights:

• Geek to Live: Tag files and save searches in Windows Vista
  "Tagging has taken off on the web, but what about on your hard drive? On the heels of Mac OS X's file tagging and Smart Folders features, Windows Vista users can now tag their files and use those keywords to organize and search documents on their desktop."
• Alpha Geek: Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part III: Metadata
  "By now all the songs in your MP3 library should have level volumes and embedded, accurate album art. The last step? Fixing your collection's metadata, also known as ID3 tags."
• Hack Attack: Getting good with Google Reader
  "Google Reader is one helluva feed reader, but unless you've spent a little time digging into the documentation, you probably aren't taking full advantage of what it has to offer."
• Geek to Live: Eight killer Thunderbird extensions
  "Like its sibling Firefox, the beauty of the open source Thunderbird email client is its extensibility. Sure we love our web-based email like Gmail, but Thunderbird is the ultimate open source desktop email app."
• Screenshot Tour: Tweaking Launchy
  "Last week I highlighted Launchy, my favorite Windows keyboard application launcher and more. Although Launchy is a fairly intuitive app to use, I know there are more than a few users who haven't taken full advantage of what it has to offer under the hood."
• Find restaurant secrets at Top Secret Recipes
  "Want to make a cherry Slurpee in your own kitchen? How about California Pizza Kitchen's famous BBQ Chicken Pizza? And homemade Cinnabon for dessert? You can find these recipes and hundreds more at Top Secret Recipes."
• Get 25GB of free online storage at Streamload MediaMax
  "MediaMax provides not only raw file storage that's accessible from any PC, but also file sharing and hosting, MP3 streaming and backup/sync software."
• Thirteen useful terminal commands
  "Command line lovers still developing their CLI chops should check out 13 useful commands at web site SEOmoz."
• Want to get more done? Start earlier in the day
  "Productivity blogger Bert Webb has written up a simple yet powerful article on how to get more out of your day."

Don't forget the Highlights feed serves up a once-weekly helping of Lifehacker's best posts; our daily top stories feed is a handy reader's digest too. Tailor your Lifehacker feed to your heart's content with our new not: exclusion operator.

TGIF: This week’s best posts

Posted by Gina Trapani under Uncategorized

The week of both Lifehacker's birthday and the (not-so) big Vista launch has come to a close. For a quickie recap, this week's best posts include:

• Geek to Live: Manage multiple Firefox profiles
  "If you share a computer with family members or roommates, or if you simply browse for different reasons - like work, blogging, school research, or play - you may want to use different Firefox settings each time you sit down to surf."
• Alpha Geek: Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part II - Album art
  "It's time to focus on album art, which is less of a practical improvement and more of a fun one."
• Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD
  "Putting any old video file - like the DivX/Xvid-encoded videos you've downloaded with BitTorrent - onto a DVD to play on your TV can be a daunting task."
• Lifehacker Code: About This Site add-on (Firefox)
  "When you happen upon a new web site - or you're just interested in finding more about one you frequent all the time - it's difficult to get a sense of how popular it is, how long it's been around, what people are saying about it and how much it's been bookmarked."
• Screenshot Tour: How to crack a Windows password with Ophcrack Live CD
  "Whether you need to recover the lost password to a Windows account, you're looking to ensure that your passwords are secure, or you're a super l33t h4x0r, the Ophcrack Live CD is a pretty useful tool."
• Download of the Day: Launchy 1.0 (Windows)
  "Open source application Launchy is a quick, lightweight application launcher (and then some)."
• Stream your MP3s with Netvibes-SlimServer mashup
  "...you'll need a free Netvibes account, the free SlimServer software and about 15 minutes."
• Download of the Day: Pandora Downloader (Windows)
  "...save MP3s from the popular internet radio site, Pandora."
• Download web video with the All-In-One Video Bookmarklet
  "Save that YouTube or Google Video file with one click o' the toolbar."
• Geek to Live: Windows Vista upgrade power tips
  "After using Windows Vista for awhile, even the most begrudging upgrader will find that it's got a lot more features and options for the power user compared to Windows XP."
• Ask Lifehacker: Should I upgrade to Vista now or wait?
  "If you want a truly seamless transition to Vista - especially if you're upgrading your existing PC versus buying a new one with it pre-installed - I'd say wait."
• Automatically log in with Firefox keyword bookmarks
  "Bypass a username and password authentication web page and automatically log in with a keyword and your password in the Firefox address bar."

Don't forget the Highlights feed serves up a once-weekly helping of Lifehacker's best posts; our daily top stories feed is a handy reader's digest too. Tailor your Lifehacker feed to your heart's content with our new not: exclusion operator.