November 2007
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Firefox Tip: Wrap Firefox's Bookmarks Toolbar →
This tweak will cause your bookmarks toolbar to wrap around when it gets too wide to fit the screen.
October 2007
51 posts
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Kill your hands: Guitar Hero III →
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“iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don’t feel cool when I go...”
– Trent Reznor
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PC stripper helps spam to spread →
Spammers have created a Windows game that undresses an image of a woman as the user solves CAPTCHAs for sites that they want to spam. It’s despicable, but you can’t deny the brilliance of the idea…
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New kind of 'vampire' sucks power out of homes →
5% of the electricity consumed in the United States is used to power electronics in standby mode. That adds up to $4 billion per year.
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NBC Bitch-Slaps 'Heroes' Viewers With In-Program... →
The march towards Idiocracy continues… Sadly, it’s only a matter of time before these show up in The Office and Earl.
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Writers' Strike threatens Hollywood →
Like, OMG!!! People will have to read!!!! Think of the children!!!1!!1!!!!
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Auto-Hide Your Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar →
Use this tip to free up even more space (of course, don’t forget about F11).
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Consolidate Firefox's chrome →
This is a great tutorial about how you can hack Firefox to give you more screen real estate for, you know, actually viewing web pages. For example, you can get rid of the Help menu (who needs that, anyway?), the Edit menu (keyboard shortcuts are quicker), and the Home button (Alt-Home works just fine). With all that extra room, you can move the navigation bar up into the menu. And why would you...
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Burn calories while earning paycheck with... →
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“After reading this headline I have decided that any time I frag someone in an...”
– Lifehacker user Egoant, in a comment posted to Soothe Razor Burn with a Tea Bag
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Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP... →
I’m still waiting for them to turn on IMAP for my account…grr!
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The Best and Worst Logo Remakes of the Century →
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Leinenkugel's Oktoberfest →
Honestly, this one’s not much different than a normal pale lager. It’s a bit spicy, but very light. It’s not a bad beer, but it’s not really a good Oktoberfest, either. If you’re going to try Leinie’s, get Red or Sunset Wheat instead.
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Becks Oktoberfest →
Pours deep orange-amber, not much aroma. The taste is similar to the normal Beck’s brew, but this one is quite a bit sweeter and a little hoppier. It’s not exceptional, but definitely refreshing.
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Gmail gets IMAP →
Sweet! I miss Thunderbird, but I didn’t miss it enough to try to mess around with POP…I need to read my Gmail from too many different machines for that to be feasible.
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Microsoft to push functional programming into the... →
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Best Buy pulls plug on analog TVs →
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Brewery offers lifetime supply of beer in return... →
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5,000 toothpicks ruin high school football game →
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You've got to find what you love →
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Released! →
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Magic Hat Jinx →
This smoked ale pours a dark amber-tinged ruby with a small head. Malty sweetness fades into a smoky coffee flavor. Moderately hoppy finish. Reminds me of some smoked porters I’ve had. Overall, a good brew.
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Baseball strikes out again in battle over fantasy... →
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The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal,... →
New York to Los Angeles: 31 hours, 4 minutes.
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iTunes Plus DRM-free tracks expanding, dropping to... →
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60 grams of fat for breakfast! →
Hardee’s just unveiled a 920-calorie breakfast burrito with 60 grams of fat. This rounds out a menu which already features the 1420-calorie Monster Thickburger and the healthy choice, an 1100-calorie chicken salad. The combo comes with a XXXL t-shirt that reads: “I’m a fat dumbass.”
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Drive advance fuels terabyte era →
Hitachi expects to be shipping 4TB hard drives by 2011. UPDATE: PC World says it will be by 2009.
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And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps... →
So, just in the past few days, that makes five: Radiohead Nine Inch Nails Oasis Jamiroquai Madonna Can you say critical mass?
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13 easy, inexpensive ways to go green →
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Record label defections by major acts a troubling... →
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Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead →
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Nine Inch Nails Dumps Record Labels, Going Direct... →
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China's Great Firewall turns its attention to RSS... →
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Top 40 Demotivational Posters →
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Understanding MP3 compression →
Nintendo to offer free Wii remote jackets →
Nintendo will be including Wii remote jackets with all new hardware, but is also offering to send them out free to those who purchased their Wii remotes prior to the change. Hopefully these are easier to remove than the third-party jackets I bought last year. I quit using them because it was a complete PITA to get them off to get at the batteries, and an even worse chore to get them back on.
Microsoft to Release Source Code for the .NET... →
This is great news…It’s nice to see that at least some of the folks in Redmond get it. I can’t remember the last time that MS did something cool two days in a row. UPDATE: Some folks in the Open Source community think that it’s a trap. I see their point.
Why is there no generic Life cereal? →
First-Gen Zune Getting All The New Features: This... →
Not everything Microsoft does is bad. Hopefully, for once, Apple can copy something from them…
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Wi-Fi Boosts, Tweaks and... →
Gibson's Self-Tuning Guitar →
Global Mac market share up to 6.6% for September... →
6.6% is still pretty small, but it’s 40% better than the 4.7% for the same month last year. By comparison, Vista is only a shade ahead at 7.4%. Windows’ marketshare is still a dominating 91%, but that is down from 94% a year ago. They aren’t in danger of losing their lead in the near future, but given the momentum that the challengers are currently enjoying and the way that...
RIAA anti-P2P campaign a real money pit, according... →
Study: file-sharing leads to "chart churn," helps... →
But the rapid turnover on the Top 100 has had an unexpected side effect: more albums from the independent labels appear on the charts, and those that appear survive longer than they had before. Releases from indie labels are still at a disadvantage compared to those from the majors, but the gap between them appears to have narrowed. Those who predicted that file-sharing would help popularize more...
Sony BMG's chief anti-piracy lawyer: "Copying"... →
Radiohead In Rainbows →
Radiohead are releasing their new album independently from their own website. They give you two options: you can purchase a deluxe collector’s edition (which includes CD and vinyl!) for £40, or you can download the album for…get this: any price you want. Really. Put the digital download in your basket and see what happens. I’ve been hoping that this sort of business model...
Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere →