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Productivity blogger Dumb Little Man has put together twenty of the most basic tips that can make your Google searches more efficient. Most of these are old-hat to our intrepid Lifehacker readers,...

Financial site SavingAdvice.com has put together a list of the top twenty Firefox extensions that will actually work to save you money. The list includes a Cingular minutes minder, a grocery list...

Nothing says "summer" like a cold drink in the backyard. Instructables has made a nifty tutorial on how to make ice straws to keep your drink cool and pretty much be the most refreshing hipster in...

Google has rolled out a new way to limit image searches to faces only - completely under the radar. Here's how it works: Search for someone - say David Hasselhoff. In order to limit your image...

Weather Underground has added local weather webcams to their site, with the option to add your own. Almost every state in the Union is represented here with a wide variety of webcams available;...

Many offices nowadays have a more relaxed pet policy, but there's definitely a good way to go around this and a bad way. The Partnership for Animal Welfare (PAW) has come up with a few tips for...

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DLL-Downloads.com has an excellent tutorial that demonstrates how to install .DLL files in Windows. What is a .DLL? Glad you asked. DLLs are packages that contain code and data that are used by...

A member of the MacTalk forums describes in detail how he set up the ultimate iTunes media server in his home. Actually, to say it's only an only an iTunes media server is a bit of an understatement. The...

The Mock, Paper, Scissors weblog details how to format, print out, and fold your digital photos into a photobook. All it requires is a little duplex printing of your pics on a two-by-two grid and...

Linux only: Freeware "package" Nautilus Scripts is a compilation of handy scripts that supercharge your right-click menu in Nautilus. With Nautilus Scripts you can convert audio files, convert and...

The Zen Habits weblog offers 5 reasons to slow down your drive and suggests a few methods for how you can make you drive more enjoyable by removing the stress. The commute is a fairly common part...

Windows with Thunderbird: Free open-source Thunderbird extension ThunderBrowse adds a URL bar to Thunderbird. A couple weeks ago we covered how to embed any webpage in Thunderbird. ThunderBrowse...

Mailbox Maps is Google Maps mashup that shows you the closest set of mailboxes and the pickup times at each so that you can be sure to get your package out on time. All you have to do is enter your...

In the spirit of reader sharing engendered by the Coolest Workspace contest, we're going to try something new here on Lifehacker: the "Show Us Yours" series. It's like this: We know you guys are...

Whether we admit it or not, we're all at least a little in love with the iPhone. However, a lot fewer of us are $500-in-love with the iPhone. If your clunky old Windows Mobile phone is just sitting...

Forget learning Microsoft Access and Visual Basic: the newly-revamped Zoho Creator is an easy-to-use online database creation tool. Set up your database's fields (like for an address book: Name,...

Thanks to this week's sponsors for providing more productivity hot dogs than we could grill at just one Lifehacker BBQ: AT&T, Canon, Casio, Don Julio, EBay UK, Ipevo, Windows Vista, Nokia, Sprint,...

Even though you won't get it till October, Leopard is now available for pre-order at Amazon for $129.

Linux only: Skype finally released the 1.4 beta version for Linux of its popular free cross-platform VoIP application. It's nice that Skype has finally put some effort into updating its...

Web site Blabberize animates photos and turns them into talking heads. Upload a photo of someone to Blabberize, select the mouth and record your message. Once your Blabberize photo is done you can...

Windows only: Shareware application Flash Renamer renames your files and folders in bulk. Flash Renamer doesn't just flat-out rename; it can change the case (UPPER and lower) of file names, search...

Google requires a photo ID and a sworn statement from people who want out of Maps' Street View photos.

Yahoo! Photos is shutting down come September, and CNET's compiled an FAQ for users who have photos to pack up and move out. Yahoo on Wednesday launched tools that can move your photos to Flickr or...

Windows only: Freeware app iTunes Sync syncs and transfers your iTunes music to non-iPod MP3 players. As long as your MP3 player shows up as a drive letter in Windows (and most of them do), iTunes...

Our weekly Top 10 list is already three months old! In case you've missed out, a recap: Top 10 Body Hacks Top 10 Free Windows Downloads Top 10 Must-have Firefox extensions Top 10 Free Computer...

Mac OS X only: The Simplehelp weblog has a detailed guide to adding commands to Finder's right-click context menu using a freeware application called OnMyCommand. We've actually covered OnMyCommand...

Linux only: Free open-source app Xnest lets you run multiple sessions (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc.) concurrently. Additionally, Xnest can be used to remotely connect to and control another computer. ...

Firefox with Greasemonkey: Greasemonkey script NoDelay allows you to bypass "please wait, your download should begin shortly" dialogs and begin downloading files immediately. Although the script...

Is it possible to whittle down my Palm functionality to a thumb drive? What easy to use (and free) text editor and ftp clients exist for the Mac? Why is a folder that should have ~1000 folders only...

Windows only: The Go-y Launchy plug-in lets you quickly switch to already-opened windows on your desktop. To install, just download the zip folder from SourceForge and copy the Go-y.dll file to...

The Macenstein weblog gives a rundown of how to install Safari 3 Beta and Safari 2 concurrently on the same Mac OS X computer. If you're like me, you rushed out and downloaded the Safari 3 beta...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Firefox extension Locationbar² tweaks Firefox's address bar to add emphasis to the information contained inside the address bar. It does so by highlighting the top...

The Google Blogoscoped weblog has rounded up a handful of "Googmarklets" (i.e., Google bookmarklets) designed to take advantage of several Google services from the comfort of your bookmarks...

CNN has paired with Google to introduce the CNN/YouTube debates, in which YouTube users will submit questions to presidential hopefuls in July's Democratic and September's Republican debates.

Freeware Windows Mobile application iContact adds iPhone-like scrolling contacts to your Windows mobile phone. Just download the free executable and run in on your phone to give it a try. You can...

As we're all aware by now, Safari is now available for Windows. So the question is, is there any compelling reason you might want to switch from the venerable Firefox to Safari? The Safari feature...

Job seekers, upgrade your career at Lifehacker Jobs. This week's listing highlights: IT Manager - Marijuana Policy Project, Washington, DC Quality Assurance Engineer - Principle Solutions Group,...

The Coolest Workspace contest is over, but reader DarkMatter writes in: A while ago you mentioned using peg board to organize all your gadgets under your desk, so I went and bought some for my...

Reader Jes writes in: A few years ago, I was working in at IT department and we were continually losing our core installation CD's such as Windows XP... so we made a CD rack using the bottom part of...

Windows only: Freeware application ShellEnhancer expands the functionality of your Windows desktop tenfold. ShellEnhancer offers several visual enhancements like rolling up windows, making windows...