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Become a dancing fool with free online dance lessons at LearnToDance.com, a site full of detailed text lessons complete with diagrams AND video clip demonstrations. You've got your Argentine Tango,...

Most of us probably can't take naps every day, but you can still get a bit of a boost with a simple meditation nap. Life Learning Today shows us how to do this with a simple writeup. Basically, the...

Time is both the most solid and fleeting resource we have available to us, but how do we make the most of it? Pick the Brain, a site devoted to optimum life efficiency, suggests multiple positives: A...

Got some green tomatoes? You can ripen them more quickly with a quick twist of newspaper: Ripen tomatoes. Wrap them individually and leave them out at room temperature. If you don't have newspaper...

Are you chronically late? Productivity blog ZenHabits suggests getting in the habit of overestimating: Make a conscious effort to start getting ready earlier, and to leave earlier. This also makes...

The HP Digital Photography site has a list of camera bag essentials that can make your travels a bit easier to document.The most intriguing tip for me was this: Whether you've planned your trip...

If you have a smallish roach problem (so far, anyway) and don't want to spend your life savings on an exterminator's visit, you might want to try some homemade roach killer formula. Ingredients are...

Search multiple search engines and search services all from one place with Sputtr. Sputtr's layout looks like a simple keyboard - and you use it kind of like a keyboard, too. Just type in what...

Those of us who work from home know that it's pretty awesome. However, you've got to create some kind of balance. SmartMoney.com's small business section has an intriguing article addressing this...

Want a better memory? Try a fewry a few memory hacks from productivity blog How to Split an Atom. There are many good suggestions here, such as create a mnemonic, write it down, and take advantage of the...

Wouldn't it be nice if you could upload a ton of your del.icio.us bookmarks all at once instead of one by one? Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration has figured out how to do this. All you need to do...

The always helpful Tech-Recipes has come up with an ingenius way to find latitude and longitude values for any location using Google Maps. You'll first need to look up an address (duh), but this...

Add your del.icio.us bookmarks to your Facebook profile in one easy swoop with the new Facebook/del.icio.us widget. You'll need to be signed into both Facebook and del.icio.us in order to do this;...

The Boston Public Library has created an extensive summer reading list for kids, arranged by subject. This is a really well-done list, arranged by topics such as "Train Lovers", "Detectives", "If...

Google has made their calendar tool even more useful with the rollout of Google Calendar Gallery, a way to find and share interesting public calendars. So much interesting stuff here: you can find...

Your desktop is organized, you're productive, and you have mad skillz with the 'puter. You can make your inner life as efficient as the one on the outside with ten tips from productivity site...

Happy Friday, 'hackers! If you're drowning in LH information overload, grab our stripped-down daily top stories feed, or just get a once-weekly digest of the cream of the post crop. Speaking of,...

Mac OS X only: Freeware app SetAlphaValue lets you create transparent windows in Mac OS X. SetAlphaValue gives Mac users a taste of Beryl for Linux by allowing you to set the level of transparency...

Web site Cameroid lets you play photo booth with any webcam in the comfort of your browser. The web site is basically a web version of Mac's PhotoBooth program, offering you different effects for...

Windows only: UltraMon adds tons of useful functionality and tweaks to your multi-monitor desktop. Of UltraMon's slew of features, the one that standat stands out most for multi-monitor users is probably...

The USB dance is that annoying game you play for about 10 seconds every time you try to plug in your thumb drive. You spend a few seconds flipping your drive back and forth trying to figure out...

According to Men's Health, you can gauge how done your steaks are by comparing the elasticity of the steak to the way the meaty part of your thumb feels as it progressively flexes. It works like...

Windows only: Determine what programs are using a locked file with freeware utility, WhoLockMe. We recently covered how to delete locked files, but let's say—rather than using a brute force...

...Andrew Mitry's Cross Platform Workstation! Big congrats to Andrew, whose workspace won out in the hardest fought poll of the contest—pulling out ahead with just 11 votes over the...

Looking at the history of computing, anyone can see that it wasn't until some brilliant folks connected a couple of computers together that the real fun began. Countless tools let you do all sorts...

If the Windows button on your keyboard has gone cold, lonely and unpressed, this fun video shows you 8 reasons to put it to good use. I'm a big fan of Win+D and Win+L, myself. Thanks, Watt! Hidden...

Thanks to this week's sponsors for helping us polish the silver of personal productivity: AT&T, Canon, Casio, Don Julio, Ipevo, Nokia, Sprint, TiVo, Toyota, Verizon, and Windows Vista. Want to join...

Windows only: Network manager NetStumbler lists all the wifi networks in your area, their signal strength and whether or not they're passworded. The Windows equivalent of yesterday's featured Mac...

Mac OS X only: So you've got a PowerPoint presentation to give on your Macbook, and you're all excited to channel Al Gore and use your Mac's remote to switch slides, but it doesn't work with...

Brave-hearted testers dying to know what direction Firefox 3 is going in can download the early alpha code-named Gran Paradiso, which will probably notably not support your extensions and is more a preview...

Next week Apple previews the new version of OS X, dubbed Leopard, at the Worldwide Developer's Conference; for now Wired News breaks down what we know about Leopard's new features, including Time...

We don't often profess our love for commercial software around these parts, but Parallels Desktop for Mac - the application that runs Windows XP and Vista on your Mactel in a virtual machine - has...

The Psycho Cats weblog offers a script that automatically installs the open source media player Songbird 0.2.5 in Ubuntu. The script automatically downloads Songbird, installs it, and adds it to...

Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router "After a relatively simple firmware upgrade, you can boost your wireless signal, prioritize what programs get your precious bandwidth, and do lots...

Glenn Wosley's Top 10 Mac Setups With Dell Displays had several readers commenting that Apple Cinema Displays are no different than Dell displays -- except when it comes to price. What's the verdict...

Mac OS X only: Freeware app Image Upload Widget allows you to upload images to ImageShack using a drag and drop widget. Image Uploader Widget does more than just give you an easy to use interface to...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Search, translate, convert, email, print, post to your blog, and copy any text on a web page with the Hyperwords Firefox extension. When I first checked out Hyperwords,...

Reader Jared uses Google Calendar to keep track of past events more than he does for future events. For example: My brother's birthday was last month, and I bought him a digital camera. Not long...

Pixel Beat compiled a list of of commonly used terminal commands. Linux/Unix, Mac, and Cygwin users should take note since most of these commands are not platform specific. The guide covers many...

The Hack Addict weblog details how to stream your iTunes library to your Wii using the free Wii Opera browser and previously mentioned MyTunesRSS. The method requires a little bit of setup, but the...

Mac OS X only: Free, open-source application Seashore is a light-weight image editor based on the GIMP. Seashore is built using GIMP's framework and is streamlined specifically for Mac OS X. Unlike...