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The Embiggen bookmarklet expands any embedded TinyURL into its original URL, letting you see exactly where this TinyURL is pointing. We've discussed TinyURL etiquette in the past, but that doesn't...

One of the lesser-publicized features of our favorite Windows-on-Mac virtualization software, Parallels 3.0, is its Boot Camp support. Boot Camp is Apple's free software that can boot Windows on...

Windows only: Learning app Keyboard Jedi disables your mouse and forces helps you memorize your favorite application's keyboard shortcuts. No, this software is not any visual overlay or a diagram of...

A reader at the Canon Digital Photography Forums demonstrates how to remove skin blemishes and imperfections using Photoshop. The tutorial is a comprehensive guide that'll show you how to give your...

Free online personal finance manager Expensr tracks your income and expenses and makes a slick pie graph that answers the question "Where did my money go?" Register for the freshly-launched and free...

The Ubuntu Guide web site runs down how to turn your CDs/DVDs and folders into .iso disk images. The process even demonstrates how to create your own MD5 checksum files. This surprisingly simple...

The June 15th tax deadline looms, which means freelancers, sole proprietors and other misc income-making individuals and small businesses have an estimated quarterly tax payment to make. Up until...

In response to recent privacy concerns, Google will obscure user-identifiable data after only 18 months instead of 24.

Photo-sharing site Flickr goes multilingual and adds Spanish, French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese and traditional Chinese versions to its interface.

By default Windows XP keeps some built-in programs - like WordPad - out of the Add/Remove Programs box, but it's not hard to make them show their faces. The IntelliAdmin site reports that removing...

Add screen actions with Brightside Embed the terminal on the desktop Print to PDF in Ubuntu Beautify Firefox web page forms on Ubuntu Speed up Ubuntu boot and shutdown process Encrypt CDs/DVDs in...

Windows Home Server Release Candidate 1 is now available for download by testers. Sadly you have to fill out a form to participate in a survey and wait to get the download link.

Typically when you start a new terminal session you are created with: username@computerName. Although this message is important for some users who constantly switch computers and use different...

Mac OS X only: Freeware app Show Desktop creates a button in the dock and/or menu bar that automatically minimizes certain applications with the click of the mouse. Unlike Windows' built-in show...

Webs site NetRenderer previews how a web page design will display on Internet Explorer 7, IE6, and IE5. Just enter your URL and NetRenderer automatically loads your web site in Internet Explorer,...

Windows only: Freeware application moreTunes tracks your media player's currently playing track and automatically downloads (and repairs, if you want it to) relevant track metadata, like album art,...

The Download Squad weblog rounds up several methods for making Windows Mobile more Windows-like. From the free eXPerience and SimpleOS to the shareware PocketWin and PPX3k, you've got a lot of...

The FactoryCity weblog discusses the value of creating "not to do lists" to get rid of the stress of an overwhelming to do list: As someone leading four or five lives' worth of stuff to do... having...

Firefox with Greasemonkey: Blogger Raúl Ochoa has created a Greasemonkey script that adds search to Google Reader by accessing the feed items synced with Google Gears. We've already seen methods...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): The Configuration Mania Firefox extension provides a GUI menu for tweaking Firefox's about:config settings. That means that rather than typing about:config in your...

The day after a big Apple event like yesterday's WWDC keynote is like the day after Christmas - it leaves you with that letdown, hungover, regretful feeling. Now that Apple's locked down the...

Sick of hearing about the Mac? Let's talk jobs, then. No, not that Jobs. This week at Lifehacker Jobs: Software Developer - EmSense Corporation, San Francisco, CA (SOMA) Senior Web Developer -...

Creating an encrypted CD/DVD in Ubuntu isn't difficult and the Linux Monitor weblog runs down how. All the shell lovers out there will be glad to know that the entire process is done through the...

Windows only: Freeware application ObjectDock brings the functionality of the Mac OS X Dock to Windows. ObjectDock comes in a free and a pay version and gives Windows users all the perks of the OS X...

All platforms: The OpenOffice.org add-on LanguageTool grammar checks your documents on the fly. LanguageTool is the add-on OpenOffice.org users who wish for commercial office suite grammar-checking...

All platforms with Firefox: Add any web site search to the Firefox search box with the Add to Search Bar extension. To add a new site search, just right-click in the site's search box. You can then...

Universities are starting to move over to Gmail as their official campus mail as Google expands its "Google Apps for Education" program.

Say you've goou've got a folder you refer to all the time - like your My Documents or data folder - and you're sick of navigating a deep hierarchy to get to it. The CodeJacked weblog has a solution: assign...

The previously-mentioned VMWare Windows-on-a-Mac virtualization software's release version will cost about $80, same as Parallels. Right now, the beta is free.

Mac user Leander Kahney wonders who in their right mind would run Safari on Windows, because "Safari sucks."

All platforms with Firefox: The Smart Link extension opens plain text URLs that are not hyperlinked on web pages. With Smart Link you no longer have to copy the link and paste it into the location...

Today's Apple WWDC keynote event brought us a great insight to the future of Mac OS X Leopard, and it actually looks pretty exciting. Jobs' 10-point keynote highlighted the new and improved Finder,...

The new Desktop feature in Leopard that we like the most - called Stacks - keeps files you need on the Dock without cluttering up the Desktop itself. But you don't have to wait till Leopard's...

All this Leopard coverage making you want to switch.... to Linux? Similar to the way Microsoft created a web site to take Vista for a test-drive, an Ubuntu user created a web site to introduce...

Speaking of Leopard, our take on Leopard versus Windows Vista from August of last year still stands - even though at the time Vista wasn't yet out, and most of what we knew of Leopard was Time...

All platforms running Firefox: The Resurrect Pages extension lets you visit offline websites that are unavailable for one reason or another. Resur 136b rect Pages displays a list of options on the...

Apple takes a page from Microsoft's playbook and touts Desktop as the lead feature in the new version of OS X, Leopard - and all told it amounts to a bunch of pretty graphics and some animation. ...

Out of all the Mac OS X Leopard announcements made today, the one that I'm most excited about isn't hologram effects in iChat, it's the whole new revamp of OS X's file manager, Finder. We've long...

Windows (and Mac, of course): Today Apple releases the Safari version 3 beta, which now runs on Windows as well as OS X. Steve Jobs said today that Safari is faster than Internet Explorer and...

10 key features of Leopard include iTunes-like Finder (with CoverFlow and document preview, yay!), Time Machine backup, a spiffed-up iChat and Boot Camp, and Core Animation.

Pick and choose the scripts Ubuntu runs on startup with the BootUp-Manager package. By disabling several scripts you can speedup the boot and shutdown process. The Zolved weblog recommends 7...