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Skip straight to the operator with your dirty mouth "The IVR operator gave me a list of options, I said, "F*@#!" and he said: 'I think you said you want to talk to a customer service agent. Is this...

All platforms with Firefox: Firefox extension CacheViewer allows you to search, organize, and save all the files housed in your Firefox cache. Since Firefox doesn't use "Temporary Internet Files"...

The XLNTsolution weblog has a whole stash of system tweaks they recommend to speed up Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. Some of the tips include disabling IPv6, enabling parallel boot processes, reducing the...

Mac OS X only: Freeware Finder plug-in Finder Browser lets provides a simple method for browsing all of the images in a folder. The plug-in adds a "Browse Images" entry to Finder's...

We've all gotten error messages in Windows, and we generally all take the same approach to getting to the bottom of the error: by searching the contents of the message in Google. The annoying part...

Gmail officially supports in-browser Powerpoint viewing via a "View as slideshow" link for attached PPT files, completing the rollout we announced a few weeks ago.

The Local Gas Prices iGoogle gadget lets you view the lowest gas prices in your zip code based on prices provided by previously mentioned MSN Autos search results. With gas prices promising an...

Our brother site Gizmodo just clarified their Digg policy, so we thought it was high time we do the same. First, let's state the obvious: Do we love the traffic that a link from the Digg.com front...

Web site TechTarget compiled the cheat sheet of all cheat sheets (a meta cheat sheet, if you will). It's chocked full of references to other cheat sheets with topwith topics ranging from Microsoft Office,...

Google Co-op, Google's custom search engine builder, has added an option to beef up your custom searches by letting you including linked-to pages in your custom search. That is, if you've set up a...

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 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...