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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...

YouTube has upgraded their embedded video interface to offer better navigation of related videos, easy access to embed code through the menu, and the ability to jump ahead in a video even when that...

Using Quicksilver, you can set up a timer to sleep, log out, restart, or shutdown your Mac. Here's how: Invoke Quicksilver and start typing which you'd like to do (Sleep, Log Out, Restart, or...

If you've ever tried copying and pasting a multi-line address into Google Maps just to realize that an input box will only take one line at a time—meaning that you have to copy and paste each...

The time has finally arrived. Today your votes will decide 2007's Coolest Workspace. The lucky winner has got a cool $500 in Amazon scratch and major Lifehacker bragging rights. We've got 5 great...

Mac OS X only: Menubar utility Check Off is a very simple list of items with checkboxes that you can - you guessed it - check off as you complete them. Check Off is a very simple application, but...

A user at the Neowin.net forums demonstrates a simple registry tweak that expands Vista's Recycle Bin's right-click menu: [The registry tweak] replaces the Delete command from the Recycle Bin with a...

Linux only: Free open-source app Kflickr gives Gnome and KDE users an easy way to upload images to Flickr. Assign the photo's title, tags, description, upload size, license, photoset, and whether...

The Get Rich Slowly blog covers how to start a Roth IRA and where to do It. We recommended ING Direct, but the catch there is no Quicken download.

Just in case those itty-bitty links get lost on the sidebar, check out some listings of interest at Lifehacker Jobs: E-Commerce Director - Confidential, North New Jersey Web Software Developer -...

Our recent guest editor Kyle Pott did such a bang-up job posting last week we asked him to stick around. Join me in welcoming Kyle as Lifehacker's newest Contributing Editor. Kyle will be helping...

Mac OS X only: Wireless manager iStumbler shows you everything you need to know about the wifi, Bluetooth and Bonjour networks in your area. Yesterday after I mentioned the not-free WiFind, ...

The 80/20 rule says that 80% of consequences stem from 20% of causes (in economics.) Productivity blogger Scott H. Young says you can apply that rule to your life to cut out inefficiencies, like...

Wired blogger Scott Gilbertson says the new Camino 1.5 release is closer than ever to being a viable Firefox 2 replacement on the Mac.

How to: Turn your staircase into a set of drawers Get that pill down Automatically change your dictionary language in Firefox Disable drag-and-drop text editing in Word Protect your photos...

Google releases a directory of public calendars, including Netflix DVD release dates, Google logos, Orbitz travel deals and scheduled appearances of politicians like Barack Obama and Hillary...

Formerly Windows-only service LogMeIn offers a free OS X preview of their next version, which will be able to remote control your Mac over the internet. [via jkOnTheRun]

Can't delete that file because Windows says its in use? The Geeks are Sexy blog offers 3 solutions: stop the explorer.exe process in Task Manager, use the Recovery Console from your Windows...

What's air traffic look like right now? The FAA offers a map of major airports across the U.S. and their flight delay status. This is just asking to be a Google Maps mashup. [via inFlightHQ]

Windows only: Freeware application Net Profiles lets you automate tasks—like mapping network drives or switching the default printer—based on the network your computer is currently...

Web site Flickaday encourages you to take a picture of yourself every day (hence the title) and share it anywhere with their embedded player (see above). If you've got a webcam, Flickaday lets you...

Mac OS X only: Donationware application Library Books gives you access to the library books you've checked out, with information like due dates integrated into iCal. You can even set up Library...

The Simple Dollar weblog suggests devoting at least 15 minutes a day to frugality in order to see major benefits in your monthly budget. The idea's all well and good, but what makes the post nice...

It's time to pick the winner of our final workspace week, the Music and miscellany crew, before we run our final poll tomorrow to determine the Coolest Workspace of 2007. So far we've got our...

Mac OS X only: Network utility WiFind adds essential why-isn't-this-built-in information about available wireless networks to your Mac's Airport menu. WiFind saves you the time of testing every...

Popular keynote speaker Clif Atkinson says that bullet points kill PowerPoint presentations. On a friend's recommendation, I picked up Atkinson's book, Beyond Bullet Points, in preparation for an...

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Dear Lifehacker, My job schedule is pretty routine. I only have a special meeting or event once in awhile, so I only need notification when those (rare) events come up to jog my memory. I set up...

Our jet setting sibling site Gridskipper's dipped their chocolate travel advice into Google Maps' peanut butter, and now pinpoint the locations that matter on mini-maps of cities around the globe. ...

Co-author of the Mosaic web browser Marc Andreessen loves "productivity porn" and serves up an extensive list of his favorite life hacks on his blog. This list is stuffed with...

It removes too many elements of the site's design, but this custom Lifehacker user style is still a compliment. You like us enough to mod us!

Windows only: After much too long in the Lifehacker Code backseat, the text-substitution application Texter has seen an upgrade, adding Texter stats, a printable list of your replacements, a new...

Ambient Clock displays what events are coming up Add live TV to your Google homepage Clean up your homepage with the Compound gadget Days Since iGoogle widget tracks how much time has passed Add...

Firefox with Greasmonkey: Look up highlighted text in Wikipedia, Google, Merriam-Webster, or any number of other online search engines using simple keyboard shortcuts with LookItUp2. For example,...