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Love Google Toolbar? Love your Lifehacker? Reader Mark O'Neill has put together a Lifehacker search button for Google Toolbar that can both search the Lifehacker archives and also works as a live...

Windows only: In addition to reording your Windows taskbar items, previously mentioned Taskbar Shuffle can now reorder your system tray icons as well. As much as I liked previous versions of Taskbar...

DIY web site Instructables details how to control your computer with spells... er, how to set up voice recognition commands for common actions using a Windows application called Voice Activated...

If you're not happy with the results Google serves up when you search your name, the Simplehelp weblog suggests several web sites you can use to improve your positive standing in search results:...

New Quicksilver-inspired application Dash packs application launching, web search, quick email, Google Calendar, file and folder browsing, and more into a lightweight package (uses around 3MB of...

Mac guy and PC guy can fight for supremacy until the end of time, but there's one simple fact that anyone who's worked on both Mac and Windows knows: Some applications are better on the Mac, others...

Mac users: You already know how to make an encrypted disk image with Disk Utility, but you can also script out this action at the command line. To encrypt a folder named "private" into a...

Household vinegar not only cleans anything and everything, it can also remedy acne, dandruff, arthritis, warts and itching. [via Internet Duct Tape]

Mac only: The signature Mac boot up sound can't even be silenced by plugged-in headphones, but the Startup Sound preference pane does the job. If you don't want to draw attention to yourself in...

CEO Michael Hyatt says in order to stay focused and get productive, we need to spend more time thinking and less time doing.

Your cork fell into the bottle and now you want it out? No need to break the bottle - you can pull it out with a plastic bag and a little ingenuity. Hit the video to see how. Thanks, Antony! [via...

Google shortens the life of user cookies to "improve privacy," but the effect of the change is pretty minimal.

Linux only: Free open-source app nautilus-search-tools adds a link to search for files to the Nautilus right-click menu. If you're not using Google Desktop for Linux or any other search app, you can...

Upgrade your workspace this week at Lifehacker Jobs:Sales Rep - Event Interactive Technology Firm - Zen Mobile Marketing, Norwalk, CTSystem Administrator (Windows & Mac) - Turner Studios, Atlanta,...

Sleepyheads like myself live in perpetual envy of those who can just wake up without an alarm clock. In fact, my college roommate woke up every morning without his alarm going off once. WikiHow...

Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension: Free user script Pagerization automatically appends the results of the "next page" button to the bottom of the web page you are currently perusing....

Run terminal commands in Launchy Troy F. says: "Slickrun does this right out of the box!"Social networking a waste of time? Eeefresh says: "Since I am an old married guy, I don't have much use for...

Windows only: Freeware app Folder2MyPC adds shortcuts to folders, applications, and Windows components to My Computer. Folder2MyPC can be configured to open shortcuts in the current window or a new...

Reducing your fuel consumption is as simple as changing your driving habits. Open Travel Info offers up 29 tips to reduce your fuel consumption and give your passengers a smoother ride. By focusing...

There's no question that a good newsreader can save oodles of time when you want to track and digest a lot of information from across the web. We're big fans of Google Reader here at Lifehacker, but...

Mac OS X only: Free, open source application Vienna is a desktop-based RSS newsreader for Macs. Vienna's best features include a built-in tabbed browser, smart folders, manual drag-and-drop ordering...

If you've ever forgotten your user account password in OS X, the Hackszine weblog details the simple process of resetting or changing your password. All you need is to remember your username (you do...

Terminal power users already know that a log of all the commands you execute are kept in history. (Go ahead, type history to see them.) Last week we saw that you can sudo your previous command...

The No Thick Manuals wiki has a nice introductory tutorial for automating Windows with the easy-to-learn AutoHotkey scripting language. While many of you likely have no programming experience, you'd...

Webapp Simple GTD manages your task, project and contexts lists in a user-friendly, dynamic interface. Simple GTD is indeed very simple - even registration, which doesn't require email verification...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Ever since I saw Safari's superior inline search highlighting, I've been desperate to get the same functionality in Firefox. The XUL/Migemo Firefox extension—which...

Overlooked and difficult to find, there are hundreds of thousands of U.S. government web sites that can help you accomplish a variety of tasks. At the right federal .gov destination you can locate...

Vice President of Financial Planning Rande Spiegelman offers 7 guidelines for reducing personal finance clutter and simplifying your money life. Most of these tips involve consolidating your...

Salon.com's Scott Rosenberg says that spending all that time and energy emptying your inbox is a waste of time: Do we really want the job of in-box attendant and e-mail folder file clerk? The mess...

Real Simple magazine offers 10 ways to speed up dinner preparation by using 5 minute windows throughout the day to get parts of it done, like pre-cooking pasta, chopping vegetables, and sorting...

Gmail and Google Reader users who love keyboard shortcuts live by j and k, the two letters that move you forward and back through messages and posts. Now you can add the j and k key bindings to any...

Windows guy Chris Pirillo posted a 51-minute video (above) saying that 6 months later, Vista still has too many problems for it to be his main working operating system - so he "upgraded" to Windows...

Windows only: Freeware app CodecInstaller searches your computer for commonly used codecs and displays which codecs you have installed and which codecs you need. CodecInstaller can even download and...

The underused caret (shift + 6) is an excellent tool for managing file versions. If you've got several versions of a file to track and no full-blown version control system to use, just append the...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Free extension iMacros records and runs macros - or scripted sets of keystrokes and mouse clicks - directly within Firefox. The potential uses for web mor web macros are only...

Looking for ways to squeeze more mileage out of that dollar? You can save some serious cash simply by planning to buy certain items on specific days of the week, according to Yahoo Finance. For...

Web 2.0 tracker FranticIndustries.com has compiled a "best of" list for the five most dead simple ways to store your files online. If it's not ridiculously simple to use, then it's not on this list....

If your video games and various gaming paraphernalia are becoming, shall we say, a bit unruly, you can tame that video game clutter monster with a few tips from organization blog Unclutterer.com....

You've got everyone posed just right, the camera is ready, and you take the first picture. Of course, somebody blinked (talkin' to you, Grandma!). Photography blog MalekTips has a good workaround for...

Tired of being left out of private betas? Not to worry - try InviteShare, a service that encourages those with beta invites to share them with the Web community at large. Here's how it works:...

Prepping and painting the outside of a house isn't really that complicated, but if you skip certain steps, a somewhat simple job can become ugly pretty quick. HowStuffWorks has a step by step...