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Mark previewed messages as read "Outlook 2007's default setting is to leave the naggy little "new mail" notification envelope in the taskbar, even if you've viewed your last unread email in the...

Mac OS X only: Photoshop plugin FlickrShop tags, titles, and uploads your latest Photoshop masterpiece to the popular online photo sharing site, Flickr. Once you've installed the plugin, uploading to...

Previously-mentioned Firefox extension Tab Mix Plus is packed full of useful features, some of which are less well-known than others. For example, did you know you can tweak Tab Mix Plus settings...

The word count feature in Google Docs displays not only word, character, paragraph, and sentence counts, but also readability estimates, like Flesch Reading Ease, grade level, and readability index....

Google Reader adds a friendly popout link for embedded podcasts. The link opens the Google player in a separate window so you can continue checking your feeds while listening to the embedded media....

According to USAToday, the average American watches 4.5 hours of TV per day. SavingAdvice.com claims that all that TV could cost you up to $1 million over the course of your lifetime if you were to...

If you're running Gnome and KDE side-by-side, your menus are inevitably clogged with a mixture of KDE and Gnome apps. This intermingling is an eye candy buzzkill that you can clean up with the...

What is your best advice to a teenager who is jobhunting?What can I do if my name is inexplicably showing up on porn sites?Will these small changes to my diet make me healthier?How can I fix 6,000...

Pressed for time and tired of take-out? The New York Times throws together 101 recipes for easy to make dinners that take 10 minutes or less to prepare. While the recipes themselves aren't complex,...

Bored with your iGoogle's default cartoon-y themes and want to spice things up a bit on your homepage? The Custom iGoogle Skins gadget adds a directory of 12 new themes ranging from the summer and...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Rather than manually adding or excluding words from your search query next time you aren't happy with all the results of your Google search, just select the text in your...

Previously mentioned open-source video download tool and player Democracy Player has a new name, Miro, and has pushed out a new public preview. Check out how I download my favorite TV shows via...

And God also said, Let there be Firefox. And it was so. And God saw that it was good. But Adam wanted Firefox to supercharge up his Gmail account, and Eve wanted to maximize her browsing space and...

MIT biochemists identified the molecular mechanism that creates fear and successfully cured it in mice. Give it a few years and you can kiss that nagging fear of public speaking goodbye!

Lifehacker alum Rick Broida's new book How to do Everything with Your Zune is now available for pre-order. Congrats, Rick!

Firefox with Greasemonkey: The big gaping hole still staring at you from Google Reader is its bizarre lack of a search box. We've covered a couple of ways to add search to GReader, each involving...

Windows only: Freeware app Stick adds tabs for RSS, calendar, explorer, notes, and the calculator to the Windows desktop. Stick tabs are highly customizable and can be relocated to any part of the...

Designer Mike Davidson says on says many email messages he receives take more time for him to answer than they did for the sender to write. So he's instituted a new email policy: no message he sends out...

Windows Vista users: Make a custom message display prior to logging into your PC. While IT departments often use this technique to show legal warnings and network policies, you can customize it to...

A new job would look good on you. This week at Lifehacker Jobs: Back-End Engineer, Yahoo! Pipes - Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CAJava Developer - Did-it Search Marketing, Rockville Center, NYInteractive...

Wired lists their picks of best Facebook apps "for super social geeks," including 30 Boxes Calendar, previously-posted iTunes plugin iLike and Where I've Been personal map, among others. Facebook...

If you've only got one wired ethernet connection and a room full of internet-starved laptop users, you can quickly turn your laptop into a wireless hot spot without any extra software. CNET TV has a...

Firefox only: Graduation day has finally arrived! No, not university - the Better Gmail Firefox extension version 1.0 (that's ONE-POINT-OH to you, pal) is now available for download. Better...

Video Clip: Google - Behind the Screen "...the documentary makers dig in their heels about the privacy implications of Google storing its users' search history for an indefinite amount of...

Google Maps mashup Phone Number Geolocator takes the first six digits of a phone number (the area code plus 3) and gives you a close approximation of that number's origin on a Google map. Google has...

Efficiency expert Claire Wolfe details how she works and lives in a 360 square foot cabin. While Claire takes it to the extreme, learning to work productively in cramped quarters is a great skill...

Built on the TiddlyWiki framework, MonkeyGTD boasts all the style and ease of use of the standalone TiddlyWiki, and more features than the GTD-focused GTDTiddlyWiki. Like TiddlyWiki, MonkeyGTD is a...

If you've ever uploaded a vaded a video to YouTube, you've probably also been disappointed its quality once its gone through the YouTube compression ringer. The CrunchGear weblog offers several tips for...

You can roll your favorite Linux packages into a burnable ISO file for greater portability, and the Only Ubuntu Linux weblog introduces the APTonCD package that lets you do it. APTonCD ties directly...

Firefox 2.0.0.5 was released yesterday. Nothing terribly exciting to report (unless security fixes excite you), but you can count on seeing an auto-update pop-up in the next day or so if you haven't...

With a little know-how and a lot of time on your hands, you can build your own HDTV antenna. Or you could just shell out $30 for a cheapy and call it a day.

The Web Worker Daily weblog suggests that tackling your email and RSS just once a day can do wonders for boosting your productivity, "freeing up your entire day to do your actual work." Their plan of...

Got unlimited text messaging but no IM on your phone? The Hackszine weblog steps through how you can set up and use AIM over SMS. The instructions in the post cover the iPhone (which is notoriously...

Windows/Mac only: Freeware application Jing Project takes screenshots and screencasts, then provides a seamless method for saving and sharing your pics or video via the internet. You can invoke Jing...

Gmail's huge success owes itself in large part to the wide range of applications, browser add-ons, styles, scripts and bookmarklets that work with it. From the get-go Google's stayed out of...

All platforms with Firefox: Stop losing your place on long blocks of text online with the Paragrasp Firefox extension, which highlights the current paragraph and moves to the next with a...

Just want to go straight to your Inbox when you launch Microsoft Outlook? Bypassing the default "Outlook Today" page is easy: in Outlook's advanced settings, set what folder the program should start...

Wired's Clive Thompson explains the value of Twitter better than anyone has yet: that it gives you a social sixth sense. Exactly!

If your PC constantly pauses during shutdown because of hung processes, this quick video shows you how to make a few registry changes that shorten Windows timeout for killing frozen apps, and make...

Mac OS X only: Free utility Combine PDFs does just that - it merges multiple PDF files into one. Drag and drop your PDF's onto its interface, which lets you rearrange and rotate files. When would...

While us old fogies wrestle with overstuffed email inboxes, teens "say e-mail is, like, soooo dead."