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Ever been up to your eyeballs in windshield bug guts with no windshield squeegee in site? Weblog DIY Life suggests keeping a razor blade in your glove compartment for just such an occasion. If, like...

You just put together the iTunes playlist of your life, and now you want to slap it on a thumb drive to give your sweetie. You've got a dozens of gigabytes of iTunes music on an external drive at...

The popular Google Maps click-to-call feature looks like it's no more. GOOG-411 is still available, but can it find your phone? Methinks not. Thanks Sherard!

Thanks to this week's sponsors for the tasty summertime productivity treats: AT&T, Ask.com, Casio, E! Online, EBay UK, Windows Vista, Mio, Pentax, Reyka Vodka, Sprint, TiVo, Toto Washlet, Toyota,...

It's open thread time! That wonderful once-in-awhile check-in where we editors get to pick your collective reader brain about what's working here at Lifehacker and what's not. Want to see more or...

Self-development writer Steve Pavlina says that if your days are out of control, you should try building a personal productivity "scaffold" - a temporary routine that helps you install new habits...

Windows only: Free utility PDFill can create, update and merge existing PDF files for free. Yesterday we posted Combine PDFs for Mac, and PDFill does the equivalent job on Windows, plus more. PDFill...

Calling all polyglots! The Better Gmail Firefox extension is now available on BabelZilla (registration required), a translation system for localizing Firefox extensions. Better Gmail 1.0's updates...

We knew binder clips hold together Hipther Hipster PDA's, make good chip clips and do well to catch your cables before they slip off the back of the desk, but keeping a tube of toothpaste squeezed? That's a...

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking." — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [via]

Ubuntu Feisty users: Improve the look of your fonts in 2 minutes flat by installing a few packages. The font change is very noticeable in Firefox and the terminal. If you want to get technical about...

Have an unused nook and cranny in your home? Do some clutter-busting and put your unused space to good use with the tips from Popular Mechanics. Get Creative In a typical house, there's space...

We've posted very seriously before about the implications of storing all your information online, and ranted about how much it sucks when webapps you depend upon go down. The Onion, however, took a...

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 courthe 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 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 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...