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Got cork that fell into a wine 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,...

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 r 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 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...

Make the most of your doctor's appointments with wikiHow's excellent article on how to simply and accurately describe your symptoms. After all, you do only get a very short amount of time with your...

Get information on the latest recalls from a variety of industries with Recalls.gov, a collaboration of six different government regulatory agencies. You can also use this site to report a possibly...

The Hacker's Bench has come up with one of the best DIY projects I've seen in a long time: a $3.00 sprinkler timer that you can create with a just a couple simple ingredients. (Basic...

Most of us when trying to thread a needle will get the thread wet in order to pass it more easily through. However, sewing blog BeSewStylish.com suggests that you wet the eye of the needle...

Design site Nifty Tutorials has posted a practical step by step on how to create a mosaic effect for your photographs using Photoshop. From start to finish, this shouldn't take you more than (tops)...

Want to find a hotel along your travel route that is pet-friendly? You can use PetsWelcome.com to make a travel plan that includes pet-friendly lodgings from start to finish. You'll need to enter...

Home office productivity site Web Worker Daily has compiled a list of fifteen different things you can do with a wiki to become more organized. Tips include creating a simple to-do list, managing...

Financial blog Wise Bread wrote up a (probably unintentional) hilarious post titled "Frugal Things My Mom Does"; namely, saving and squeezing ketchup packets in order to fill an empty bottle. There's...

If you're looking for information on public and private schools all over the United States, as well as colleges and public libraries, then you'll want to check out the National Center for Education...

The state of California's site for saving energy has a few great tips to help you save money on your cooling costs - great for these hot summer months in the States, especially. The ones that will...