How To: How to Use Dropbox as the Ultimate Password Syncer (7)
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Cross-platform application Dropbox may be great at syncing regular old files and folders over the internet and to the web, but with a little ingenuity, you can use this free software to ensure important application data stays in sync no matter what computer you're using. With the right setup, you can sync your passwords over the internet so you've always got access to the latest versions of your secure passwords no matter where you are. ...
Google Street View Adds Coverage in France [Google Maps] (1)
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Google Maps' Street View now includes imagery for the streets of France—go ahead and hit the big tourist spots in Paris like the Champs-Élysées and Basilique du Sacré-Cœuror without leaving...
Hive Five Winner for Best Windows Firewall: Comodo Firewall Pro [Hive Five Followup] (1)
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Comodo Firewall Pro took home the top honors in this weekend's Hive Five Best Windows Firewalls, followed by the default Windows Firewall and your router's built-in firewall in a close race for second and third.
New MacBooks Stronger, Drop Mouse Buttons, Add Multi-Touch [Apple] (1)
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Apple's MacBook event has just come to an end, leaving Apple enthusiasts with a handful of—surprise!—new MacBooks. The updates hit all three models (the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air) and boast improved hardware across the board, a glass trackpad that's gone buttonless, and built-in support for multi-touch gestures. Despite the updates to the standard MacBook (including a new aluminum case design), Apple's keeping the old plastic MacBook around and dropping the price to $999. ...
Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 Now Available for Download, First Look [Early Adopter Featured Download] (11)
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All platforms: Mozilla has just pushed out Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 to their servers, marking the first major step toward the official 3.1 release. They haven't yet officially announced the beta release, so the What's New page is a 404 as of this writing. Luckily we've already covered a lot of the features you can expect, so hit the jump for a closer look at what Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 brings to the table. Faster ...
Goal Setting For Skeptics: Why You Should Risk Dweebhood with Written Goals (4)
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Once you get over the idea that people who walk around with a list of personal goals in their pocket are utter self-improvement dweebs, you should make writing your own list a number one priority. There are bookshelves full of annoying self-help hype around the notion of personal goal setting, which is why we're skeptics just like you are. But the truth is, when you feel like you're drifting aimlessly, unhappy with your job, finances, ...
Track Your Stocks with Google Spreadsheets [Personal Finance] (2)
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The Hackszine weblog details how to use Google Spreadsheets in conjunction with Google Finance to track your stocks. The method takes advantage of Spreadsheets' GoogleFinance function, which pulls live data directly from Google Finance like so: =GoogleFinance( "symbol", "attribute"). Just replace "symbol" with your stock's id (e.g., GOOG) and "attribute" with one of several attributes, like price. We've touched on this idea once before in happier financial times, but if you're a touch more concerned ...
FfChrome Compacts Firefox's Right-Click Menu [Featured Firefox Extension] (1)
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Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): FfChrome, a free add-on for Firefox browsers, lets users who do a lot of link-grabbing, picture saving, and other right-click-type operations decide exactly what they should see when they right-click anything in their browser. Once the extension is installed, users can check or un-check particular context menu items, such as the "Email this" tools, to and create a trim right-click box with just the essentials. Hover over the "Show All" option, though, and ...
Oblique Strategies on Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Application] (1)
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The Oblique Strategies deck of cards by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt offers advice to help you solve a dilemma or push through a creative block, and now the strategies are available on your iPhone for free. Download Oblique Strategies from the iTunes Store for your iPhone or iPod touch, and tap to choose a random card to get you through that deadlock situation today. (No iPhone? There's also an Oblique Dashboard widget.) [via]
New MacBooks Pros Eliminate Mouse Buttons Entirely [MacBook Pro] (2)
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In the (likely) last of the pre-release leaks, blogger John Gruber sees no mouse buttons whatsoever on the new, aluminum-cast, two-graphics-card-having (!) MacBook Pros—the entire glass trackpad is a button itself. Meanwhile, it looks like the only sub-$1K procut to emerge could be an LED display. Check out the live coverage of Apple's laptop update, starting at 1pm PST, at Gizmodo.
MyThings Keeps Your Gear Organized [Gadget Management] (2)
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MyThings, a free purchase-tracking web site, lets you manually enter or simply forward emailed receipts to build a list of gadgets and products you own. Once they're there, you can pull up manuals and warranties, see customer reviews and troubleshooting stories, quickly set them up for an eBay sale or charity donation, and even report it stolen. There's a fair amount of "suggested" advertising and services at the site's perimeters, but it's mostly geared toward ...
Single Wrench Makes File Sharing Secure, Simple for Business [Step By Step] (4)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Single Wrench, a secure file-sharing tool, intends to replace FTP transfers as a more secure, and user-friendly, way to transfer files between co-workers, clients, and anyone else for whom an insecure FTP connection might be a problem. Single Wrench installs as a Java applet from your browser, and opens a toolbar that provides drag-and-drop functionality for uploading files to Single Wrench's server. After that, the tool's web site allows you to set permissions and ...
Quicken Online Drops Subscription Fee, Now Free [Quicken] (4)
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Quicken Online, the web-based version of the popular personal finance software which we reviewed back in January, is no longer charging a monthly usage subscription fee; like its competitors Wesabe and Mint it's now available for free with an iPhone app on the way.
Firefox 3.1 to Include Smarter Session Restore [Firefox] (11)
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The nightly builds of Firefox 3.1 have added a significant improvement to the session restore dialog you normally see after a crashed browsing session. The upshot: Rather than displaying a modal dialog that requires you to restore your old session or start from scratch, Firefox will display an about:sessionrestore tab in which you can selectively disable any tab or window from the previous session before you continue with the restore. If you suspect any web ...
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Badass, comme ca on peut empecher de restore le tab contenant le endless rickroll sans perdre le reste
Mac Meets Windows Most Popular Desktop [Faceoff Followup] (1)
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Dylan Bloom's Mac meets Windows setup took the cake in last week's battle of the tricked-out computer desktops. Keep submitting your screenshots and explainers to the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell group to see your handiwork featured here.
Customize Your Own Portable Firefox Six Pack [Step By Step] (2)
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Firefox user Asian Angel loves Portable Firefox for projects like creating a Google Chrome clone, but you can also use it to run multiple, sandboxed instances of the browser at the same time. What's the point? Well, it lets you log into multiple accounts at the same service (like Gmail) in different windows, and run certain extensions and styles in one browser instance but not another. You already know how to create multiple Firefox profiles ...
Joost's Web-Based Face Goes Live [Joost] (7)
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TV-over-the-internet application Joost dropped its invite-only requirement last October, started offering web-based streaming with a browser plug-in just last month, and now the site has officially made the full transition to a web- and flash-based television-streaming site. Not bad, but is it too late to compete with the five best TV-streaming sites you're already using? [via]
Plan This Week on Paper [Printables] (3)
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You want to get your act together this Monday morning but your usual set of digital tools just ain't cutting it? Mix things up a bit and try going analog. The Organize IT blog offers a free weekly planner PDF template for download and printing. For more ink-to-dead-tree workday boosters, check out our top 10 printable paper productivity tools.
