All platforms: JavaScripter Andy Baio likes to keep up with U.S. election news at the Memeorandum news aggregator, but wanted an easy way to see if the links on the page pointed to a liberal or conser...
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When keeping a blog is too much work but you want to share goofy internet video clips, pictures, and links with your friends easily, webapp Internet is Fun might be the ticket. Sign up for a free acco...
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A user on website Tilted Forum Project made a few DIY adjustments to a wall-mounted entertainment center kit to build a cordless desk and charging station. The result: a lot of charging capacity, a ni...
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With Halloween just around the corner, DIY web site Instructables details how to build a killer costume with this living severed hand. All you need is some heavy gloves, a few household items, and a d...
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Connecting your laptop to the local coffee shop's Wi-Fi without a good firewall and thinking you're secure is like using a condom with thousands of holes in it and calling it safe sex. Your antivirus ...
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Think Windows is the only platform where you can do some killer gaming? The live.linuX-gamers.net live DVD runs 13 popular Linux games for the low price of nothing. Just download, burn, and pop in the...
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Personal finance blogger J.D. Roth points out that the more frequently you go to the grocery store, the more likely you are to impulse-buy unplanned items. Quoting the book America's Cheapest Family, ...
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Food writers at the L.A. Times deflate the hype on popular kitchen items and recommend the stuff you really do need. Mortar and pestle, a good corkscrew, and an instant-read thermometer? Yes. But acco...
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New image recognition webapp ALIPR (Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time) is a on a mission to assign relevant tags to digital images based on their content, and wants you to help it...
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You just know you have some obscure, need-it-twice-a-year item, like a camping lantern or holiday wrapping paper stashed away somewhere—but where the heck did you put it? The Unclutterer blog re...
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The alpha build of Mobile Firefox (codenamed Fennec) has been available for testing by brave Nokia N810 users for some time now, but Mozilla developer Brad Lassey just got it up and running on a Windo...
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Got a stack of LPs you want to store on your hard drive instead of on a shelf? Wired's How-To Wiki runs down the steps to convert LPs into MP3s using free software. Of course, you'll need a turntable ...
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While Wall Street gets its rescue plan in order, the News Tribune says it's time for you to create your own personal bailout plan—by building up your cash, freezing your credit, and "laying off"...
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It's hard these days to imagine how elections happened before the web grew to popularity. With all the instant-access news, video, data, and social networking available in a few seconds' time, electio...
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The one DIY skill most of you don't have (according to last weekend's poll) is the ability to tie a bowline (knot, that is). Unless you're a sailor or a Girl or Boy Scout, you've probably never heard ...
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Reader skarhead187 has submitted several desktops to the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell pool, and the thing that always stands out most—aside from a great eye for minimalism—is that desp...
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YouTube is now offering 15 50-minute episodes of classic TV shows including Star Trek, MacGyver, and Beverly Hills, 90210 with "prominent new ads." Coupled with YouTube's newly-launched theater view, ...
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Reader Justin writes in with a clever idea for quickly launching downloads with the popular command-line download manager, wget. His method: Make wget available to Launchy, then pass the URL of the fi...
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Windows only: Microsoft Office Labs has released an open source multi-touch application framework called Touchless that uses your webcam as the input. Right now the Touchless Demo lets you play with f...
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Tester invites started going out to the dramatically-overhauled new Yahoo Calendar beta, and we were one of the lucky ones to give it a spin. The new look and feel brings YCal into 2008 (finally!) wit...
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