December 4, 2008 – Flash-based webapp Aviary Phoenix is the most impressive image editing tool I've ever seen running in a browser. Free to try, you can do some amazing things with the features on offer, from photo compositing to retouching—the video demonstration embedded above and plenty of tutorials should g... [Lifehacker]
Puredyne Turns Any Computer into a Multimedia Powerhouse
December 4, 2008 – If you're looking to get some more use out of an old machine, or just play around with multimedia programs but not interested in shelling out hundreds or thousands of dollars, download Puredyne. [Lifehacker]
QuoteURLText Copies Highlighted Text and Source URL
November 21, 2008 – Firefox only: If you like to copy and paste snippets of web pages—but want to include the source URL and date and time in one shot—the QuoteURLText add-on's for you. [Lifehacker]
Email Activity Random but Cyclical
November 20, 2008 – Looking at aggregate data of 3,000 email accounts over a three month period, researchers at Northwestern University say that emails are responded to randomly, but the volume of sent mail follows predictable patterns. [Lifehacker]
Forkbombs and Other Things Not to Type in Terminals
November 20, 2008 – "Tell the noob to type rm -rf /," the troll types to his friend in IRC before you're a series of lulz after a friendly call for Linux tech support help turns into a formatted hard drive. [Lifehacker]
iSerenity Ambient Sounds Offer Soothing Background Noise
November 20, 2008 – Whether you work quietly alone at home or in an office where the hum of fluorescent lights is the dominant soundtrack of your day, tune into one of the 31 ambient loops offered on the iSerenity web site. [Lifehacker]
Employees Sue to be Paid for Time Spent Booting Up
November 19, 2008 – If your manager tracks your time based on when you log in and out of your machine at work, then are you missing out on pay for the time you're waiting for your machine to boot up and shut down? [Lifehacker]
Create "Speakers" from Earbuds and Paper Cups
November 19, 2008 – It's hump day and I was looking for a quick, fun project to try out. So I figured I try something easy I found over at the Make Magazine blog earlier this week—a set of speakers made from paper cups and a pair of earbud headphones originally created by artist Dmitry Zagga (in no small amount... [Lifehacker]
Save Time with the Help of a Free Personal Shopper
November 19, 2008 – If you feel shoppping for clothes is a chore and an expensive waste of time, think about using a personal shopper. Get rid of the mistaken idea you may have that personal shoppers are people employed by rich celebrities to dress them (those are called "stylists"). [Lifehacker]
Merge MP3 Combines Audio Files in Drag-and-Drop Interface
November 19, 2008 – Windows only: If you are looking for ways to merge a bunch of MP3 files into one larger file, and don't like the command line solution I wrote about earlier this week, try Merge MP3. [Lifehacker]
Kvetch Helps You Get it Off Your Chest
November 19, 2008 – In its third reincarnation since its debut in 1996 and redesign in 1998, web site Kvetch now harnesses the time-wasting powers of Twitter to call a farshtinken tokhis leker a schmuck behind their back. [Lifehacker]
Let Me Google That For You Passive-Aggressively Helps your Friends
November 19, 2008 – If you're a power searcher, or other people think you are, and you're getting tired of constant requests for answers to questions that a quick Google search would provide, try Let me google that for you. [Lifehacker]
Microsoft to Offer Free Anti-malware Software with Windows
November 18, 2008 – In an effort to improve user experience and secure more machines from becoming zombies on botnets, Microsoft's anti-malware project codenamed "Morro" will be free with every copy of the operating system. [Lifehacker]
Save Money by Converting Your Lawn Into a Garden
November 18, 2008 – "A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule," argues Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn contributor Michael Pollan. If so, Fritz Haeg isn't just an artist but a freedom fighter with his Edible Estates projects around the country. [Lifehacker]
BubbleTimer Webapp Helps Track Time and Set Goals
November 18, 2008 – Based on the Emergent Task Timer worksheets from David Seah, BubbleTimer is a quick and easy to use web application for budgeting, tracking and working towards time management goals. [Lifehacker]
Cookstr Offers Recipes from Famous Chefs
November 18, 2008 – Looking for recipes from legends like James Beard and Julia Child, or current celebri-chefs like Mario Batali and Daniel Boulud? Try Cookstr, which has created a database of recipes from well-regarded authors and chefs. [Lifehacker]
FlickerEdit Backs Up Your Photos
November 18, 2008 – With CEO Jerry Yang leaving Yahoo and the company's stock price sinking, ZDNet writer Jason Perlow get a bit nervous about the sanctity of his photos on Flickr and started looking for solutions to back them up. [Lifehacker]
Tr.im Webapp Creates Even Tinier URLs for Twitter
November 18, 2008 – The latest entry in the URL-shortening service is Tr.im, and while there are a number of features that might make you switch from reader favorite TinyURL, the most compelling is that with so few characters in the service's domain name, it creates really tiny URLs. [Lifehacker]
Lorem 2 Offers Text Samples for Copy and Paste
November 17, 2008 – If you've ever mocked up a web page, print publication or set of presentation slides for a project but didn't have any copy text yet, visit Lorem 2. Graphic designers and typographers have long used a stock set of Latin gibberish commonly referred to as "Lorem ipsum" to mock up projects, evaluate... [Lifehacker]
Create an MP3 Mix from the Command Line
November 17, 2008 – Windows only: Looking for a way to create a mix of MP3 files to send to your crush but aren't sure what playlist format their media player supports or whether or not they'd know how to unzip a folder of individual tracks? [Lifehacker]
