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link Five Best Netbooks [Hive Five] If you’re thinking about picking up an ultra-portable laptop, this week’s Hive Five is a great spot to start your comparison shopping. These are the netbooks are those most loved by…

1 month ago

May 31, 2009
link Yahoo Image Search Offers Better Creative Commons Filter for Flickr [Image Search] Lifehacker editors are, if nothing else, veterans at finding relevant, reusable images with permissive Creative Commons (CC) licensing on photo sharing site Flickr. So it’s great to hear…

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May 30, 2009
link Print Friendly Optimizes Web Pages for Printing [Printing] There is a significant disconnect for most web sites between how they look on the screen and how they print off your printer. Free webapp Print Friendly streamlines sites so you only print what…

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May 30, 2009
link Bookmarklet Directory Aggregates New and Popular Bookmarklets [Bookmarklets] We’ve previously explained why you should ditch your extensions for bookmarklets when you can to save on browser bloat. Whether or not you’ve taken your bookmarklets that far, the Bookmarklet…

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May 29, 2009
link FAST is a Geeky Command-Line Database [Ubergeek] Instead of bloating his system with a fancy information gathering tool, reader Scott decided to take it really old-school—he created a batch file database to store frequently accessed…

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May 29, 2009
link Mobile Browser Skyfire Leaves Beta, Brings Hulu and Other Flash to Your Phone [Downloads] Windows Mobile/Symbian only: We first covered Skyfire when it was in public beta, then again when it added social media integration. Today, the flash-playing mobile browser gets 1.0…

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May 29, 2009
link Google Reader Gadget Brings Feeds to the Desktop [Downloads]

Windows/Linux: Google Desktop users can keep an eye on important feeds with the Google Reader Gadget, a clever but not quite perfect desktop implementation of Google’s RSS reader.

We…

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May 29, 2009
link Google Wave "Is What Email Would Look Like If It Were Invented Today" [News] Google announced today a new, experimental idea aiming to reshape the future of communication on the web. It’s called Wave, and if you believe its developer, it’s “what email would look like…

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May 29, 2009
link Make House Wine Taste Better with Soda Water [Food Hacks]

If you don’t like how a bottle of wine tastes or if an already opened bottle starts to go bad, instead of dumping it, use soda water and ice to make it palatable.

Photo by jillclardy.

1 month ago

May 28, 2009
link Gmail to Get Multilingual Translation [Rumors] Google hasn’t made it official, but PC World/IDG News Service and the Google Operating System blog are totally convinced that Gmail will get multi-language, on-the-fly translation of their…

3 months ago

March 30, 2009