YouTube: YouTube File Hack (and Others) Download Clips to Your Desktop
Sunday, den 10. August 2008
Windows only: Free software YouTube File Hack is a standalone application and Internet Explorer integrated menu item that downloads videos to your desktop from the popular video sharing site. Simply run the application, enter the URL of the YouTube video you want to view offline, and press the [...]
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iPhone Hack: Super Monkey Ball
Monday, den 28. July 2008
After the WWDC ‘08 Keynote, everyone wanted this iPhone game, it received almost as much hype as the iPhone itself. Super Monkey Ball from SEGA definitely has some good qualities, however it does have some bad qualities as well. First off, this game costs $9.99 which might be a little steep for some.
Super Monkey Ball [...]
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Free Wi-Fi: Get Free Wi-Fi Access on Your Laptop at Starbucks, Barnes and Noble
Thursday, den 8. May 2008
Our gadget-obsessed brothers at Gizmodo report that many AT&T hotspots—including Starbucks and Barnes and Noble—have started offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. With a little ingenuity, the same free Wi-Fi access can be granted to your laptop. Using it from your iPhone, you just connect to the hotspot and give the site your iPhone [...]
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Redmond Path Makes System Path Editing Fool-Proof
Tuesday, den 22. April 2008
Windows only: Anyone who’s edited their system path entries—the places where you tell Windows to look for programs you type into the command line—knows how awkwardly small the space given is to edit a huge string of text, and one misplaced character can nuke the whole thing. Redmond Path, a free download for Windows systems, [...]
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Easily Create Ringtones from MP3s for Your Phone with ToneShop (iPhone Included)
Tuesday, den 1. April 2008
Windows only: Freeware application ToneShop creates ringtones from a variety of formats, for a variety of formats supported by most popular mobile phones (including the iPhone). To use it, just point ToneShop to the WAV, WMA, M4A, or MP3 file you want to use as your source, and then use ToneShop’s simple editing tools to [...]
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FairUse Wizard - Easy DVD Ripping for FREE. Just for a limited time.
Sunday, den 16. March 2008FairUse Wizard has been one of my favorite DVD archiving applications for a long time. The application makes ripping DVDs almost as easy as ripping CDs. You just pop in a disc, decide where to save it, and FairUse Wizard will do all the heavy lifting, ripping and compressing your video using the DiVX, [...]
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Browse and Play Your Ripped DVDs with DVD Play
Tuesday, den 26. February 2008
Windows only: Browse and play the DVDs you’ve ripped to your hard drive using DVD Rip with freeware application DVD Play. Just point DVD Play to the folder DVD Rip is saving your backed up DVDs to, and DVD Play displays them with thumbnails you can browse. Similar to how DVD Rip is a companion [...]
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Exclusive Lifehacker Download: DVD Rip Automates One-Click DVD Ripping
Wednesday, den 13. February 2008
Windows only: Rip and back up any DVD to your hard drive with DVD Rip, a freeware Windows application that automates the entire DVD-to-hard-drive backup process. All you need to do is insert your DVD, run DVD Rip, and let it take care of the rest. Why? A while [...]
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Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 BitTorrent Tools and Tricks
Thursday, den 31. January 2008
BitTorrent is the go-to resource for downloading everything from music and movies to software and operating systems, but as its popularity continues to grow, so do the number of tools available for making the most of it. Some are must-haves, while others are a waste of time. Climb aboard [...]
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Grab and convert YouTube videos in one go -
Monday, den 28. January 2008This is a good way to pump up those Zunes.
There are tons of YouTube video-grabbing downloads out there, but relatively few also convert those FLV files for later viewing on a cell phone, iPhone, or other flavor of mobile device. Since we don’t like using two apps when we can use one, here’s a hand-picked [...]
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5 Programs for Tweaking Vista
Saturday, den 26. January 2008
Was TweakUI your favorite PowerToy? Have you been searching for something similar for Vista? Several different programs are available that may be what you’re looking for. Here’s a quick list:
TweakVI is a software program designed just to tweak and optimize Vista. The program comes in 3 editions - basic, premium, [...]
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Hack Your AT&T Tilt PTT Button
Monday, den 7. January 2008If your like me you don’t have the Push To Talk service on your Tilt. In fact, you think it is fricken annoying when someone’s phone squawks next to you.
So the PPT button is useless, or worse, if you it the button it pops up warning about how you don’t have the PPT service. So [...]
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Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player
Saturday, den 5. January 2008
Microsoft recently added support for Divx and Xvid video to the Xbox 360 via a Dashboard update. I already knew how to stream music to my Xbox 360, but had never tried video. In this article I’ll describe a couple of applications that allowed me to stream video content to my Xbox 360.
I successfully streamed [...]
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Best Of 2007: Top 10’s of 2007
Monday, den 31. December 2007
Here are some of Lifehaker’s Best top 10 lists of 2007
Top 10 Free Windows Downloads
Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks
Top 10 Free Computer System Recovery Tools
Top 10 Wi-Fi Boosts, Tweaks and Apps
Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters
Top 10 Free Wallpaper, Fonts and Icon Sources
Top 10 Body Hacks
Top 10 Ways to Sleep Smarter [...]
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OMG!! Use your Windows Mobile Device as WiFi Router!!
Thursday, den 27. December 2007
OK, here’s the deal. This app will allow you to turn your Windows Mobil Device into a WiFi Router, and share its 3G goodness. It is like having a mobile hotspot in your pocket.
WMWifiRouter is a tool to use your Windows Mobile 6 (possibly 5) as a WiFi <-> GPRS/UMTS/HSPA router. It’ll allow you [...]
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Homegrown speaker created with foam plate
Monday, den 24. December 2007
We know what you’re thinking, and trust us, we’re right there with you. We’ve no idea how a speaker constructed from a foam plate could sound anything close to decent, but judging by the comments from folks that have made their own, it may actually be worth your while to do the same over your [...]
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Workaround found for three-play rule on Zune
Monday, den 10. December 2007
Finding yourself unhealthily frustrated by that annoying "three-play rule" still included in the latest firmware update for the Zune? Fret not, as a solution easier than easy has been discovered. Apparently, users can simply accept a shared track, go into Windows and switch the genre to "Podcast," and play the tune over as many times [...]
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Upgrades: TiVo Now With 2 Terabytes of Storage (Unofficially)
Monday, den 10. December 2007
TiVo chop shop WeaKnees is offering the biggest Series 3 TiVo they can muster. Cramming a 1TB drive internally along with an external 1TB eSATA, they’re offering ready-to-run TiVos with a whopping 2TB of storage space, or enough for 292 hours of HD programming. But when you have enough storage for well over 100 HD [...]
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Zune 2 Hacks | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10
Wednesday, den 28. November 2007
Hack #1: Multi- Extension Support mod - This hack makes the Zune program support more types of video, audio, and image extensions. This mod converts files for use on the Zune. Files are automatically converted to the exact specifications used on the Zune device, so no guesswork is involved. It also adds the songs and [...]
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Top 10 Vista Hacks
Wednesday, den 28. November 2007
You’ve run Windows Vista, you’ve played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you’ve even mucked around a little bit in Vista’s innards to see what makes it tick.
Now what?
Now is when the fun begins. There are plenty of ways you can hack Windows Vista, make it jump through hoops, bend it to your [...]
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