The Lifehacker editorial staff is taking a break from posting today to celebrate Independence Day here in the U.S. While we're off amusing ourselves with sparklers, check out the most popular posts that have been published in the first half of 2008
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We attend a lot of events here at Mashable, and we want to share what we learn there with you as quickly as possible. With lighter laptops and more people blogging, it’s fairly common to hear the clattering of keyboards during conferences and live events. As a result, the end-of-day recap post has been replaced by intermittent updates throughout the event
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New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites!
The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more.
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For today’s Mashable Conversations, we sat down with EventVue’s CEO Rob Johnson. They run a service that is used in connection with major meet-up and conference style events that allows you to actually know who you’ll meet before you meet them
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For those of you in the U.S. celebrating Independence Day tomorrow, don't forget to brush up on your Fourth of July skills. First, here's one way to make a yummy-looking holiday strawberry daiquiri (pictured middle)—look at those gorgeous blueberries and the clever starfruit garnish
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Windows only: Freeware application CostOfSmoking helps you understand just how much money you've lost to smoking over the lifetime of your habit. The end goal of your improved understanding of the financial cost of smoking is to help motivate quitting. The application, to be honest, is about as ugly as any I've seen, but while there are <a href="http://www
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Remember when people used to say “MapQuest it” if they didn’t want to explain to someone how to get somewhere? That phrase stuck around for quite a while after Google Maps was introduced even as MapQuest’s marketshare eroded. But lately it seems all I ever hear is “Google it
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CNN reports that a third of companies offering health insurance to employees also provide a wellness program, including fitness, weight-loss, and stop-smoking programs. The article focuses on employers' motivation for wellness programs—namely circumventing eventual health insurance costs—and the extent to which they're an invasion of employee privacy, but we're most curious as to whether or not your employer offers a wellness program and, if so, if you're taking advantage of it
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The plastic card cable organizer manages cords under or behind your desk and keeps cords—like your iPod charging cord—from falling off your desk when unplugged. The idea behind the card cable organizer is exactly the same as previously mentioned Keep-a-Cable, but this DIY version transforms your unused club cards into cable holders with a hole punch and some scissors
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In case you haven’t noticed, there is a lot of discussion going on over at FriendFeed. This has created a mini-crisis for those of us that blog professionally – a lot of the best conversation is taking place off-site.
But developers are quickly coming to the rescue, and the latest is Mark Carey, who has developed a <a href="http://mt-hacks
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Mac OS X only: Donationware application Organized is a Dashboard widget that integrates with your system notes, events, and to-dos, providing you with quick access to all of your activities. Made by the folks who brought you previously mentioned iStat Menus, Organized boasts an attractive interface and impressive feature set
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Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here.
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There’s a new “next-generation” blog aggregator emerging onto the scene today. It’s called Regator. It’s come out of Atlanta, Georgia. And its builders, a trio of entrepreneurs that include Scott Lockhart (co-founder), Chris Turner (co-founder), and Kimberly Turner (editorial director), have managed to deliver a quite impressive piece of kit
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You download, create, delete, and move around countless files and endless piles of data on your PC every day. While your PC would ideally handle all of this data for you, it doesn't take long before you end up with a disorganized, cluttered computer. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite Windows maintenance tools, and today we're back with the five most popular answers
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One of the lesser-known useful things about Gmail's filters is that they work on email you send as well as email you receive. So you can do things like label all messages you send with the word "Request" in the subject as "Waiting for," or label any email that has the word "Invoice" in it that you send to your client or boss with the "Invoice" label, or label any email that goes to certain addresses "Family" or "Softball team
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From Alec Baldwin to Anna Kournikova, RuPaul to Donald Trump, we’ve put together a list of 50+ blog-toting celebrities we think you might want to check out.
Some are clearly promotional blogs, but many seem quite genuine. What celebrity blog would you like to see published?
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Postica's a latecomer to the free online sticky notes arena, but it carries with it a few neat features that set it apart. First and foremost is the ability to attach any kind of file (up to 5 MB) to a sticky note, and then send that note to a friend, whether or not they have an account. Secondly, Twitter users can share notes and create new notes on their board, even designating the color, by direct-message postica
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At the end of April, Mashable announced our partnership with Secondbrain and prepared a superb prize giveaway in anticipation for the Beta 2.0 launch. Prizes included a Macbook Air, an XBOX 360, an iPod, and Amazon gift certificates.
The winners have been announced today, and they are:
* Macbook Air winner: <a href="http://thedudedean
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Designer Vijayakrishnan gives us a tour of his gorgeous Windows multi-desktop, which makes you look at it three times to figure out what operating system he's using. With a Mac style and a few free programs like RocketDock, Deskspace, and Findexer, he's really tricked out Windows XP. Get closeups of each of his two main desktops—shown here in a rotating cube—after the jump
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Flickr/ MP3 mashup service Myplaylist has launched Myplaylist Lyrics, a service that combines lyrics into a mini playlist built for each song.
As a user searches for a song, Myplaylist searches the Internet for the images and the MP3 that is best associated with this song (finding the best quality version), then compiles all this with lyrics, offering a comprehensive mashup of content for that song
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Margaret Garcia at the Wise Bread blog shares her stories of consumer product woe and notes that in three separate cases, phone calls and emails led to half-hearted apologies, but ink-on-paper letters got her and her family free replacements:
(My husband has) bought the same model of New Balance running shoes four times and they've all worn and cracked in the exact same place
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Windows Mobile/Windows CE/Palm OS: Although development has halted on the project, The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) remains a robust option for media playback on Windows and Palm-based mobile devices. TCPMP supports video streaming and a wide variety of video formats including AVI, MP4, ASF, MPEG 1 and 4, WMV, DivX and XviD, to name a few
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Food writer and uber-cook Mark Bittman keeps it timely with 101 picnic-friendly dishes that can be made, he claims, in 20 minutes or less. As with his other 101-item lists of 20-minute party appetizers and <a href="http://lifehacker
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Linux.com writes up a helpful guide to creating your own custom system recovery boot disc using an Ubuntu 8.04 CD image, a little command line work, and a few recommended emergency tools, including the partition format/restore tool GParted, e2undel, a file recovery tool, and anything else you might need if your hard drive, RAM, or anything else on your system suddenly decides it doesn't want to work. The guide requires a good bit of command line work, but it also lets you add whatever programs you'd like have when you come back from the brink, and helps you strip out programs you don't to boot faster
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When you first read about the Google-Viacom lawsuit, you never thought that it would affect you directly, did you? Think again.
Judge Louis L. Stanton, presiding over the federal court for the Southern District of New York, has <a href="http://blog.wired
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Google just launched an iPhone-friendly interface for its web-based Google Talk client—point your mobile Safari to google.com/talk to see it in action. Firefox users, this also means, as the Digital Inspiration blog <a href="http://www
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And you thought you had a spam problem? Colin Wells, Orange customer who works as Workshop Foreman for Stagecoach buses receives over 44,000 unsolicited emails every day, which amounts to 16 million “v1ag3a c1al1s” style emails per year. Ouch.
The data comes from UK anti-spam software company <a href="http://www
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Firefox with Stylish or Greasemonkey: The talented designers who redesigned your Gmail are back with that similar look for Google Calendar. The Google Calendar Redesigned user style is now available for download as a public beta, and gives your GCal that slick look you've come to love in your inbox
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If you’ve been frequenting Tweeterboard, an application that analyzed Twitter conversations and spewed out a list of 100 most influential Twitter users, you must have noticed that the site now sports merely a message that says “Tweeterboard is done.”
Gene Smith explains <a href="://atomiq
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Fanfare: Google Talk is now available for the iPhone. It features a snazzy interface (is it possible to create a shoddy interface for the iPhone?) and almost everything you can do on the desktop client: create a quicklist of favorite users, search, and manage multiple conversations at the same time.
There’s one problem, though, which makes the entire thing almost useless. The official quote goes like this:
<img src="http://mashable
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Just posted an update to the Better Gmail 2 Firefox Extension which updates the gorgeous Redesigned skin to its latest and greatest version. <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/better-gmail-2-firefox-extension-for-new-gmail-320618
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Some time ago, NetFlix modified their pricing plans to allow unlimited streaming of their database of movies and TV series
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First there was Twitter. Then there came a host of other services that tried their hands at status microblogging, the most of which fell by the wayside as Twitter gained dominance. Then came FriendFeed, and some folks realized that this short style of blogging, conversing and status-updating was pretty fun
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Recently funded, web-based video chat tool TokBox has just anted up its Facebook application by making it available directly in chat. TokBox’s web-based platform is a Flash-enabled browser plugin that simplifies the video chat process by offering a service that doesn’t require downloads or any cumbersome setup process, granted you already have a working webcam or computer microphone
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Windows/Mac only: Freeware application and web service Dropbox instantaneously backs up and syncs your files over the internet and to any computer. After you install the application, it will create a Dropbox folder on your hard drive
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Mozilla officially announced today that Firefox 3 set the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours, totaling at an impressive 8,002,530 downloads. Now that it's official, don't forget to get your personalized Download Day certificate.
Not too long ago, Paul expressed his excitement over the online availability of the Wimbledon tennis championship via a MediaZone-powered application. He even went so far as to admit he’d be willing to pay the $24.99 price tag in order to get his hands on the all-access pass for the online video offering
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Web site Swurl aggregates your online activity in a simple blog-like format. From del.icio.us bookmarks and favorite YouTube videos to Twitter posts and Flickr photos, Swurl pulls it all into a simple blog-like interface. On the surface Swurl sounds similar to previously mentioned FriendFeed, but it's actually got a much different feel and offers a lot of customization
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A while back on the Mashable Conversations audio podcast, I had CEO Tim Huffman on to talk about his company <a href="http://ivideosongs
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Event planning and marketing tool Spongecell is delving into the advertising market with a new product called Spongecell Rich Media Ads. Seeing as event planning and promotion go hand in hand with advertising, this is a natural next step for Spongecell to make
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Web site Flipswap makes it easy to sell, donate, or recycle your old cell phone or iPod. We've highlighted similar services in the past, like previously mentioned Celltrade, but Flipswap has a few features that make it stand out—most notably, the service is completely free, meaning they even pay shipping costs
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Ahh, the power of marketing. Mozilla has announced that they’ve officially been added to the Guinness World Records for most downloads in a 24-hour period. The final tally: 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3 back on June 18th.
From Gareth Deaves, Records Manager for Guinness World Records:
“As the arbiter and recorder of the world’s amazing facts, Guinness World Records is pleased to add Mozilla’s achievement to our archives
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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The CyberSearch Firefox extension transforms Firefox 3's AwesomeBar into a dynamic search box capable of returning results from popular sites like Wikipedia, Google, and more. The extension is fully customizable, so you can define keyword shortcuts for just about any search you can think of
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One of my favorite bloggers; Alexander van Elsas, has been penning a series <a href="http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/the-human-factor-in-social-media-trends-part-2/" title="
The human factor in Social Media trends (part 2)">of posts having to do with Social Media and People
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Intuu is a new social network that lets users express their interests and find others that share similar interests. The concept isn’t new at all, even in this simplified format that enables a laser-focus on users’ various interests, without the erroneous factors added in
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Search engines are now routinely used to find ways of gaining unauthorized access to servers. Michael Cobb explains how to avoid exposing your important data to 'Google dorks.'