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The Best Tools for Hacking Your Next Big Conference (Like SXSW) [Travel]11 March 2010, 1:05 pm
At last year's South by Southwest Interactive festival, I experienced shoulder burns, a perpetually dead laptop, frantic text messages, and very little sleep. This year, I'm planning on taking Lifehacker's own advice on travel tools and actually enjoying myself. Here's how. More »
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The Office of 38one [Featured Workspace]11 March 2010, 1:00 pm
We love seeing all the workspaces of Lifehacker readers, and a peek into a whole office is a special treat. Today's featured workspace is the offices of design studio 38one. More »
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X.minutes.at Sets Time Limits for Browsing Any Site, No Extension Required [Distraction]11 March 2010, 12:30 pm
Brilliant single-use web utility x.minutes.at puts a timed limit on any browser tab with ease. Got five minutes to browse Lifehacker but don't want to let that five minutes turn into 20? Visit http://5.minutes.at/lifehacker.com. Rinse and repeat for any site. More »
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Buy Older Leafy Greens to Get More Nutrients [Shopping]11 March 2010, 12:00 pm
There's an informal assumption that spinach and other leafy greens lose nutrients the longer they sit on grocery store shelves, and it's actually backwards. A plant physiologist in Texas says supermarket lighting actually boosts the vitamin content in your salad fixings. More »
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iPhone 4.0 to Integrate Multitasking this Summer? [Rumors]11 March 2010, 11:30 am
Apple will include much-asked-for application multitasking functionality when they release the iPhone 4.0 update sometime this summer, according to all-things-Apple blog AppleInsider. Multitasking (more specifically, the ability to run third-party applications in the background) is one of those big pieces of functionality that separates the iPhone OS from Android, and while Apple's sort of worked around this problem with push notifications, there are instances when there's no subs...
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Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker]11 March 2010, 11:00 am
.Laptops, HDTVs, camcorders, and portable goodies of all sort await you in today's Dealhacker roundup. Come for the deals stay for the free St. Patrick's Day and Metal Month tunes. More »
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Mini Wide Fullscreens Gmail, Is Very Netbook Friendly [Downloads]11 March 2010, 10:30 am
Firefox/Chrome: Small netbook screens make you really appreciate every last pixel on your device. The Mini Wide userscript for Gmail adds a "netbook mode" shortcut to Gmail that removes navigation and ads for a streamlined, netbook-friendly, message-focused view of your inbox. More »
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Where's Your Windows Taskbar? [Reader Poll]11 March 2010, 10:00 am
We're regularly asked, "Where's the best place to stow the Windows taskbar?" and while the answer is a boring, "Whatever works best for you," Windows 7's taskbar certainly adds new factors to the decision. Reader Richard writes: More »
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FeelHome Gives Easy Remote Access to Your Files Across Platforms [Downloads]11 March 2010, 9:30 am
Windows/Mac/Linux: If you would like to easily access, edit, and save files across multiple computers, free application FeelHome allows you to share files across operating systems and over the web. More »
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Brizzly for iPhone Streamlines and Improves Twitter [Downloads]11 March 2010, 9:00 am
iPhone/iPod touch: Web-based Twitter client Brizzly is just like Twitter's web site, except better in every way. Brizzly's free iPhone app is a similar experience upgrade, with web-synced lists and muting, news and search tracking, easy photo uploads, and more. More »
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Apple Dominates Consumer Reports' Tech Support Ratings11 March 2010, 1:04 pm
Consumer Reports yesterday announced the release of new ratings of computer tech support ratings for both laptops and desktop, and while the full details are restricted to subscribers, CNET reveals that A......
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Barnes & Noble Officially Acknowledges Plans for iPad eReader Application11 March 2010, 11:02 am
Barnes & Noble today officially acknowledged that it is developing an iPad-specific application that will provide access to content available in the company's eBookstore.Designed specifically for the iPad, our new B&N eReader......
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Apple Building Out eBook Categories Ahead of iPad Launch as Developers Update Apps11 March 2010, 9:37 am
Forbes reports on information obtained by App Store research firm Busted Loop as part of its AppSlice project, revealing Apple's plans for eBook categories to be rolled out for its iBookstore....
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Pink Floyd Wins Legal Battle Over Digital Sale of Individual Songs11 March 2010, 8:24 am
BBC News reports that Pink Floyd has won a legal battle with its record label EMI over whether the label should be allowed to distribute digital versions of the band's material on a track-by-track basis a......
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More Claims of Multitasking in iPhone OS 4.011 March 2010, 7:46 am
AppleInsider reports that it has received information from sources claiming that iPhone OS 4.0, likely scheduled for release later this year alongside new handset models, will support multitasking by allo......
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Steve Jobs Ranked World's 136th Richest Person10 March 2010, 6:52 pm
In its annual list of the world's billionaires, Forbes this year ranked Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a tie with six others for 136th place with a net worth of $5.5 billion. Jobs' net worth is up from $5.1 billion in an October 2009 Forbes ranking......
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New Hexacore Mac Pros Next Tuesday?10 March 2010, 2:59 pm
ZDNet reports that it has received information from tipsters claiming that Apple will release new Mac Pro models next Tuesday, adding a hexacore Core i7-based model to its lineup.I'm gett......
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New iPad SDK Adds Gesture Tools, Removes Video Chat Icons10 March 2010, 2:14 pm
Apple yesterday released the fourth beta version of the SDK for iPad developers, and observers have started to find a few differences popping up in the latest update.
9 to 5 Mac reports that Apple has added support for "3Tap" a......
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Six Months Later: 'iTunes LP' Format Performance Remains Lackluster10 March 2010, 10:19 am
GigaOM provides an interesting reexamination of Apple's "iTunes LP" format for enhanced album content six months after the format's debut. While iTunes LPs were touted at its launch as a means to reignite sales of albums as opposed to indivi......
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Verizon Viewing iPad as Opportunity to Push MiFi Service10 March 2010, 8:13 am
Engadget reports on a leaked internal memo from Verizon to its staff members promoting Apple's iPad as an "opportunity" to sell its data plans, seeking to encourage customers to purchase a Wi-Fi iPad model and pair it with Verizon services su......
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AT&T Confirms Move to A “Variable Pricing Model”11 March 2010, 9:00 am
A few months ago I wrote an article showing how AT&T was going to move to a pay-per-byte model on its 3G plans. Recently, AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson confirmed this move in an interview for the WSJ.
He said that AT&T is carrying half of the nation’s wireless data traffic. He said that carriers will eventually move to a “variable pricing model,” and that it was inevitable that heavy users should pay more than low users.
I think it’s a big move that makes sen...
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iDongle Boots Your Tethered 3.1.2 Jailbroken iPhone10 March 2010, 11:25 pm
MuscleNerd recently tweeted about a new device to boot tethered jailboken 3.1.2 iDevices without pluging it to a computer. This standalone piece of hardware is called an iDongle.
Now why would you need an iDongle? You might want to get one of those babies if your jailbroken iPhone or iTouch gets stuck at the “Connect-to-iTunes” logo everytime you reboot. The iDongle will save you a trip to the computer and can be very handy if you accidentally reboot your tethered device on-the-go.
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How to Fix Push Notifications On Hacktivated iPhone10 March 2010, 9:00 am
If you have recently “hacktivated” your iPhone, which means activating it to work with carriers other than the official ones, you may have encountered push notification issues. In most cases, push notifications don’t work properly or even don’t work at all.
There is a simple fix for this and it’s called Push Doctor. Simply add the following source to Cydia then look for Push Doctor: http://www.cmdshft.ipwn.me/apt/
After installing Push Doctor, reboot your iPhone.
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Cydia Update Makes It A Little Less Slow9 March 2010, 9:00 am
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about why Cydia sucks and how it could be improved. Maybe Saurik heard me because he decided to give Cydia a small update that aims at making it faster.
This update supposedly speeds up the loading time and improves the error checking when refreshing the sources.
I installed the update but unfortunately, I didn’t see much improvement in speed. Hopefully, you’ll get better luck than I did…
Have you installed the update yet? Does it feel like Cy...
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SBSettings Actually Makes Your iPhone Better?8 March 2010, 9:00 am
When the iPhone initially launched in 2007, the much anticipated iPhone OS required an arsenal of jailbroken apps to perform even the mildest tasks such as MMS and video recording. But through product refreshes and several software updates, that list of apps is shrinking and the iPhone OS is now considered among the industries top mobile platforms.
Now that functions such as copy/paste and video recording are available in the stock OS, jailbroken applications like Clippy and Cycorder are no long...
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iPhone Stuff You Missed This Week7 March 2010, 9:00 am
For those of you who missed some of this week’s articles, here is a recap:
You’re nothing without your iPhone
What are your 5 most used apps?
Favorite apps of the month
Milk Crater: a different way to browse your iPod
Do you remember the first day you had your iPhone?
Netflix on the iPhone? Yes please!
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Infiniboard Brings Vertical Scrolling to Your iPhone Springboard6 March 2010, 10:31 pm
Chpwn is one of my favorite jailbreak devs because he creates really useful apps and mods that just make your iPhone experience better. He worked with Ryan Petrich on ProSwitcher, he developed InfiniDock, and today, he just released InfiniBoard.
InfiniBoard is a jailbreak application that simply brings vertical scrolling to your iPhone springboard. It lets you add as many icons as you wish to any page, and access them by flicking up and down.
I’ve played with InfiniBoard for about an hour ...
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Netflix On the iPhone? Yes Please!6 March 2010, 9:00 am
Even though Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told Reuters a few months ago that Netflix wasn’t going to work on an iPhone app for a while, it seems that Netflix has been feeling the water about it. A RWW article notes that:
Recently, Netflix sent out a survey to select subscribers in order to determine interest in an iPhone application for streaming movies via mobile phones. According to the survey’s wording, the proposed app would be Wi-Fi only and would offer the same content that the Net...
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Do You Remember the First Day You Had Your iPhone?5 March 2010, 9:00 am
The other day someone asked me how I got into the iPhone, which took me back to 2007 and the day this little piece of electronics completely changed my life.
I wasn’t in line at the Apple Store when the iPhone came out in 2007. I actually didn’t care much about it. That was until my best friend bought an iPhone.
The first day I actually got to play with my friend’s iPhone, I really fell in love with it. I loved the design and how it fit in my hands. I ......
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Milk Crater: A Different way to Browse Your iPod Music Collection (sponsored)4 March 2010, 9:00 am
Back in December I tweeted about a new app called TUN3R, a sort of visual dial for Internet Radio. The app is interesting if you like Internet radio, but doesn’t really go beyond that. The same folks have just released another application called Milk Crater which they claim to be the world’s first real-time audio iPod browser. Okay, but how does it actually work?
Milk Crater generates a large grid created from your iPod collection. It uses cover art to generate the tiles, or if no co...
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