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Flickr Gallery Plus Tweaks Flickr for Better Galleries [Featured Download]

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Posted by Adam Pash from Lifehacker.

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Flickr Gallery Plus Firefox extension or Greasemonkey script make browsing galleries faster and easier in Flickr.

Once installed and set up, Flickr Gallery Plus automatically grabs larger versions of each image in a set so you can view each picture waiting for another page to load. It even turns sets into nice slideshows that fade between photos. Like to navigate photos from the keyboard? You can advance between images with the right and left keys.

If you’re a Flickr junkie, Flickr Gallery Plus is a great add-on to view Flickr sets. For more spicy Flickr improvements, check out our very own Better Flickr Firefox extension.

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Systm - Cheap and Easy Hard Drive Upgrade


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Picasa for Mac Beta Released, First Look [Featured Mac Download]


Posted by Adam Pash from Lifehacker.

Google has officially released their popular photo management application Picasa for Macs, after years of offering Picasa as a free Windows download.

It’s an exciting announcement for anyone who’s looking for a good photo management app on OS X that isn’t iPhoto or for anyone who’s used and fallen in love with Picasa on Windows or Linux. This release still sports the beta tag, so you can expect a bug here or there, but overall it appears to boast most of the same features as its counterparts.

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Ask MetaFilter Roundup [Hive Mind]


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Craigsphone Brings a Better Craigslist to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]


Posted by Adam Pash from Lifehacker.

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application Craigsphone puts the popular online classifieds site Craigslist on your iPhone, complete with click-to-call, history, and mobile posting.


At first blush it may not seem like a Craigslist-focused app could offer much beyond what Craigslist on mobile Safari does, but you may be surprised. Craigsphone can post directly from your phone, including photo uploads and location sharing (instant missed connections, anyone?) and a Nearby feature that uses your iPhone’s location awareness to find classifieds nearby (San Francisco Bay area and Manhattan only for now).

Craigsphone is distributed for free by the same people who develop the very cool Dial Zero app (which helps you skip directly to an operator when you dial a customer service line), works on the iPhone and iPod touch only.

Craigsphone [iTunes App Store via TUAW]






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Tabhunter Adds Faster Tab Switching to Firefox [Featured Firefox Extension]


Posted by Adam Pash from Lifehacker.

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Tabhunter Firefox extension adds quick keyboard-based tab switching to Firefox—sort of like Launchy for Firefox tabs. Just invoke Tabhunter, start typing, and Tabhunter searches for a match through all your tabs.

Tabhunter searches only the titles of your open pages, but the search is very fast and works as advertised. You can invoke Tabhunter from the keyboard (Ctrl+Alt+T by default), start typing, and find the tab you want more quickly than you can likely switch over to your mouse and back.

Granted, Tabhunter is decidedly for keyboard shortcut lovers, but if you fall in that group and you regularly have a browser full o’ tabs, it’s a great extension. Tabhunter is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.

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Coke Can Clean Your Toilet in a Pinch [Clever Uses]


Posted by Gina Trapani from Lifehacker.

When your toilet’s got rings and lime scale stains and you’ve got no cleaning gear on hand, grab a can of Coke out of the fridge.

According to wikiHow, you can pour Coke into a dirty toilet and the carbonic, citric, and phosphoric acids in it will break down stains, especially if you can leave it overnight to do the work. (Soda water will work too, without all the sugary residue.) Be warned though: this technique won’t save you from the dreaded brushing of the bowl itself.

How to Clean a Toilet With Coke [wikiHow]






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Disable Startup Stops Unwanted Apps from Creating Startup Entries [Featured Windows Download]


Posted by Adam Pash from Lifehacker.

Windows only: Free application Disable Startup keeps just any old app from adding itself to your list of startup applications, keeping your boot time snappy and RAM happy.

At its core, Disable Startup is a startup manager similar to the built-in Windows System Configuration Utility. It does the trick if you just want to use it for that, but it’s really nothing special strictly as a startup manager. If you’re willing to run Disable Startup in your system tray (which will cost you about 4MB), it’ll closely monitor your startup applications for new additions. The app gives you the option to disable all new startup entries, warn you when new startup apps are added, or allow any new additions.

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Download and Print the 2009 Compact Calendar [Printables]


Posted by Gina Trapani from Lifehacker.

So you’re back at work after the holidays and planning out your big projects of the year—time to print out Dave Seah’s excellent compact calendar for 2009.

This good-looking and useful spreadsheet template lays out the year in a continuous block of time with U.S. holidays marked (international versions are available as well). Use it to block off spans of time for certain projects, or to check off days you’ve gotten to the gym, skipped a cigarette, or any other habit you’re trying to form. The spreadsheet should work on any platform, and it’s a free download. (We mentioned the 2009 edition back in September, but thought it would be most useful today).

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“Downloading Is Wrong” Trojan Blocks Access to BitTorrent Sites [BitTorrent]


Posted by Adam Pash from Lifehacker.

BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak reports on a new piece of malware with a strange bent: If it infects your computer, this trojan will prevent you from accessing popular BitTorrent sites The Pirate Bay and Mininova. It does so by modifying the hosts file on your computer. We’ve shown you how to use the power of the hosts file for good by banning time-wasting web sites or setting up universal ad blocking through your router, but this novel new trojan adds the unfriendly blocks to your hosts file. If by chance you’ve been affected, check out the TorrentFreak post for more details.






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