When I started blogging in 2005 Lifehacker was one of the two blogs that I read regularly (the other was Download Squad). Back then, it offered a mix of tech and non-tech articles and guides that made it one of my favorite sources for information. It was one of the first blogs that I added [...]

Categories: ask the readers

You may have already read it on other sites that Lifehacker and other Gawker Media properties were compromised. That’s bad enough for the company and web properties they own, but also for users of the sites. You see, users needed to create an account at Lifehacker and other sites before they were able to comment. [...]

Categories: Security

Most computer users work with a basic set of programs most of the time. Some of these programs are active most of the time, web browsers or games for instance, while others, like email clients are mostly inactive and only activated at times. Inactive windows and programs can take up valuable screen space. Most users [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Belvedere is at its heart a Windows port of the popular Mac OSX file management software Hazel. It is being developed by Lifehacker’s own Adam Pash and currently available in version 0.3. Not all functions and features of Hazel have been implemented yet which is demonstrated by the version. Still, some core functionality is available. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Minime (via Lifehacker) is an AutoIt application that can be used to put any open window – be it program or folder – into the Windows System Tray. While that is not really something new it comes with a feature that might be interesting to users who run many applications and folders. Minime bundles the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Adam Pash is a Senior Editor at Lifehacker and also someone who likes to code. His latest gorgeous application is a Greasemonkey script called Google Inline MP3 Player which, once installed, displays a [Play] link next to each mp3 link on a website. A click on that Play link embeds an inline mp3 player, more [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Music and Video

It’s kinda funny. I was prepared to write about Regscanner all day long when I discovered that Kevin over at Lifehacker did post about the Nirsoft utility as well. If you have ever used the Windows Registry Editor before you might have asked yourself why Microsoft did not implement a better search in the tool, [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

If there is one Firefox add-on for Youtube that sticks out of the crowd it’s the Better Youtube extension by Lifehacker. Better Youtube is a compilation of Greasemonkey scripts compiled together in an add-on which has several advantages. The first is that Greasemonkey does not have to be installed to use the advanced features that the add-on provides, another that you only install one add-on and not five or six Greasemonkey scripts.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I always knew that Lifehacker has some software available like Better Gmail, Better Google Calendar, but they actually have a whole line I didn’t even know about until a recent post. They have some pretty useful stuff, all of them are “micro programs” designed for one specific use. They have a great text replacement utility [...]

Categories: Tools