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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 1st, 2008
  • Comments: 4

File Management Software Belvedere

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.
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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 25th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Minimize Windows To A Single System Tray Icon

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 [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 20th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Google Inline MP3 Player

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 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Music and Video, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 30th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Regscanner advanced Registry search

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, [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 6th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Better Youtube Firefox Extension

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.

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

Lifehacker productivity software

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 for [...]

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Categories: Tools

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 28th, 2006
  • Comments: 3

Hide Menus in Fullscreen with Autohide for Firefox

I was reading about Autohide yesterday over at lifehacker and had the plan to try it today to see if it was a useful add-on for mozilla firefox. Autohide manipulates the interface of firefox when entering fullscreen mode (F11) – you can select to (auto) hide certain bars and menu entries to have more space for the website itself. The following settings can be changed:

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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