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Featured Mac Download: Rip full DVDs (with menus) to your hard drive with Drive-in - Lifehacker

Mac OS X only: Rip full DVD images, including the DVD menu structure, directly to your hard drive with Drive-in. Windows users, check out the one-click DVD rip for a similar solution.

UltraNewb: A beginner's guide to BitTorrent - Lifehacker

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Firefox features that don't require extensions - Lifehacker


Productivity: 10 things your IT department won't tell you - Lifehacker

The list offers a nice point-counterpoint of why your IT department considers something a risk, how you can bypass their roadblocks and do it anyway, and—perhaps more importantly—how to get around it in a manner that won't completely freak out your IT department.

Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps - Lifehacker

Digg - Google Earth Reveals Oddities and Secrets

The editors at PC World spent some time using Google Earth to scour the surface of the planet, and they turned up some incredibly strange sights.

Digg - ISPs to BBC: We will throttle iPlayer unless you pay up

Network neutrality debates aren't theoretical in the UK, where ISPs have banded together to tell the BBC that its iPlayer TV "catch-up" service will destroy their networks. The choice: be throttled or pay up.

Keyboard Shortcuts: 200 productive keyboard hotkeys - Lifehacker

Productivity site Smashing Magazine has written up a list of two hundred hotkeys and shortcuts for the most essential software and Web applications. Windows, browsers, and peripheral programs are all represented here.

Featured Download: Get the feel of Photoshop in GIMP with GIMPshop - Lifehacker

Windows/Linux/Mac: Open-source app GIMPshop is a modified version of GIMP designed to give the feel of Photoshop.

Xplorer2 Lite - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com

xplorer2 Lite is a free version of xplorer2, a tabbed dual-pane windows explorer replacement with integrated quick previewer -windows only

Featured Windows Download: Defrag your hard drive with JkDefrag GUI - Lifehacker

JkDefrag puts the standard Windows defragger to shame with scheduled defrags, file optimization, and options to include/exclude directories.

Lifehacker Code: Clean out old files with the Windows Janitor script - Lifehacker

Featured Windows Download: Edit PDF files for free with PDFill - Lifehacker

Free utility PDFill can create, update and merge existing PDF files for free.

PDF: Merge multiple PDF's with Combine PDFs 2.1 - Lifehacker

Mac OS X only: Free utility Combine PDFs does just that - it merges multiple PDF files into one.

8 Ways To Microsoft Outlook Happiness - lifehack.org

Whether you use Outlook for email out of choice or because your workplace forces it, you can use these 8 tips to get things done a little easier.

How To: Back up your PC's hard drive - Lifehacker

Featured Windows Download: Open PDF's in a flash with Sumatra - Lifehacker

Windows only: The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny open source portable reader that opens PDF's in the blink of an eye.

Hack Attack: Take Launchy beyond application launching - Lifehacker

Most people know Launchy as a simple and lightning-fast application launcher for Windows, but it's actually capable of much more than that.

Featured Windows Download: Dash throws another hat in the Quicksilver-for-Windows ring - Lifehacker

New Quicksilver-inspired application Dash packs application launching, web search, quick email, Google Calendar, file and folder browsing, and more into a lightweight package (uses around 3MB of memory when idle).

Featured Windows Download: Completely remove programs with Revo Uninstaller - Lifehacker

Windows only: Freeware application Revo Uninstaller makes removing programs from your computer—not just uninstalling, but removing all traces—a quick and painless process.

Featured Windows Download: Convert video, audio, and images with DivXMachine Shell Integrated - Lifehacker

Windows only: Freeware media transcoder DivXMachine Shell Integrated converts pictures, audio, and video to and from a variety of formats through the Windows right-click context menu.

Operating Systems: How to keep Windows XP running for the long haul - Lifehacker

Not interested in upgrading to Windows Vista? No problem. ComputerWorld has written up a how-to detailing exactly what you need to to keep Windows XP running smoothly - with a few of the best Vista goodies mixed in.

OS X Tweaks: Free Downloads I Can’t Live Without | MacApper


AppFresh: Keep Your Apps Up-To-Date | MacApper

When you first open AppFresh, it automatically scans your hard drive for applications, preference panes, widgets, and plugins and then checks IUseThis to see if you have the latest version. All the programs that require updates are then filed under the “Updates” folder. When you are ready to update, you click the “Update” button and AppFresh does all the work for you.

Featured Mac Download: Simplistic application launcher with Namely - Lifehacker

Mac only: Freeware utility Namely is a stripped down application launcher.

Featured Mac Download: Add shutdown, restart, and other simple tools to your dock - Lifehacker

Mac OS X only: Freeware application bundle Dockables includes a number of simple, one-use applications that perform system events like shut down, restart, sleep, sleep display, screen capture, mute sound, log out, and several more

Featured Mac Download: Create new documents on-the-fly with Document Palette - Lifehacker

Mac OS X only: Freeware application Document Palette generates new documents in your current active folder in Finder via a keyboard shortcut.

Featured Linux Download: Embed external applications into Firefox with MozPlugger - Lifehacker

Linux only: Open source app MozPlugger embeds external applications into Firefox making it very easy to play a variety of media formats. MozPlugger works with the following media formats: Quicktime, MPEG, MP2, AVI, SGI-movie, Tiff, DL, IFF-anim, MIDI, Soundtracker, AU, WAV and Commodore 64 audio files.

Terminal: Printable beginner's guide to the terminal - Lifehacker

Linux users: Don't fear the terminal! Take the plunge and learn the basics of the terminal with the printable guide put together by FOSSwire

Featured Linux Download: Lightweight, tabbed file manager with PCMan File Manager - Lifehacker

Linux only: Free open-source app PCMan is a powerful tabbed file manager. PCMan has a leg up on Nautilus as it provides tabbed browsing, a sidebar directory tree, a full address bar, and it loads much faster. In fact, PCMan's file manager is very similar to Xplorer2 for Windows.

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