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If you're looking for a novel and cheap outdoor holiday decoration, these tomato-cage-turned-Christmas-tree decorations are inexpensive and fun. You'll need some 3-tier wire tomato cages, black electrical tape, 100-bulb strands of mini lights, and some...
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If you're making a list and checking it twice, it helps to have a great tool for said list making. This week we're taking a look at the five most popular tools Lifehacker readers use to make their wishlists. Photo by plindberg. Earlier this week we asked...
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61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For (Windows/Mac/Linux)As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our...
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Two things that always seem to be in surplus around the holidays are empty wine bottles and strands of Christmas lights. Turn the two into a novel lamp with this simple hack. You'll need a wine bottle, a short strand of Christmas lights—they used a...
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If you checked out the bike repair stand we shared with you earlier this month and were disappointed because you don't have a sturdy enough ceiling to attach it to, you'll want to check out this free-standing design. Whether you're living in an apartment...
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Windows: The Windows Media playback field is a crowded one, and it's tough to find a tool that can handle multiple playback formats. SPlayer is a gem of an app that manages just about everything audio and video. SPlayer gets the job done thanks to binary...
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In a quest for cheap under-cabinet lighting, the owner of the kitchen pictured above turned to cold-cathode tubes intended for the inside of a PC case. The result of his experimenting is a kitchen well light by under-cabinet lights. The entire affair is...
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Whether your important data lives in the cloud, on your laptop, or on a different operating system, you shouldn't have to use sub-par tools to get at it. These downloads work with every major operating system, along with some not-so-major (mobile) ones....
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Thanksgiving has come and gone and in many locales the frost and snow are settling in. It's that winter wonderland time of year again and we've rounded up some pictures to help celebrate it. We've gathered up a mix of winter-themed wallpapers for you,...
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We're pretty into Google Wave, and we want to give our readers get a crack at playing around with the invite-only preview, so we're back with our weekly Google Wave invitation donation thread. Note: Read the entire post carefully before commenting. If...
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It's the day after Thanksgiving, and you've got a pile of leftovers. It's time to take a look at how you can maximize the meals you can make from your leftovers, preferably with the least amount of effort. Photo by Roland. Last year we shared a few...
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You've stuffed yourself with Thanksgiving leftovers, and with any luck you've also made the most of Black Friday (even if that means you skipped it altogether). Now it's time to chat it up with your fellow readers. Photo by brokenidols. The open thread is...
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If a Dell Mini 10V netbook was on your Black Friday shopping list, you're in luck—at least if you're the hacking type. A Dell technologist posted instructions on running Google's Chrome OS on the 10V. There are, of course, a caveat or two with this...
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Mininova, one of the web's go-to aggregators for BitTorrent trackers, has deleted nearly every torrent on its site in response to a court order. Only torrents uploaded by approved partners in its legal distribution network survived the cull and will...
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Mac OS X: If you lack for an infrared remote or Boxee remote app, or just like to keep your laptop near your big screen, one intrepid coder has whipped up a remote control widget for the social media center. The widget uses the remote web interface of...