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Working at Night Messes with Your Metabolism [Health]

Lifehacker -- New research suggests that its not just food options and lifestyle choices that put night workers at higher risk for obesity and other health problems—it's that human bodies can't really adapt to a late-night rhythm.     03-04
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Vistumbler Detects Wi-Fi Hotspots, Maps Them [Featured Windows Download]

Lifehacker -- Windows Vista only: Free, open-source application Vistumbler scans wireless networks within range of your Wi-Fi antenna, tracks signal strength over time, and handles pretty much everything else that other apps of this kind do. What sets Vistumbler apart from the rest is its support for GPS and live Google Earth tracking, which plots hotspots on a map. The whole thing is really cool, but unfortuna...     2008
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Roll Your Own Lightning at Sunset Desktop [How To]

Lifehacker -- The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser. When we highlighted reader Kaelri's customized Windows XP desktop, pictured above, it drew oohs and ahhs from everyone looking to spruce up their Windows installation. Happily Kaelri was kind enough to respond with a detailed step-by-step for how he made his Windows installation look so great. Even better, he gives an AutoHotkey c...     2008
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Best Password Manager? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Lifehacker -- We spend half of our lives on computers and the internet, and as a result the number of logins and passwords we have to remember from day to day is unmanageable for mere mortals. Instead of keeping all of that information floating around in your head and at the mercy of your already taxed memorization skills, a slew of password management tools are available to help you track and organize your pas...     2008
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Disable Google Suggest [How To]

Lifehacker -- Not thrilled at the announcement that Google Suggest will soon be baked into your search box by default? Worry not! You can disable the autosuggesting search to return your Google search box to its old, non-backseat driver self. Just head to the Google Preferences page, find the Query Suggestions section at the bottom of the page, and select Do not provide query suggestions in the search box. Now ...     2008
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Expand Your Brain with Evernote [Back To School]

Lifehacker -- A new school year is just around the corner, but this semester you're looking for a safer way to enhance your brainpower than getting all hopped up on caffeine pills Jessie Spano-style. This year, the robust note-taking software Evernote is your answer. Let's take a look at how you can use your computer, cellphone, and digital camera in conjunction with the free, cross-platform application Evernot...     2008
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Tweetake Backs Up Your Tweets to CSV Files [Twitter]

Lifehacker -- There's a good chance Twitter might never lose all the messages, replies, following lists, and other data its users have racked up over its short, expansive life—then again, it's not exactly the paradigm of reliable service, either. Even if you don't need (or care) to secure your messages, free service Tweetake does a hack-happy job of grabbing selected parts of your Twitter profile or the w...     2008
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Think Faster and Better on Your Feet with Tricks from Improv [Office Culture]

Lifehacker -- CNN Living and Real Simple suggest stealing a few tricks from improv actors to help you think better and faster on your feet—and look better in real world situations. Make everyone else in your group look good. How it works: Here's what you learn in improv: You're nothing without somebody else. There's nothing to improvise without someone to improvise with. The more you trust others to be your pro...     2008
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How Have Gas Prices Changed Your Behavior? [Ask The Readers]

Lifehacker -- Personal finance blogger J.D. Roth discusses how high gas prices are changing the way we live and drive, highlighting how several people he knows have opted for buses, bikes, and fewer automobiles in the face of expensive fuel. We've offered up our own tips for keeping your car running at peak fuel efficiency, but fuel efficiency aside, we're curious how you've changed your behavior because of cur...     2008
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Top 10 How To Videos [Lifehacker Top 10]

Lifehacker -- Your crafty older relatives used to have to mail-order their video tutorials or wait for "This Old House" reruns to get their DIY on, but the age of streaming video has been good to those who like to tinker and try out neat tricks. From prying open beer bottles with telephone bills to picking locks, from sealing chips to folding t-shirts, we've posted a lot of concise but instructive clips at Life...     2008
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Chandler 1.0 is a Serious, but Rough, To-Do Manager [Screenshot Tour]

Lifehacker -- Chandler, an open-source, cross-platform scheduling app, was conceived back in 2002 as a potential Outlook-killer—a free organizer that would process all your email, calendar appointments and tasks into one smooth workflow, no matter what format or system they were on. Over its long and storied development, intriguingly chronicled in the book Dreaming in Code, Chandler morphed into a meekly-...     2008
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Best Note-Taking Tools? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Lifehacker -- You've got a wealth of information pouring past your eyes and ears every day, and whether you're in school or you're just a lifetime learner, taking notes is an effective way to catalog and cement what you've learned. A simple notebook and paper used to be the only practical solution available, and while it's still an excellent option, modern note-takers can also take advantage of technology to tu...     2008
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How Do You Live Cheap in the Summer? [Ask The Readers]

Lifehacker -- Personal finance weblog The Simple Dollar rounds up eight tips for saving money while still getting a good dose of summer fun. For example: Community festivals can be a very cheap way to spend a summer weekend, particularly ones near your home or ones that line up well with other planned summer trips. Just take along a sack lunch, watch a parade and the other activities (or even participate), and ...     2008
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Repair Your Own Books [DIY]

Lifehacker -- While books can be a dime a dozen these days (literally in some cases), sometimes you have a damaged book on your hands that a simple trip to Barnes and Noble can't replace. For books with sentimental, historical, or other value to you it's possible to perform simple repairs on your own. The members of the Preservation Services of the Dartmouth College Library have put together a comprehensive beg...     2008
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Blow Up Shows Off Flickr Photos Full-Screen [Flickr]

Lifehacker -- Webapp Blow Up displays Flickr photos in a full-screen slideshow for closeup browsing. When you want to show off your vacation photos from this summer that you uploaded to Flickr, head over to Blow Up Your Flickr and enter your username. Blow Up will pull down your photos and display them full screen, with a hideaway thumbnail navigation. Web site owners, you can even download the Blow Up app and ...     2008
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FusionDesk Starter Manages Your Tasks with GTD Emphasis [Featured Windows Download]

Lifehacker -- Windows only: Freeware application FusionDesk Starter is a full-featured task management application with an emphasis on author David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology. FusionDesk sports an attractive and user-friendly interface, priorities, tagging, contexts, calendar support, and basically anything else you'd want from a GTD app. The application even supports automated backups of all your ...     2008
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Digitize Your VHS Home Movies [Weekend Project]

Lifehacker -- When it's time to finally clear out that dusty trunk full of home movies on VHS tapes, you have a couple of options: pay someone to transfer all that precious video to DVD, or do it yourself. For several hours of tape, having it done can get expensive, so the Unclutterer blog runs down the steps for capturing and burning VHS videos to disk the DIY way. You'll need a video capture card or external ...     2008
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How to Water Your Lawn Efficiently [Outdoors]

Lifehacker -- Spring is upon us, and with a little know-how, you can water your lawn more smarter this year. Tutorial site wikiHow offers strategies to reduce your water usage while maintaining a healthy, hearty lawn. For example: Water deeply to encourage deep root growth. Frequent shallow waterings encourage weed germination, and they also cause the grass plants' roots to grow shallow, leaving the plant more ...     2008
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Sew an Old Sweater into a Cat Bed [Weekend Project]

Lifehacker -- Give your cat a comfy place to snooze and save some money by turning an old sweater into a cat bed. Step-by-step tutorial site wikiHow runs down how. The result can even be a dog bed (for small dogs) and your pet will love cuddling up in something that smells like you, too.How to Make a Cat Bed from an Old Sweater [wikiHow]     2008
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Tips for Haggling Your Next Purchase [Buying]

Lifehacker -- Over at the Get Rich Slowly personal finance blog, one buy-savvy reader shares the techniques and thinking she's used to improve her haggling, a skill many of us have neglected or ignored entirely. Whether at a yard sale or big-box electronics store, changing your angle of approach can often yield solid savings. A few of her suggestions: If I'm at a yard sale or buying a bunch of things, I pile th...     2008
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