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Three New Gmail Shortcuts You’ll Need to Memorize [Keyboard Shortcuts]

Posted by fixtwit on August 31, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Three New Gmail Shortcuts Youll Need to Memorize [Keyboard Shortcuts] Three New Gmail Shortcuts Youll Need to Memorize [Keyboard Shortcuts]

In case you’re a keyboard shortcut lover using Gmail’s new Priority Inbox feature or the awesome new Gmail calling feature, you’ve got three new shortcuts you’ll wish to add for your Gmail repertoire. Change Message Priority with ‘+’ (plus) or ‘-’ (minus) Google’s new Priority Inbox learns what messages are important to you and tries [...]

Ask for ” Oops!” Paint to Score Premium Paint at Bargain Prices [Frugality]

Posted by fixtwit on August 31, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Ask for " Oops!" Paint to Score Premium Paint at Bargain Prices [Frugality] Ask for

Next time you would like some quality paint but the budget doesn’t allow for it, hit up home centers and paint stores to try the ” Oops!” selection and score premium paint at an incredible discount. How massive? It’s common to seek out gallons of paint for $1-5 as opposed to the $20-30 they’d fetch [...]

How you can Wirelessly and Automatically Back Up Your iPhone Photos [Backup]

Posted by fixtwit on August 31, 2010 at 10:00 pm
How you can Wirelessly and Automatically Back Up Your iPhone Photos [Backup] How you can Wirelessly and Automatically Back Up Your iPhone Photos [Backup]

Backing up your iPhone doesn’t backup your photos, and when you’re not in constant sync you might want to easily lose them in a crash. Here’s the right way to jailbreak your iPhone and organize an automatic photo-syncing process. Necessity is the mummy of invention as usual. In fact, I didn’t create any of the [...]

Best Text Recognition Tool: ABBYY FineReader [Hive Five Followup]

Posted by fixtwit on August 31, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Best Text Recognition Tool: ABBYY FineReader [Hive Five Followup] Best Text Recognition Tool: ABBYY FineReader [Hive Five Followup]

Last week we asked you to share your favorite text recognition tool-more formally referred to as optical character recognition (OCR)-then we compared them all. Now we’re back to spotlight the preferred text recognition tool. Leading the pack with 31% of the vote was ABBYY FineReader, a magnificent OCR tool with features to spare. Following ABBYY [...]

Google Docs Adds Wave-Style Collaborative Text Highlighting [Collaboration]

Posted by fixtwit on August 31, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Google Docs Adds Wave-Style Collaborative Text Highlighting [Collaboration] Google Docs Adds Wave-Style Collaborative Text Highlighting [Collaboration]

Google Wave can be on its way out, but many of the features that made Wave so great at collaborating already have or appear to be making their way into Google Docs. Working example: Today, Google Docs incorporates live text highlighting to Docs. …to truly work well together, it helps to understand what [your collaborator [...]

Use AutoHotkey to Scroll the Command Prompt Backwards by Keyboard [Autohotkey]

Posted by fixtwit on August 31, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Use AutoHotkey to Scroll the Command Prompt Backwards by Keyboard [Autohotkey] Use AutoHotkey to Scroll the Command Prompt Backwards by Keyboard [Autohotkey]

Windows only: There’s absolute confidence that the Windows command prompt is anemic, but although you upgrade it with Cygwin, you’re still left with a console window that won’t mean you can scroll backwards with the keyboard. Here’s the fix. Over at the How-To Geek site (my home far from Lifehacker), we’ve put together a short [...]

Transfer Big Files Circumvents iPhone Upload Limits [Downloads]

Posted by fixtwit on August 31, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Transfer Big Files Circumvents iPhone Upload Limits [Downloads] Transfer Big Files Circumvents iPhone Upload Limits [Downloads]

iPhone: When you’re enjoying some great benefits of HD video for your iPhone but wish you are able to actually send that video to others at full 720p resolution, Transfer Big Files allows you to do exactly that. Like many file transfer sites, Transfer Big Files uploads the file to their site and emails …

Floating in Space: The Minimalist’s Desk [Featured Workspace]

Posted by fixtwit on August 31, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Floating in Space: The Minimalists Desk [Featured Workspace] Floating in Space: The Minimalists Desk [Featured Workspace]

When you’re short on space, but still want something resembling a standard desk with a whole size keyboard, it is advisable get creative. Today’s workspace tucks the mess away inside a custom hollow-shelf. Lifehacker reader Gavin Coelho didn’t have sufficient room for an entire size desk. His solution was to build a hollow shelf-style desk [...]

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