January 2008
22 posts
Record Streaming Internet Audio with Audacity →
Is there any way to record the audio I can hear streaming over the Internet?
Windows and Linux users: You can record streaming Internet audio with everyone’s favorite free open-source audio editing software: Audacity. Audacity is available free of charge, and can be used to record whatever is coming off of your PC’s sound board. (more…)
Pod Bay Doors →
Track Goal Progress and To-Do's on Google Calendar... →
After trying Remember the Milk, Todoist, Sandy, and Basecamp, blogger Zee found his best solution for tracking goals and tasks in Google Calendar. He created five-year, one-year, and then quarterly goals. For each three-month goal, he creates a new, different-colored calendar, and schedules tasks along the road to completion.
By the end of it you should have a calendar full of your tasks,...
Everystockphoto Stock Search Relaunches [Digital... →
If you’re wondering where we find many of the purty images that accompany Lifehacker posts, it’s over at Everystockphoto, a treasure trove of stock and Creative Commons-licensed images that you can reuse on your blog, presentation or brochure. Yes, we’ve already mentioned Everystockphoto, but yesterday the site got an extreme makeover plus an injection of more photos from...
Thomas A. Edison →
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Unknown →
“Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.”
Mario Andretti →
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough”
Dwight D. Eisenhower →
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Dangers →
Comic: Tending to the flock →
Tending to the flock
Making Porno, Pt. 1: Foreplay →
Tuesday was day one of rehearsals, and lemme tell ya’: it was pretty awesome, hearing Zack and Miri come to life for the first time. Rogen and Banks are genius together (and apart - which, in the flick, is extremely rare): hilarious and rather sweet and touching when called for. The roles fit […]
Read Text from a Scanned Document into Word with... →
I have an essay typed out on paper. Is there a way to get my essay onto the computer without re-typing it?
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition, and is the process of converting written or printed text into into a form that can be understood by a computer. Using OCR, your computer can take text from a scanned page and insert it into a text file, or word processing document. (more…)
Robert Benchley →
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t.”
Can Wii Rock? →
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The Wii is one of the hottest selling consoles of all time. No arguments about that. The addition of motion controls, while sacrificing graphics and the ability to go hi-def have really paid off for Nintendo. All true.
Despite selling so well, the Wii hasn’t received the most anticipated cross-platform game of the year, Rock […]
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What's Wrong With the TV News →
MBCook writes “Technology Review has a fantastic seven page piece titled “You Don’t Understand Our Audience” by former Dateline correspondent John Hockenberry. In it he discusses how NBC (and the networks at large) has missed and wasted opportunities brought by the Internet; and how they work to hard to get viewers at the expense of actual news. The story describes various...
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks [Lifehacker... →
When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: like searching for exact phrases in quotes like "so say we all" or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little text box. Dozens of Google search guides detail the tips you already know, but...
Become a Gmail Jedi Master [Gmail] →
Weblog Ask the PC Guide’s video demonstration above delves into some of the finer points of what it takes to master Gmail. The demo illustrates usage of labels, filters, a few keyboard shortcuts, and vacation autoresponders. It’s not a bad intro to advanced Gmail usage, but if you really want to kick Gmail up a notch, grab Better Gmail 2 and supercharge your Gmail Lifehacker-style....
That’s ONE way to sell PS3 Controllers →
The other night, Lono and I had to make a late night run to Walmart to get some medicine for his daughter, and while he was searching for the right medicinal concoction, this caught my eye. Can you guess what it is you are looking at? Here’s a closer shot of the hilarity, after the […]
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Harry S Truman →
“If you cannot convince them, confuse them.”
5. They Said What? →
There were some pretty dumb things said in 2007. I know, I said some of them. There were some well paid people out, whose job it is to make comments about video games for the public to see, said a lot dumber things than I ever could.
I guess with great money comes great stupidity.
Find out […]
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7. OMG They Fired Jeff Gerstmann! AHHHHHHHHHHH! ... →
When Gamespot unloaded its senior editor, and infamous game review renegade, Jeff Gerstmann, there is no way they could have anticipated the amount of backlash it would see from the decision. What made Gerstmann’s dismissal so interesting was its proximity to Eidos’ pullout of all current and future advertising dollars immediately following Gerstmann’s mediocre review […]
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