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04 May 09

Lifehacker - Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools - Data Recovery

While the best defense against data loss is redundant and real-time backup, we understand that sometimes data loss sneaks right up on you. Whether your vacation pictures didn't make it safely from your camera to your computer or a bumbling roommate deleted the paper you've been working all week on, having emergency data recovery tools handy is crucial to getting your data back before it's gone forever.

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15 Mar 09

Security: How to Set Up a Laptop Security System

Let's take a look at several free and cheap methods you can (and should) use to keep your laptop safe, secure, and out of the hands of thieves. We'll also take a look at software that tracks and even snaps pictures of the thief in the event he did get away with your precious gear.

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People Search: Thoroughly Invade Someone's Privacy with 123people

People search engine 123people.com aggregates search results from several different sources online — and off. Simply enter a person's name, a city or zip code, and 123people will display search results from social networks, telephone listings, web pages, Wikipedia and the like. A quick search on my likely new representative in city government, David Chiu, turned up some good candidates for his home address and phone number, and certainly found plenty of photos on Flickr and web sites and articles related to his recent campaign (as well as plenty of information about David Chiu, competitive poker player and others). Potentially creepy? Yes. Potentially useful? Also yes. As with our tips on how to track down anyone online, Lifehacker cannot be held responsible in the event you're slapped with a restraining order.

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Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Tools for Your Blog or Web Site

Having your own hosted web domain has never been cheaper, or easier, with the vast array of free resources out there. Here are our ten favorite tools to help anyone launch and maintain their internet presence

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14 Feb 09

Ubiquity: Make Ubiquity Your Ultimate Firefox Commander

One of the niftiest Firefox add-ons to come out of Mozilla Labs is Ubiquity, a natural language commander that adds killer functionality on-page in Firefox. Let's take a closer look.

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  • Invoke Ubiquity and type check Tuesday to see what events are on your calendar that day, as shown
  • To see all the commands available to you, invoke Ubiquity and enter command-list
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17 Jan 09

Letter From The Editor: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Today is my last day as site lead at Lifehacker, so I'm taking off my distanced reporter hat to get all mushy, personal, and behind-the-scenes on you. Come in and grab a seat.

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01 Nov 08

Reader Guide To Lifehacker: The Power User's Guide to This Web Site

  • Bold, italicize, and add links to your comment with HTML. We allow several HTML tags inside our comments, from <b></b> for bold, <i></i> for italics to <a></a> for links. Some crafty troublemakers even discovered that the <blink></blink> tag works. (More on how to turn that nonsense off later.) To see if an HTML tag works, select the "preview comment" checkbox and just enter it—you'll know if it works if it displays correctly in the preview.
27 Oct 08

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Network Utilities

Today we've picked out 10 of our favorite, free, point and click software applications and webapps that help you make the most of the giant web of connected computers that is your network.

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Gmail: Gmail Tips and Tricks Monster Roundup

I decided it was time to put together our own Gmail roundup. Ever since I bought my first Gmail invite for five dollars off eBay over 2 years ago, I've been all about squeezing every last productive drop I can out of Gmail. Check out my monster tribute to my favorite email application after the jump.

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Media Center: 8 killer Windows Media Center plug-ins

With these eight plugs-ins, most of which are free, you can trick out your MCE PC like never before.

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Lifehacker Faceoff: Battle of the Thumb Drive Linux Systems

These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port. But check out the list of distributions UNetbootin can download and install—it's huge, and the names don't tell you much about which distro is best for on-the-go computing. Today we're detailing four no-install distributions—Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Xubuntu, and Fedora—and helping you decide which might work for that spare thumb drive you've got lying around, or as just a part of your multi-gig monster stick. Read on for a four-way faceoff of bootable Linux systems.

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Geek To Live: Replace Windows Explorer with Xplorer2

Let's face it: for advanced file manipulation, Windows File Explorer stinks. But like Firefox is a must-have replacement for Internet Explorer, a file manager called Xplorer2 blows Windows Explorer out of the water for anyone who browses multiple folders, copies, pastes, moves and searches the PC filesystem frequently.

Using Xplorer2's tabbed, dual pane interface, keyboard shortcuts and killer advanced features, you're in total control of your PC's files. Let's take a look.

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  • Much like Firefox, in Xplorer2 you can bookmark folders and assign keywords to open them quickly. To add a folder you frequent to your bookmarks, from the Bookmarks menu choose "Add Current." To organize your bookmarks, hit the "Organize" Bookmarks menu item,
  • To bookmark a file, add its name to the end of the bookmark path. Then, when the bookmark is chosen, the folder will open with that particular file selected. (For instance, when I hit my "todo" bookmark, todo.txt is selected and I can hit Enter to open it.)
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