Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Build yourself a solar-powered wifi booster for the backyard. Your mousing wrist feeling a little achy? Train yourself to mouse lefty (or righty, lefties.) PayPal your buddy your share of the dinner bill with your cell phone. Add encryption to Gmail and sync your Google calendar with your mobile phone or handheld.

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: One wire plus two computers equals 800 megabytes transfer rate. Here's how to set up a fast FireWire network to move all your disk hogging files from one machine to another. Our in-house law geek reveals what will really happen if you get caught BitTorrenting those copyrighted movies. It's not EVDO, it's just you and your cell phone. Get online on the go when you're wifi hotspotless by using your cell phone as a modem. Finally, iTunes may insist on only keeping an eye on one folder for music, but with the Library Updater software and a little arm-twisting, you too can get iTunes to sync up with any folders on your hard drive you'd like.

Power User: The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: We kicked off our Coolest Workspace Contest with a DIY door-turned-tabletop, an adjustable sit or stand desk and more. Submit pictures of your tricked-out rig for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to Amazon! More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Convince your boss you'll be 30% more productive if you could only have a second monitor. Save yourself 70 bucks and replace your iPod Mini's battery yourself. It's a bunch of nerds in a grassy field with circuit boards, LED's, homemade Segways and more! Check our special report from Geeks Gone Wild the first annual Maker Faire. Headed off to Circuit City determined to come home with an HDTV? Print out the short and sweet HDTV buying guide and stick it in your pocket before you go. Finally, when your hard drive starts growling at you in the midst of writing your final paper, automatically email yourself file backups to keep your work safe even if your disk platters go south.

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: De-crapify your new Dell of all the garbage software it had installed on it out of the box. See a video demonstration of iAlertU, the car alarm for the MacBook Pro. DIYers, snugly encase a wifi router inside your Xbox. And if you thought you found all your Easter Eggs this year, there's one tucked away you missed: uncover the Star Wars game hidden inside Open Office.

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Set up your personal wikipedia. Help that feeble brain of yours and develop digital photographic memory. Remedy your memory-sucking Firefox installation. Make Mom a rotating digital photo frame that refreshes with your current Flickr photos. Finally, rig up a portable USB charger with a 9-volt battery. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Decide when to trash your old PC and when to upgrade. Be a walking encyclopedia - literally - with Wikipedia on your iPod. Build yourself a booty-hiding secret hollow book. Finally, smack down that annoying Windows error report dialog that pops up whenever software crashes for good. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Unlock the power of the scroll wheel and mouse gestures and drive Firefox without taking your hand off the clicker. Fix scratched CDs with toothpaste, Pledge, Pinesol or peanut butter. Get flight status information, horoscopes and drink recipes SMS'ed directly to your phone. Make sure your laptop battery doesn't poop out during the key scene of that DVD movie you're watching. Finally, get AIM on your PSP.

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: That sound your computer's fan is making? It roughly translates to "Help! I'm being strangled by cat hair!" Get under your PC's hood and evacuate the dust bunnies partying on your video card. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Watch a video demo of an iPod running Linux. Still required to use IE at work? Have some strategies for surviving IT lockdown at the office. Build an Lego iPod dock. Turn your PSP into a universal remote capable of controlling over 1,800 devices. Automatically defrag your hard drive, reboot your PC or start up Firefox with all your favorites opened in tabs with Windows Scheduled Tasks. Finally, massage your LCD's stuck pixels right out.

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Free your iPod from the shackles of iTunes. Witness operating system multiple personality disorder on a real live ThinkPad dual-booting Windows and Mac OS X. Scare your cat and get in shape with a sledgehammer and a sweater. Finally, master the art of portable computing with some tried and true laptop tips. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Build yourself a gadget recharging station. Hack together a pen-sized wireless antenna. Revive a a soaked piece of hardware killed by spillage. Finally, download essential free software that Google Pack whiffed on. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: You know you're supposed to be backing up your data, but are you? Set it and forget it - automatically backup your hard drive. If you didn't get one of those shiny new video iPods for the holidays, tweak out your ancient 'pod and make it (almost) as good as new. Speaking of upgrades, have some tips on replacing your motherboard with a younger model. Finally, convert any web page to a stripped down version fit for any mobile phone or PDA. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Get the most out of your video iPod. Buy the best quality recordable DVDs. Cube warriors, firewall your attention at the office. Fold up a pen and stick it in your wallet. Finally, remedy LCD screen burn-in. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Build an auto-on pantry light with a Timex watch holder. Replace your iPod's hard drive. Make an RFID-blocking duct tape wallet. Finally, instantly inventory your gadget stash off-site for insurance purposes when the house blows up. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Take your data home for the holidays. While you're there, crack the neighbors' wifi. Spraypaint the guts of that old computer into Christmas tree decorations. Build a photo lamp from a Mag-Lite. Bend web pages to your will with our favorite Greasemonkey scripts. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Build your own gingerbread house. Finetune Firefox for fast or slow connections and computers. FTP to your Gmail account. Finally, stuff stockings with a narrated Ken Burns style photo movie. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Cell phone modem connection got you twiddling your thumbs? Find out how to survive a slow Internet connection. Carry your OS on your keyring and boot Windows from a thumbdrive. Save cameraphone photos to Flickr with the press of a button. Finally, create multiple iTunes libraries on one computer and switch between them on the fly. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Drive Firefox with your keyboard. Carry around secure data backups on your iPod. Optimize your Mac's broadband connection. Learn all the right gym moves using exercise videos on your iPod. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: You're home, you're eating turkey, you're fielding computer questions from Mom and Dad, Uncle Lou and Aunt Mitzy. Fix Mom and Dad's computer and add some memory to that 4-year-old Dell while you're at it. Plus: Organize and charge up your mobile devices in one place, and speed up the ol' iPod with a good disk defrag. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Crack open your PC and install a PCI card. Resuscitate the backlight on your dying LCD monitor. Find bomb tripwire with Silly String. Keep snoopers from undeleting the data on your hard drive. Finally, have your say about assy software design. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Get in shape with your Xbox or PS2. Automatically clean out temporary files on your PC. Filter out the RSS fluff on your mobile device. Get 10 free digital photo prints. Tweak out your 'pod with the best iPod freeware. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Send a text message and win a free Nokia 6682 cameraphone. Hack your house to help you get things done. Build your own monitor riser out of spare parts for when you're at work, and a DIY beer cooler for when you're at play. Finally, repurpose that old PC into a VNC, FTP or HTTP server. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Don't pay for video at the iTunes Music Store - subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes. Create your own own iPod videos. Or forget the White Status Symbol of Apple Cult Membership, and watch your video to go on a big screen PocketPC. Of course, if you do decide to pay the man, be sure to give an iTune as a gift. Also: power texting tips for the SMS-happy, and how to make the four biggest search engines bend to your will with the top 20 search helpers. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

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