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Windows present a tricky dilemma when it comes to balancing the need for privacy with the desire to have light and fresh air entering your home. Most window treatments are both costly and a compromise between the neighbors peeking …
View post:Increase Your Privacy with $16 DIY Window Frosting [Weekend Project]

Mac only: When you want to keep your Desktop clear but still get easy access to disks and network drives, you want Volumizer. This simple utility adds your Mac’s hard drive and other drives—disk images or external drives—to the Dock and/or your menubar. That way if you want to hide the Hard Drive icon […]

The Google service that’s super handy when you’re traveling internationally (or just headed to multi-lingual city), Google Translate, is now available for the …
More: Google Translate Now iPhone-Friendly [IPhone]

The Collapse of the Doha talks in Geneva last week is a shame, it weakens the WTO as an international institution and gives us a worrying view of the international communities intransigence even when perusing things that would benefit …
Originally posted here: What to do in the Wake of Doha Collapse

The Life Rocks! blog rounds up seven gorgeous Windows Vista themes which are free to download. Pick your favorite, dress up your desktop, then show it off in the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr Group. (At first glance I’m smitten by Maxclear, pictured. You?)
Free Windows Vista Themes [Vista]

Keep the fresh cut flowers your neighbor or sweetie gave you lively for as long as possible by adding this DIY solution from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden to the water:
Mix 1 teaspoon …
Here is the original: How to Extend the Life of Fresh Cut Flowers [Household]

A variety of problems such as inaccurately stated incomes, vacation or investment homes listed as primary residences, nonexistent additional incomes, faulty appraisals, lending to borrowers clearly unable to repay, and unsupported …
Read the original post: Viewpoint: Giving Mortgage Lenders Incentive To Do Job Well

Firefox 3 doesn’t store your bookmarks in the plain old HTML file that Firefox 2 did, so desktop launchers like Quicksilver and Launchy can’t index them properly. But the HackCollege blog has a solution: a Firefox 3 about:config tweak that makes Firefox automatically export your bookmarks to a file. Change the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML value from […]

Mac users who like to keep their workspace free of shortcuts and folders will love this “oh, duh!” tip for removing your hard drive from the Desktop. In Finder’s Preferences pane, in the General tab, uncheck “Hard disks” under “Show these items on the Desktop” to clear …
Read more: Remove Your Mac’s Hard Drive […]

All platforms (with the Java runtime): Free software MeD’s Movie Manager is not as feature-rich as heavier-weight media managers like Griffith, but it still makes tracking your movie collection on your computer desktop easy. Catalog the movies you own, pull film info from IMDB or TV.com to fill in missing media information, and retrieve […]