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Windows Vista tip: If you've been missing the Up navigation button in Windows Explorer since you upgraded to Vista, the functionality is still there—it's just hidden behind an Alt-up keyboard...

Earlier today we showed you how to kill your cell phone speaker buzz by applying small metal sleeves to your speaker wires. If that's not an option for you (say you've got built-in speakers), one...

Update: Several readers point out the ferrite beads are not necessarily magnets—just hunks of iron. Our apologies! Do your speakers buzz and crackle whenever a new text message or call is about...

If you're running Windows apps on your Mac with VMware Fusion in Unity mode but you're sick of blurry icons in your Dock and application switcher, the VMware Fusion blog has a simple solution:...

Mac OS X only: Freeware application Firefox Keyfixer changes the default behavior for your Home and End keys in Firefox. By default, pressing Home or End moves your Firefox window rather than the...

Editor: Say hello to fellow tech writer and Lifehacker reader The How-To Geek, who was kind enough to pull together some of best Windows Vista power tweaks here on Lifehacker today.
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Can't get that song out of your head? Wired says listening to the whole song or doing some math will beat it out of your brain.

Avoid the hassle of scraping off parking stickers or decals with Sticker Shield, a plastic sheet that surrounds stickers and attaches them to your window through the power of static adhesion rather...

Spring brings with it eager thoughts of planting for gardeners, along with ominous thoughts of keeping weeds at bay. If you're planning on using pre-potted plants or want to protect an entire area...

Windows only: Freeware application Elevator disables the User Account Control prompt for specific applications through your right-click menu, getting rid of the UAC annoyance for apps that require...

You've just finished carefully control-selecting all those files you need to move off your desktop and into a container folder, and then, one hand slip later, you have twice as many to deal with. The...

Next time you miss a call from an unknown number, check if it's a telemarketer on the CallerComplaints web site. CallerComplaints maintains a user-submitted database of telemarketer phone numbers and...

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you're sick of clicking through to subsequent pages of online articles, Firefox extension Repagination adds an option to your context menu to pull all of the...

Weblog Daily Gyan points out a simple about:config tweak that disables the installation delay for new Firefox extensions. As you may know, Firefox tries to protect you from malicious attacks by...

When logging into Ubuntu or most any GNOME-based Linux system, users see a blank one-color screen until the actual desktop is loaded—which can make one feel like something's broken, or at least...