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If you've got an extra freebie IKEA wrench and you want to speed up your furniture assembly, cut off one end with a bolt cutter and fit it into your drill. With the DIY drill bit, no manual twisting...

If you've got an overstuffed inbox and you want to declare Inbox Zero without individually marking messages as read, you can mark all unread mail as read using a Gmail filter. Create a new filter...

Mac OS X only: Firefox extension Quartz PDF enables inline viewing of PDFs in Firefox 3 for the Mac. Just install, and next time you follow a link to a PDF, it quickly loads the PDF directly inline....

Reader Aper3Caper adds a screencast to the Lifehacker Tip Testers Flickr group demonstrating how he saves time chasing buttons with his mouse in Windows by enabling the previously mentioned Snap To...

Next time you're burning a DVD, downloading a large file, or extracting a multi-gigabyte file and don't want to sit at your computer staring at the progress meter, use your Mac's built-in screen zoom...

Windows only: Create new appointments in Outlook with plain English using freeware application Easy2Add. Similar to Google Calendar's Quick Add feature, just invoke Easy2Add (it comes in either...

Your Start menu and Applications folder are growing larger and harder to navigate every day, but with a solid application launcher at your side, you'll never notice. On Tuesday we put a call out for...

A user from DIY web site Instructables details how to cut a watermelon to easily remove most of the seeds so you don't have to endure the familiar seed-spitting routine. The key is cutting the...

Next time you wipe your PC's hard drive clean and reinstall Windows with that old installation disc, you don't want to connect your fresh, unpatched and vulnerable system to the internet only to...

Mac OS X only: Freeware application FlashMount streamlines software installation and speeds up mounting various disk images like DMG and ISO files. Intended as a default replacement for OS X's...

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Auto Context Firefox extension automatically shows your right-click context menu as soon as you select text on a web page, taking a step out of your workflow if...

Windows only: Free, open source application HotKeyBind creates keyboard shortcuts for common Windows actions, from launching applications and opening files to searching the web and shutting down your...

New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman used to look down on the microwave for any sort of cooking beyond reheating leftovers or softening ice cream. But after a couple of conversations with...

Blogger Samar Kamat loves keeping up with his favorite web sites with Google Reader, but noticed Reader can take forever to load feeds with longer items. His solution? Switch to List View.The default...

Readers are submitting their best life hack for a chance to win an autographed copy of our new book, Upgrade Your Life. Here's our latest winner. Reader Jeadly got sick of hitting the Caps Lock key...