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Over at the Google Mobile Blog I've put together a step-by-step video detailing how I use the previously mentioned Google Mobile app on my iPhone to do quick local look-ups. The concept is simple:...

If there's one thing geeks and non-geeks alike all share, it's an aversion to exercise. No matter how much you'd like to slim your waistline and lose the belly, it's difficult to find a workout...

Mac OS X only: Freeware application GrabUp automatically uploads screenshots to the internet and pastes the URL in your clipboard for quick and easy sharing. The application installs as a preference...

One of the new apps slated for release during this Friday's iPhone 2.0 launch is Friend Book, a "super Address Book" that promises to make dealing with your iPhone contacts much easier and fun. Made...

Windows/Mac only: Freeware application and web service Dropbox instantaneously backs up and syncs your files over the internet and to any computer. After you install the application, it will create a...

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The CyberSearch Firefox extension transforms Firefox 3's AwesomeBar into a dynamic search box capable of returning results from popular sites like Wikipedia, Google,...

Hilarious (in the dark humor way) Photoshop tutorial guy Donnie Hoyle is back with another installment of "You Suck at Photoshop"—this one showing you the ins and outs of Smart Objects. See the...

Now that you've minimized Firefox's chrome with a few good user styles, it's time to maximize your surfing area. Just by moving a few small things around you can have all of Firefox's menu and...

Windows only: Dexrex, a free set of plug-ins for most popular IM clients, lets you store transcripts of your IM conversations from any system online for later reference. Dexrex's plug-ins work with...

Mac OS X only: Put any web site in your menu bar with the latest version of previously mentioned Fluid, a Mac application that turns any webapp into a standalone desktop application. The video...

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...

Editor: Meet io9 contributor Lisa Katayama. When she's not blogging about robots and futurism, she's spreading the word about how to GTD in the most unexpected ways. Here's a sampling of a few...

Do-it-yourselfer Kipkay doesn't have a backlit keyboard, so he repurposed the pointless Scroll Lock LED on an old school keyboard to light up all the keys instead. The end result does indeed make...

Lynette Chandler of Tech Based Marketing has put together a short-and-sweet guide to setting up a data-gathering web form using Google Docs' spreadsheets tool. Follow the easy-to-grasp instructions,...

Cooking web site The Kitchn demonstrates how to dice an onion like a pro in the video above. It's surprisingly simple, and when you're done you'll have a perfectly diced onion ready for the millions...