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Rank'em distinguishes itself from       performances at the House of Blues
other music ranking sites by            and Montreux over other releases
focusing on individual artists'         of the song. Since you're not
catalogs. You can't rank and            ranking one band against another
compare Rush against Yes, but you       but instead the discography of a
can look at and rank their              band against itself, Rank'em
individual discographies against        provides an interesting look into  

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Windows tip: If you need to             details, large icons, small icons,
quickly switch views in a folder,       etc?
you can easily click through the        Ctrl+scroll wheel is a common way
view options in Explorer's toolbar.     to zoom (this also works in
Or, as reader creerontpoints out,       Firefox and Chrome, for example),
you can simply hold the Ctrl key        but it's a nice little shortcut
and spin your mouse wheel.              for zooming and quickly switching  

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Android only: Creating folders on       (from stock choices or your own
a home screen, then finding and         images), and place an icon
dragging apps into them, isn't          wherever you'd like from the
quick or precise. Apps Organizer,       Shortcuts or Widgets menus. If you
and its broader cousin Folder           want to quickly change up the
Organizer, make creating and            rotation of a particular label,
accessing batches of apps,              you can create a shortcut to a     

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After weeks of often-repetitive         we’ve already featured on
campaigning, tomorrow Australians       Lifehacker. I lodged my vote
finally get to vote and decide who      earlier this week (as I’m
will run the country for the next       not in my home state on election
three years or so. No matter how        day), and found the process much
you plan to vote, there’s         simpler with a pre-printed guide
handy sites and apps that can make      from Below The Line which          

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If you have a desktop device that       the simplicity of this hack we'd
is forever in need of fresh             suggest you proceed with caution
batteries this clever hack will         before just slapping in a homemade
convert your battery-powered            USB battery in all your
device to a USB-powered one with        peripherals. Before installing
little effort.                          your dowel-usb-battery in anything
Mar Bog was sick of replacing the       you'll need to ensure that the     

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Dear Lifehacker, I want to take         give you the biggest range. While
advantage of my ExpressCard/34          getting a USB 3.0 reader for
slot on my laptop. I only have 2        backward compatibility might sound
USB ports and was thinking of           tempting, there aren’t many
getting a USB 3.0 Express Card          3.0 devices as yet and power
adaptor. But are there any other        access could be an issue.
cool uses for ExpressCard out           I don’t claim any special    

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Mobile phone plans are often sold       network, though this varies
on their total cap value and their      between plans. Plans with cheaper
general call rate, but the charges      rates for SMS may have a volume
for texts, MMS messages and             restriction, while at the other
voicemail access can quickly mount      end of the spectrum many networks
up. Planhacker compares                 offer unlimited texts within
what’s on offer from the          Australia on some of their higher- 

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Manufacturers don't print coupons       coupon flyers once I have my
out of good will; they print them       grocery list together. I'll look
so you'll buy and possibly switch       at coupon sites once I've come up
to their products. Use your             with a gift idea or two for a
shopping list as a guide to coupon      friend or family member or when
clipping to save money on the           I'm considering a specific
things you already plan to buy.         purchase.                          

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Linux: If you’ve been             the attached terminal.
itching to try Linux but are            The pre-packaged list is fairly
intimidated by all the command-         short, though it’ll
line work, free download                certainly get you started. You can,
CLIcompanion will ease your fears,      however, add new commands and
providing a customisable list of        descriptions at any time, so as
popular commands and what they do.      you sift through online forums and 

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Digg founder Kevin Rose needed to       hundreds of new emails a day, it
process nearly 2000 emails, along       just might work.
with a system that didn’t         Step 1: Create a filter that auto-
let important stuff fall away in        responds to all unopened emails >
the future. His solution? An auto-      14 days old w/the following
responding filter that gives            message:
actually urgent mail a second           Your email (below) is now 14 days  

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