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Archive for Февраль, 2010

Online advertising company Permuto      the categories, save for a few
pulled data from the U.S. Census        notable categories, including
Bureau into a nice infographic          books, clothing, and electronics.
comparing people's purchasing           Since Lifehacker readers are a
habits in-store vs. online, and it      more tech-savvy crowd than most of
got us wondering: What do you buy       the public, we'd guess you tend
online vs. in stores?                   more toward the buy online crowd.  

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OK, here’s a really odd way       Australian and New Zealand
to save money. Specialist magazine      branches, is certainly one of the
retailer Mag Nation is offering a       odder means of attracting store
free magazine or book to the value      traffic we’ve encountered.
of $50 to anyone who visits a           On the other hand, if you fancy
store on a Monday in March wearing      saving on an expensive imported
only their underwear.                   mag, then stripping outside the    

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What do you get when you have           core i7 975, 24 gb of DDR 3 memory,
space for a custom office setup, a      two SLC SSDs in raid 0 and a large
good amount of cash, and the            amount of nvidia NVS 420s as well
vision to make it all happen?           as Nvidia 9800 GTs.
Dozens of monitors and the need         This office is used for intraday
for your own personal power plant.      trading and development.
We’ve been watching               And by “intraday trading and 

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What do you get when you have           as Nvidia 9800 GTs.
space for a custom office setup, a      This office is used for intraday
good amount of cash, and the            trading and development.
vision to make it all happen?           And by "intraday trading and
Dozens of monitors and the need         development" he means displaying
for your own personal power plant.      the world's largest line chart
We've been watching Steve's office      screensaver when he isn't using it 

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If you were impressed by the            photographic madness. I can take
interesting results and novelty of      only like 5 pictures in month.
a plain old pinhole camera,             Sun draws many interesting traces
you’ll want to check out          in photos, you can really see the
these crazy pinhole cameras and         time passing by. Some times camera
their month long exposures.             is tilted by passerby or tape just
You read that correctly. Ultra-         goes loose. Double exposures or    

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You wanted to exchange large files      On Screen Volume Indicator To
and you wanted better start pages.      Windows (Windows)
Kick off your Lifehacker Monday by      Some sound card software packages
making sure you didn’t miss       provide it and some laptop
any of the biggest posts from last      hardware vendors include it, but
week:                                   for the majority of Windows users
Sharing Large Files Via Email           the only on screen volume display  

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It’s a pen, it’s a          Livescribe in this way while on a
voice recorder — and              business trip across the US and UK,
it’s useful enough to             and it has worked like a charm.
warrant a place in my list of           (OneNote performs a similar trick
technology travel essentials. Road      if you use it to record, though
Worrier gets hands-on with the          it’s never worked that well
Livescribe.                             for me when I’ve tried it.)  

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Over the weekend, we told you           google.com from an Australian IP
about Google’s new location-      address). However, if you select
based option for filtering              the ‘Go to Google.com’
searches. A Google Australia            option from that page, you can
spokesperson has confirmed to           access the location filtering
Lifehacker that this option             option. It’s hardly the
hasn’t yet been added to the      ideal implementation, but better   

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Android’s been around for         total makeover for your phone, in
more than a year, and in that time      other words—one that might
developers have whipped up some         just make you fall in love all
great apps. Whether you’re a      over again with the concept of
new Android owner or a pro looking      mobile data. (Original post)
for new tools, these 10 great and       5. Shopper                         

free apps belong in your arsenal.       Okay, at first we were pretty      

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Smart Move Tape clearly identifies      have taken a lot of consistently
what room a box belongs in with         careful writing to even approach
color-coding and unmissable text        the same effect-at a time when we
so it's easy to get all your stuff      were looking to make less work,
in the right place when you're          not more-and the colored tapes
moving.                                 really help make sorting a breeze.
From cool gear blog Cool Tools:         At $12 for the two bedroom kit     

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