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Google Shutters Second Life-Like Lively [Google] If you've been enjoying Google's 3D virtual experience Lively—which they released in July—we've got some bad news. By the end of December, Lively will be no more, according to the... Ammyy Admin Shares Screens in Three Steps [Featured Windows Download] Windows only: If you're eager for a simple, non-browser, quick-starting app that will let you get remote desktop access to your mom's desktop, your struggling friend's laptop, or nearly any other... Safer Places to Stash Your Cash at Home [Money] You shouldn't let the uncertain economy drive you to a crazed bank run, a la It's a Wonderful Life, but it might make sense to keep a decent stash of legal tender at home these days. Consumer... SkyDrive Will Upgrade to 25GB of Online Storage [Online Storage] The Windows Live SkyDrive Team announces that the online storage service will jump "soon" to 25GB, with lots of photo-friendly tools like slideshows, people and place tagging, and Live Photo Gallery... Freepath is a Free File Sharing and Presentation Solution [Featured Windows Download] Windows only: Create and mix your own file and media playlists with Freepath. Users can create file playlists from a variety of sources: files from their own computers, video files found on YouTube,... Make Gmail Your Productive-Minded Web Gateway [How To] Web PR worker Steve Rubel has a great post at his Micro Persuasion blog detailing how he adapted Gmail to serve as his ideal start page for nearly anything he needs to get done. Lots of stuff is... Yahoo Glue Gives You Everything But the Web Search [Yahoo] Yahoo is rolling out a search service that aggregates an interesting mix of non-web search results across a page. Glue has been available through Yahoo India with customized results for about seven... MuvEnum Address Bar Replaces the Quick-Launching Taskbar in XP SP3 [Featured Windows Download] Windows only: Service Pack 3 for Windows XP removed the ability of that operating system's users to keep a quick-launching address box on their taskbar session after session. MuvEnum Address Bar aims... Etherpad Tracks Group Editing or Coding with Colors [Online Documents] Etherpad, a collaborative-minded text editor forged by a group of ex-Google employees, focuses on making documents live and easy to collaborate on. That means that, at this point, the interface is... Employees Sue to be Paid for Time Spent Booting Up [Law] If your manager tracks your time based on when you log in and out of your machine at work, then are you missing out on pay for the time you're waiting for your machine to boot up and shut down?... Create "Speakers" from Earbuds and Paper Cups [How To] It's hump day and I was looking for a quick, fun project to try out. So I figured I try something easy I found over at the Make Magazine blog earlier this week—a set of speakers made from paper... Official Netflix Streaming on Xbox 360 Isn't Bad, But You Can Do Better [NetFlix] I've been streaming Netflix Watch Instantly videos to my Xbox 360 for months now using Windows Media Center and a free program called vmcNetflix, but now that the New Xbox Experience released this... Save Time with the Help of a Free Personal Shopper [Shopping] If you feel shoppping for clothes is a chore and an expensive waste of time, think about using a personal shopper. Get rid of the mistaken idea you may have that personal shoppers are people employed... Merge MP3 Combines Audio Files in Drag-and-Drop Interface [Featured Windows Download] Windows only: If you are looking for ways to merge a bunch of MP3 files into one larger file, and don't like the command line solution I wrote about earlier this week, try Merge MP3. The application... Kvetch Helps You Get it Off Your Chest [Pet Peeves] In its third reincarnation since its debute in 1996 and redesign in 1998, web site Kvetch now harnesses the time-wasting powers of Twitter to call a farshtinken tokhis leker a schmuck behind their... Gmail Updates Its Look, Adds Themes [Screenshot Tour] Google's beloved web-based email client has always been ripe for third-party design customization (we've always been partial to the Gmail Redesigned skin in Better Gmail, for example), but now Gmail... Let Me Google That For You Passive-Aggressively Helps your Friends [Tech Support] If you're a power searcher, or other people think you are, and you're getting tired of constant requests for answers to questions that a quick Google search would provide, try Let me google that for... Google Sync for BlackBerry Now Bi-Directional [BlackBerry] Google Sync for BlackBerry updated today, adding support for bi-directional contact sync between your BlackBerry and your Gmail contacts (in addition to the existing calendar sync, which I believe... Vocito Brings GrandCentral to Your Desktop [Featured Mac Download] Mac OS X only: Free, open-source application Vocito puts Google's one-phone-number-to-rule-them-all application GrandCentral on your desktop, integrating directly with your Address Book contacts. The... Pipl Updates, Offers Better Organized Stalking [People Search] Previously mentioned people search engine Pipl has updated with a slightly tweaked look and better, more organized results. In a quick comparison between recently featured 123people and Pipl, the... How to Declutter Your Windows Context Menu [Windows Tip] Windows tip: Whether you use them or not, many applications install superfluous entries to your Windows right-click context menu resulting in a cluttered mess. The How-To Geek weblog details how to... Zune Software Updates to 3.1, Adds Games, Improves Social Features and Stability [Zune] Zune Insider reports that Microsoft has updated the Zune firmware to 3.1, adding three new free games (Checkers, Sudoku, and Space Battle) and improving the Zune Social feature with better looks and... Xbox Dashboard Update Live, Start Your Downloads [Xbox 360] The new Xbox Live Dashboard for Xbox 360s—known simply as 'NXE' (the New Xbox Experience)—is live, so fire up your Xbox and get downloading. The update only took a few minutes on my... Xobni Incorporates with Your Facebook Profile, Yahoo Mail, and Skype [Featured Windows Download] Windows only: Previously mentioned free Microsoft Outlook plug-in Xobni is a must-have for anyone looking to get more from Outlook, and today the plug-in gets even better. That's because Xobni now... Linux Theme Gets Scarily Close to XP [Themes] One clever/obsessive Linux theme crafter has released a XpGnome script that adds custom icons, controls, backgrounds, colors, and makes many other tweaks to make a GNOME desktop look almost exactly... Ultimate Windows Tweaker is Like Tweak UI for Vista [Featured Windows Download] Windows Vista only: Ultimate Windows Tweaker makes no bones about its source of inspiration—the uber-specific, XP-customizing Microsoft tool TweakUI—and does pretty well by it. There's... And Now For Something Completely Different on YouTube [YouTube] Claiming to be tired of seeing poor-quality "rip-offs" of their ridiculously acclaimed TV series and films, the Monty Python troupe has created an official YouTube channel to post free, high-quality... Get Account Balances by SMS [Personal Finance] Mint.com, our readers' favorite personal finance tool, now offers users instant balances on all their registered accounts via SMS. Text "bal" or "balance" to "MyMint" (696468), and you'll get a text... Zapr Makes File Sharing Painless [Featured Windows Download] Windows only: Zapr is a new file-sharing application that promises to make remote file sharing extremely simple. Users download the Zapr application, set up a free account, and can immediately begin... Get $25 Restaurant Gift Cards for $1.50 [Deals] Thanks to some sweet, sweet discount serendipity, $25 gift cards to restaurants around the country from Restaurant.com can be had through tomorrow, for $1.50 using a coupon code and a FatWallet link... TouchTerm Puts a Terminal Client on Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download] iPhone/iPod touch only: With Mocha VNC Lite, iPhone and iPod touch users already have a tool for connecting remotely to their desktops, but what about those who like to get things done over a command... Use Vista's Task Manager as a Desktop Monitor [Windows Vista Tip] The Tech-Recipes blog points out a Windows Vista feature that's great for anyone who wants to monitor how they're computer's running at a glance without installing a dedicated background app. Launch... Battle of the Free Visual Voicemail and Transcription Services [Lifehacker Faceoff] Both YouMail and MessageSling have long offered free services that let nearly any cell phone user listen to and manage their voicemail online, in the style of the iPhone's "visual voicemail." The... Microsoft to Offer Free Anti-malware Software with Windows [In Brief] In an effort to improve user experience and secure more machines from becoming zombies on botnets, Microsoft's anti-malware project codenamed "Morro" will be free with every copy of the operating... Save Money by Converting Your Lawn Into a Garden [Environment] "A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule," argues Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn contributor Michael Pollan. If so, Fritz Haeg isn't just an artist but a freedom fighter with his Edible... BubbleTimer Webapp Helps Track Time and Set Goals [Time Management] Based on the Emergent Task Timer worksheets from David Seah, BubbleTimer is a quick and easy to use web application for budgeting, tracking and working towards time management goals. Set up a series... Cookstr Offers Recipes from Famous Chefs [Cooking] Looking for recipes from legends like James Beard and Julia Child, or current celebri-chefs like Mario Batali and Daniel Boulud? Try Cookstr, which has created a database of recipes from... FlickerEdit Backs Up Your Photos [In Brief] With CEO Jerry Yang leaving Yahoo and the company's stock price sinking, ZDNet writer Jason Perlow get a bit nervous about the sanctity of his photos on Flickr and started looking for solutions to... Google Mobile App for iPhone Could Be Better... If It Read Your Mind [Screenshot Tour] After a small delay, Google released their new and improved Google Mobile for iPhone app yesterday. We gave you our one-word review, but now it's time for a closer look at Google's impressive new... Tr.im Webapp Creates Even Tinier URLs for Twitter [TinyURL] The latest entry in the URL-shortening service is Tr.im, and while there are a number of features that might make you switch from reader favorite TinyURL, the most compelling is that with so few... Tidy Favorites Is a Customizable Thumbnail Homepage [Featured Download] Windows only: Web browser plug-in Tidy Favorites creates a customizable bookmarks start page for Firefox and Internet Explorer complete with thumbnail previews. We've seen several Firefox extensions...