Friday, August 28, 2009

"Vacuum Places Improved" Speeds Up Firefox with a Click of Your Mouse and more...

Fri Aug 28 2009
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"Vacuum Places Improved" Speeds Up Firefox with a Click of Your Mouse

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): On Monday we showed you how to speed up Firefox by vacuuming your fragmented database regularly using a copy-and-paste Error Console command. Sounds like a pain, right? Vacuum Places Improved handles it for you with a mouse click. MORE >>

POSTED: Thu Aug 27 2009 18:00



downloads
ChromePlus Is an IE-Tab and Mouse-Gesture Sporting Chromium Build

Windows only: We're still waiting for serious extensions to hit the still-young Google Chrome browser, but if you're dying for more advanced Chrome functionality—like mouse gestures, link dragging, IE tabs, etc.—a tweaked Chrome build called ChromePlus is worth a look. MORE >>

POSTED: Thu Aug 27 2009 16:30



snow leopard
Confirmed: $29 Snow Leopard Installs Whether or Not You've Got Leopard

Even though Apple suggests Mac users without Leopard buy the $169 Mac box set to get Snow Leopard, anyone can purchase the $29 Snow Leopard disc and install Snow Leopard in its entirety without having already installed Leopard. MORE >>

POSTED: Thu Aug 27 2009 14:30



lifehacker wishlist
Five Features We Want to See in Firefox

It's no secret that Firefox has long been our favorite browser, but much has changed recently. The browser landscape is increasingly competitive, so with that in mind, we'd like to suggest a few features and improvements we're desperate to see from Firefox. MORE >>

POSTED: Thu Aug 27 2009 12:00



notes
Record and Transcribe Notes for Yourself with Google Voice

In our first Lifehacker Wishlist, we came up with five wanted features in Google Voice, including an easy way to record and transcribe notes for yourself. Mark Stout suggests a Voice settings tweak to fulfill that wish. MORE >>

POSTED: Thu Aug 27 2009 08:30



dining
What Not to Order at Fancy Restaurants

New York Times Restaurant critic Frank Bruni has done a lot of thinking about whether New York City's fanciest dishes were worth their sticker price. He boils down his best menu reading advice into a few snarky-but-true lines. MORE >>

POSTED: Thu Aug 27 2009 07:30




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