Innovation Technology

If you've accumulated a mess of digital photos and you know that many less than album-worthy ones are cluttering up your hard drive, Picasa can help prune your collection. Photography blogger Dave...

Your average container of milk contains a protein called casein, which, once reduced with a little vinegar, can be made into a homemade plastic and formed into anything you'd like. The plastic takes...

When you're copying and pasting something to or from a Microsoft application such as Word or Outlook and you want to remove the formatting there is a quick keyboard shortcut to do so. Rather than use...

Mac OS X only: Freeware application Firefox Keyfixer changes the default behavior for your Home and End keys in Firefox. By default, pressing Home or End moves your Firefox window rather than the...

Whether you're a complete controlled-dream neophyte or a veteran of lucid sleep, Lucipedia can help you learn more about controlling your subconscious wanderings. Signing up gives you a journal space...

The Six Way Opener is a kitchen multi-tool that lives up to its moniker, offering a multitude of ways to open, grip, and pry common containers in the kitchen. At $7.95, it can open bottles, bags,...

DIY web site Instructables details how to predict the weather by glancing at the sky and—more specifically—the clouds. Being able to predict the weather by observing cloud formations is a...

Stylish Java applet Wordle creates custom word clouds out of any text you throw at it. You can also have it parse your Del.icio.us tags for a cloud, but either way, the real fun is in customizing the...

Rather than sending it off to the textile factory in the sky, DIY blogger Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet repurposed a cloth grocery tote into something he could use. With a little ingenuity, a single cut,...

Windows only: Free, open-source application AltTab Fingertips switches between open windows from wherever your mouse cursor is located. To use it, just press the hotkey (F10 by default) to invoke the...

When my messy home office got so cluttered I couldn't get anything done in it, it was time to take action—and I turned to Lifehacker for advice. Disorganization leads to lack of free time, lack...

Whether you've got ink blots on your hands from working too hard or snagging that cutie's number at the concert last night, there's a better way to scrub it off than plain old soap and water. Use a...

Planning to spend some time this weekend, or during one of those mythical "free" weekends, whipping your web site into shape? Open Web Design, a free and frequently-updated collection of site...

RUBotted Checks Your Computer for Zombie Bots (Windows) "Freeware application RUBotted monitors your computer for the presence of malware zombie bots and alerts you of any suspicious activity."Remove...

You already know that a healthy home cooked meal is better than prepackaged and fast food, but when it comes to the double crunch of money and time how do you find room for healthy cooking? Frugal...

If the digital photo you just uploaded looks more washed out in Flickr than it does in your desktop image editor, that's because Firefox 3's advanced color management capability isn't turned on by...

The commonly-held belief that your car's oil needs changed every 3,000 miles is a myth, according to Yahoo Autos, and it's costing you money and hurting the environment.It's been a misconception for...

Last weekend Oprah Winfrey addressed Stanford graduates at their commencement, offering her take on how to make the big decision of what to do with your life. This is only worth watching if you're a...

One thing that's always been missing from the book-buying experience at mega-retailer Amazon is finding great books just by chance, or by clever cover design. Zoomii, a free book-finding interface...

Back in the good ol' days of $2.50-per-gallon gasoline, you could ignore simple car maintenance. After all, what was it costing you? A buck here and a buck there? But when prices hit the $4 mark,...