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Kevin Purdy wrote Merlin Mann doesn't crank out posts on software, focus, time-savers, and the other realms of "productivity pr0n" anymore, but he's still got a razor-sharp focus on the kinds of thinking that move things forward. He writes at 43 Folders about , at 11:12 AM on December 2, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote Google has upped its commitment to bringing newspaper archives online, first announced in September, by buying 20 million historical pages from Paper of Record, covering the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Good news for scholars, students, and "Day you were , at 10:54 AM on December 2, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote The New York Times reports that in a study of 61 people, those who took a 2-hour afternoon nap did "significantly" better at repeating verbal, perception, and motor-skill tests from that morning than those given caffeine or a placebo. What's , at 9:12 AM on December 2, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote Microsoft's Live image search tool added a new button underneath every image result you mouse over: "Show similar images." Close to the functionality of previously mentioned engine TinEye, but with a much wider scope and reach. The complexity of the , at 8:41 AM on December 2, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote The Get Rich Slowly blog details the ins and outs of the cooling-off period, a three-business-day window the (U.S.) Federal Trade Commission enforces to cancel purchases of $25 or more. There's a good deal of fine print, as J.D. explains: If , at 11:27 AM on December 1, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote Free alert service Exactfactor tracks search engine results by key words, and can email anyone interested in how any web site is doing in the battle for the top Google, Yahoo, or Live.com spot. After signing up for an account, , at 10:54 AM on December 1, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote UK magazine Custom PC reports that Windows 7 will feature WARP, which lets any computer with an 800MHz processor run Aero-style desktop transparency and, with a certain performance hit, the Direct3D requirements for video games. Microsoft seems to have learned , at 9:32 AM on December 1, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote The team at the Phoronix site benchmark tested the newly-released Fedora 10 Linux distribution against Ubuntu 8.10 on 32 and 64-bit machines, and found the results nearly identical. Interesting find, and nice to know it's really the features and interface , at 9:09 AM on December 1, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote We've already pointed out a Greasemonkey script that hides Google's new SearchWiki ranking buttons, but there are viable work-arounds for those not using Firefox or its page-styling Greasemonkey extension. The Google Operating System blog points out four other methods. Most , at 8:49 AM on December 1, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote Prague-based virtual panorama company 360 Cities is offering its entire collection of nearly 10,000 spherical images on Google Earth. Head to the "Featured Preview" layer in the 3D tool to enable 360 Cities, then just click to scan around and , at 10:30 AM on November 21, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote The long-awaited 2.2 firmware updates for iPhones and iPod touch models hit iTunes at midnight last night, pushing a good deal of new features and long-awaited fixes to the mobile devices. We've already detailed some of the major new features , at 10:07 AM on November 21, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote Windows only: Free file browser Q-Dir makes for a good USB drive app or installed replacement for Windows Explorer for those who do a serious amount of file swapping, or just like to be able to keep multiple folder views , at 9:36 AM on November 21, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote Publisher Ziff Davis has printed the last edition of PC Magazine and announced it would go online-only, but fans can get a free one-year "subscription" emailed to them every month at GoReadGreen.com, along with a few other mag titles. [via] , at 8:58 AM on November 21, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote iPhone/iPod touch only: Streaming media server Orb has released free and $9.99 versions of an app that lets you watch videos, listen to music, check documents and even stream live or recorded TV to your iPhone or iPod touch. Like , at 8:27 AM on November 21, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Kevin Purdy wrote Some logged-in Google users are seeing an interesting new feature enabled on their results pages this morning. SearchWiki adds two buttons to the right of each result that let users move their favorite or most relevant results to the top , at 7:19 AM on November 21, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

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The Limority Report on Oct 5, 2008

i'm a regular visitor and have recently joined as a member, as i feel that i have much well-founded, constructive, UNgauche commentary to contribute to the site and its readers; however, i find it unsettling whenever i come across a post/comment that is unsuitable to the site, unrelated to the article or the site, and significantly reduces the site's integrity!

more specifically, within just ONE DAY, i've come across comments such as asking other lifehacker members / readers if anyone "wants a moustache ride" (i left a comment here, requesting that the person who posted please maintain the site's integrity) or if "drinking the blood of a virgin" helps with maintaining energy throughout the day (to which another "member" responded that he prefers to "drink the blood of skanky HOs"). in fact, the latter of the aforementioned comments were posted in response to your article: [lifehacker.com]

i am wondering if there is ANY WAY to DISCREETLY expose such comments for immediate editorial review or, better yet, removal due to offensive material??? i have yet to come across such a feature on lifehacker's new commenting system -- but, of course, who would ever expect that such an awesome site, with many readers who are well-educated and lack the trashy, offensive habits that are abundant on the WWW, would ever even need such a tool/feature!

within ONE DAY, i have seen enough of these to warrant action, perhaps a moderator??? in the grand scheme of things, these unmoderated, offensive comments will reduce your site's credibility and maybe even lose the respect of those of us who turn to lifehacker to get away from smut to begin with. what about the many well-known companies that submit funding to this site?? hasn't the lifehacker team worked very hard to earn the public's respect and to establish credibility???

with all due respect, if i didn't feel your site was worthy of bringing this to your attention, i wouldn't have taken the time and effort to write this email....

please advise....

Limor/TheLimorityReport


mb on Aug 28, 2008

On your "Free Replacements for Paid Tools" article you have a header titled:
Mail2Web instead of MobileMe ($100/year) or Exchage

Shouldn't that read "Exchange"? (I wouldn't have said anything, but it's a heading.)


dexrexllc on Jun 24, 2008

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for writing up a great post about Dexrex. I would like to make a small clarification -- Dexrex is *not* an IM client. Logging in with your screen name is a convenience, so you don't have to identify yourself in a separate step -- but we aren't a web-based chat client.

Is there any chance you could update the post at [lifehacker.com] ?

Thanks,
~ Cristos


dexrexllc on Jun 23, 2008

Kevin -- I've written several replies to comments on your post about Dexrex ([lifehacker.com]). Is there any chance you can speed up the account approval process, so that my responses will appear with the other posts? Thanks!


Paul on Jun 14, 2008

Dear Kevin,

Thank you very much for reviewing PicoWiki for Lifehacker. I wonder if you would be able to correct the spelling of the name and URL? It's picowiki (like, really small), not pikowiki.

Whether you can or not, thank you very much for the review.

Best regards,

Paul


mdv on May 22, 2008

Kevin,
In your topic on the top ten ... for Firefox 3, you mentioned the following about the search bar:
"and the find-on-page search box automatically grabs the currently selected word, just to name a few new UI improvements"
I'm not getting it. Is this like what Googles hit highlighting on a search does? and if so how do you do it? (Windows XP)

btw. I noiced Google just updated G-Space and Google litebar for FF3

Matt


kwestin on Feb 9, 2008

Hi Kevin,

I sent you an email regarding our company GadgetTrak ( www.gadgettrak.com ) . We have changed quite a bit over the past year since we first launched our USB soluiton (which also maps location information, we were the first). We have also added software to recover stolen mobile phones, as well as laptops.



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