Monthly Archives: September 2009

Original Post Apps For Everything: Apple Continues To Try To Improve App Discovery: ” Apple today has rolled out a new series of pages on the iPhone section of its website called “Apps For Everything.” The idea here is to … Continue reading →

From Redtape Chronicals by Bob Sullivan If credit cardholders feel worse off since the passage of the law designed to protect them from banks, that's because they are. An avalanche of new fees, interest rate hikes and other costly changes … Continue reading →

Original Post: Use Google Docs to Convert Images to Text [Documents] It’s not an official feature (yet), but Google Docs can perform OCR image-to-text conversions on high-resolution files you upload to it. They have to be pretty darned clear and … Continue reading →

Original Post: How To Get Data Off A Dead Hard Drive It happens to us all, sooner or later. We boot up our computer and *BAM* that’s it. Blue screen of death (BSOD). The hard drive has failed. But the … Continue reading →

Original Post: VLC Issues Security Update, Support for 64-bit OS X [Updates] Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC—the most popular video player among Lifehacker readers—just released an update to version 1.0.2. The update addresses a serious security issue, adds 64-bit support for OS X, … Continue reading →

Original Post: iWork '09 Update 3 is ready and waiting Filed under: iWork, Software Update Fresh off Software Update, it’s iWork 09 Update 3 which addresses a ton of issues in Keynote, Numbers, and Pages as well as the iWork.com … Continue reading →

Original Post: Turn a Soap Dish into a BlackBerry Cradle [DIY Creations] The ergonomics of BlackBerrys make them difficult to fit into a stand-up dock or charging cradle, as evidenced by scant appearance in our roundup of nine non-iPhone docks. … Continue reading →

Original Post: Mint for iPhone Brings 3.0 Features to the Personal Finance App [Downloads] iPhone/iPod touch only: Popular personal finance webapp Mint released their iPhone app last year, but today they’ve unveiled a new and improved version, introducing support for … Continue reading →

Original Post: Show Gmail Labels with Unread Messages If you have a lot of labels in Gmail, it’s difficult to see all of them without scrolling down. In July, Gmail added an option to hide some of your labels, so … Continue reading →