http://lifeclerks.com Life hacks and lessons to live a richer and fuller life. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Windows only: Free, open-source application MouseImp Pro adds drag-scrolling to your mouse in most popular applications, including Firefox, Microsoft Office apps, and Windows Explorer. That means you can scroll any supported document by clicking and dragging inside the window (like you often can with PDFs), by pressing and holding the ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/mouseimp-pro-makes-scrolling-windows-easier-featured-windows-download/ The How-To Geek weblog details how to create a keyboard shortcut that—when pressed—will automatically run the popular Windows maintenance utility CCleaner with your default settings in the background. The setup is simple, requiring you to create a shortcut and add the /AUTO switch to the end of the target. Then ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/run-ccleaner-instantly-and-silently-with-a-keyboard-shortcut-keyboard-shortcuts/ If you've got an old laptop with a busted monitor and nothing left on your warranty, don't trash it. Instead, consider the route taken by a user on the MacNN forums, who beheaded his laptop and turned it into a small-form desktop PC that fits on the underside of ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/build-a-headless-laptop-system-how-to-2/ If you've got an old laptop with a busted monitor and nothing left on your warranty, don't trash it. Instead, consider the route taken by a user on the MacNN forums, who beheaded his laptop and turned it into a small-form desktop PC that fits on the underside of ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/build-a-headless-laptop-system-how-to/ Popular Science says that sleeping in on the weekend makes it harder to get up on time during the week. The concept may be common knowledge for most, but the article backs it up with science for those who still aren't convinced. Original post by ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/sleeping-in-on-weekends-a-no-no-sleep/ Windows/Mac OS X only: Online and desktop calendar-syncing application Calgoo Connect—along with all of the other calendar tools available from Calgoo—are now free. Calgoo Connect syncs Outlook on Windows or iCal on OS X with popular online calendars, namely Google Calendar and 30 Boxes. Granted, syncing Gcal with Outlook is ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/calgoo-goes-free-syncs-desktop-calendars-with-google-calendar-featured-download/ Windows only: Computer activity logger TimeSnapper takes screenshots of your computer desktop every few seconds as you work throughout the day. Then, you can play back your computer activity to calculate the amount of time you spent on certain tasks—great for filling out timesheets or just getting the hard ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/timesnapper-tracks-your-computer-activity-featured-windows-download/ If you don't feel like you're getting all you can from the iPhone App Store and other perks of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, then jailbreaking is for you. We've already shown you how to jailbreak your iPhone 2.0 on a Mac, but yesterday the Windows version ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/jailbreak-iphone-20-on-windows-with-winpwn-jailbreak-2/ If you don't feel like you're getting all you can from the iPhone App Store and other perks of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, then jailbreaking is for you. We've already shown you how to jailbreak your iPhone 2.0 on a Mac, but yesterday the Windows version ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/jailbreak-iphone-20-on-windows-with-winpwn-jailbreak/ If you're any sort of power user, you've bumped up against the limitations of your operating system's default file manager on countless occasions. The fact is, for advanced file browsing and manipulation, sometimes the default applications—like Windows Explorer or Mac OS X Finder—just don't cut it. On Tuesday you ... http://lifeclerks.com/2008/07/five-best-alternative-file-managers-hive-five/