This week we showed you the best times of the year to buy new gear, offered a few suggestions for keeping your PC in better shape in 2010, and highlighted a tool to help you off your online identity.
The Best Times to Buy Anything, All Year Round You're always hearing about off-season, post-peak times to save money on purchases and food, but it always arrives too late. We've compiled a timeline and lots of best-time-to-buy suggestions into one post to help you plan a more frugal 2010.
Current Crop of Smartphones: A Cost and Feature Comparison Cost-comparison web site BillShrink hits it out of the park with a handy infographic comparing the cost and features of the current generation of smartphones: the Nexus One, the Palm Pre, the Motorola Droid, and the iPhone 3GS.
Resolved: Keep Your PC Clean, Safe, and Backed Up in 2010 It's the start of a new decade, and while you're busy making resolutions for yourself, you shouldn't forget about your PC. We suggest making a resolution to keep your PC clean, safe, and backed up for 2010.
Use Better Tools to Be a Better Student in 2010 Despite the proliferation of laptops and netbooks, the vast majority of students still use their computers like $500 typewriters. Stop working so hard and be a better student by leveraging some clever computer tools to your advantage.
Top 10 Mind Hacks for Making Your Resolutions Stick Nothing but the strength of your convictions can keep a self-improvement promise going for at least 365 days. You can, however, boost your chance at success and outwit your worst habits with some motivational devices and clever thinking.
WineBottler Turns Windows Programs into Standalone OS X Applications Mac only: Wine has always been popular among Linux users for running Windows programs, but Wine is available for Mac, too—and now, free utility WineBottler can "bottle" Windows programs into separate application bundles that run as standalone Mac apps.
What's the Best Way to Share Files Across Multiple Home Computers? Dear Lifehacker, We're a large family with several computers in our home. What's the best way to share files across our home network rather than putting them on thumb drives and running from PC to PC?
How a $530 Nexus One Might Actually Make Sense You've probably heard about Google's Nexus One launch today, with a cost of $180 with a two-year T-Mobile contract and—wait, $530 without? Actually, that math might make sense, as blogger Ben Ferguson shows in his cost breakdown.
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine Offs Your Online Identity Sure, joining Twitter and Facebook seemed like a good idea at the time, but maybe you've changed your mind and want your life back. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine erases your persona like you were never there.
How to Survive a Job That Makes You Miserable The economy being it what it is, jobs aren't exactly growing on trees. If you're stuck in one you hate, here are a few ideas to make it bearable until something better comes along.
