Why A 3% Pay Rise Isn’t All Bad News
So how much of a pay rise did the typical Aussie get in the last 12 months?

Get Cheap Entry For SME Technology Summit
Free passes up for grabs!

Customising Google’s SafeSearch Options
How to keep sexually explicit material away from your (not so) innocent eyes.

mmKeys.dll Makes Media Keys Work Properly With iTunes
How to make your multimedia PC keyboard work properly with iTunes.

Australians Less Vulnerable To Malware Infection
Find out why we’re way below the average.

What Happens To Your Online Accounts When You Die?
Isn’t it time you talked about what’s important?

Make A Detachable Fish Eye Lens Adaptor On The Cheap
Why buy another lens when you can DIY?

Office 2010 Professional Beta Available For Download
There’s a catch though…

Build A Powerful Boxee Media Centre
And why Boxee’s got the upper hand on XBMC.

Google Tasks Client Puts Tasks (Or Any Google App) On Your Desktop
How to get Google Apps on your desktop.

Five Best Online Backup Tools
And…

You’re Backing Up Your Data The Wrong Way
…how to do it properly.

Bargain Hunters Need Some Common Sense
OK, Dell made a mistake, but exploiting that won’t do you any good.

Create A List Of Files In Windows
A step-by-step guide using DOS commands.

Tape Warranties To Large Items For Easy Retrieval

Online Ticketing Scams On The Rise
Find out what the Australian consumer watchdog is targeting this year.

Optus And Telstra Checking Premium SMS Ads

Polish Your Shoes With A Banana
This is a winner of a headline if I ever saw one

The Gaia Desktop
This is a winner of a desktop, too. Shown above.

Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How To Code

Five Best Antivirus Applications
AVG is Lifehacker’s favourite (mine too).

Stop Paying For Windows Security; Microsoft’s Security Tools Are Good Enough

Google Wave Look And Feel Coming To Gmail, Other Google Apps?

Paint.NET Releases Big Update, Still A Killer Photoshop Alternative

Wire Your House With Ethernet Cable

Power Up Your Windows Home Server Console With Add-Ins

• eBay pulls car sales protection program
• How to budget if you’re moving overseas
• Internet shaping for beginners
• Community TV gets digital TV spectrum allocation
• Trading Post will start accepting ad submissions via mobile phone
• Hunt down cheap booze in your area with Boozle
• Delta and V Australia get ACCC approval to join forces

• Browser speed test results for Windows 7
• How to really browse without leaving a trace
• How to eat a chicken wing with little to no mess
• The Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is finally officially available for download and there’s a great guide how it integrates into Windows 7
• The five best application docks
• How to get along with your significant other in a compact home office (For a moment I thought this was also a lesson on a Mac and a PC cohabiting, but alas, both computers are Macs)
• How to build a “beeping thing” and drive your coworkers nutters
• How to use Vicks VaporRub to cure toenail fungus
• Make system rebuilding tear-free by using Allmyapps to bulk-install your favourite applications (Windows/Linux only, but those feeling left out can learn about tear-free onion cutting instead)

• Lean from past problems the TIO has resolved
• Choice singles out Qantas in its Shonky Awards
• How to avoid geographic restrictions on eBooks
• ACCC is cracking down on illegal online warranty policies
• Clive James talks about the value of being skeptics

• Avoid work out injuries by running like a hunter
• Sit properly to stay awake and energised at work

• Keep your hair flake-free with Aspirin
• Dress up your desktop for Halloween
• Stream classic films for free

• Get more out of the battery in your Windows laptop
• See side-by-side comparisons of promotional hotel images and reality

• Set up Windows Home Server to automate backups and sort out your media
• Make the most detailed accident sketches possible
• Turn your desktop into a Left 4 Dead looking interface

• Trading Post Shifts To Online Only
• Is Sony’s Two Year Warranty Extension A Gimmick?
• Foxtel Wants ISPs Not To Charge For Downloads
• The Bluetooth Passcodes You’ll (Nearly) Always Need
• Lasoo iPhone App Brings Catalogues To Your Handset

• Get email notifications of twitter keywords. If you’re Jon Gosselin and want to keep track of what the public is saying about you, this is your app
• Growl gets updated for Snow Leopard
• Picasa is the photo management facial recognition winner
• Breathe like a sniper to get better shots in low light. Tip 2: Go to the bathroom first
• Tweetdeck is Lifehacker readers’ favourite twitter client
• How to choose the fastest line at the supermarket
• Create your own extended warranty fund instead of buying extended warranties
• Turn our Windows 7 PC into a wireless hotspot
• Tap and hold to prevent iPhone photo rotation
• Triple Monitors

Looking Back: Our Verdicts On PS3 Slim Rumours
Verdict: Many rumours were true.

Your Pokemon Card Game Championship Winners Are…
It’s a funny, sad pic.

If The PS3 Is A Formula 1 Racer, What Is Xbox 360? The Wii?
Burn!

Transformers DLC Brings Back More Of The Transformers We Love

Diablo III Impressions: Hands On With The Barbarian

Watch the ABC on your PS3

Xbox Live Arcade refund for Australia, too

What does Microsoft have to stay about the PS3 Slim?

PSPgo is just $50 cheaper than the PS3

The Beatles: Rock Band bundle not available at EB in Australia

Here’s how consoles should be priced for the holidays

All PS3s to be under $500 in Australia from August 24

• Display both Bing and Google results
• Windows Live Movie Maker leaves beta
• How to crack an egg with only one hand
• Compare caffeine to calories with this chart
• The Attic Playground
• Disable Recent Documents History in Windows 7
• Digital luggage scales are now affordable
• Yellow Pages iPhone app now available
• Windows 7 upgrade pricing still messy
• Costco has some good tech deals
• The Hulu/iView/iPlayer overseas viewing FAQ
• ABC trialling iView on PS3
• Internode shows call wait times on its site
• Angus compares netbook broadband bundles

New Mass Effect 2 Screenshots, Wallpaper

Korean Girls, Meet Giant Sand PlayStations

Sega Will Celebrate Dreamcast’s 10th Anniversary Quietly

SNES Portable Case Mod Does Not Stop At Case Mod

Xbox 360 Games on Demand Region Locked
Games on Demand has a ways to go before it’s actually good.

Two Minutes of Risk: Halo Wars Boardplay

Tim Schafer and Cliff Blezinski: A Peek Inside Their Offices
I love you Kotaku, but you’re mentioning Time Schafer and Cliffy B in the same sentence? Really?

So, What Was The World’s Very First Gamertag?

After Monkey Island, Telltale Looking At…Loom?

• myCollections is a categorising app for games, apps, books, movies and porn—Windows only
• Free tools to back up your online accounts
• Here’s some pre-formatted text for your iPhone emails
• Time Drive, for incremental backup across networks
• Here’s what regular expression searches look like
• Make your own “sports drink”
• Ten neat and productive Android apps
• Kill mobile phone speaker buzz with an electrostatic bag

• uTorrent finally adds UDP support
• eXtreme Power Supply Calculator helps you pick a PSU that’s right for your components
• Firefox 3.6 has tab previews, improved startup time
• Self-watering plant hanger!
• Five best video players
• 10 ways to make your playlists “rock” (so cheesy, that Lifehacker)

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• BlueScreenView troubleshoots your Blue Screen Of Death. Displays your last BSOD so you can Google for a solution
• Firefox’s director talks about Firefox and Chrome
• How to block ads in Gmail with a simple signature. (Or you can just use a Firefox plugin and block that part of the page)
• A burglar’s advice on hiding money
• Google Chrome is going to get cloud-based synchronization
• Five best PDF readers
• Make a cheap tilt-shift lens with plumbing parts
• Top 10 hardware fixes and upgrades
• Gmail removes “on behalf of” for good
• The computer cabinet office