Tweaks

Computing

Top 10 Ways To Speed Up Your Computer’s Boot Time

2:20AM July 19, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

If there’s one thing everyone dreads, it’s rebooting their computer. It may only take a minute or two, but it can seem like forever. Here are our top 10 tweaks that will make your computer boot a little faster. More »


Mobile

How Can I Breathe New Life Into My Old iPhone?

5:30AM July 2, 2011 | Adam Pash

Dear Lifehacker, As attractive as buying a shiny new gadget might seem, I don’t want to drop hundreds of dollars on a new phone when my old iPhone still does everything I need. That said, I’m also suffering from at least a little new-phone envy. Anything I can do to make my old iPhone faster? More »


Mobile

Not All iPhone Apps Work On Verizon Without Tweaks

11:01AM February 8, 2011 | Jason Chen

Apparently iPhone apps that need to have deeper access to the hardware, like Telenav’s navigation, need a specific Verizon version in order to work. It might be due to differences between GSM vs CDMA radios, or the GPS chip. [ZDNet]


Online

Stop Firefox From Automatically Entering "Work Offline" Mode

10:50AM December 18, 2010 | Whitson Gordon

The “Work Offline” mode in Firefox can be useful if you don’t have an internet connection, but Firefox annoyingly enables it automatically whenever you lose connection, even for a second. Here’s how to disable that behaviour. More »


Science

Mighty Mouse Has One Less Gene, Lives 20% Longer

12:20PM October 3, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Sorry, Apple. Researchers have already created a mightier mouse: By deleting a single gene from a mouse’s genetic makeup, they’ve enabled it to suffer fewer age related ailments and live 20% longer. On humans, that’d be about 16 bonus years. More »


Software

Tweaked UI Spotted In Snow Leopard: More Changes To Come?

6:00AM July 12, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Despite having showed no changes to the OS X UI at WWDC, it looks like there are at least a few tweaks in the new test build. Could the minor changes spotted already indicate more are to come this fall? More »


Software

Hidden Preference Tweaks in Safari 4

7:41AM February 25, 2009 | Sean Fallon

If you have been kicking the tires on Safari 4, you might be interested in Random Genius’ list of basic preference tweaks for people looking to disable some of the new features. [Random Genius]

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