Lifehacker’s very own automated file manager, Belvedere, has seen its first update in over a year, bringing folder recursion, action confirmations, simple rule enabling and disabling, and a handful of bug fixes.
You can see the whole changelog here. All of the changes come courtesy of generous Lifehacker reader Matt Shorts, who’s been plugging away at [...]

Yesterday Google made a major change to the search results page that appears when you search for a person’s name. Google Profiles, for people who have set them up, now appear on those pages. Today Google opened a discussion about Google Profiles and called for voting on ideas about what they include.
Profile [...]

As a technology news writer, you get pretty good at sizing up the potential of a new project or product pretty quickly. You think in terms of how the thing your looking at is a little like two other things you’ve seen before combined together. Or perhaps inspired by something, but with its own unique [...]

The Susan Boyle phenomenon shows no signs of abating - in fact, one video tracking firm claims that momentum is growing behind the Scottish singer.
While the official YouTube video of the performance reports over 32 million views, tracking company Visible Measures is monitoring the statistics for all versions of the clip, plus fan [...]

Apple has fired back, in an unsurprising way, at those new Windows ads we’ve been hearing so much about lately (you remember Lauren, yes?). The counterattack comes in four new, but familiar, flavors:
“Time Traveler” - During which the PC character goes to the year 2150 to see if PCs have become any less error-prone.
“Stacks” - [...]

You won’t find stark surfaces and strong artificial lighting in today’s featured workspace. Natural is the watchword.
From the unstained wood flooring and wood desk to the knitting pooled on the desk there is an organic warmth to Risager’s workspace. A freelance web designer, she apparently has a solid knack for transferring onscreen design talent into [...]

It appears Twitter is experimenting with some additional tweaks that may make status updates easier and faster for its users and could help decrease the back end load on its servers.
A semi transparent notification bar (see screenshot below), slides down from the top of the screen when you update your status via the Web. [...]

AT&T is expecting traffic to increase tenfold with the presumed release of the next iteration of the iPhone this summer, and is expanding and improving their wireless network to handle the added stress with ease.
Currently, AT&T’s network only goes up to 7.2 Mbps, though the iPhone 3G itself (responsible for about half the network’s data [...]

Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows (Windows)Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren’t cool enough, it’s portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive.
Four Small and Fresh Experimental Firefox Extensions (Firefox)It hasn’t been that long since we last rounded up [...]

Twitter delivered a valuable new feature late last month.
And my friends delivered twin girls on Friday evening.
Some people would say that puts it all in perspective. Me, I figure it just makes it easier to find responses to your live-tweeting of the birth.
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(And congratulations to the proud parents of Alpha and Beta. I wanted them [...]