What do you get when you combine your living space and your home office? If it involves lots of color, a HDTV-as-monitor, plants, and a mountain bike you get RunningDive’s office.
Lifehacker reader RunningDive doesn’t mess around when it comes to meshing his work and play spaces. Living in a small apartment puts space at a [...]

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The 10 best Ubuntu downloads, a sneak preview of Office 2010, and swine flu tracking round out this week’s most popular posts.

Five Best Malware Removal Tools On Thursday we asked you to share your favorite tool for purging malware from your computer. We’ve tallied the votes and we’re back with the top five contenders for [...]

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We’re hoping you’ve enjoyed our recent run of exclusive interviews, ranging from a MythBuster’s creative process to recipe-free cooking tips from Michael Ruhlman, and even the Woz himself. Now we’re wondering who you’d like us to chat up next.
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It’s not that we can’t think up a few more names and send a few [...]

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Willpower comes from marshmallows, Twitter is actually useful, and you save money on your major purchases in this week’s most popular fare.

Learn Willpower Techniques from the Marshmallow TestBack in the 1960s, a researcher learned a lot about willpower from studying hundreds of four-year-olds left alone in a room with a marshmallow or cookie.
Six Ways You [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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We opened the floor to stories about passwords you should never, ever use earlier this month, and our readers didn’t disappoint. IT types and the security-passive can learn a lot from what Donny Don’t does.
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It started with a list of passwords you shouldn’t ever use at Listable, which was informative, but [...]

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Open-source media center Boxee debuted a new Alpha release tonight, adding support for Pandora music streaming, PBS video feeds, and changes to the API and browser that indicate there’s a lot more multimedia goodness to come.
Here’s a look at what’s new in the latest build, as well as the newest plug-in from some Boxee-loving code [...]

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