Time for our daily dose of leftovers—those items across the tubes that caught our eyes today but didn’t quite make the cut:

Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever? Provided you’ve had a say in what Google has to say about you, it’s a fun idea. [Gizmodo]
LEGO Business Card Don’t rank well on Google? [...]

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Lifehacker readers apparently love a live CD that is all work and no play. Backtrack, a security-oriented live CD packed with useful tools, took home the crown for top live CD. In a relative close second, the ever popular Linux distro Ubuntu gave a strong showing followed by another Linux distro, Knoppix. If you’re interested [...]

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Computer Repair Kit Packs Dozens of Tools in One Portable Package (Windows)Portable system-fixing bundle Computer Repair Utility Kit puts 57 recovery tools into a single package. That gives you easy access to important system utilities without the fuss of building your own toolkit.
Make Windows XP Look Like Windows 7 (No Hacking Required) (Windows)The system theme [...]

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Live CDs—that is, hard-disk independent tools and operating systems that boot from simple optical discs—are handy for everything from data recovery to test driving new systems. We want to know which one is best.
Photo by bulinna.
What Live CD has been the most valuable to you? This week we want to hear about the Live [...]

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Free service TrapCall reveals caller ID information from blocked calls, unmasking numbers of blocked calls from telemarketers and prank callers with virtually no extra effort on your part.
TrapCall works like this: When you reject or miss a call, your phone forwards those calls to TrapCall’s toll free number (you have to follow TrapCall’s setup guide [...]

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A whopping 40% of the used hard drives on eBay contain easily recoverable personal data. Use the following guide to ensure your personal data never makes it out into the wild. Photo by AMagill.
Kessler International, a computer forensics company from New York, conducted a study of used hard drives available on eBay. Almost half of [...]

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Eyes too burnt out from staring at Excel to keep up with everything happening on Lifehacker? These things happen. Make it a little easier on yourself by subscribing to the top stories feed. Want a little more content than the Top tag provides? Try creating your own custom feed to get only the content you [...]

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Gmail Labs keeps up its steady pace of releasing new, fun features, this time with a new Location in Signature option that appends your current location (determined by your public IP address) to your email. If you’ve got Gears with location awareness baked in, your results will be even more accurate. [via]

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I’m going to be a new dad in three months! Where can I find tips, tricks, and lifehacks for parenthood?
I’m building a new computer and have no idea which OS to use. Which one would fit my lifestyle best?
Is there a good Windows-based alternative to iTunes for subscribing to podcasts?
I can charge my iPod touch [...]

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Can’t keep your eyes on the monitor long enough to absorb all the productivity we’re throwing at you? It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but maybe it’s time you slow things down a bit with our top stoies feed. If our Top tag doesn’t completely satisfy your life hacking needs, a customized feed might be [...]

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