What’s the Best Way to Share Files Across Multiple Home Computers? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker, We’re a large family with several computers in our home. What’s the best way to share files across our home network putting them on thumb drives and running from PC to PC?
With much love, Out of Touch with My Family
Photo by Marshall Astor.
Hi Out of Touch,
The number of homes with multiple computers is [...]
Dropbox for IPhone
Dropbox offers a cool service that lets you store and sync files online, so that they’re accessible from multiple computers. (Macworld editor-in-chief Jason…
Quickly Send an Email with a Hotkey [Downloads]
Reader Alex writes in with his ubergeeky solution for sending a quick email from his Gmail account—a tiny AutoHotkey application assigned to a hotkey.
Similar to Alex’s solution for quickly adding events to Google Calendar, you’ll need to add your Google Account credentials to the logon.txt file, launch the AutoHotkey script, and then use the Ctrl+` [...]
Guinness World Records Reaches New Levels Of Fail
Browsing through the hilarious pages of FailBlog.org during rare moments of downtime has become something of a tradition here at TechCrunch. The site, which is part of the rapidly-expanding Cheezburger Network, painstakingly chronicles some of the funniest (and bizarre) screwups from around the web and real life, ranking them according to just how badly [...]
Report: Pandora caps off good week with $35M in funding
Widely popular Internet radio service Pandora just raised another $35 million in venture funding, according to a report in peHUB .
This comes after some other good news for Oakland, Calif. startup earlier this week — a royalty deal between Internet radio companies and the record industry, which Pandora Chief Technology Officer Tom Conrad described as [...]
Pandora Caps Free Streaming at 40 Hours per Month [Pandora]
The good news is that music streaming site Pandora, previously under threat of closing entirely under stiff internet radio royalty rates imposed in 2007, will remain open, after signing over 25 percent of its revenue to the music licensing firms. The bad news, at least for daily streamers, is that free accounts will be limited [...]
