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(Credit: Ultrasone)When earbuds just aren’t enough to keep the distracting masses from interrupting whatever it is you’re preoccupied with at the time, portable headphones are the next step.
On Thursday, Ultrasone announced the HFI-15G headphones. Deemed the smallest headphones in Ultrasone’s line–although exactly how small is …
pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/10/chrome_incognito.jpg” height=”87″ width=”142″ align=”right” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ align=”right”/Programmer Michael T. Bee offers up a small, desktop-friendly JavaScript file that starts Google’s Chrome browser in Incognito Mode for those privacy-please browsing sessions. Actually, the script, which you can paste into Notepad or another editor and save as a .js file, starts Chrome, opens a no-cookie, no-tracks-left Incognito window, then kills the first window. If your system can’t launch Chrome by running codechrome.exe/code in Windows’ “Run” dialog, you might have to tweak the sixth line of the script a bit. Otherwise, it’s a handy trick for, as the Hacks Blog puts it, “birthday shopping.” div class=”related”a href=”http://michael-t-bee-esi.blogspot.com/2008/10/chromeincognitojs.html”Chrome_Incognito.js/a [Michael T. Bee's ESI via a href="http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2008/10/start_chrome_in_incognito_mode.html"Hacks Blog/a]/div/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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Hello, my name is Jackson West, and I feel like the least likely person ever invited to write for Lifehacker right about now. Because I am a deeply, deeply lazy person who couldn’t budget and schedule my way out of a wet paper bag. However, I have managed to survive in the wild with an otherwise debilitating lack of work ethic, and I am here to pass my wisdom in the many and varied arts of shirking which I have mastered over the years. For instance, did you know that there’s a little bit of magic on the shelves of your local drugstore that goes by the name “Cup O’ Noodles?”
Just add boiling water and you have yourself a hot meal in mere seconds! There’s even a manga, Project X: Cup Noodle, which details the high drama behind the making of the very first instant noodle soup by a team of food scientists at Nissin in the early seventies (and it’s way more entertaining than the Google Chrome comic). Apparently the moral of the story is that hard work, team spirit, visionary management and a little ingenuity leads to success. Or something. All I know is that less time making myself a snack means more time to watch Ugly Betty. (Image via Chris’s Invincible Super Blog)
Editor: WE let the slacker into Lifehacker, and we’re happy to have him here at least for a few weeks posting live from San Francisco. Say hey to Jackson and tell him the kinds of slackerhood arts you want to hear about the most in the comments.
“Valleywag’s Jason Calacanis believes that Apple is working on a networked HDTV,” writes Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet. Adrian, if your editor tries to make you go back and erase what you wrote, because his drinking buddies from Columbia Journalism Review think it’s fatal to publish a huge factual fuckup in the first three words of an article, call me. I’ll come over and slap J. Jonah Jameson with a printout of exactly how many people have already seen it. Tell him, “It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.” Has-been journalists love a Watergate reference.
On the upside, you’ve given Owen and me a whole new topic for slow afternoons: People who don’t even know they’re working for Valleywag. Calacanis was easy. Scoble isn’t hard enough. We’ll have to figure it out some more.
Jason: Holla back! Aw, come on. We hate it when you don’t holla back. (Photo by Peter Kaminski)
In an effort to make sure we’ve got the best talent for our positions, we’re putting out a general call for applications. Read on, my friends, because this may be your ticket to working at Gizmodo.
We’re going to take applications for all positions, from intern all the way up to [any job except mine you bastards]. Send in your application and resume (no attachments please) to application@gizmodo.com with your job title in the subject line. Applicable titles are:
• Intern (NYC and SF area only)
• Copy Editor
• Editorial Assistant (some experience needed, NYC and SF area only)
• Contributing Editor (experience needed)
• Associate Editor (experience needed)
• Senior Associate Editor (mucho editorial experience needed if you’re going to apply for this, but go for it if this is you)
All positions have the same base requirements that you’ve got a passion for gadgets and technology, a desire to be self-motivated and would love to work at Gizmodo more than any other job out there. Of course, each position has its own requirements, and we’ll evaluate accordingly. Get your foot in the door!
Windows only: Microsofts’ Image Composite Editor is a free application for stitching several pictures together into one panoramic photograph. We’ve already shown you how to stitch photos into panoramas with free software or with Photoshop’s Photomerge tool, but the dedicated Image Composite Editor won’t cost you a dime, is dead simple to use, and works really well. I tested its chops with a quick panorama of my (messy) desk, and it stitched everything together quickly, with no effort on my part. For a one-off tool with very specific goals, Microsoft’s done this one right. The Image Composite Editor is freeware, Windows only, requires .NET 2.0.
Motorola has come out with a phone, the Cliq, targeted at a specific market and utilizing the power of Google’s Android platform. It is the first of a family of new Motorola phones, where the Cliq stands at the patronymic fore. As far as features go, Cliq is doing all right. The phone is complete [...]
For Microsoft Outlook users unfamiliar with Xobni, pay attention. The venture-backed company’s first piece of software, not even two years old, is a powerful advancement for e-mail organization, Outlook style. Wednesday, the new version of the tool is available, Xobni1.8 which provides additional power. In addition, the previously free plugin is offering an advanced version, [...]
Ever since June of last year there has been talks of Verizon and Alltel merging, but now it is official. Verizon wireless has now become the largest mobile carrier with over 83 million subscribers. Alltel will continue to run under the Alltel name until a complete merger of the two brands later this year. Now [...]
Pioneer has released a statement saying they have developed a Super Multi-Layered Disc that will play using current Blu-ray players. The disc consists of 16 layers that can hold 25GB of data each, which totals a 400GB Disc. They plan on having a read-only disc available by 2010, a rewritable by 2012, and a 1TB [...]
One of the biggest reasons most Windows users are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is Adblock Plus.
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