Gina Trapani, Author at Gizmodo

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This week at Lifehacker: How to install third-party RAM in your Mac (and save big $$$) “…I saved over $300 by upgrading the RAM on my new Macbook Pro myself, a process requiring only a few minutes. Here’s how.” Download of the Day: myFairTunes6 (Windows) “…losslessly strip your tunes of Apple’s DRM…” How to filter…

Tech News Gina Trapani Sep 6

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: The art of keyword bookmarking in Firefox “…use bookmark keywords not only for web searches, but to navigate to your favorite sites and inner pages, and even launch bookmarklets without moving to your mouse.” Protect your web searches “I had no idea somebody was looking over my shoulder.” Six ways to…

Tech News Gina Trapani Aug 30

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks “I’ve been more than impressed with the number of great, full-featured applications available for Linux, many of which outshine their Windows counterparts.” How to triple-boot Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu “I wanted to try Ubuntu, but I’m didn’t want to give up my Windows desktop…

Tech News Gina Trapani Aug 23

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Set up a personal home Subversion server “Serious version control like Subversion’s useful for many different purposes, whether you’re a web developer or a novelist.” DIY HUD in action “Create a ‘heads-up display’ that reflects a map on the inside of your windshield – for the cost of a single printout.”…

Tech News Gina Trapani Aug 9

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Build yourself a solar-powered wifi booster for the backyard. Your mousing wrist feeling a little achy? Train yourself to mouse lefty (or righty, lefties.) PayPal your buddy your share of the dinner bill with your cell phone. Add encryption to Gmail and sync your Google calendar with your mobile phone or…

Tech News Gina Trapani May 31

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: One wire plus two computers equals 800 megabytes transfer rate. Here’s how to set up a fast FireWire network to move all your disk hogging files from one machine to another. Our in-house law geek reveals what will really happen if you get caught BitTorrenting those copyrighted movies. It’s not EVDO,…

Tech News Gina Trapani May 24

Power User: The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: We kicked off our Coolest Workspace Contest with a DIY door-turned-tabletop, an adjustable sit or stand desk and more. Submit pictures of your tricked-out rig for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to Amazon! https://lifehacker.com/lifehackers-coolest-workspace-contest-win-100-at-ama-169129 Also: automatically add an image of the camera model used to shoot photos on…

Tech News Gina Trapani May 3

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Convince your boss you’ll be 30% more productive if you could only have a second monitor. Save yourself 70 bucks and replace your iPod Mini’s battery yourself. It’s a bunch of nerds in a grassy field with circuit boards, LED’s, homemade Segways and more! Check our special report from Geeks Gone…

Tech News Gina Trapani Apr 26

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: De-crapify your new Dell of all the garbage software it had installed on it out of the box. See a video demonstration of iAlertU, the car alarm for the MacBook Pro. DIYers, snugly encase a wifi router inside your Xbox. And if you thought you found all your Easter Eggs this…

Tech News Gina Trapani Apr 19

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Set up your personal wikipedia. Help that feeble brain of yours and develop digital photographic memory. Remedy your memory-sucking Firefox installation. Make Mom a rotating digital photo frame that refreshes with your current Flickr photos. Finally, rig up a portable USB charger with a 9-volt battery. https://lifehacker.com/geek-to-live-set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707 You gave up Britannica…

Tech News Gina Trapani Apr 12

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Decide when to trash your old PC and when to upgrade. Be a walking encyclopedia – literally – with Wikipedia on your iPod. Build yourself a booty-hiding secret hollow book. Finally, smack down that annoying Windows error report dialog that pops up whenever software crashes for good. https://lifehacker.com/geek-to-live-your-old-pc-when-to-hold-and-when-to-fo-156833 You want a…

Tech News Gina Trapani Mar 1

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Unlock the power of the scroll wheel and mouse gestures and drive Firefox without taking your hand off the clicker. Fix scratched CDs with toothpaste, Pledge, Pinesol or peanut butter. Get flight status information, horoscopes and drink recipes SMS’ed directly to your phone. Make sure your laptop battery doesn’t poop out…

Tech News Gina Trapani Feb 22

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: That sound your computer’s fan is making? It roughly translates to “Help! I’m being strangled by cat hair!” Get under your PC’s hood and evacuate the dust bunnies partying on your video card. https://gizmodo.com/spring-cleaning-for-your-computer-evacuate-pc-dust-bun-153409 Speaking of video, YouTube junkies can use a little Javascript voodoo and some free software encoding to…

Tech News Gina Trapani Feb 15

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Watch a video demo of an iPod running Linux. Still required to use IE at work? Have some strategies for surviving IT lockdown at the office. Build an Lego iPod dock. Turn your PSP into a universal remote capable of controlling over 1,800 devices. Automatically defrag your hard drive, reboot your…

Tech News Gina Trapani Feb 8

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Free your iPod from the shackles of iTunes. Witness operating system multiple personality disorder on a real live ThinkPad dual-booting Windows and Mac OS X. Scare your cat and get in shape with a sledgehammer and a sweater. Finally, master the art of portable computing with some tried and true laptop…

Tech News Gina Trapani Feb 1

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Build yourself a gadget recharging station. Hack together a pen-sized wireless antenna. Revive a a soaked piece of hardware killed by spillage. Finally, download essential free software that Google Pack whiffed on. https://lifehacker.com/diy-recharging-station-150037 The ball and chain’s been on your back for months about doing something with the milk crates stacked…

Tech News Gina Trapani Jan 25

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: You know you’re supposed to be backing up your data, but are you? Set it and forget it – automatically backup your hard drive. If you didn’t get one of those shiny new video iPods for the holidays, tweak out your ancient ‘pod and make it (almost) as good as new.…

Tech News Gina Trapani Jan 18

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Get the most out of your video iPod. Buy the best quality recordable DVDs. Cube warriors, firewall your attention at the office. Fold up a pen and stick it in your wallet. Finally, remedy LCD screen burn-in. https://lifehacker.com/hack-attack-get-the-most-out-of-your-video-ipod-147494 So you got yourself a shiny new video iPod over the holidays. Know…

Tech News Gina Trapani Jan 11

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Build an auto-on pantry light with a Timex watch holder. Replace your iPod’s hard drive. Make an RFID-blocking duct tape wallet. Finally, instantly inventory your gadget stash off-site for insurance purposes when the house blows up. https://lifehacker.com/diy-watch-holder-pantry-light-145641 Open the door, light goes on. Close the door, light goes off. The system…

Tech News Gina Trapani Dec 29

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Take your data home for the holidays. While you’re there, crack the neighbors’ wifi. Spraypaint the guts of that old computer into Christmas tree decorations. Build a photo lamp from a Mag-Lite. Bend web pages to your will with our favorite Greasemonkey scripts. https://lifehacker.com/hack-attack-take-your-data-home-for-the-holidays-143983 HTTP, FTP, VNC, oh my! Lifehacker’s got…

Tech News Gina Trapani Dec 21

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Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User: The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

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