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Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

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Our favorite Lifehacker posts of the week show us how to keep our secrets, take naps and sell our gadgets for cash. We’ve got a few of our own favorite posts this week as well.

• Privacy! Know how to get it and know how to hide your stuff from other people

• Learn how to take a nap REALLY HARD

• Find Google images that match your exact dimensions – useful for wallpapers

https://lifehacker.com/its-data-privacy-day-do-you-know-where-your-data-is-5141106

• A new version of Grand Central is coming. That’s the free multi-phone calling thing we’ve posted about before, before it was purchased by Google

• Google’s web drive is probably coming soon? Maybe?

• Sell your used electronics to Gazelle for cash

https://lifehacker.com/grandcentral-still-alive-new-version-imminent-5140139

• YouTube HQ Firefox Greasemonkey script forces YouTube to always give you the “HQ” version automatically

• Build your own DTV antenna

• Massage dead pixels out of your cellphone screen

https://lifehacker.com/youtube-hq-automatically-loads-high-quality-versions-of-5139175

And our more servicey posts of the week:

• Adding extra monitors to Windows 7 is so easy

• Your guide to gadget deals for the Super Bowl

• iPhoto’s facial recognition works on cats

https://gizmodo.com/win-7-tip-adding-extra-monitors-is-so-easy-a-caveman-c-5141386

• Windows 7 to Xbox 360 streaming works, but has some bugs

• An early look at Android’s OS update

• Windows 7’s Explorer Preview Pane works great

https://gizmodo.com/win-7-tip-xbox-360-streaming-is-buggy-for-now-but-it-5140691

• Windows 7 Play To streams media throughout your house

• The Nikon D700 gets hacked to do video

https://gizmodo.com/win-7-tip-play-to-media-control-might-take-over-your-w-5140763

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