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Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

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This week, Lifehacker shows us how to make fonts from our own handwriting, get better sounds from in-ear headphones and save money by brewing our own coffee.

• Easily tweak your photos (in Windows) with PhotoPerfect

• File & Folder Unlocker app tells you what other processes have a certain file locked down, then allows you to kill it. (Windows 7 does this already.)

• Easily make and print checklists from this website Pash made

https://lifehacker.com/photoperfect-tweaks-your-pictures-with-presets-5146310

• Skype 4.0 has improvements, is out now

• See how your last name is distributed across the US

• How to install Win 7 with Parallels

https://lifehacker.com/skype-4-0-finalizes-video-chat-bandwidth-improvements-5145281

• Edit your Gmail tasks on your iPhone

• Turn your handwriting into a font for free

• These are the 20 worst foods in the supermarket

https://lifehacker.com/gmail-adds-tasks-to-the-iphone-mobile-browsers-and-ig-5144771

• Steve Guttenberg tells you how to Get the best sound from in-ear headphones

• It was Lifehacker’s birthday this week

•Brew the best coffee possible

https://lifehacker.com/get-the-best-sound-from-in-ear-headphones-5141906

• Create your own Bokeh (fuzzy background) for nice photo effects

• Check if your connection is being throttled

• Buy Adam Pash’s iPhone book if you or anyone you know owns an iPhone

https://lifehacker.com/create-your-own-bokeh-for-beautiful-photo-effects-5142551

Photo credit: visualpanic

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