Today’s typing tests are seriously flawed. Now, before you go grab your pitchfork, let me explain why. Your typing speed, at its most basic form, is how fast you type on a daily basis when you’re typing things like e-mails, reports, instant message conversations, that sort of thing (assuming you don’t use any of that [...]
Edit: Horray for LifeHacker front page, thanks, guys! I’ve updated the app to add support for international locations, as well as Celsius. Here’s a fun utility I run all the time on my main machine… it’s called AeroWeather. It sits in the background and retrieves the temperature or current conditions for your location, and will [...]
DupeList is a small program that will let you scan a folder on your computer for duplicate files. It will return a list of files that are duplicates, and can also delete the files in question for you. It is recommended that you only scan folders that you organize yourself (such as My Pictures, for [...]
I play Team Fortress 2 frequently, and my secondary monitor is always there while I play, empty. I decided to write a small application that would track live game stats as you play, and display them in a nice, readable format for use while you’re playing. Thus, StatFortress was born. StatFortress utilizes (and banks on) [...]