5250-Foot Tower Will Make Burj Dubai Look Like Pencil [Mile High]

Sure, the Burj Dubai tower looks amazingly tall, but it's final height— currently projected to be 2,300 feet— is less than half that of a new building planned for Saudi Arabia. It's going to be 5,250 feet high. Yup, that's just 30 feet short of a mile tall: taller than anything under construction ...

Beautiful EPCOT Concept Painting from Our "In The Year 2000" Flickr Pool

INTERN DUNN – If you'll direct your attention to our "In the Year 2000" Flickr pool, you can observe this lovely EPCOT painting in its natural habitat. Consider the rays of light as they guide your eyes from the majestic central globe to the happy, multicultural crowd experiencing The Future. Once ...

Multiply Your PC's Desktops with VirtuaWin [Featured Windows Download]

Windows only: Free virtual desktop manager VirtuaWin creates multiple workspaces on your PC without bogging down your system. Like other virtual desktop utilities for Windows we've covered (Virtual Dimension, Vista Virtual Desktops, Dexpot) VirtuaWin provides hotkeys for switching desktops, custom ...

Switch Spaces from Your Mouse with Warp [Featured Mac Download]

Mac OS X only: Freeware application Warp adds a preference pane to your System Preference that enhances Leopard's virtual desktop tool, Spaces, so that you can switch between spaces using just your mouse. After you've installed and enabled Warp, move your mouse to the edge of the screen to switch to ...

Copy and Paste Without Switching Windows [Lifehacker Book Contest Winner]

Readers are submitting their best life hack for a chance to win an autographed copy of our new book, Upgrade Your Life. Reader CK uses a trick when there's heavy-duty copy and pasting to be done: I have one very simple AutoHotkey script which I use when I need to do some massive copying and pasting ...

Use Your Cell Phone as Your Boarding Pass [Travel]

Next time you're on your way to the airport, you may be able to forgo printing out your boarding pass at home, opting instead to use your cell phone as your boarding pass. According to the New York Times:At least half a dozen airlines in the United States currently allow customers to check in using their ...

Reuse Another Computer's Windows XP Disc? [Ask Lifehacker]

Dear Lifehacker, I have two Dell computers here—one running Windows 2000 and one running Windows XP. The XP machine is old and broken down, so I'm going to gut it for parts. I have the Dell-branded Windows XP installation disc that came with it, and I was wondering—can I use it to format ...

Sync Notes Between Your iPhone or iPod Touch with iPhoneNotes [Featured Mac Download]

Mac OS X only: One conspicuously yet-to-be-implemented feature of the iPhone and iPod touch is the ability to sync notes between your computer and your device. Until Apple figures out what should be a simple feature, freeware application iPhoneNotes wirelessly syncs notes between your jailbroken iPhone ...

Best Digital Photo Organizer? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Editor: In an attempt to answer the most frequently-asked question we get—"Which solution is the best?"—today we're launching a new feature series called the Hive Five. Once a week we'll put out a call for contenders looking for the best solution to a certain problem, where YOU tell us your ...

Google Docs Adds Colored Labels, On-the-Fly Permission Changes [Interface]

Google Documents has seen a good deal of productive-minded change over the last few days, quietly rolling out new interface features and re-designs. The most noticeable is a new Word-like menu bar, which takes up a little space at the top of the browser. Secondly, colored folders add a corner-of-eye ...

Auto-Hide Firefox Status Bar Icons [How To]

The How-To Ggek points to a nifty fix for Firefox extension fans whose status bars are seriously cluttered. Using a custom script and the Stylish extension, you can get your status bar icons to auto-hide and appear only when you move your mouse down to them. A lot of extensions pack handy utilities into ...

Get Free Food by Signing Up for Restaurant "E-Clubs" [Free]

Few people willingly sign up to get more ad pitches in their inbox, but doing so at a few restaurant websites can net you some decent free food. If you're willing to delete, file, or click an "unsubscribe" link with the inevitable "Come and visit us!" emails, here's a few examples of what can be had, ...

Photoshop Express: Not the Full PS Package, but Good Web-Based Editing [Photoshop]

More than a year after web-based photo editors began swarming the scene, Adobe this morning unveiled its free, long-anticipated Photoshop Express web app. It doesn't have nearly a quarter of the options, tools, and tricks of its desktop-based namesake, but it seems like a good platform for anyone who ...

Manage and Launch No-Install Apps with ZipInstaller [Featured Windows Download]

Windows only: You'll often see a no-install, runs-from-its-own-executable program or utility get a special nod on this blog—and for good reason, as a jam-packed "Add/Remove" screen is not a pretty thing. But for those with a lot of one-use apps to wrangle and find, free utility ZipInstaller makes ...

See When and Where Viewers Watch Your YouTube Clips [YouTube]

YouTube today launches a new feature called Insight which tells you when viewers are watching your clips and where they're located. The New York Times reports: With the Insight information, video creators can dig into the specifics of a video's performance and find, for example, that it peaks on Fridays ...

Protect Your Privacy When Downloading [Feature]

Earlier this week, a Lifehacker reader caught downloading copyrighted material using BitTorrent told us about the scary warning letter she received from her ISP about a big media company who filed a complaint. Fact is, whether you're downloading copyrighted material or not, no one likes to have their ...

Mute Your Computer on a Schedule with SoundAsleep [Featured Mac Download]

Mac OS X only: If you're the type to leave your computer on overnight—say to complete a big BitTorrent download or something along those lines—you may also have been woken up by an unexpected beep from that always-on Mac. Freeware application SoundAsleep sets up a mute schedule for your Mac, ...

Easy Ways to Reduce Wasted Printer Paper [Paperless Office]

Walk by most office's shared network printer and chances are you'll see a stack of discarded extra pages the person who printed them didn't need after all, or print jobs that were so "important" they were abandoned. PC World suggests three easy ways to reduce the amount of "Whoops! Didn't need to ...

Does Your Phone Auto-Check Email? [Reader Poll]

Productivity consultant Jared Goralnick offers ten reasons why your phone shouldn't automatically notify you the moment you receive a new email message—like protecting your sanity, for one. Some phone email clients (like Gmail Mobile for Java-based phones) require that you start them up to check ...

Running for the High [Exercise]

The concept of the runner's high has been around forever, but the New York Times is reporting that, for the first time, scientists have validated the claimed euphoria that follows a run.Researchers in Germany, using advances in neuroscience, report in the current issue of the journal Cerebral Cortex ...