At some point, most of us will face some kind of legal threat. Whether it’s a traffic accident or a professional dispute, there may be times where you want to be aware of your legal rights and whether a legal challenge is warranted. In those cases, you’ll want to turn to a lawyer for advice. Here’s how you can choose a reputable one. More »
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How to Find a Reputable Lawyer [Crash Course]
How to Find a Reputable Lawyer [Crash Course]
At some point, most of us will face some kind of legal threat. Whether it’s a traffic accident or a professional dispute, there may be times where you want to be aware of your legal rights and whether a legal challenge is warranted. In those cases, you’ll want to turn to a lawyer for advice. Here’s how you can choose a reputable one. More »
Scrollbar Search Highlighter Colorizes Firefox’s Scrollbar when You Search on a Web Page [Downloads]
Firefox: If you use Ctrl+F to sift through long web pages often, Scrollbar Search Highliter saves you from constantly clicking “next” by highlighting, on the scrollbar, where every instance of a word is found, Google Chrome-style. More »
Hipmunk Flight Search Brings the Excellent Webapp to iOS [Downloads]
We’ve taken a look at the Hipmunk webapp before and found it to be one of the most usable and agony-free flight searches on the web. Today they’ve brought that same search to iOS with some smart features. More »
Top 10 Places to Discover Good Software [Lifehacker Top 10]
Services like the Mac App Store may be convenient for discovering software, but they can come with quite a few downsides too. Here are ten other great places to find the program you need. More »
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Needle Is a Smart and Efficient Research Assistant [Video]
If you've ever spent hours clicking through web pages collecting data—whether you're planning a vacation or culling data for academic research—webapp Needle (presumably so-named with the haystack in mind) collects and organizes data from any source, online or off. More »
Free Alternatives to the Departing GOOG-411 [Free]
Google got all the pronunciations, accents, and business names out of its free 1-800-GOOG-411 service it needed to power its voice recognition, so it’s shutting down today. But please, please don't ever pay for 411—use these services instead. More »
Google Instant in Chrome Is Awesome, Even More Useful than on Google.com [Video]
If you’re keen on the as-you-type search results you get from Google Instant, you’ll really like Instant integrated with Chrome’s omnibox. Just launch your dev/canary release, type about:labs, enable Instant, restart Chrome, and prepare for some interesting browsing. More »
Turn On Google Instant in Chrome [Chrome]
It’s not quite the same as the results-as-you-type-every-letter Google Instant, but Chrome’s Dev channel and Canary builds offer a switch that turns on a kind of instant search for Chrome’s Omnibar, which you may find really helpful or kind of distracting. More »
How to Turn Off Google Instant Search [Google]
We’re actually kind of excited about the new Google Instant, but if you don’t like the distraction of as-you-type, predictive search results and filtering, it’s extremely easy to turn off. You can either toggle it on or off to the right of the search box, or you can head to your Google search settings, scroll to the Google Instant section, and select Do not use Google Instant. Then simply hit the Save Preferences at the bottom of the page. (Video best watched in 720p.) More »








