On this week's episode of Lifehacker, we're cleaning out our PCs to keep them running cool and quiet during the hot summer months, home brewing a little soda, adding encryption to your Dropbox files, and more. [jump] This is the second episode in Lifehacker's summer series, where the format is slightly different than our regular episodes but the content is just as good. In all, this episode highlights:
We also ran down our favorite YouTube videos of the week, including our
guide to everything the iPhone home button can do, a
tool that allows you to encrypt and decrypt messages by clicking a bookmarklet, and a beginner guide to
setting up Gmail with your favorite desktop email client. Hungry for a little more? Check out the episodes in our summer series:
Lastly, if you need to catch up on the first season of Lifehacker, you can find all 13 episodes here:
- Learned a little about surviving the urban jungle
- Upgraded our office and hid our cords
- Hacked our weekends with a few of our favorite outdoorsy tricks
- Untangled your wires and boosted your Wi-Fi
- Cracked Windows passwords, padlocks, and Wi-Fi
- Shared some of our favorite clever repurposing tricks
- Supercharged your camera, took better cameraphone pictures, and painted with light
- Customized our phones, laptops, apartments, and so on
- Made better coffee, cut an onion without crying, and saved time with no-knead bread
- Scored free money, made free phone calls, and got free space on Dropbox
- Set up remote access to our home computers, remote controlled our BitTorrent downloads, and set up a remote security camera
- Saved a soaked gadget, make the ultimate workout playlist, and stay cool this summer
- Build the ultimate home theater, make great homemade popcorn, and always go cheap with HDMI cables
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