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December 6th, 2012Top Story Busted Productivity Myths, Avoiding Awkward Conversations, and the Apps We Couldn't Live Without By Adam Dachis This week on the podcast we're talking about common productivity myths, how well gadgets survive under extreme temperatures in a car, and how to pitch an idea effectively. We're also answering your questions about getting out of awkward conversations, how to use GitHub, the apps we couldn't live without, and more. How to Listen to This Week's Episode Here's how you can listen to our episode: Download the MP3 directly. Subscribe on iTunes. Subscribe to the RSS feed. Just listen to it in the Souncloud player below. Click to view News and Top Stories Apple Releases iTunes 11 - iTunes 11 is out, bringing a faster app with new features and a new interface. We talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly icon, as well as how you can get some of the old iTunes features back (if you prefer). Gmail for iOS Gets a Completely New Look, Finally Supports Multiple Accounts - Gmail's iPhone and iPad app just got a major update, changing the look and feel of the entire app and adding a few handy new features. Google Releases YouTube For iPad, Filling the Remaining Gap on iOS 6 - When iOS 6 was released, YouTube disappeared from Apple's official app list. To fill the void, Google released a version for iPhone but not for iPad. Now they've rounded out the offering and added a few new features as well. (Despite this, we still prefer Jasmine.) Google Adds Detailed Medication Info to Its Smart Search Results - If you've just come back from the doctor with a new prescription and want to know a little more about it-maybe you forgot what your doctor told you about the side effects-Google has added medications to its smart Knowledge Graph, showing detailed information next to your results. Instagram Broke the Ability to Share Photos on Twitter, Here's How to Fix It - Instagram annoyingly decided to turn off its Twitter integration, which means Instagram photos will show up as links instead of photo cards on Twitter. Here's one way to fix it. Seven Productivity Myths Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) - The end goal of "productivity" is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably spend more time moving papers and emails around than actually getting anything done. Need to simplify your routine? Let's put an end to some common productivity tropes once and for all. Can I Leave My Gadgets In a Cold or Hot Car? - Generally speaking, no, so long as you're aware of your gadget's comfortable temperature range. How Do I Pitch an Idea That Actually Gets Heard? - Quickly! Read the post for a full rundown. Questions and Answers Each week we answer five questions from readers and listeners. Here's what we tackled this week. My husband and I got caught in an awkward conversation with a coworker at a party. Is there an app that will get us out of this kind of situation? Yes, and it's called Rescu.me. That said, we favor being honest whenever possible. Telling someone they're bringing up an uncomfortable subject, or simply changing the subject to a better one, isn't a bad thing to do. If you could only download one app on your phone, what would it be? Dachis chose Downcast (our favorite podcasting app for iOS, with DoggCatcher being the Android equivalent), Alan choose Yelp (for iOS and Android), and Whitson went with BeerCloud (for iOS and Android). I am looking into getting a smartphone, but only for use on Wi-Fi or other such hotspots. What are a few decent older model smartphones (I'm on a budget) that could be used? We settled on an old iPhone or an old Google Nexus as the best choices. They're cheap used and still work great. How do I use GitHub? We don't have a specific guide for this, but Gun.io has a great one. Recently, I purchased a couple of Airport Express' as an alternative to the expensive Sonos system. I have set them up and they are great! Wireless music controlled by your iPhone is great! However, I am not a big fan of iTunes, and I am looking for alternatives that would allow me to play music stored on my network drive, to multiple airport expresses and control using my iPhone. The problem with iTunes is that it slows down my desktop since I have to keep it running at all times. What are my options? Nothing works better than iTunes, but try AirFoil (Windows and OS X), Raop (Linux and OS X), or just keep your music on your iPhone. Tips of the Week Alan's Pick: Give a Good Gift Without Being Cliche (also check out our 2012 Gift Guides) Whitson's Pick: Find Out When Someone Unfriends You Dachis' Pick: Let Me Know If You Need Anything Downloads of the Week Alan's Pick: SwiftKey Flow Whitson's Pick: Arch Linux Dachis' Pick: gMessage How Do I Submit a Question? There are three ways to send in your question: Call (347) 687-8109 and record a question. Calls are awesome! We like them! Email your question to tips+asklhshow@lifehacker.com. Please keep your questions as brief as possible. This means about 3-5 sentences for emails and 30-60 seconds for calls and videos. Your questions can be specific, but broader questions are generally better because they'll apply to more people. For example, "how can I breathe new life into my old PDA?" is much better than "what can I do with an old HP iPAQ 210?" Either way, we look forward to hearing from you! 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December 6th, 2012Top Story Crazy Computer Guru John McAfee Arrested In Guatemala After Vice Reveals His Location [UPDATE] By Adrian Chen On Monday we told you about the weird story of how Vice Magazine accidentally revealed the secret hiding place of fugitive computer virus pioneer John McAfee. Well, McAfee was arrested in Guatemala last night, bringing his strange time on the lam to an end. Maybe? Or maybe not? Nothing is certain when it comes to John McAfee. McAfee had been seeking asylum in Guatemala, after fleeing neighboring Belize where he's wanted for questioning in connection to the murder of his neighbor. We learned this on Monday when Vice posted a photo of McAfee posing with editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro and forgot to scrub the GPS coordinates, revealing his precise location. McAfee hired a lawyer, scrambled to hold a press conference, and soon after was carted away by Guatemalan authorities who plan to turn him over to their counterparts in Belize. Luckily McAfee's natural hunger for media attention has allowed him to apparently forgive Vice for their screw-up, and they were with him to the very end, capturing some very strange and compelling video of the 67-year-old McAfee and his 20-year-old girlfriend, up until the moment of his arrest, which is above. Of course, this being John McAfee, he has been blogging from inside prison, somehow, posting a note about how pleasant Guatemalan jail and its coffee is and a plea for people to "please email the President of Guatemala and beg him to... support the political asylum that I am asking for." Stay tuned: Things will probably only get stranger. Update: Well that was quick: Just moments ago, ABC's Matt Gutman tweeted that McAfee is in an ambulance headed to the hospital after complaining of chest pains. He looked "quite ill," according to Gutman. John McAfee being taken to hospital in Guatemala. Local press is crazy here, now in a high speed chase after Ambulance twitter.com/mattgutmanABC/… — Matt Gutman (@mattgutmanABC) December 6, 2012 Click to view

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December 6th, 2012Top Story Feminist Game Critic On Her Online Attackers: They Cast Me 'in the Role of the Villain' By Evan Narcisse The woman behind Feminist Frequency hasn't been shy about sharing stories of the harassment she's gotten while trying to create Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. Anita Sarkeesian's goal of examining how women get portrayed in video games won her lots of enemies but, according to her, they thought of themselves as heroes. Click to view In this TEDxWomen talk, Sarkeesian discusses how the harassment she's been weathering got framed as a game by her attackers, with her as the final boss. Getting her to end her efforts would be beating the game. Things didn't work out like that, though, and the furor wound up helping her more than it hurt. All Sarkeesian proposes to do is look at video games through a certain context, but the wailing against Tropes vs. Women in Video Games has been a study in disproportionate over-reaction. Hell, the comments on the YouTube video were disabled because of this over-reaction. Over at Think Progress, Alyssa Rosenberg offers up this take on the whole brouhaha, comparing Sarkeesian's detractors to lunatic fringe activists like the Westboro Baptist Church: And the designation of Sarkeesian herself as an ultimate enemy is very telling. It's one thing to enjoy depictions of attractive people of whichever gender you happen to be attracted to. It's another to think you have a right to depictions of those people. And another entirely to be so attached to those depictions, and so uncomfortable or insecure about acknowledging that they might be problematic, talking about it, and enjoying them anyway that you get hysterically angry when someone proposes simply to analyze them. That says a lot more about you than your rational, intelligent, easily-supportable target. And it means that even if you succeed at whipping up a small, dedicated subculture to try to shut the thing you hate down, your chances of succeeding, and of being taken seriously by the outside world, are necessarily going to be limited. In a way, Anita Sarkeesian's haters are like the Westboro Baptist Church: they can cause real emotional pain, but not substantive change, and they mostly exist as a reminder of their own increasingly marginal role in cultural or political life. Sarkeesian mentions that she's been invited to talk at video game studios all over the world. Think about that. The people who create the games that her harassers think she's endangering want her to come talk to them. Maybe her ideas aren't that dangerous, then? At the very least, if you think she's way off-base, let Sarkeesian's project come to fruition first and then offer up some sort of rebuttal. Trying to silence her before she's even had her say clearly hasn't worked.

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