Add Extra Effects to Photo Booth and iChat with a Quick Tweak [Tweaks]
Mac OS X: Photo Booth and iChat's handful of native effects are fun, but the novelty of making yourself glow sepia wears off pretty quickly. Fortunately, you can easily tweak some settings to add a bunch more. Macworld's Rob Griffiths unearthed a way to add more than 20 silly effects to the 16 that are already found in Photo Booth and iChat. By cutting, pasting, and lightly editing a collection of files already hiding inside your Mac, you can pixellate,

Exercise Prepares Our Bodies for Stressful Situations, Study Indicates [Exercise]
For years doctors have recommended exercise to enhance our moods, but the reason it actually works has never been that clear. Thanks to a group of overworked rodents, we may be closer to finding out, and it's pretty good news Photo by mhofstrand Researchers at Princeton University recently conducted a study comparing sedentary rats with active ones. Both were dunked in cold water, which they really hate (uh, yeah, who wouldn't?). It turns out that even though all the rats were equally stres

TouchFreeze Disables Your Touchpad As Soon As You Start Typing [Laptop]
Windows only: Most laptop owners have experienced the frustrations of a spastic cursor when your wrist grazes the touchpad. Some allow for touchpad disabling, but it's usually all or nothing. TouchFreeze disables your touchpad up on the first keystroke, re-enables it when you stop. Photo by AlishaV Although you can always go to your Control Panel and then to Mouse Prop

The Mega-Mouspad Office [Featured Workspace]
Having a mouse pad that won't stay put is a pain. Today's featured workspace circumvents the problem of the too-small and slide-around mouse pad by making a custom pad big enough for the mouse, keyboard, cup of coffee and more. Lifehacker reader 037 was sick of tiny mouse pads. The solution was to go a local rubber supply shop (Canal Rubber in NYC) and pick up a big sheet of the same rubber mouse pads are backed with. The entire workspace is c

GVNotifier.NET Puts Google Voice in Your Taskbar [Downloads]
Windows only: When the AIR-based site-specific browser just won't cut it, GVNotifier.NET uses the .NET framework to bring Google Voice notifications and one-click calling and SMS to your desktop, out of the way in the Windows taskbar. Unlike most clients, GVNotifier.NET hides away in your Windows taskbar and only pulls up small windows when you need them. You can click on the icon to bring up your recent contacts, and click them to bring up a call/SMS window on to