Every so often, Lifehacker rounds up Firefox add-ons that are too new for official approval, but seriously neat-looking. This batch can automate download management and image uploading, queue up MP3s, and manage Gmail tasks anywhere. The extensions we're pointing to here are both unapproved by Firef...

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Engineers should beware of trying to save money by buying cheaper safety-related products, as it could cost them dear in the long run....

Pilz Automation Technology is no longer supplying PNOZ Classic safety relays, but there is information and support available for customers switching to PNOZsigma relays....

Roundup, deals, VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: It was a very quiet week for deals in the Northwest, with just a trickle of activity in software, security, and biotech. —Seattle-based Haute Secure, a software firm focused on computer security against malware, raised about $1.6 million in Series A f...

The Vista for Beginners weblog walks through the process of setting advanced options for Windows Vista's Speech Recognition—from adding words to setting custom profiles for multiple users. If you've ever used speech recognition software with technical terms, you've probably noticed that your c...

Dear Lifehacker, I forward emails to Remember the Milk to create followup reminders, but they always end up in the inbox. Is there any way I can put them into a different list? Sincerely, Following Up Dear Following Up, You can do more than just send emails to create a task on a specific list—...

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Conveneer, a Swedish mobile startup is building a mobile platform called Mikz that would assign a unique URL to your mobile phone, making content on your phone accessible on the Web. In essence, it turns each mobile phone into a Web server. Once your phone has a URL, Web applications and services ca...

Automatic blogging is now possible.  The blogger does not need to write the content for his blog if he chooses to.  What is required is a small software "Automatic Blog Posting Wordpress Plugin" .  Just upload it to your Wordpress blog and then activate it.  It will automatically pull the conten...