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Use Transparent Shortcuts to Separate and Organize Your Windows 7 Taskbar Icons

If you’d like to have empty space in between some of the icon sets on your Windows 7 taskbar to keep things organized and separated, this simple hack will get the job done.

Lifehacker reader Virgilstar shared this excellent tip here. We tweaked it a little and made a custom icon for you those of you within the software to make icons yourself.

The magic behind the trick is assigning a ..read more

FlashHacker Keeps Flash Videos in Full Screen on Your Dual Monitors

Windows: If you’ve got more than one monitor, you’ve probably tried fullscreening a Flash video on one monitor while working in another. The problem: Flash exits fullscreen as soon as you click on something. FlashHacker fixes this problem.

A few months ago we highlighted a somewhat complicated method of tweaking Flash to fix this problem, but it hasn’t been updated for a while and doesn’t work with Flash 10 (the latest ..read more

Unlock your iPhone, supercharge your camera, and take your TiVo shows on the road for free. These six hacks unleash the hidden power in your mobile gadgets.

We’d be lost if we ever left the house without our arsenal of mobile tech gear, but we’re also sick of being hamstrung by gadget makers who leave out important features or micromanage what we can–and can’t–do with the products we buy from them. Fortunately, you don’t necessarily have to settle for the limited ..read more