Academic Earth Aggregates Lectures from MIT, Harvard, Yale, and Others [Education]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/zDaMSaDW9eU/academic-earth-aggregates-lectures-from-mit-harvard-yale-and-others

Web site Academic Earth is like Hulu for academic lectures, pulling free lectures from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale into one attractive, easy to navigate site. It's incredible.

The site clearly takes its cues from Hulu and iTunes on its design, but it's ten times better than either, because it's open. The videos can be embedded anywhere or downloaded and enjoyed wherever you want to take them. It's easy to use, has tons of great content, and it doesn't cost a dime.

We've highlighted these free courses before individually, like MIT's OpenCourseWare or Stanford's Engineering Everywhere, and we rounded up even more of them when we showed you how to get a free college education online, but Academic Earth takes the idea to an even better place. We love it.

Academic Earth [via TechCrunch]

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StillTasty Tells You How Long Your Food Will Last [Food]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ZkWJEuvCihw/stilltasty-tells-you-how-long-your-food-will-last

Got a fridge full of food but not sure what's still edible and what you'd regret an hour after eating? Web site StillTasty saves money with useful advice on your foods' shelf-life and best storage practices.

The site offers several ways to determine the viability of your leftovers and dusty cabinet items, including a simple search, category browsing, and a forum where you can ask more specific questions. You may have been tossing leftovers left and right in those decadent days of 2007, but these days, every dollar counts—which makes StillTasty a nice little tool. We've covered similar ground before, but StillTasty is the best tool for the job we've seen. Thanks Anne!

Still Tasty

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Use Gmail Tasks as a Desktop App [Google Tasks]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/9V1ztfnU4o0/use-gmail-tasks-as-a-desktop-app

Windows only: If you've converted to Gmail's new Task manager because of the tight integration with your email, you might be interested in running it as a desktop application as well.

Reader Evan writes in with his simple guide to putting Gmail Tasks into a desktop application, using the built-in application shortcuts feature in the Google Chrome browser—simply navigate to https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig in Chrome, use the Create Application Shortcuts feature on the menu, and resize the window down to a smaller size. You can then access your tasks through a desktop shortcut anytime you want.

The process isn't anything new to most Lifehacker readers, but it's a great idea that gives you quick access to your Google Tasks, which can then be accessed anywhere from your mobile device or iGoogle page. Hit the link for the walk-through, or you can add Gmail Tasks to your Firefox sidebar instead. Thanks, Evan!

Update: Looks like there is a known bug with the iGoogle ! gadget not working properly in Chrome which is causing a blank page after the first time you view it. Hopefully Google will fix this soon, but until then you can use the Adobe AIR version of Google Tasks suggested by Steve below, or use Jazzva's suggestion to use the Prism extension for Firefox's Tools -> "Convert Website to Application" option to get nearly the same window as the screenshot. Sorry about the trouble!

Google Tasks + Chrome = Superb ToDos [Redunk.tv]

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Vuze Converts BitTorrent Downloads to Device-Friendly Formats [Downloads]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/zbW_n5PbRSs/vuze-converts-bittorrent-downloads-to-device+friendly-formats

Windows/Mac/Linux: Vuze—one of the most popular BitTorrent clients around—has just added a killer feature that allows you to easily transcode any download so its playable on your iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PS3, and Xbox 360.

We've always been partial to uTorrent for its light footprint—and a little hard on Vuze for its relative bloat—but this update in Vuze is seriously cool, especially for people looking to watch their downloaded videos somewhere other than their desktop. Once a file is downloaded, you can simply drag and drop the download to the device you want to play it on. Smart and simple.

Vuze [via TorrentFreak]

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Daft Punk's Bluetooth Headphones Are the Bluetooth Headphones I Want [Robot Rock]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/4otWLZ1wYiA/daft-punks-bluetooth-headphones-are-the-bluetooth-headphones-i-want

Nokia recently asked for Bluetooth headset designs inspired by a certain song; this is what G. Smith presented after listening to "Robot Rock" a few dozen times. R. Kelly and Michael Jackson are also well-represented.

I was really torn between which of these three are my favorite, because this one inspired by R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" is very special:

As is this Orca-colored pair for "Would You Be There," aka the Free Willy theme:

The contest received over 8,000 proposed song-inspired designs, and these were among the handful of winners that were actually made into working headsets, which are on display in Nokia's flagship store in London. More to be seen at: [CR Blog]

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