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• Five Best DVD-Ripping Tools You pay good money for your DVDs, but they're hardly the only format you need these days. These five ripping tools ensure you can back them up, keep them on your media server, and load them on your favorite portable player.
• Your Passwords Aren't As Secure As You Think; Here's How to Fix That If you allow applicati*** to save your passwords, anyone with physical access to your PC can decode them unless you're properly encrypting them—and chances are pretty good you're not. Let's walk through the right and wrong ways to store your passwords.
• Pack a Gun to Protect Valuables from Airline Theft or Loss If you don't like your bags being out of your sight and it makes you uncomfortable to think that airline workers are rifling through your stuff, you can take advantage of the TSA's own security rules by—eek—packing a gun.
• Top 10 Winter Survival Tools and Tactics No matter how many times we go through it, winter always seems to catch us by surprise—a chilly, costly, inconvenient surprise. Prepare yourself for the rest of this season with helpful and healthy projects, clever tricks, and energy savers.
• The Definitive Guide to Making the Most of Your Netbook Netbooks are a great compromise between pecking away a **artphone keyboard or hauling a tank-size laptop around—but they aren't without shortcomings. Make the most of your netbook with these netbook-friendly tips, tricks, and applicati***.
• Android 2.1's Best Features in Screenshots The new Nexus One is a sleek, awesome handset, but the most important ingredient in touchscreen **artphones is software. The screen is just a canvas that software paints on, and Android 2.1 is a work of art.
• From the Tips Box: Smartphone Speakers, Wallet Holes, and Fire Starting Readers offer their best tips for making your **artphone's built-in speakers louder, preventing your wallet from burning a hole in your jeans, and starting a fire without fancy tools or logs.
• Make the Most of Chrome with These 13 Excellent Extensi*** Shortly after Google Chrome's Extensi*** gallery opened, we rounded up 18 worthy downloads. Now that Chrome's official add-on market has matured a bit, we've dug up more productive, annoyance-fixing, feature-adding extensi*** that you should c***ider adding to your collection.
• WebMii Shows You How the Web Sees You These days performing a vanity search of your own name isn't just about vanity, it's good to know how future employers and dates that Google-stalk you will see you. WebMii can help you get a picture of your online image.
• Internet Survival Guide for Traveling Where Privacy Isn't Respected Ed. note: On Tuesday, Google responded to cyber attacks aimed at Chinese human-rights activists by ending search-result censorship in China. An anonymous reader with experience living where privacy isn't respected writes in with tips for keeping your data safe in these situati***.
• How Do I Automatically Shut Down My Computer at a Certain Time? Dear Lifehacker, I like to watch TV on my computer at night but sometimes I fall asleep before the program ends. How can I set my computer to shut down at a certain time or after it finishes specific events?
• Know What Your Email Address Says About You Earlier this week we asked you what your email prejudices were. We dug through the comments, and now we're back to highlight how you feel about certain email addresses and what they say about the people who use them.