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• Repel Flies with a Bag of Water We've featured many, many, many different ways to deal with mosquitoes using DIY soluti***. But what about the even more common household fly? Turns out all you need to deal with that is a plastic bag or two.
• Turn a Bookshelf into a Secret Passage Who hasn't dreamed of having a mystery-story-style secret passageway? While a trick bookshelf is pretty awesome in itself, this secret passage hides a home office with clever style.
• Nine Must-Have Features We Want to See in a Google OS What's inside Google's just-announced Chrome Operating System? How does it work, exactly? Nobody outside Google knows. We can, however, build a dream operating system from the ground up, and that's what we're doing with some help from the hive mind.
• Set Up "Push" Gmail on Your iPhone Despite iPhone 3.0's push notificati*** and previously mentioned Google Sync's contacts and calendars syncing chops, push Gmail still hasn't come to the iPhone. But with the Prowl iPhone application, you can now push Gmail notificati***—and then some—to your iPhone.
• Google Releasing Chrome Operating System In a sudden, if not unexpected, announcement this morning, Google said it would release an open-source operating system based on its Chrome browser. The OS will be free, geared (at first) toward netbooks, and focused on "speed, simplicity, and security.
• VLC Hits 1.0 with Better Playback and File Support Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC Media Player, the open-source solution to media players that can't play your media files, reaches the 1.0 milestone today. What's new?
• How to Send Back Restaurant Food It's never fun to be a squeaky wheel, but whether you've been served an overcooked, undercooked, or just plain wrong dish, there's a proper and improper way to let your waiter know that you're less than satisfied with what's on your plate.
• WEP Cracking Redux: Beyond the Command Line Last week we showed you how to crack a Wi-Fi network's WEP key using a live CD and some command line fu. Today we've got other cracking opti***—but more importantly, clarification on the point of all this.
• Five Best Online Image Editors Editing your images on a desktop image editor might be ideal, but sometimes you're away from your home workstation and need to do some impromptu editing.