Lifehacker,

At one point in time, the Skoda Superb had the same underpinnings as the B5/5.5 Passat, the A4 and the A6. Since then, A4s, A6s have moved to their own platform and the Passat has gone to a transverse mounted dedicated chassis. Superb probably one of the few remaining cars with a chassis that combines front wheel…

Gina, this was hardly invented by college students now :) This has been in use in the much of the third world for decades, especially the Middle East, Northern Africa, India and so on (hot & dry is best). I personally saw a beautiful sculpted marble "natural airconditioner" built into an 800 year old palace. While…

Sounds Dutch-ish to me but it's clearly not. If I were to hazard a guess, Czech.

Cor, some horrendous spelling in the above comment, apologies.

Indeed, is it only first gear that requires the clutch to upshift? Oh and hell-toeing is wicked hard on most passenger cars, I actually have to hell -toe to do it whereas big-toe/little toes would be ideal (i.e. foot spans both pedals when vertical).

Most certainly is a Nissan Patrol. A car on par with the Landcruiser in the Middle East and to be honest just as good (at least when I was last there).

fairly big Alfa rip too.

Hahhahah, it's called StrokeIt. Childish, yes, but hilarious nevertheless.

Yeap, Stellarium and Celestia. Celestia to zoom around in space (although it's bloody hard to get the hang of) and stellarium as your personal planetarium (including night mode, yuh!)

Fascinating and beautiful piece of kit.

I don't believe Yep is free anymore (~34 USD)

Mediamax has 25Gb free and dedicated photo sharing facilities. I think I got the link off of Lifehacker itself.

I use Apple's Mail to backup Gmail so I dont know about the Thunderbird specifics. Is it not possible to use rules to tag all incoming messages for a certain account as "read" and move them to an appropriate folder? This way you wont get the "unread" indicator. Another rule in Apple's Mail will let sort the sent…

DropCopy is quite amazing and works well. Plus, the litlte worm hole is just wicked cool non?

In this respect, Yahoo mail is excellent. While I'm not a Yahoo mail user I noticed a friends account had a neat feature where he could filter all emails containing attachmetns or pictures just by clicking one of two links. If pictures was clicked, he would be taken a to a page showing thumbnails of all attached…

Next thing you know, Google will be telling you what to write in response to an email a la George Orwell's 1984.