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The Window Desk [Featured Workspace]

While we love a tech-filled geek cave, an elegant workspace with a great view makes working a pleasure. Today's featured workspace has a beautiful desk, a pleasing environment, and a view of Boston. Not everyone needs triple monitors or an army of peripherals and being able to work productively with just a laptop goes a long way towards having a clear and airy workspace—cable management is, at it's best after all, camouflaging something that's there to appear as if it isn't. Lifehacker reader CosmoComet, when he's commuting and working from Boston proper several day a week, finds himself working at this nearly invisible glass and acrylic workspace—he can look right through his desk to see Beacon Street below
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IE6 Laid To Rest. Pictures, Videos, And Flowers From Microsoft.

A few weeks ago, we noted that the Denver, CO-based design company Aten Design Group was holding a funeral for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) , the much-hated browser. The funeral took place last night. It wasn’t without controversy as there were protestors , and even a bouquet of flowers sent by Microsoft. But overall, it looks like it was a classy ceremony. The blog Nonprofits and Web 2.0 was on hand and has posted several videos (a few of which I’ll embed below).
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Mad Lib Competition: The Results Are In…

This time last week, prompted by Luke Wroblewski’s research , I asked you to suggest Mad Lib style sign-up text for your favourite websites. By way of encouragement, I promised to dig around my hotel room and find some kind of prizes; a signed copy of my eBay-auction-winning book , a TechCrunch tshirt, a little bottle of shampoo – stuff like that. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the quality of the prizes on offer, the competition was flooded with entries. Over 30 of them in fact, almost all of which were from people who had actually understood the entry requirements
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Yahoo Mail Makes Friends With Facebook

In December, Yahoo revealed a new strategy: lots and lots of Facebook . Today the company announced that they’re gradually rolling out the first feature to come from the partnership — Facebook Connect integration with Yahoo Mail. The new feature means that Yahoo Mail users can now connect their Facebook accounts and integrate their Facebook friends’ email addresses into their Yahoo Contacts list. Users can visit the Import Contacts page to be guided through he Facebook friend import process. Of course, this is just the beginning of the full Facebook Connect feature bonanza on Yahoo.
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10 Incredible Geeky LEGO Creations [PICS]

Geeks and LEGO seem to go together like mac and cheese (or Macs and Apples, even) with tons of fan-made geek-inspired creations to be found in every corner of the interweb, including the LEGO Flickr group. From both full-time, professional LEGO artists to those who just have a penchant for the colorful little Danish building blocks, we bring you a great gallery of LEGO sculptures that are inspired by the world of tech, online and social media. Have a gander now and let us know your favorites – or any others we’ve missed that you think are worthy of mention – in the comments box below. 1
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Emerald and Onyx: The Balcony Office [Featured Workspace]

Today's featured workspace is one of the more interesting conversions we've featured. It looks like a swanky office in a conservatory now, but it started life as a fairly drab balcony. Lifehacker reader ICULOOKN had a bit of a space problem. With the arrival of a new baby suddenly his office space was becoming a nursery space. Most people would try to carve out a niche in the basement for their stuff or even try to convert a closet into a micro-office.
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Penzu Keeps Your Online Journal Private and Secure [Journals]

If you've got a yen for online journaling but aren't ready to expose your innermost thoughts to the world, Penzu is worth a look. It combines a slick blogging platform with solid privacy features, offering fine-grained control over who sees your writing. This free, web-based service has an easy-to-use interface—sign up for a free account, click the New Entry button, and start typing. You can also upload pictures to your entries on the fly from your computer or a Flickr account. Penzu's great privacy features let you lock down individual posts, or all your entries, depending on your preference.
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The Day Trader’s Paradise [Featured Workspace]

What do you get when you have space for a custom office setup, a good amount of cash, and the vision to make it all happen? Dozens of monitors and the need for your own personal power plant. We've been watching Steve's office since he first posted the construction pictures into the Lifehacker Workspace pool. Slowly, we've watched his office take shape from a spackled room with naked monitor mounts into the jaw dropping display of computing power you see above. Steve just finished the project and posted some pictures to update us, writing: Originally there was to be 60 monitors, a mix of 19s and 24s however, it changed a bit and there is now 40 24" monitors and another 20 monitors offsite for development.
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The Workspace-on-a-Shelf Office [Featured Workspace]

Today's featured workspace is about as tiny as a workspace can get, short of calling a lapdesk and netbook a workspace. Lifehacker reader Tek on Dek has some serious space constraints to work with. In order to have room for a computer workspace as well as the rest of his life in his limited space, he opted to wall mount the whole affair and to do so with a focus on minimizing the footprint of the workspace. He writes: Dual Dell G2410 Led Monitors
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The Workspace-on-a-Shelf Office [Featured Workspace]

Today's featured workspace is about as tiny as a workspace can get, short of calling a lapdesk and netbook a workspace. Lifehacker reader Tek on Dek has some serious space constraints to work with. In order to have room for a computer workspace as well as the rest of his life in his limited space, he opted to wall mount the whole affair and to do so with a focus on minimizing the footprint of the workspace. He writes: Dual Dell G2410 Led Monitors. Workstation was built on an 11 inch deep bracket shelf from IKEA.
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