今年八月，我们阻止了Facebook再次侵犯我们的隐私，收集了我们最喜欢的iPhone和Android应用程序，启动并运行Usenet，充分利用了Gmail的通话功能，等等。下面我们快速回顾一下。

• How to Disable Facebook Places Yesterday Facebook rolled out a new feature called Places that lets you and your friends check in to locati***, Foursquare-style. If you'd prefer to keep your location private, or at least stop your friends from posting it, here's how.
• Lifehacker Pack for iPhone: Our List of the Best iPhone Apps Looking to power up your iPhone with the best free and cheap apps out there? Our first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for iPhone rounds up our favorite must-have iPhone applicati***.
• Lifehacker Pack for Android: Our List of the Best Android Apps The Android Market isn't always an easy place to get around. Our first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Android rounds up essential Android apps—our personal favorites for productivity, multimedia, internet life, and just plain usefulness.
• Top 10 External Hard Drive Tricks So you've been computing for quite a few years now, and you've built a nice collection of hard drives, internal or external, collecting dust in the corner. Here's how to put them to good use.
• Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It) An unexamined brain is a tricky thing to carry around. You've got unintentional biases, marketing weaknesses, "overclocking" issues, and all kinds of other mental bugs you may not know about. Here's a helpful list of the mind's weird ways.
• Five Ways to Download Torrents Anonymously With anti-piracy outfits and dubious law-firms policing BitTorrent swarms at an increasing rate, many BitTorrent users are looking for ways to hide their identities from the outside world. Here's an overview of five widely used privacy services.
• Use a Dab of Vaseline to Take Vintage-Style Photos The low-quality lenses and loose tolerances of vintage c***umer cameras often gave photos a slightly distorted and dream-like quality. Capture that vintage-feel with little more than a dab of Vaseline.
• Nine Great Uses for Private Browsing that Don't Involve Porn Call it what you like—private browsing mode, Incognito mode—most people still just c***ider private browsing features in web browsers "**** mode". But your private browsing feature is useful for a whole lot more than covering **** habits.
• Top 10 Facebook Fixes Facebook may be the de facto social network of, frankly, almost everyone, but that doesn't mean you have to use Facebook exactly the way its creators, or your Farmville-addicted friends, want you to. Here are 10 tweaks to make Facebook better.
• Android 2.2 Screenshot Tour: Our Favorite Features in Froyo Android 2.2, or "Froyo," was announced months ago, but it's just now rolling out to popular Android phones like the Droid, Incredible, and EVO 4G. So what new and improved features should you look for now that you've updated? Take a look.
• How to Get Started with Usenet in Three Simple Steps Usenet is a wonderful service for finding and downloading digital media, giving you speed and reliability you won't find with other file-sharing opti***—like, say, BitTorrent. Here's a quick guide on setting up and getting started with Usenet.
• Eight Clever Ways to Take Advantage of Free Calling in Gmail You already know Gmail integrated with Google Voice for free phone calls (and cheap international calls) from your inbox. But apart from using it to phone a friend, Gmail's new phone calling capabilities introduce a lot of cool capabilities to your inbox.