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• How to Silence Vuvuzela Horns in World Cup Broadcasts If you're watching the World Cup, you've no doubt learned about the vuvuzela, a buzzing horn capable of drowning out TV announcers. Here's how to filter the vuvuzela buzz from your World Cup broadcasts.
• Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Downloads Looking to beef up your Mac with a few great—and free—apps that cover a whole lot of your productivity and computing needs? Our annual Lifehacker Pack for Mac rounds up the best free downloads for OS X.
• Soluto Is an Awesome Tool to Speed Up Your System Boot, Fix System Slowdowns Windows only: Soluto bills itself as an "Anti-Frustration Software", and it's not hard to see why—it tracks all the applicati*** in your system boot process, and tells you exactly which ones are slowing you down.
• How Does the New Hotmail Stack Up to Gmail? This may come as a surprise, but the new Microsoft Hotmail is actually pretty good. But how does it stack up to Google's email champion, Gmail? Here's a look at the good and bad of both services.
• Top 10 Strategies for Surviving Airports and Airplanes You've packed your things and made it to the airport—now the real fun begins. Want a better way of protecting your stuff, getting online, and cutting through red tape? Try these 10 tips for a better air travel experience.
• Turn Your Old Router into a Range-Boosting Wi-Fi Repeater If you're upgrading to a faster, stronger wireless router, don't chuck your older Wi-Fi box. With the magic of DD-WRT, you can turn your older wireless router into a range-expanding Wi-Fi repeater to cover everywhere you need a connection.
• One Good-to-Know Knot for All Occasi*** (and a Few Others for Good Measure) Tugboat bowlines, fisherman's knots, sheet bends. The best knots are named for their jobs on the ocean, but they have numerous, practical uses on land as well. Here's how to tie the versatile bowline (and more properly tie any knot).
• Two Simple but Effective Tricks to Waterproof Your Gear Your electronics probably weren't made for underwater exploration, but that doesn't mean you're out of luck. Here are a few unusual opti*** for waterproofing your gear, plus one mind-blowing commercial option.
• Steve Jobs' Strategies for Overcoming Presentation Glitches If you saw or read up on the recent iPhone 4 unveiling, you probably noted that eminently qualified speaker Steve Jobs ran into technical problems, just like us poor shmoes. The difference is in how he recovered.
• Avoid These Red Flag Terms in Office Email Your company probably won't suffer global-scale collapse and be investigated by federal auditors. Still, if you want to avoid looking bad, and leaving your boss or coworkers exposed, avoid writing the "red flag" terms found in a search of Lehman Brothers' email.