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Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Mac Downloa (524 diggs) We've featured countless apps or all sorts over the years, but if you just want a quick look at the best free downloads for your Mac, this post's for you. This is the 2009 Lifehacker Pack for Mac OS X.

5 Amazing HTML5 Features to Look Forward to (843 diggs) Since the release of the first draft in 2008, most major browsers (yes including IE8) implemented some of the features proposed in this draft and it is already generating a lot of interest from developers.

Opera Unite (1,483 diggs) The newest service from Opera.

Firefox 3.0.11 reaches 150 million downloads in 24 hours (668 diggs) Mozilla said the latest version of its Firefox browser 3.0.11 was downloaded 150 million times during the first 24 hours it was made available.

5 Little Desktop Apps You Should Check If You Mutlitask (681 diggs) I generally have lots of windows left open on my desktop whenever I am working. Call me lazy for not closing the unused ones, or call me overworked.

OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7: The Final Countdown (1,563 diggs) It's easiest than ever to pit Windows 7 and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard head-to-head: They're launching soon, both within a month of each other—and both are basically glorified service packs of the current OS.

8 Browser Innovations Started by Opera (918 diggs) Even though Opera is the most popular mobile browser in the world, in the desktop market Opera is the most under-rated browser despite having created many innovative features. Which was later copied by other browsers.

Upcoming Tech That Will Rock Your World (851 diggs) Major announcements from Google, Microsoft, and Apple in the last few weeks have techies flipping out about the awesomeness coming to our browsers, pockets, and desktops in the very near future. Strap on your jetpacks; let's take a look.

Why Web Developers Don’t Need A Mac (1,607 diggs) This article explores the best aspects of the Windows PC and, more importantly, the different apps that Web developers can use to become more efficient in their work. Every piece of software mentioned here is free to use.

World's Fastest Firefox: Firefox & the Sport Stacker (547 diggs) Firefox 3.5 is coming soon and is shaping up to be by far the fastest Firefox yet. To celebrate, we've asked Guinness World Record holder Steven Purugganan - who at 11 years old is the world's fastest sport stacker - to use his own amazing speed to help spread the word.

Unix is Dead, Long Live Unix (688 diggs) Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.

People who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return (1,385 diggs) There must be a legion of Twitterers out there who sign up, tweet once, and never return. In the spirit of the great blog One Post Wonder, "a collection of blogs that have one post," we set out to find these orphaned tweets.

Firefox 3.5 for 35 days dreaming about the future of the web (592 diggs) Over the next 35 days we’ll be talking about all of the new developer features in Firefox 3.5. The upcoming release of Firefox 3.5 is a big upgrade for users. It includes new privacy features, improvements in interactive performance and a new JavaScript engine that will improve the experience for users using script-heavy web sites.

Is Twitter Really That Big? (738 diggs) It seems as though far less people are actually using and contributing to the site than Twitter's recent hype and massive growth suggests. In fact, the data shows that a large percentage of Twitter users have not "tweeted" since the first day they joined the service and at least a quarter of its users don't have any followers at all.

8 Excellent Tools for Optimizing Your Images (669 diggs) There are several free tools available at your disposal to shrink and optimize images. In this article, you will find convenient and user-friendly tools for making your web images as tiny in file size as possible.

5 Tools to Harvest the Potential of Your Firefox Bookmarks (376 diggs) A good selection of tools that will help you get quick and easy access to your most important bookmarks.