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Today's featured workspace showcases the kind of clutter-free work environment you can have with careful... http://lifehacker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5314470&view=rss&microfeed=true Gmail Lab's popular Tasks feature—which integrates a to-do list with Gmail and with Google Calendars—has officially graduated from Labs and is now incorporated with Gmail by default. We... http://lifehacker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5314461&view=rss&microfeed=true Reader Nakul writes in with a useful script that quickly pastes content from the clipboard into any application with nothing more than a double-click of your right mouse button. Using the script is... http://lifehacker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5313140&view=rss&microfeed=true We've shown you how to tie ties and scarves in the past; now you can apply this knowledge and turn a tie or a scarf into a personal cooling system. 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