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Nasa's Astronomy Picture of the Day archive is a packed with awe-inspiring, high-resolution images of space that, incidentally, work great as desktop wallpapers. But NASA doesn't offer an easy way to grab everything. Command-line tool wget to the rescue! More »

Today's iPad 2 announcement brought many enhancements, but like many past iDevice announcements there was no increase in storage space. The max is still 64GB and the poor man's iPad still starts off at 16GB. Fortunately, there are several ways to work around these storage limitations. Here's how. More »

Today we've got a big collection of great car-centric desktop and mobile wallpapers. Just click through the gallery to view them all. You'll find a download link below each wallpaper. More »

Today Apple announced the new features coming in iOS 4.3. While there's not too much to speak of, it will bring Wi-Fi hotspots to all iPhones, faster JavaScript performance to Safari, and a few other enhancements to Apple's line of iDevices. Apple's posted a rundown here, so go check it out. You'll be able to grab the official update on March 11th, 2011. More »

What is a preference card? It's a card that surgeons fill out so that things can be set up for them the way they prefer. How can putting together your own personal preference card help you, being that you are (most likely) not surgeon? It may just help you feel more confident about your choices. More »

Although this week's featured desktop doesn't come with many bells and whistles, inaudiblewhisper did something really neat: created a desktop with a dynamic piece of paper where the handwritten note changes based on statistics and other activity. More »

Some days are better than others, and on those bad days we can have a tough time thinking rationally. While there are ways to beat a bad day, when you feel bad you can often feel like a completely different person. If you just can't shake those bad feelings, treat it as an opportunity. Study your behavior, keep track of what helps you out, and write it all down in a personal handbook that you can reference in the future. More »

Facebook, Twitter, IM, and several other potential time-wasters are things that creep into our days whether we're supposed to be working or not. Does that make them bad? Should they be banned from the office altogether, or is banning them a terrible idea? More »

Gizmodo's covering the iPad 2 announcement's live, right now, at live.gizmodo.com. Or just go straight to the live-updated details page for the iPad 2. Or, you know, wait and read about it after the event's over! You do have a job, right? More »

How to Get More from Your Home Theater Without Paying a Dime More »

Unless you had your home theater set up by a professional, chances are you aren't getting the best possible video and sound out of your existing setup. These simple tweaks will take just a little bit of time but will make a world of difference. More »

We've shared one tool that expands truncated RSS feeds, but free service Full Text RSS Feed Builder does an even better job: Just plug in a feed and it will give you a new one containing each article's full text. More »

If the recently released Windows 7 SP1 fails to fall into place, don't hit Windows Update again. Instead, run a CheckDisk, a System File Checker, and then an Update Readiness Tool, as explained by Tech Recipes. More »

Windows only (for now): Instant messaging services often have clients for multiple platforms. But keeping them open across machines and portable devices can be a nightmare: lost chats, automatic "away" statuses, different histories, and so on. The latest Trillian build fixes that with a "continuous" IM stream. More »

Choosing to buy fish is a healthy, simple move. Choosing which fish is a healthy, sustainable purchase has become a rather complicated affair of late. The Wall Street Journal suggests some simple rules for eating well and being good to the seas. More »

Android: Unless you know the title of an app, the Android Market's search engine isn't great. Chomp is a new Market search engine that blows Google's default out of the water, letting you search by category and filter by price. More »

Google Apps users, whether running a domain or helping out on one, can now purchase individual storage plans from Google, allowing for certain users to have extras space for Docs, pictures, and other organizational data. [Google Enterprise Blog] More »

We've shared a lot of tips for forming good habits, but if you're having trouble getting off the ground, new research shows a little nudge—whether from a friend or other support system—can get you in gear pretty easily. More »

Windows only: A bit of Gmail drama made us look for easy and cheap Gmail backup solutions. What we missed was MailStore, a single-purpose app that connects to your email, backs it up, and doesn't bother you otherwise. That's just about perfect. More »

Yes, there might be, er, other reasons Oscar co-host James Franco seemed bored, out of it, and bewildered during Sunday night's Oscar telecast. But look at his feed of photos and videos, and it looks like he was having a grand old time. The next time you're tempted to try and cover a big event like a social media reporter, consider the impression you might inadvertently be making. [CNET] More »