Archaeologists have found more than 600 relics from a huge battle between a Roman army and Barbarians in the third century, long after historians believed Rome had given up control of northern Germany. The artifacts are so well preserved that the scientists can already retrace some of the battle lines.

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Windows only: Free application Disable Startup keeps just any old app from adding itself to your list of startup applications, keeping your boot time snappy and RAM happy.
At its core, Disable Startup is a startup manager similar to the built-in Windows System Configuration Utility. It does the trick if you just want to use it [...]

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So you’re back at work after the holidays and planning out your big projects of the year—time to print out Dave Seah’s excellent compact calendar for 2009.
This good-looking and useful spreadsheet template lays out the year in a continuous block of time with U.S. holidays marked (international versions are available as well). Use it [...]

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BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak reports on a new piece of malware with a strange bent: If it infects your computer, this trojan will prevent you from accessing popular BitTorrent sites The Pirate Bay and Mininova. It does so by modifying the hosts file on your computer. We’ve shown you how to use the power of the [...]

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It’s a new year and we’ve got some new changes happening around here: Mr. Adam Pash will take over as lead editor of Lifehacker on January 16th.
After a wild and woolly four years at the helm, I’m stepping down from the site lead position to work on Some New Stuff on a day-to-day basis [...]

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iPhone/iPod touch only: Free online sharing service Soonr has launched an iPhone/desktop app combo that gives you 500MB of space to keep your Windows or Mac documents synced to your device.
After signing up at Soonr’s site, installing the desktop software from an emailed link, and installing the free iPhone app, you’re pretty much on your [...]

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If the upcoming switch to HD digital broadcasting has you considering dropping cable for the free stuff, the AntennaWeb site can help find the receiver that will net the most channels at your address.
The free-to-use site only requires your street address or ZIP code and asks whether you’ve got any tall buildings or trees nearby. [...]

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Windows only: Porta’Menu is a tiny (175k!) application launcher for your portable drives. It is extremely spartan, but effective.
Add your applications, it remember the relative path and from there on you only have to launch the application launcher when you insert your flash drive instead of digging through the application directories. The interface is very [...]

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A simple URL edit can open attached Office docs from Gmail in a sleek viewer, rather than the sometimes funky HTML option.
The Google Operating System blog points out that Google’s viewer—powered by Google Docs, but not requiring a sign-up at that service or a cluttered dashboard for existing users—works with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files [...]

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Most anyone using Ubuntu Linux has to install Adobe Flash, Java, DVD playback, and other plug-ins to actually enjoy it. Super Ubuntu packs all that essential in from the get-go.
It’s basically just a re-compiled version of the official Ubuntu distribution, but with a whole bunch of features included that save you the time of grabbing [...]

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