Have you ever thought to yourself that it should be possible to do a double right-click the same way that you can do a normal double click? No? Me neither, but it turns out that it can be pretty useful.

A tiny free app called ClickZap (does require installation) will let you choose from a variety of commands to assign to the double right-click. You can set

Google has been able to offer basic directions to users of their map service for quite some time, just like what most other map services out there offer. All you do is enter in your starting and ending destinations and then Google calculates the fastest route. It's always been a pretty quick process, but Google wanted to make it even faster and better than some of their competitors. A posting yesterday on the

The developer of the famed Quicksilver application (Macs only) has decided to open up the source code for the program. Is it a big deal? A lot of people are excited about the news, but Quicksilver was already designed to be an extremely extensible system via plugins. The real benefit of this being open source is that users may submit bug fixes themselves, thereby easing the burden

Lifehacker's Adam Pash just released the 6th installment of Texter, which can shave an insane amount of time off of repetitive tasks. Texter is used to make text replacements as you type. For example, you can have the "hotstring" mysig be replaced with a customized text signature each time it is typed.

Simple text replacements like the one I just mentioned are just the tip

This coming Friday, November 9th, is another big launch date for Apple.  It's the day that the iPhone officially goes on sale in the UK.  Apple's press release says the phone will go on sale at 6:02 PM, but I'm sure that's a typo and they meant to say 6:00. So here's what you need to know:

Where:

• The iPhone will be available
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Opera Mini 4 was just released today, and it is a huge step forward in mobile web browsing. This is one of the few browsers that offers a full view of the website being requested, much like what you would expect from a desktop browser.

One of the other most notable additions to Opera Mini 4 is the Opera Link technology. We wrote

At last, Microsoft has launched @live.com email addresses! These addresses were originally rumored to launch back in June of 2006 but ended up being a no-show. Between then and now there have been multiple "tricks" or loopholes that were found (here, here, here, and here) which allowed people to create accounts before they actually launched like I did (notice the "registered since" date):