Tgif: This week's best posts

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The abundance of Lifehacker posts cloggin' up the ol' feedreader? Get a digest of our best posts delivered to your newsreader once a week using our Highlights feed. If that's not enough for you, instead grab our daily top stories feed. This week's best posts include:

• Top 10 DIY office projects
  "Anyone can drop cash on spendy office gear, but it takes a little ingenuity to rig up your workspace just right with stuff you've already got around the house."
• Publish and map your photos with Picasa
  "Besides using Picasa to organize and edit the digital photos on your computer, you can also use this versatile photo editor to create web albums, send and resize bulk photos to Flickr, and geotag photos using Google Earth."
• Sync your Firefox extensions and profiles across computers
  "Since the dawn of time, humanity has longed for a simple way to sync Firefox extensions, themes, bookmarks, and saved passwords between computers so that no matter where you're working, your browser is customized in the exact same way--the way you always intended it."
• Separate your email from your to-do's
  "Everyone gets task requests via email all day long, and it's so easy to let these messages slip through the cracks."
• Show Us Your Firefox, Part 1
  "Firefox's strong point is its extensibility, and after taking a look at the way Lifehacker readers extend Firefox to do their bidding, it's hard to understand why anyone would choose any other browser."
• Build your own underwater camcorder housing
  "DIY'er Kipkay puts together a waterproof casing for his video recorder to capture underwater action in the pool."
• Turn a C battery into a D with quarters
  "Build a makeshift D to C "adaptor" with a few regular, conductive, George Washington quarters."
• Watch internet video like TV at Chime.tv
  "New video aggregator Chime.tv offers internet video from all the big providers in a slick, television-like interface."
• Find the closest place to go on the go with MizPee
  "Web site MizPee finds the closest and cleanest bathroom by location from the ease of your mobile phone."
• CallWave replaces your voicemail, transcribes what's important
  "Transcriptions are not verbatim. Instead, the feature (called Vtxt) trims out the fat to give you the gist of the message. The text is then sent as a text message or an email so you can get to the point quickly."
• Screencast your favorite shortcut for a signed copy of Lifehacker
  "You've got a few great shortcuts and timesavers up your sleeve that help you get stuff done faster on your computer. Now we want to see 'em in action!"
• Drag and drop to tweak your driving route
  
  "Change the driving directions by grabbing the blue route line and dragging it to create a new destination point, which will in turn create a new route."

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