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If you're manager tracks your time based on when you log in and out of your machine at work, then are you missing out on pay for the time you're waiting for your machine to boot up and shut down? That's what a series of lawsuits by employees from the likes of AT&T, UnitedHealth and Cigna demand.

It's hump day and I was looking for a quick, fun project to try out. So I figured I try something easy I found over at the Make Magazine blog earlier this week—a set of speakers made from paper cups and a pair of earbud headphones originally created by artist Dmitry Zagga (in no small amount of jest).

I've been streaming Netflix Watch Instantly videos to my Xbox 360 for months now using Windows Media Center and a free program called vmcNetflix, but now that the New Xbox Experience released this morning also supports Netflix streaming, users have two different options for streaming movies to their Xb

If you feel shoppping for clothes is a chore and an expensive waste of time, think about using a personal shopper. Get rid of the mistaken idea you may have that personal shoppers are people employed by rich celebrities to dress them (those are called "stylists"). Most large department stores offer a shopping service.

Windows only: If you are looking for ways to merge a bunch of MP3 files into one larger file, and don't like the command line solution I wrote about earlier this week, try Merge MP3.

In its third reincarnation since its debute in 1996 and redesign in 1998, web site Kvetch now harnesses the time-wasting powers of Twitter to call a farshtinken tokhis leker a schmuck behind their back. Users have to follow the service's account on Twitter in order to send it direct messages, which are then reposted at kvetch.com without any personal information.

Google's beloved web-based email client has always been ripe for third-party design customization (we've always been partial to the Gmail Redesigned skin in Better Gmail, for example), but now Gmail is officially riding the interface customization train by offering 30-some new themes to spice up your inbox

If you're a power searcher, or other people think you are, and you're getting tired of constant requests for answers to questions that a quick Google search would provide, try Let me google that for you. Enter a search term, click the Google Search button, and a link appears that you can copy, paste and send to your friend.

Google Sync for BlackBerry updated today, adding support for bi-directional contact sync between your BlackBerry and your Gmail contacts (in addition to the existing calendar sync, which I believe still only supports one-way sync UPDATE: Nope, it's two-way, too!).

Mac OS X only: Free, open-source application Vocito puts Google's one-phone-number-to-rule-them-all application GrandCentral on your desktop, integrating directly with your Address Book contacts. The most obvious way to place a call once you launch Vocito and enter your GrandCentral login is to click the new menu bar item, search for the contact you want to call, and place your call—but it's by no means the only way.