Data

Run a Total Background Check on Yourself with Free Online Tools [Privacy]

Consumer-advocate blog Consumerist is always looking to help you keep tabs on Big Brother and any of your personal information He's tracking. Toward that end, their comprehensive list of online background-checking tools is worth a look.Photo by Charline Tetiyevsky.

Memonic Helps You Clip and Organize Data From Across the Web [Notes]

Memonic is a free web-based tool that seeks to help you clip out just what you need from your web-based research and organize it in a personally meaningful and helpful way.

A Primer on Tracking Your Life's Data [Capture Tools]

Web PR consultant Steve Rubel is kicking off 2010 with big ideas, and one of them is a resolution to track your life with data tools. From notebooks to Evernote, spreadsheets to Nike+, it's a good year for universal capture. Image by Wired.com.

How a $530 Nexus One Might Actually Make Sense [Smartphones]

You've probably heard about Google's Nexus One launch today, with a cost of $180 with a two-year T-Mobile contract and—wait, $530 without? Actually, that math might make sense, as blogger Ben Ferguson shows in his cost breakdown.

Five Best Goal-Tracking Tools [Hive Five]

What's a New Year's resolution but a goal you happen to have made at the start of another year? Today we've rounded up the top five tools Lifehacker readers use to track their goals and resolutions.

Best Goal-Tracking Tool? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

It's that resolution-time-of-year again. We want to hear about your favorite tool for tracking and measuring your goals. Tracking progress towards a goal is a powerful motivator. This week we want to hear all about your favorite tool for tracking your goals and keeping yourself focused on them. What makes your tool effective? Tell us all about it in the comments.

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