This Week's Top Downloads

Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week

Perch Turns Your Old Phone or Tablet Into a Home Monitoring Service

Android/Windows: Home monitoring systems can be expensive if you have to buy all new hardware. Why bother, when your old phone has a perfectly good camera in it? Perch can use that camera, plus a lot more.

The Martian Desktop

Ankush is enamored with The Martian, and we can’t really blame him. He didn’t mention whether he was inspired by the book or the movie to make this desktop, but either way, we love it. Here’s how to set it up.

Outlook for Android and iOS Adds Calendar Features from Sunrise

Android/iOS: Outlook, our favorite email app for iOS, was updated today with some design improvements.That namely includes a new calendar that pulls in the visual and interface style from Microsoft’s recently acquired Sunrise Calendar (which happens to be our favorite calendar on iOS too).

Helium Adds a Picture-in-Picture Mode for Videos on OS X

Mac: When you want to play a web video while you’re working, you usually have to resize a browser window and tuck it into the corner of your screen. Helium allows you to overlay a video, much like a picture-in-picture mode.

Honey Still Automatically Applies Coupon Codes, But Now You Can Earn Points, Too

Chrome: The Honey browser extension is awesome for automatic couponing. Rather than hunt for a coupon code when you’re buying something online, the extension will hunt and apply the coupon for you with a single click. And now, they’ve added cash back deals.

TL;DR Shows You the Latest News Every Time You Open a Chrome Tab

Chrome/iOS/Android: If you like breaking stories, or you just want to make more room in your day for news, TL;DR makes it easy. They scour headlines to offer the latest stories and videos on topics of your choosing.

The iOS 9 Jailbreak App Is Now Available on OS X

The iOS 9 jailbreak was released earlier this month, but it was only available for Windows. Today, the jailbreak’s available for Mac.

MagicPlaylist Creates Spotify Playlists Based on a Single Song

Spotify’s “Song Radio” mode is supposed to be its version of a Pandora-like radio, but it doesn’t work that great and you can’t see upcoming tracks. MagicPlaylists fixes both those problems.

Pandify Creates Spotify Playlists From Your Pandora Likes

Pandora’s great at finding new music, and Spotify’s great at managing your music collection. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use them together? Pandify can help.

Office Online Adds a Chrome Extension, Skype Integration, and More

The free web-based version of Microsoft Office just got much better. Now you can now quickly open or create a new Office Online document from the Chrome extension or use Skype instant messaging or video calling within an open Office document.

Notes Exporter Backs Up All Your Apple Notes in Plain Text

Mac: If you’ve been using Apple Notes on iOS or OS X, then you probably have a ton of stuff saved there. Technically, that should all be saved to iCloud, but if you want to do your own backup, or you just want to leave Apple Notes altogether, Notes Exporter is a tool for doing just that.

The Side Bar Home Screen

Most home screens are simple pages of icons, but rarely venture out to gestures. This design has bright, vivid widgets with a slide-in sidebar on the left side of the screen.

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Reel Scary Helps You Find the Perfect Scary Movie

Not all horror movies are the same kind of scary. Reel Scary tells what movies people rate to be the scariest, and helps you separate the disturbing from the gory and the suspenseful.

A lot of horror movies aim to gross you out, others try to creep you out, and some just want to keep you on the edge of your seat. When you’re browsing your Netflix queue or movie shelf, however, it can be hard to tell what’s actually scary and what kind of scary the flick is. Reel Scary is a simple web site that makes it easy to find out and rate those movies for yourself. For example, The Blair Witch Project has a minimal gore rating, but scores pretty high for disturbing and suspenseful. All you have to do is search the movie on the site or browse its catalog. Check it out at the link below.

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Run Split View and Picture In Picture at the Same Time on the iPad

The new multitasking stuff on the iPad is great as it is. But it turns out you can actually run both the new Split View and the new Picture in Picture mode at the same time for maximum multitasking overload.

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I’m not sure why I never bothered to try this myself, but over on Finer Things in Tech, they point out that as long as all the apps involved are updated for iOS 9’s multitasking features, you can run both at the same time. Just load up Split View making sure one app is a video app that supports PiP, tap Picture in Picture mode, then switch out the video app for whatever other Split View app you want. Now you can overload yourself with all kinds of content at once.

iOS 9: iPad Can Do Split View and Picture in Picture | Finer Things in Tech

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Custom Quick Settings Creates Your Own Settings Tiles in Android Marshmallow

Android: The Quick Settings shade is a handy tool for toggling your hardware settings. Now, Custom Quick Settings lets you add your own tiles to quickly do all kinds of things.

The app, which does not require root, allows you to create custom shortcuts. You can add tiles for other hardware settings that don’t appear on their own, links to websites, or app shortcuts. You can even set a tile to perform a different action based on whether you tap or long-press it. You’ll need to enable the System UI Tuner, which is already pretty awesome on its own.

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This Graphic Helps You Identify Your Home's Biggest Energy Costs

Looking at your electric bill, it’s not totally clear where all of that money actually goes—or what in your home is costing you the most. This graphic from Constellation Energy gives you a room-by-room breakdown of your average power costs and which appliances or devices cost you the most.

Just as an example, the graphic opens up with the fact that 20% of your annual energy costs probably come from lighting, and you can decrease those costs over the long term by switching out old incandescents for longer-lasting, lower-energy CFL or LED bulbs (and we even have some suggestions!) They also point out that over 5% of the electricity use in the United States each year is entirely for air conditioners—which gives you a hint to how much you’re probably spending, not to mention an incentive to turn the thermostat up a little bit in the warm weather months if you’d like to save money.

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Some of the basic tips aren’t anything new—take shorter showers, invest in Energy Star appliances the next time you’re in the market for them, but it’s eye opening to see just how much energy those appliances really suck down, and how big a difference energy efficient ones can be. For more tips, check out our sacrifice-free guide to cutting your energy bill, or our more detailed guide to saving energy and money with a little tech and some common sense.

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The Habits Of Home | Constellation Energy

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How To Survive An Office Meeting

Office meetings suck, and it’s inevitable that you’ll have to suffer through more of them than you’d like in your lifetime. But you’ll survive, as long as you simply show up, try not to fall asleep, and try to follow the rest of the tips in this video.

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Find Out If Anyone Has Ever Died Inside Your House With This Web Site

Besides the spookiness of it all, someone passing within a home can potentially affect the value of the house. DiedInHouse can find out if and how someone died in your house, or the house you’re considering to buy.

DiedInHouse.com is pretty straightforward. You can search any U.S. address and it will go over records of any deaths (along with cause of death—yikes), names previously associated with the home, reported fire accidents, and even reported meth activity. There is a catch, however: the services isn’t free. A single search will run you $11.99, but if you buy multiple searches you’ll get a discount. It might be worth your while because most states don’t require sellers to disclose deaths in the house because it isn’t considered a “material fact.” Even if you don’t believe in ghosts or hauntings, you might not feel comfortable living in a home where a brutal murder occurred. If you’re looking to buy a home, or if you’re curious about your current home, check it out at the link below.

DiedInHouse | DiedInHouse.com via Business Insider

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Hints to solve the #sophospuzzle - that prize could still be yours!

There's still time, so don't give up on the #sophospuzzle yet. You could still bag a prize! This will help...
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Top 10 Evil Ways to Use Technology

Like other powerful tools, technology can be used for great good or for great evil. Learn how people use technology for wrongdoing so you can protect yourself—or use their tricks to actually do good. Here are the top 10 “evil” ways you can use technology.

This post is part of our Evil Week series at Lifehacker, where we look at the dark side of getting things done. Sometimes evil is justified, and other times, knowing evil means knowing how to beat it. Want more? Check out our evil week tag page.

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10. Spoof Caller ID

Pranksters and scammers use caller ID spoofing to take advantage of us—in common telephone scams, for example, where “Microsoft” calls to warn you your computer has a virus and they’ll help you fix it (for a fee). There are legitimate reasons why you might want to make your phone number show up differently on caller ID (e.g., place a call to a young kid as Santa or Cinderella), and there are lots of spoofing apps and services to help you do this.

9. Uncover Blurred Information in Photos

People blur out the information in photos to make sure sensitive information isn’t readable to others, but it turns out this strategy isn’t that secure—particularly when you’re trying to hide numbers. The takeaway: Don’t use simple mosaics to blur your image.

8. Create a USB Password Stealer

It’s bad enough that major password leaks happen so often, hackers can steal our passwords with just a USB flash drive and a single script, grabbing our cache of passwords stored in our browser and elsewhere. You might want to test your vulnerability to this trick yourself, but either way, to protect yourself, remember the security basics: always have physical control over your computer, use a secure password manager (here’s how they compare, security-wise), and turn on two-factor authentication.

7. Get into a Private BitTorrent Tracker or Usenet Indexer

Private trackers and usenet indexers are great communities, but they take dedication and they’re hard to get into. While some of our strategies for getting into one aren’t necessarily “evil,” you’ll be working your way into exclusive private file sharing communities that share pirated content. (Piracy benefits companies, even if they don’t admit it.)

6. Spoof an Email Address

Caller ID isn’t the only thing spammers spoof. If you’ve ever gotten a strange, spammy email from a friend—or, worse, your email account just spammed all of your contacts—you know how annoying spoofed emails can be. Here’s how data thieves spoof email addresses to phish for information or con us into sending money to Nigerian princes. If you think you’ve been impersonated, you’ll need to take some advanced steps to secure your account.

5. Snoop on Someone’s Phone or Computer Without Them Knowing

Is your company monitoring you? Possibly. The NSA? Your ISP? Yeah. But it’s pretty easy too for a friend or family member to dig into your phone or computer without you knowing—whether by gaining physical access to your phone or computer or using remote monitoring tools. Parents might snoop on their kids, significant others might snoop on their partners out of insecurity or suspicion, whatever the reason, covering those snooping tracks isn’t that hard. If you think you might be the one being snooped on, look for signs any of those stealthy steps weren’t followed. If you share a computer with someone else, learn how you can still protect your privacy with this guide.

4. Crack a Wi-Fi Password

WEP passwords are too easy to crack with tools like BackTrack making it super simple to get into a WEP-”protected” router. That’s why everyone recommends using WPA—or really, WPA2, the latest encryption standard. WPA can be cracked too, though! That is, if your router has WPS turned on. So disable WPS if you can or try open-source router firmware like DD-WRT, which doesn’t support WPS.

3. Hack a Wi-Fi Network

Why would someone want to steal your router’s password? Besides stealing your Wi-Fi bandwidth, to spy on everything going on over your network, of course. It’s amazing the DIY creations hackers can use to sniff out network packets. Fake routers and networks, created with the help of Kali Linux, for example, can be used to trick machines into connecting, and then eavesdrop on network communications. (Yes, there’s a lot of spoofing going on in this article!) This is a good time to remind you to check your router’s settings—especially these top security settings.

2. Sniff Out Passwords and Cookies

This is somewhat related to hacking a Wi-Fi network, but it’s more about the dangers of using public Wi-Fi. It’s really easy for hackers to steal your logins and snoop on your browsing session, when the network is not secure or you’re connecting to sites that don’t use HTTPS. To protect yourself, your best bet is to use a VPN whenever you’re using public Wi-Fi or follow some of these other safety precautions.

1. Break into a Computer

Finally, you might shudder to know it’s pretty easy to break into a computer, whether it’s a Windows PC or a Mac—even if your computer is password protected. If your computer is encrypted, however, such as with BitLocker (for Windows) or FileVault (on Mac), you’ll be protected from some of the more common methods hackers use to steal data from a computer. You’ll also want to make sure you have a very strong, unique password for your computer login. If you get locked out of your computer, however, and forgot your password, well, now you know how to get back in.

Illustration by Nick Criscuolo.

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Saturday's Best Deals: UE Mini Boom, Cheap Slippers, Lightning Cables, and More

Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.

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The UE Mini Boom is the little brother of Gizmodo’s favorite Bluetooth speaker, and even a Wirecutter pick in its own right. If you’ve been waiting for a good deal to pick one up, Amazon will sell you a refurb for $42 today, the best price we’ve ever seen. [Refurb UE MINI BOOM Wireless Bluetooth Speaker, $42]

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We don’t normally like to highlight mail in rebate deals, but this one’s too good to ignore. $750 gets you a Canon T5i with a kit lens, a 32GB SD card, a bag, photo paper and a Canon Pixma Pro-100 photo printer today on eBay, but a $350 mail-in rebate will effectively bring that down to $400. Considering that the camera goes for $650 by itself on Amazon, that’s hard to ignore. [Canon EOS T5i DSLR Camera 18-55mm Lens, 32GB, Printer Bundle, $400. After $350 mail-in rebate.]

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It’s almost cold toe season, but you can cozy up with a new pair of slippers for just $10-$30, today only courtesy of Amazon. [$10-$30 Slipper Sale]

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Smash Up is a popular card game. Munchkin is a popular card game. Now, they’ve combined forces for what I assume is an even better card game.

Smash Up is the game where each player smashes two weird factions together and tries to crush all the others. The factions in this set are Munchkin races and classes: Orcs, Warriors, Halflings, Clerics, Dwarves, Elves, Thieves, and Mages! All the factions have different powers, and every team-up is different. This set may be played by itself, but all the factions are fully compatible with your existing Smash Up sets. There are also two brand-new card types. Monsters lurk around the bases, and Treasures give you new rewards when you smash a base!

Smash Up Munchkin Card Game ($24) | Amazon

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Go ahead and shut it down, because I don’t know if we’ll ever see a better Lightning cable deal. Monoprice is selling 3’ cables for $2, and 6’ cables for $3 right now, with $2 flat rate shipping for your entire order, no matter how many you buy. Stock up! [Lightning Cable Sale]

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We’ve seen several deals on affordable clip-on smartphone camera lens kits, but this one is unique in that you get three separate clips, rather than having to unscrew and attach different lenses. This system will take up a little more room in your bag or pocket, but it’ll also save you a ton of time, which can be the difference between getting a perfect shot, and missing out. [Mpow 3 In 1 Clip-On Lens Kit, $13 with code QUMMEB8Z]

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It’s our second boxer brief deal in as many days, but this time, you get three pairs for $10. A slightly different Hanes variety took home the crown in our men’s underwear Kinja Co-Op, so buy with confidence. [Hanes Men’s TAGLESS Ultimate Pima Cotton Boxer Brief 3-Pack, $10]

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Bonus: [12-Pack: Hanes Boxer Briefs, $37]

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To celebrate Halloween, Amazon is giving away over $70 in premium Android apps for free today. Highlights include LEGO Star Wars, Bridge Constructor, and Runtastic Pro, but be sure to head over to Amazon to see the full list.

Of course, you can download as few or as many as you want, but you might as well “purchase” everything, even if you don’t see an immediate use for them. Once you’ve tied to your Amazon account, and you can always go back and download them later. [Amazon Halloween App Sale]

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If you need a capable, cross-platform photo editor, and don’t want to pay a monthly fee to access it, Adobes Photoshop Elements is a solid alternative to its Creative Cloud-based big brother.

A copy of Elements would normally set you back $70 (which is reasonable, honestly), but Prime members can pick it up today for just $40. Note: You won’t see the discount until checkout. [Adobe Photoshop Elements 14, $40 for Prime members. Discount shown at checkout.]

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More Deals

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Tech

• Refurb UE MINI BOOM Wireless Bluetooth Speaker ($42) | Amazon | Today only
• Asus - 2-in-1 15.6” Touch-Screen Laptop ($650) | Best Buy
• Microsoft - Wireless Display Adapter ($35) | Best Buy
• Pioneer VSX 1130-K 7.2-Channel A/V Network Receiver with Built-In Bluetooth and Wi-Fi ($435) | Woot
• Canon EOS T5i DSLR Camera 18-55mm Lens, 32GB, Printer Bundle ($400) | eBay | After $350 mail-in rebate
• Canon EOS Rebel T5 18MP 4-Lens and Accessory Bundle ($555) | Woot
• Dell E190S 19” Professional Flat Panel 4:3 LCD Monitor ($55) | Woot
• WD Elements 2TB Portable External Hard Drive ($66) | eBay
• Lumsing 40W 5-Port Intelligent Desktop charger ($13) | Amazon | Use code RQ8YN94D
• Lumsing 13400mah Intelligent power bank ($20) | Amazon | Use code 8CVKEI8O
• Mpow Cobble Bluetooth Headset ($9) | Amazon | Use code C4R7BJ93
• Mpow Grip Pro Car Mount ($5) | Amazon | Use code E3KDLSQ5
• Vansky® Floating Waterproof Case Dry Bag with Armband and Audio Cable ($10) | Amazon | Use code ECJDUNO3
• Aukey 24W/4.8A 2-Port USB Car Charger ($5) | Amazon | Use code MFMST57Y
• Kmashi Wireless Bluetooth 4.0 Touch Screen Operate Powerful Sound Speaker and Phone Dock Station ($25) | Amazon | Use code LKDM5HYT
• GoPro HERO4 Black Camera ($379) | eBay
• Duracell Battery Family Pack, 50 AA, 25 AAA, & 6 9V, Alkaline DURALOCK Batteries ($25) | Rakuten

Home

• $10-$30 Slipper Sale | Amazon | Today only
• Cuisinart - Private Reserve 16-Bottle Wine Cellar ($160) | Best Buy
• Cuisinart - Private Reserve 8-Bottle Wine Cellar ($130) | Best Buy
• 12-Pack: Hanes Boxer Briefs ($37) | Woot
• Aglaia Dimmable Eye-care LED Desk Lamp ($19) | Amazon | Use code ZHXEO435
• 100X Kids Microscope ($13) | Amazon | Use code W5GE3A5E
• Flashing Led Bumpy Ring (Pack of 12) ($3) | Amazon
• Vacu Vin Wine Saver Vacuum Stoppers, Set of 6 ($7) | Amazon
• Concord Cookware SAS1700S 7-Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set ($31) | Amazon
• Bluetooth Wireless In-Car FM Transmitter ($16) | Amazon | Promo code AYRO4ISE

Gaming

• Official Microsoft Xbox One Wireless Controller with Play and Charge Kit ($50) | eBay
• Smash Up Munchkin Card Game ($24) | Amazon

Media

• “Spooky” TV Series Sale | Amazon | Today only
• Resident Evil: Code Veronica [Kindle] ($1) | Amazon
• Resident Evil: Zero Hour [Kindle] ($1) | Amazon
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation ($8) | Amazon

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Using DroidJack spyware to snoop on your spouse could get you arrested

Some Android spyware might be legal to buy, but not to use...as numerous users of "DroidJack" found out this week.
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Build a Slide-Out Cabinet Drawer in About an Hour

Typical cabinets often aren’t the most efficient storage solutions—too many things get lost forever at the back of the cabinet. Solve that problem with a little DIY.

Slide-out cabinet drawers are really just boxes with drawer slides, but they can cost an arm and a leg if you order them premade or custom made. Jill from The Rozy Home shows us on Remodelaholic how we can make them ourselves for half the cost.

It’s a pretty simple project but one with lots of possibilities:

Check out the full how-to below.

Easy Slide-Out Under Cabinet Storage Drawers | Remodelaholic

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