Daily DIY

Mint, a free online money management system, has pulled together a fantastic list of the top thirty free eBooks on personal finance.

They’re categorized by topic: basics of personal finance, consumer awareness, credit, retirement planning, mortgages, and more. If there are any free finance ebooks that you don’t see on this list, please share in the comments - personally, I’m planning on printing out a few of these and binding them up in one volume personalized just for me and my information.

Make a ginormous white board on an itsy-bitsy budget with this simple how-to from chrismetcalf.net.

All you need is some showerboard, plywood, and some liquid nails - all available from your local hardward store. Other than allowing everything to harden up overnight, this project takes very little time and the finished project is just as good as the boards that sell for literally hundreds of dollars.

Tech site Z-oc.com has written up a simple yet powerful tutorial on how to use Gmail to manage all of your email accounts in one fell swoop.

It’s more than a matter of simply assigning forwarding rules willy-nilly, obviously - you get to set up a whole email management system. By the time you are finished with this, all your email can be actually managed from within Gmail with the domains kept separate but controlled inside of your Gmail workspace.

Tech site Z-oc.com has written up a simple yet powerful tutorial on how to use Gmail to manage all of your email accounts in one fell swoop.

It’s more than a matter of simply assigning forwarding rules willy-nilly, obviously - you get to set up a whole email management system. By the time you are finished with this, all your email can be actually managed from within Gmail with the domains kept separate but controlled inside of your Gmail workspace.

If you’ve gotten an iPhone (and taken a few moments to stop crying with happiness and actually, you know, turn it on), then you’ll probably want to start stocking up on a few how-to’s to get you up to speed. Tech-Recipes has posted a quick and dirty tutorial on how to delete your iPhone emails.

It’s relatively simple, and it looks like you have two different methods (at least) by which to do this. And whee! Screenshots! If you’ve been able to figure out some cool new stuff to do with your iPhone, please share in the comments.

Web 2.0 tracker Mashable.com has compiled a monster list of fifty different methods by which you can track your website traffic.

We’ve posted about various stats packages here at Lifehacker, and there’s even more goodies to choose from on this list. Anything from web site visualization, to blog and RSS analysis, to various ways to track market research data is covered here. It’s a very comprehensive and well done list - do you see anything missing, oh mighty stats hounds? Let us know in the comments.

Precisewitem from the Hacked Gadgets Forum has put together a nice tutorial on how to perform an LED mod to your Xbox 360 Controller.

“SUPPLIES BASICS
- Soldering Iron - 15W Can be purchased as a kit from rat shack
- 30 AWG Wire Strippers - Not necessary but will help out a lot
- Resin Core Solder - […]

Here is a quick and easy way to use your Nintendo DS Browser to control Winamp.





Download and install Browseamp





First off, I assume you are running Winamp. If not, go grab it.



You will need to get the Browseamp plugin for Winamp. You can use the installer linked from th…


By: darkone_05

What follows are instructions for constructing a battery powered portable VU meter, as well as detailed instructions for the construction of the PCB needed to complete this project. It was designed to illuminate from 0-10 LEDs depending on ambient sound levels. I designed it to be attached to a wris…


By: Vlorbschnat

Congratulation to Daniel D., the winner last week.

There will be two winners this week. The first prize this week will be useful to anyone who needs to do presentations. It has a laser pointer, LED light, ball point pen and extendable pointing rod. Chris Rybitski has also donated one of his cool tech keychains […]