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While we love a tech-filled geek cave, an elegant workspace with a great view makes working a pleasure. Today’s featured workspace has a beautiful desk, a pleasing environment, and a view of Boston.

Not everyone needs triple monitors or an army of peripherals and being able to work productively with just a laptop goes a long way towards having a clear and airy workspace—cable management is, at its best after all, camouflaging something that’s there to appear as if it isn’t.

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We’ve previously gawked at an inspiring list of “secret” items you can order just by asking at restaurant chains. Coupon Sherpa expands on that list of semi-hidden items with its own discoveries.

Photo by Sklathill.

Some of these items have been covered in the afore-linked mental_floss post, and in Consumerist’s really big guide to secret menu items, and some are more under-advertised than secret. Still, some items look unique, intriguing, and rather tasty. In some cases, you might be explaining the item ..read more

What do you get when you have space for a custom office setup, a good amount of cash, and the vision to make it all happen? Dozens of monitors and the need for your own personal power plant.

We’ve been watching Steve’s office since he first posted the construction pictures into the Lifehacker Workspace pool. Slowly we’ve watched his office take shape from a spackled room with naked monitor mounts into the jaw dropping display of computing power you see above.

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Gmail has officially integrated several of our favorite Labs-only features into Gmail proper, including previously mentioned features like search autocomplete, Go to Label (one of the biggies in my Gmail master redux), forgotten attachment detector, YouTube previews, and more.

Search autocomplete automatically suggests search criteria based on common searches; Go to Label adds excellent keyboard shortcuts for navigating your account (type ‘g’ + ‘label name’); forgotten attachment detector alerts you before you send an attachment-less message that appears to promise one; ..read more

Your start page is the first thing you see when you open your browser or load a new tab—your gateway to the rest of the web. Get the most from your start page with one of these five favorites.

Whether the start page you’re using is your browser’s default or you’ve carefully selected it, checking out these five contenders for best start page will give you a chance to decide if your current start page serves your needs or if it ..read more

Readers offer their best tips for changing the order of Gmail filters, compiling large playlists, and making sure your food order is crystal clear.

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About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they’re a bit too niche, maybe we couldn’t find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn’t fit it in—the tip didn’t ..read more

After a week’s worth of complaints and confusion, Google is updating Buzz to address many of the privacy concerns and annoyances raised by the new social networking service. The update brings three major changes.

First, they’ve replaced the auto-follow feature with auto-suggestions, letting you choose who you follow individually rather than automatically following everyone Google thinks you’d want to. Second, Buzz will stop automatically connecting to public Picasa Web Albums and Reader shared items. You can still connect these things, but ..read more

Google Chrome: Lightbox is a widely adopted image-preview script—if you’ve ever clicked on an image and had it fade the background and enlarge the image, that’s Lightbox. Image Preview is a Chrome extension that brings Lightbox-style previews to all sites.

Even if you’re on a site that doesn’t have Lightbox, you can still enjoy that in-tab enlarging of images by downloading Image Preview. Once Image Preview is installed all images you click on will enlarge within the current tab and provide ..read more