Tgif: This week's best posts

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This week's best posts include:

• LH Top 10: Home networking tricks
  "By now you've probably got several connected computers at home, sharing an internet connection, maybe a printer and files between them. But are you getting the most out of your home network?"
• Alpha Geek: Turn an old hard drive into an external drive
  "The best possible fate for an old internal drive is to become a super-handy external drive, which it can do with a small investment of time and money."
• Hack Attack: Control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse
  "You don't need a hardware switch to share one keyboard and mouse amongst several different computers. All you need is the free, cross-platform application, Synergy."
• Geek to Live: Build an internet jukebox with Jinzora
  "With Jinzora installed on your home server, you can browse your music library, create playlists on the fly and stream your music from home over the internet to another computer or handheld anywhere."
• Coolest Workspace Contest: The home-integrated office
  "Check out three reader submissions: the sunny cacti office; the Mac-based living room-cum-office; and the pink persuasion office."
• Lifehacker Code: Swept Away (Windows)
  "Swept Away is a simple system tray utility that automatically minimizes applications that you aren't using."

• IM Survival Tips: Productivity and instant messenger
  "...a few tips that can help balance chatty-McChatting with worky-McWorking."
• Download of the Day: Protect Textarea (Greasemonkey)
  "...monitors the textareas on a web page and alerts you if you try navigating away from the page before submitting the changes in the textarea."
• Download of the Day: Launchy 1.2.5 (Windows)
  "...the new Runny plugin supports customizable commands with multiple arguments."
• Browse the web with keyword shortcuts
  "OpenDNS, a free domain name service, lets you visit web sites just by typing keyword shortcuts into your browser's address bar."

[via] Lifehacker