Get Growl Notifications for Google Voice on Your Mac

Google Voice is pretty handy and with Growl notifications, it gets even better for Mac users.

An app called Fluid directs your Google voice messages to Growl for display on your Mac.

Check out the complete install on Lifehacker and Fluid.

Avoid Google Ads When You Send GMail.

GMail ads can be annoying and seem very useless for the most part. There are some words however that result in the ads being taken off. Most of them are curse words and other are about murder or sex. But how can you possibly send an email to someone like your boss without ads and without cursing him off or talk about killing people?

The following phrase seems to do the trick:

I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath.

Check out the before picture above and the after picture below. [Lifehacker]

The Right Way to Open a Banana

...if you're a monkey.

I've never really had trouble opening up a banana the other way, but this seems like it could be easier? Maybe? [Lifehacker]

Download Hulu Videos Using...Hulu Video Downloader!

Hulu Video Downloader (what a name!) lets you download Hulu videos for later viewing. This is good for trips where you might have wifi before you head out on that summer road trip or get on board that airplane. You can use the site to download your favorite NBC and Fox Shows (ABC coming soon!) and watch them whenever you want.

I'm guessing this is going to be blocked very soon, so enjoy it while it's here. [Lifehacker]

Rip MP3s Off YouTube with ListentoYouTube

Want to get the MP3 of that song you heard on YouTube? It's easy, just head over to ListentoYouTube and copy and paste the link for the video. This site rips the audio from the flash video file and lets you download it. Easy, simple, awesome. [Lifehacker]