It’s the weekend, and you should be out enjoying family time. We’ll quickly breeze through the good stuff from the week, but after that you should head outside and find yourself something to grill.

Here’s your tiny little bit of new geek goodness for today…

Windows 7 Calculator Rocks!

My favorite feature in the completely re-done calculator is the History, which you can activate by right-clicking on the result area, using Ctrl+H, or the View menu. This way I can see the calculation I just used a minute ago… love it!

Want the Windows 7 Calculator for your Vista computer? Lifehacker has you covered with a downloadable version.

The Stuff We Found While Goofing Off at Work

I recently made up a completely inaccurate statistic that 90% of time at work is spent goofing off online. It’s clearly untrue, because I’ve only got 6 links for you today. I guess I’ve just not been slacking off enough!

• How to Create a Minimalist Computer Experience | Zen Habits 
  This article is excellent, although he really could have used some more pictures. I’m a fan of Leo’s productive zen-style minimalism.
• YouTube – Super Mario Bros. Lost Levels Speed Run in 8:35 
  There are loads of these videos all over the net—pretty cool stuff. I used to be able to beat Super Mario 2 straight through without dying. I should have timed myself!
• Google click-tracking disabler for Greasemonkey 
  This isn’t exactly new, but it’s one of those Greasemonkey scripts I simply can’t live without anymore, since I do a lot of copying URLs directly from Google search results.
• How to make Safari’s Private Browsing feature actually private 
  My good buddy Ross writes up an article exposing Safari’s private browsing feature as, well, not-so-private after all! He also explains how to cover your tracks. (More on this in the near future here at HTG).
• [COMIC] WolframAlpha Saves the Day 
  Here’s what we’d really like the new math-based search engine to be able to do. (Thanks to ian2 on the Forum)
• Gaming Graphics Charts For 2009: Updated! 
  Tom’s hardware updates the graphics card charts!

Next week, I’ll do nothing, and maybe it will be everything I thought it could be.

Reviews, Reviews, and More Reviews

Looks like Mysticgeek was even more busy this week, with an extra review for your, well, review =)

SuperAntiSpyware Free The Good: Can detect over 1 million malicious threats. Is light on system resources and easy to use.	Read the Full Review…
Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum The Good: Fast DVD conversion to several video formats for portable devices. Is available for both Windows and Mac	Read the Full Review…
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 The Good: Lots of scanning options, very fast, Easy to use with well laid out interface and easy to follow wizards. Officially supports Windows 7.	Read the Full Review…
VistaStartMenu The Good: Makes navigation through the Start menu much more efficient. Adds a Vista like Search Box to XP	Read the Full Review…

Notable Lifehacker Articles and Such

Here’s a couple of interesting articles you should read. Or not. Flip a coin to decide!

Lifehacker Laptop Bags: How-To Geek Edition  It was theme week, so I had to write up what I carry around in my laptop bag. Speaking of which, I just ordered an awesome new bag, thanks to a recommendation from phoenix in the Lifehacker comments:

Beware of Viruses in Office 2010 BitTorrent Builds 
That’s right, BitTorrent is completely full of viruses. You have been warned.

FTC Finally Cracks Down on Car-Warranty Phone Spammers 
Sooooo irritating. Thankfully something is being done, maybe.

The Super Mario Desktop  Sweet!

The Daily Articles

You might notice there were more articles than normal this week! That’s because we’re ramping up to cover more topics, which has been the most frequent reader request… more variety!

• Disable the Irritating Sticky / Filter Keys Popup Dialogs
• Friday Fun: Get Your Mario On
• Copy Website Tables into Excel 2007 Spreadsheets
• Disable Aero Shake in Windows 7
• Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP
• Slacker Geek: Update Your Facebook Profile from Outlook
• Add Google Gadgets to your Desktop
• Fixing Firefox Scrolling Problems with Dell Synaptics Touchpad
• Read Wall Street Journal Articles Without Paying a Dime (Legally)

We’re so excited about the new writers… you’ll start seeing their articles in the next week or two.

Editor’s Weekly Note

If anybody happened to notice a completely obnoxious, awful, terrible, and utterly ridiculous audio advertisement that showed up between 8 and 9PM on the 14th of this month, we’d like to deeply apologize. One of our filler advertisers decided to run one without telling us… and they are in the process of feeling my wrath.

We try really hard to avoid using annoying, irritating, intrusive, or misleading ads – even if we make less money because of it. If you ever see an ad that’s in your face, please feel free to email me about it (and preferably show me a screenshot so I know which one it is).

Alright, now that we’re done, get off the computer and go enjoy the sunshine!