Welcome to this episode of the LifeHacker podcast.

It is June 6th, and this week we are talking about the noisy glory of mechanical keyboards,

detecting a bad boss before you start a job, and saving money on parts when you're building a computer.

We're also answering your questions about mobile app security, Android launchers, and building your own network-attached storage.

And as always, we'll be going through our favorite tips and downloads of the week,

so let's get started.

Thank you. Hey guys, welcome to the show. I am Witson Gordon.

I'm Adam Dodges. And today we have Alan Henry joining us via Google Hangouts. What's going on? That was a weird delay there. Okay, cool.

So let's jump right into it. Our first news item of the day, Gmail for Android updates with the new

inbox with tabs, right? It's got, well, kind of. It's got like a slide-out

navigation as opposed to tabs, which is better for mobile. Yeah, it's kind of like if you've been

on Google Plus lately, you notice that if you go to the left side of your screen, you've got to,

this thing slides out and you've got a list of stuff to choose from. It's actually a lot like Facebook's mobile app.

It has that slide out.

Yeah, true.

It's the same.

I mean, a lot of mobile apps have adopted this lately.

It's nice.

It makes it very easy to get around.

And then you also notice that in the inbox, it will show you different kinds of sorting that

Gmail does now with your your with promotions and notification emails

where it just kind of automatically

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