@G-Ram: Unfortunately sounds like a statistically insignificant case.

@jetRink: Yep yep. I wrote a paper on it. There are some downsides, but in most situations in a well seeded environment this would work fairly well. It's easy to get your mind to wrap around the subject as long as you remember that, 1: Not everyone will be watching the video while downloading, and 2: Everyone who does…

Just to add to the uTorrent love, I use the Bittorrent WebUI extension in firefox to automatically load torrents that I want downloaded but I'm using a different computer than the one uTorrent is on. That way I can just use my server for downloading(via uTorrent) and I don't have to worry that my macbook isn't on all…

@DanYHKim: In fact I recommend getting a steel first since when you buy a blade it's probably pretty sharp to begin with. So touching it up until it really needs to be sharpened can prolong both buying time and the "sharpness" of the knife.

Never need it. The only time I use an alarm is when I know that I need to be up for some critical thing. So when that alarm sounds the first thing in my mind is that I really have something to do, not just lay there for a couple more minutes.

This seems to be the same principal as how to soften cookies that haven't gotten a little stiff over time.

Oh how this would work for my situation. Going from hard drive to larger one is easy. Going from a larger one to a smaller one, is considerably more trouble. Especially it the larger one has more than 1 partition(like a recovery partition added by a lot of name brand computers).

@Phoshi: Yep. For that reason I haven't stopped using Winamp. With the Winamp Modern skin(which is one of the ones that come with it), it's small and out of the way at the top of the screen(window shade mode). Even then it still has room to give me a visualization.

@fisheradam: Seconded. My dinovo Mini has been invaluable to me as a htpc keyboard. It's main capability that most other keyboards lack is that it's small and includes a trackpad.

@nolabar10der: I have to gold star MediaMonkey too. It's fantastic for finding and editing errant tags.

@edosan: In your first entertainment industry analogy I would like to make rebuttal to them (and anyone who actually thinks like that). It's that you aren't paying for a movie in the theater. You are paying for a seat in a room during a certain time period that the theater company will just so be happening to be…

@Nearro: You have brought up the very thing I've been telling everyone around me for years.

I've been through this and having these helper applications make it amazingly easy.

Wait wait wait. A statistical bell curve from a poll on lifehacker? Bull honkey.

@jonny6pak: I'll second your suggestion. Using a cast iron grill to cook my steaks has won me over as THE way to cook steaks. It's turned out perfect every time I've used it and I've never had to worry about grease spreading all over the place. Just a little cleaning of the grill and let the rest flavor the pan and…

May I second this tribute. My <3 goes out to all the girls kicking their game up a notch by wearing those glasses. mmm mmm mmm

I use Chrome only when I need to do something right quick and firefox isn't already loaded. Like for instance I need to download a driver for a friend right now.

@kgaines72001: I'm not sure the process will take a shorter amount of time as all Makemkv is doing is taking the decoded video raw into a mkv container with the raw audio stream(s).

The best reason to have MakeMKV though is (for me anyways) is that you don't have to rip it at all. I use it in linux where MakeMKV can stream the decrypted bluray movie to XBMC.

@wjglenn: I couldn't agree more.