I absolutely love FF on the desktop, and r4.0 is the best browser I've ever seen. FF Mobile would be extremely awesome for sync purposes and I love the way it works on Android BUT - RC3 and earlier were terribly buggy, and the current RC4 messes up my Droid X, causes the battery to burn down twice as fast as normal,…

Basically Amazon could become the premier Android tablet maker if they just had a decent Android 3.0 experience and undercut the iPad by $150. They're track record with aggressive price cuts, slick usability, and sleek hardware on the Kindle tells me they can do this. Honeycomb needs a few tweaks and it will be…

The article is incomplete as far as specs go. I was very stoked about the iPad 2 but a lot of realizations have tempered my enthusiasm. The rear facing main camera is truly pathetic, it seems to be LESS that a megapixel, it seems to be the same as the iPod Touch at a paltry 0.7MP! If you're going to put a camera on…

Huh? Instant oatmeal, hello, only needs hot water anyway. And tastes like glue. (Hey, I still take it camping without fail, a flavored version masks the glue taste; but at home, no way.) I was expecting at the very least old-fashioned oats or something. At home I put instant oatmeal in water and stick in the micro for…

Whatever it is, it's too much. These tablet makers see $ signs that ain't gonna happen. And why are these tablets all carrier-sponsored? I don't want another data plan to pay, that's the last thing I want. I just want a wifi device. Basically what I think will happen is these tablets will be great but everyone will…

You know, I have most of the above hand tools as well as most of the mentioned power tools that they are called an 'alternative' to. However, in some cases, like the molding plane and the miter box, these hand tools are actually more expensive than the power tools they would purport to replace, while doing roughly as…

The instructions say get a 1/4-20 tap and tap handle. Not really necessary to make your own threads. All you really need is to drill a hole in the wood base material large enough for a 1/4-20 nut, then glue the nut in with epoxy. Or buy a t-nut that is meant to be sunk and anchored in a wood hole. There are a couple…

Many of the comments on this article regarding keyboards are confusing 'learning' with 'input efficiency'. This is not an either/or situation. If you're just interested in words per minute, then sure, a keyboard is going to be way ahead, few people are going to debate that. The point is, there are times when a writing…

@DaTruth: To me this is by far the only really crappy thing about Gmail. In most other ways it has local email clients beat by a mile, but in this case it really sucks. I'm not sure why they couldn't allow you to set a checking frequency but just set a limit as to how frequent. Or at least pay a yearly fee to check…

@ITIL_Prince: I never said it was a waste of time, but if the shoe fits, hey, go ahead and lace it up. Or, to say it another way, why not investigate and reproduce the most likely scenarios, rather that ones that are extremely implausible for numerous reasons?

The problem with all of these systems is that it's a system, it requires maintenance. I've had a bunch of X10 (ancient Radioshack version of home automation) controlling my home lights for years. I'm glad I stopped there. It was very useful for me to be able to control outdoor lights from inside without wiring up a…

The perfect gift for people who don't realize you can buy an axe head, little metal wedgy things, and a piece of hickory for about $30 or less.

It's really really difficult to carve something into a highly spherical shape. Even if you had a modern lathe, it's difficult. On the other hand, making a wheel is fairly easy using a number of different techniques. For one, just find some nice round hardwood tree branches and cut them into sections. Also the bearing…

MyRemote is pretty great for Windows Media Center, and it also has a touchpad for general mousing around.

There are already probably a thousand ways to increase the energy density of batteries in the lab by a factor of 5 or 10 or 20. The real problem is more like - how to you increase the energy density of batteries so that they (1) last many years and through (2) thousands of cycles and (3) complete discharges, over (4)…

There are two killer things about Gmail and this will cover one of them.

I have a free version of PDAnet that tethers through USB. I thought the paid version got you bluetooth tethering. Did something change?

Koreans have used stuff like this for a long time. One reason is they don't stain, another is they really really seal up the odor. Kimchi, cayenne peppers and garlic will really do a number to plastic ware, and your milk will smell like fermented cabbage if you don't seal things up really tight.

Totally agree. My personal favorite way to get just about anything down is half letter sheets on little clipboards scattered about. I have at least 5 of 'em.

I really think that 3D printing, when mature and more mainstream, will completely revolutionize and accelerate tech and inventing of all kinds. This kind of shape is just so very very difficult to make via more normal shop methods without heroic industrial scale machinery. There are way more clever and creative…