Where the reflections glint off your subject's eyes? A small detail, and not even the most important one, in how to light a portrait.

I typically don't notice much of a speed improvement in browsers, but I just did the upgrade from 8 to 9 on Win 7 x64, and I have to say it seems really much faster. Gmail of all things is like instantaneous, actually noticeably faster on FF now than on Chrome (!) I use both browsers quite a lot daily, and on 3…

I've pretty much told my family we aren't really going anywhere on a plane until the youngest kid is 3. We took a near two year old on a 5 hour flight. He screamed the first 45 min of the return leg, and when he wasn't screaming he was squirming over the seats.

You still have to switch users. On my Win 7 box, this takes about 25 seconds while the screen goes black, pick the other user, enter password etc, even if both are already logged in; quite a bit longer if the other user has not logged in.

In terms of hassle, it's actually much better than Office. I use three computers regularly, and another on occasion. I can download the full LO suite to all of them and keep them updated to the latest version, always, easily, without licenses, keys, paid updates that you are very tempted to skip and probably will,…

When I really really need to be on the ball, I put things down on paper. I've used Google tasks and at least 10 different apps on Android and other computer kind of task managers and I always go back to paper. I have half-letter sheet clipboards with stacks of blank paper. I draw a little blank square in front of each…

This actually is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for. USB charger, bluetooth audio. Here's why it makes sense. It covers all the scenarios. One: you want to play music with your Android in your hand, browsing and adding tracks to your now playing list. This works because it's playing over bluetooth…

Yeah, broaching. Square and rectangular holes, slots, etc. Very sharp corners, high tolerances. BUT that's not common for blind holes I think. Generally the broach goes all the way through, it's basically a saw blade grabbed from both ends by the broaching machine. The point of this seems to be you can make square and…

This reminds me of having a remote control for your car stereo. Is it really soooo far to the dashboard radio buttons?

Trolling? How so? You mean because it's in Hong Kong and not the US? I don't get it. Samsung is an Asian company. Would announcing it in a US city at a more friendly US time slot be trolling the Asian and European etc press?

I saw all of the top bikes in this competition, and frankly it all seemed like an exercise in futility. The winner was at most kind of clever and retro looking, sort of. A front rack and at extra superfluous top tube? The big winner? Really? Some of the others were just plain goofy and lame. What it will take to get…

Sure, the reminder to drink water app is free. But the reminder to go take a pee before you wet yourself costs $25. God I wish I'd thought of that!

The main reason I would want to use a system monitor on Android is to track down things that are using too much battery power and memory. So a utility that runs all the time and uses up more battery power and memory, I'm thinking, is maybe not the way to go.

Polonium - rings a bell. Pretty sure I have a little brush for cleaning off photo film, and another similar item used to float above your vinyl record album on a specially modified turntable, both containing some kind of mildly radioactive polonium, as I recall. It helps remove dust by neutralizing static electricity…

If you only want one or two cloves, smashing with a knife is the method. If however you're cooking, say, Korean food, you're gonna need at least one head of garlic, like, per person. So this is awesome.

This is exactly how we undress the kids before bath time.

There's no doubt B&N have a Nook Color II on the ready, though exactly when it will be released and how good and how much $ - who knows. It's not like they had no idea for the past months that a color Kindle wasn't about to eat their lunch. I frankly would pay more for a mSD slot and a FF camera for video chats. Maybe…

The Nook Color will probably drop in price to match this or even undercut it. Plus - B&N probably have a Nook Color II update in development (I hope soon) so it might be interesting to wait for their move. Personally I'm a little more interested in a tablet with a bit more hardware like a card slot and GPS and a ff…

I've eaten tilapia a few times and more than once noticed that the fish tasted very much like dirt. And I don't mean that as a compliment.

This article points out some cool things, but the whole premise of cork being 'the best' wine stopper without even mentioning the whole 'corked wine' problem and other reasons that wineries (many wineries) have gone to something else is pretty shoddy. And leaves it up to the commenters to point out these issues. I…