1. Um, one little problem, seems to me, is that the application of this thing is fairly painful, right? So you're replacing an itching sensation with a painful sensation. Hmm.

I write myself an email and send it using Gmail. There are many advantages to this method.

Of course this is not actually a solution per se, but the workaround to this problem is simply cheap tablets: so you just get a tablet for each person. With iPads being so expensive this is obviously kind of a painful option. But with the advent of a $200 tablet like the Nexus 7 it's a whole lot more doable. We…

I didn't think anything could be slower or more aggravating than my crummy phone keyboard. Now I know better.

A single timer I don't find that useful. My microwave can handle that. But I'll pull my phone out to set multiple timers. Kitchen Timer is very good, and it will save timers with names, like my bread maker takes exactly 1h32m and then I let the dough rise for 45m - you can just save those timers, and start them when…

My biggest annoyance about Mt Lion is how many repetitive and redundant posts there are ahout on this site about it. How do I get rid of this annoyance? Why don't you just make a sticky for All Things Mountain Lion and move everything there and spare the rest of us.

Here's a legitimate question? Do there have to be nine separate articles (so far) about Mountain Lion on the Lifehacker blog in one morning? Geezuz, enough already.

Just tried it. Good idea, bad execution. There is no way I can tell to enter numbers in the calc by your number pad or keyboard row. You have to click the onscreen numbers. Or enter numbers in the search bar (in which case they don't appear in the calc readout.) Weird. Sucks.

They look from a distance like they're strapped on with duct tape. Not exactly what I think of as 'high end'.

Another post about micro wind turbines. It serves to be very skeptical about the claims for small wind turbines. There is a reason that turbines tend to be absolutely gigantic: wind is not a dense energy medium. It's just simple physics, air is not dense and typically wind doesn't move on average any more than a few…

Windows Phone won't die because MS has plenty of cash to prop it up for years.

This is maybe the stupidest throwaway article I've read on lifehacker. Dairy is loved by millions, not because they need milk, but because it makes possible a plethora of some of the great pleasures of gastronomic life. If you're one of the billions of people who's not lactose intolerant, pay no attention to these…

I'm not sure why, but Google doesn't seem to want to give us the obvious thing: Android TV, just a box that puts, well, Android on your TV. No, we don't really want Chrome or Google TV. Android. On a TV. Please.

I find the mint taste thing extremely annoying, since it seems to spoil the taste of everything except more mint. In fact I don't like mint in the first place. (Yes, such a freaks do exist.) Companies sadly seem to have given up finding a toothpaste flavor without mint, which is pretty lame and unimaginative. One way…

Vote: Google Tasks + GTasks app on Android.

Step 1 should pretty obviously be: Identify the components that are making the most noise. Generally you may find that the noisiest components are difficult to silence without actually changing them out. The noisiest components tend to have small fans that spin too fast. Specifically, they are the graphics card, the…

I have tried to make home made mac and cheese before, and the overwhelming thing that struck me is how much, how shockingly much, cheese it takes.

Exactly. A very short burst of nuke is very useful for a number of things. For heating up pancake syrup. For a glass of red wine that was in the fridge and you want it to be merely cool rather than ice cold. For sliced bread or rolls that have been frozen.

All this really is, is a WEEK based calendar. A lot of organizations do essentially the same thing just by using Week No.'s instead of month etc. And a lot of printed calendars also list the week no. Kodak just went a little further by grouping the weeks into 'months' of 4 weeks each.

Yeah. How do they make an entire computer with a processor, ram, etc and it's cheaper than a bare cpu?