Paper, shmaper. This is actually a good solution to strapping a rubber band around anything. Rubber bands are great but have one flaw - they're closed loops. You can't open them up and then joint the ends back together. But this trick makes them an open loop with a quick connector. for instance, sometimes I want to…

Of course if you really want to shoot 5k, you can do that. It's a TREMENDOUS user of resources and incredibly demanding to edit, store . . . you're going to need to invest in a small suitcase full of hard drives or preferably SSD's. And of course virtually no one anywhere can actually display it . . . Meanwhile most…

Awesome. And seems like a great alternative to something like a Raspberry Pi - much more powerful, with much better connectivity - and a built in monitor! Battery backup! Bluetooth! etc etc. And you will be able to pick up an old used phone for cheap even if you don't already have one lying around.

I've had a HTPC for about 5 years. It really surprises me that you don't see this concept ready built for sale more commonly. With a full PC hooked up to your tv you can basically do anything, watch anything, stream anything, rip your own discs etc etc etc. Why don't PC companies sell this exact setup? Weird.

Definite on live TV. Our box has a tuner card, plus we added a wifi connected dual tuner called the HDHomeRun, which has worked well for about 3-4 years now. The nice thing about that, in addition to not having to put anything inside your box, is that any computer on the network can also use it to view/record live tv.…

You know, we used a bluetooth mouse and kb for a few years with our MC-PC. It's now gathering dust. It was replaced with my Android phone running remote control software which is brilliant. The KB-mouse tends to be large and in the way, often out of range of the crummy bluetooth receiver, often low on battery, and…

This belongs at the top of this article, which would stop a good deal of head scratching:

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.