I have been lucky in my apartment, there are cable/phone jacks on opposite sides of the same wall. I just replaced the wall plate with a modular one that keeps the cable, drops the phone and adds network jacks on ether side of the wall. I just sacrificed a short network cable and wired the 2 keystone jacks to one…

I could normally get it done in about a minute and a half, but I have a cat who likes to help so it usually takes 3 or 4 minutes. By 'help', I mean she jumps up to the area that I'm trying to pull the comforter over and does cute cat stuff.

I love my Three Hundred. Quiet, understated, quiet, lots of airflow, quiet, and it was $40 on sale at Fry's. The only downside is that I have to vacuum the cat hair off the front of it every couple of weeks.

We have used refills and generic cartridges in our HP printer a few times now and have had no problems. For small amount we print at home there is simply no need for color accuracy, and some fading isn't going to cause any problems. Any pictures we want printed for framing or whatever just go to Costco.com, it's so…

+1 for Anchor Steam Beer. My wife and I went on a tour of the brewery which included a free sampling/tasting afterward. I now have a couple new items on my BevMo shopping list :)

Next Up: Using the wide format printer your company recently acquired to print your own 'Jump to Conclusions' mat.

Great. Now I need a new chair *and* coffee maker.

Other assholes. And that song that Dennis Leary did back in the 90's.

@kokanut: Indeed I have, my latest project is using MVC (and SubSonic). While I have been quite happy with the MS tool set, I would like to expand my skills beyond the MS realm. Rails certainly seems to be the more popular option for web development these days though.

I have been working in C# & VB for many years now building web applications and such. I really want start looking more at the open source platforms but find myself torn between Ruby/RoR and Python/Django. I will have to keep experimenting with both for a while and see which one grows on me.

@Tom Harris: Thanks for the link, unfortunately it appears that I have an Alps touchpad and this only works with Synaptics :(

I will be giving this a try on my laptop later on today.

I was using something similar for Firefox called Surfclarity, but will have to give this a try since I mostly use Chrome now. I would also love to see google implement some kind of a blacklist option tied to your google account.

Most of the useful (and free) software I have found right here on Lifehacker. Notepad++, Synergy & CCleaner just to name a few. I was looking at my desktop this morning and decided it was a complete disaster, at which point I remembered reading about Fences on here and decided to give it a try.

250GB is enough for my desktop or laptop as long as it's fast. Currently they have 640 & 320 drives purchased more for their performance characteristics than their capacity. Neither one is anywhere near being full. The next update will likely be a smaller, faster SSD.

@PinkNBlack21: One of my cats has a habit of walking up and sniffing my hand or face before settling in my lap. She has gotten more than her fair share of static shocks right on the nose.

@rebeldevil: I used to get shocked all the time when getting out of my truck, and it was especially bad when I lived in Arizona. Eventually I learned that I could just tap the back of my hand against the outside of the truck when I got out and the static shock would still occur, but was nearly painless.

I usually start with the CPU flavor I'm interested in (i5, Phenom, etc) and look for the best CPU in the the lower middle of the price range before it makes a big jump. i.e. $174, $197, $286 - I'll buy the one at $197 since the jump in speed is usually not in line with the jump in price. This is just my personal…

VOTE: Notepad++

@Dragonis: Where I live, the ones that give away free air are usually broken. The pay ones work, but either have a leaky filler or defective pressure gauge, and only give you enough time to properly (and slowly) inflate 3 tires.