I'm just going to keep pretending I don't know that about coffee grounds until I have to hire a repairman. Damn it.

What's the point of having a disposal, then? I *can* put all food scraps in the garbage can (and did so when I lived in places without disposals), but the whole point of a disposal is that you don't have to make that extra pit stop at the trash can before rinsing off the dishes, right?

I've got a couple of the seven buck NES USB controllers hooked up to my Mac Mini for those times when I have the itch to play old school Mario, etc.

Thorin, can you do a piece on the best normal sized actually mobile fits in pants pockets usable with one hand smartphones (4 inches or under) currently or soon to be available? Many of us have no need or desire to lug around an HDTV to make calls and access the web with. It'd be nice to be able to see what the…

My standard cell ringer is just a silent tone so anyone who isn't already in my contacts with an assigned tone just goes to voicemail without my noticing. I use YouMail for voicemail and had to disable the voicemail box for my father because was regularly leaving me about 14 voicemails a day — about 8 of those 14…

If you're sure the issue is iTunes, does reinstalling it after completely wiping it off your system including the cache files help at all? There's no reason why it should work better for me wirelessly than for you hardwired.

I added my own stations. There's nothing AM-like about it.

You want to use your phone as a hotspot to run an Apple TV off of a data connection? Do you have unlimited data?

What do you think iTunes is doing when it instantaneously refreshes its cache in response to file changes? It's called syncing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sync…

I can stream HD h.264 movies from my iTunes library to Plex in my Roku in a back bedroom and smart tv a floor away with no problems at all. Sounds like you have crummy wifi speed and slow machines. I use an i7 2012 Mac Mini with 18 GBs of RAM and two ssds built in on a 20Mbps connection on the 5GHz band with my…

I stream radio through iTunes on a daily basis and airplay the streams to speakers throughout my house. What are you talking about 'iTunes doesn't stream radio'‽

You can remove album artwork and files update automatically when you change the name, artwork or metadata of a file in the library using any other application. Should I bother to finish the rest of this article or is the rest of it wrong, too?

Left to my own devices, as I am now, I get up around 7pm and go to bed sometime between 11am and 1:30pm. I don't think I actually get more done this way because businesses are just opening up as I'm starting to wind down and run out of steam, but I'm definitely happier this way; the lack of productivity and happiness…

What can I download Hulu videos with on a Mac?

Why would you want to wind up with a divx/avi file?

Oh man on my G5 it would regularly take 12-14 hours to convert a single hour and half .avi and on my new Mini it takes about ten minutes. I tried tons of different software when I was stuck with G5 to find something faster and nearly every other app was faster to one degree or another, but none of them yielded even…

Yeah I use it for the files that Handbrake refuses to work with and also to join movies that come in parts.

I use iFlicks for tv shows I don't care much about and Handbrake for movies and series I do care about. I'm not thrilled with the lack of configurable settings in iFlicks, though, which is why I ran things like my Twin Peaks Gold Box set through Handbrake instead.

I have an extensive collection of MAD Magazines and MAD books dating back to the late 50s, but not because I want to have them. My father just keeps buying them for me. For a handful of years, when I was a kid and young teenager, he became obsessed with baseball cards. We spent all our time at card shops and card…

Why is this easier than just opening Videos on my iPhone/iPad, clicking on the sharing icon for my desktop which is connected to my hard drives full of movies and then having them all appear instantaneously and able to be watched on my iPhone/iPad?