Which of the whole house surge protectors do you suggest? That route sounds a lot easier and, in the long run, cheaper than buying a bunch of them to use at different outlets.

I asked Siri if she had existential angst and she told me, "This is about you, not me."

Our first computer was the Macintosh SE which came out in '87 so I guess I was 6. I used MacPaint and Claris Works and played some keys to castle puzzle game and Deja Vu and Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? and my mom forced me use Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing because she said the only useful thing she learned…

Lucky you. My cat is a digger. She could spend hours in there just digging, digging, digging. And then she leaps out, sending litter scattering everywhere even though her box is enclosed in one of those rolling TV cabinets with just one door left ajar for her. It's in the back of a hallway on the 1st floor and I've…

YouMail is free and allows customized greetings and messages including Ditch Mail. I first started using it on my Blackberry and works even better on my iPhone.

Sounds like your friend is a moron. Enjoy your flock.

I use Yesterday's News cat litter. It's made of old newspapers. And these litter liners that have elastic around the edge so you don't have to cinch them into place. If I make sure the litter is as least 3 inches deep, then my cat doesn't claw through the bag so I don't have to wash the box at all, with or without a…

I love Wunderlist. It has nothing to do with Chrome. The OSX and iOS apps sync perfectly.

Yeah, you couldn't pay me to use Chrome on any platform.

lol, your garbage men must love you! I just think things like disposals should exist to make being lazy easier and if we still have to stop at the trash can, then this is not an advancement in my mind. I poured coffee grinds down the sink this morning

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…