Switch the default spell checker so that it uses real English instead of American English?

Having worked around a ski club most of my life (not my day job, just something i keep up on weekends for the love of the sport!) I do something similar there: most people wear the same ski jacket all season long, so I recognize people from a distance by their ski jacket. For instructors and patrollers who wear a…

For getting lots of docs into Evernote you're better off with a $100 pocket cam on a tripod with an eyefi card in it. And when you're not using it for that, you have a nice little pocket cam instead of a big real-estate hog on your desk.

As Family IT, I've been putting Lastpass on everybody else's computer and I've been impressed with it, but I can't make the jump myself. The 1password/Dropbox combo connected to the iphone is too useful

Why the hate? You don't like Macs, don't buy a Mac. There's nothing to be gained by trolling Mac articles, you only end up looking like an insufferable angryman waving his penis around on the internet. Just buy yourself a Mac Sux t-shirt and be done with it!

It's always okay to fake a phone call (or a shooting) if you're in possession of a banana.

I love when religious salespeople come to the door, I have a great time demonstrating to them how poorly they know their own bible.

That's needlessly complicated compared to reaching into my pocket and flipping the mute switch. Also doesn't take into account the point that I will probably tap on the wrong thing because I'm also in the middle of a conversation.

It's not about whether I can or can't dismiss it, it's that it used to be an optional feature that I declined, and now it's a standard feature that I can't decline, and that annoys me, since I never use it, and I don't want to lose the thread of my existing conversation because I've been interrupted by the call…

Those bullet points read like the unspoken segment of my wedding vows!

A bit of glue makes this work a bit better, just let it dry before rehanging the cupboard door. I've done this with wooden skewers, worked like a charm.

I don't find a tube of toothpaste to be less expensive than a proper tube of hole filler. I used the same tube of hole filler to clean up screw holes in 4 different rental places. Then when we bought a house, I was glad I already had a half-tube of hole filler in my toolbox for all the fiddly little fixes we had to do…

I think I'd rather reach into my pocket and flick the mute switch, than pull out my phone and say, "hang on a second, I just have to fiddle with my settings so I can talk to you... oops, tapped the wrong app, hang on..."

That's good thinking. If it's just me I don't mind hearing my email alerts, but for a party or event... honestly we'd probably just use my wife's ipod

Normally I'd go with the wisdom that "Jealousy works the opposite of the way you want it to" but your girlfriend has proved me wrong. So far.

I still don't get the enthusiasm for Tweetdeck. I update it every now and then and give it another go, and I just get frustrated that it doesn't have as many column options as Hootsuite. You can't create a My Sent Tweets column, you can't create a column to track your RTs.

I sorta figured you'd shut it off before you start driving!

@Ham_Sandwich: Like the Power button? :)

I'm still hoping to find someone down in Arizona who can pop by my Grandma's place and turn off her Caps Lock for me.

@mike_311: I do that too. I tell them I haven't done Windows troubleshooting since Windows98, and I troubleshot it right out the window.