I had been looking into tackling a similar project (using 'motion' for my Pi) along with using a temperature sensor. I've gotten the 'motion' part working great, and really simple to use. Not much luck with the temp yet, still working on it...

Clearly Tomlin's missing the point, as he now only tweets using 53 characters.

I just bought a Raspberry Pi yesterday. Somehow lifehacker always knows

How does this compare to Zamzar or You Convert It?

I picked this app up last night to try on my RPi running raspbmc and it worked great. Ended up paying $1.99 to unlock and I'm very happy with it.

Cylindrical dental floss containers make great thread cases when they're empty, and they have built in thread cutters.

Put thread spool inside container, pull one end of thread through hole in cap= no-tangle travel thread case! (you can also keep needles in there if the container is big enough)

I was sick of the way my garage looked so I cleaned it out and painted the walls. But the big DIY fix was painting the floor with a two part epoxy from Rustoleum. It was about six hours of work to do the floor - preparing the surface is key - and I was very pleased with the results and the envy of my neighbors (for…

I have a Galaxy Note 10.1 and keep old micro SD cards around for when I let kids draw on the tablet. When they're done, I pop them out, slide the card in the adapter, and they can take them home to print or display.

The other thing you have to watch out for with ontrac is they'll load a van and then let it sit in their parking lot for a couple of days, especially over weekends when they don't deliver. Its about 100 degrees here in the summer, and I got lots and lots of food items that were basically cooked or melted due to…

Doesn't matter whose fault it was. You pay Amazon for 2 day shipping and it's up to them to contract with delivery services that can meet that and cover the cost of upset customers when it doesn't.

Forgot to mention, for the streaming, since I have a PS3, I'm able to use the Amazon Video app, and watch it on my TV easily, so that helps make the case for me.

I mainly subscribed to Amazon Prime for the near-instant gratification of free 2 day shipping with every direct from Amazon purchase.

I also think it would have helped had they chosen four new characters, rather than trying to have four new actors play the same four characters from the movie.

I think one of the good things about Amazon Prime is that you can share it. So my wife and my parents have their own Amazon accounts that tie to my prime account and they get free shipping as well. So it's not just my purchases, it's all of our purchases that save.

Wow, how did the "Every imaginable distro of linux, Win7 installation, UBCD, DBAN, etc" flash drive not only not win, but not even place.

I don't want to take away from the winner, but what's the merit of it?

If anyone was interested, I quickly jotted down how to set a generic drive up to the same level I had set up mine. Nothing overly in detail but a general quick what order to set things up in.

I go old school sneaker-net with mine. I also collect old 1-2GB flash drives from people who would be tossing them anyways and use these to give files to friends and relatives (pics, music, etc.), because I don't care if I ever get them back. I like to use one to float around different parents in my son's class and…