This worked great for me. I'm lucky enough to have FIOS available in my area so I called Time Warner and told them FIOS is significantly less expensive and asked what they could do to match it. They offered $5 off, I said no that's not enough, they offered $20 off, I said no that's not enough, we went back and forth a…

Please read the article, there are 2,300 patents over h.264 alone. Motorola owns 50 of them which is just over 2%. Microsoft currently pays a license for all 2,300 patents for 2 cents. If they paid your made up $5 for 50 patents (10 cents each) out of 2,300, all of the other patent owners will want their 10 cents per…

The Keurig K-Cups are a middle ground between traditional drip brewing and going out to Starbucks. You can buy K-cups for 50-60 cents each which is less than going to Starbucks/Dunkin/McDonalds.

You were right, the road trip and groomer links both come right back to this page.

That suction cup would never stick to my horse. Then again this paper clip attached to his ear pisses him off too...

The claim that malware is up 472% is disturbing to me because I can't find the hard numbers that they used (The actual report requires registration). What if instances of malware began at 1 offending app. An increase of 4 malware apps creates a 400% increase.

Crunches can hurt your lower back. If anyone has problems with them try doing planks instead. Each 'set' of planks should be one rep where you hold yourself still for as long as you can, record your progress try to beat the time you held each workout.

Crates work well, our dog has been crate trained since she was a puppy. She's 4 now and only goes in her crate at night. As a puppy she was in the crate while we were out of the house. Dogs descend from wolves and are somewhat 'den' animals. Some will be more comfortable and feel safer in a smaller den (crate) than in…

I've tried MCEBuddy; version 2 works much better than version 1. The commercial skip doesn't work well in the 20+ episodes I've used it to convert. CPU conversions are pretty slow on such large HD files so I was hoping to find something that used GPU acceleration.

I use Windows Media Center in Windows 7 to record TV shows. Each 30 minute show is 1.5GB-2GB and I'd like to convert and compress them to an h.264 format. Any good suggestions for programs to compress these shows? I'd really like to use a program that has AMD (ATI) GPU acceleration so that conversion/compression…

If you can find a school playground I'd suggest trying the monkey bars, go back and forth on them a bunch of times. It's a lot harder as an adult. It's pretty embarrassing when little kids have no problems on them and many adults struggle to make it half way across. At the playground near my house there are plenty of…

Here's a good list of alternatives to crunches that will not damage your lower back [www.ttfatloss.com]

I use a small notebook at the gym and I keep a spreadsheet for specific things I want to track long term.

VOTE: Pen and paper

It's sad that after a 60% price hike, the upcoming loss of 8% of their content (due to Starz), and now this new limitation that Netflix is still significantly better and more customer friendly than my cable provider. No matter how badly Netflix treats their customers they can't match the decades of terrible service…

I think XKCD summed it up my thoughts perfectly on these lists this week: [xkcd.com]

Thanks yehoshua for checking the link (which didn't work). Here's a shortened version: [goo.gl] the name of the extension is "undo-redesign"

I got sick of adding "blog." to the front of all my Lifehacker and Gizmodo links to switch to the blog view so I created a Google Chrome Extension to do it for me. It's up on the Chrome extensions page now (free of course): [chrome.google.com] Give it a shot, let me know what you think of it. It works for every Gawker…

I found when moving furniture across a wood floor you can put socks under the legs that need to slide without scratching your floor.

This method works well for poaching eggs. I bought a little plastic holder made for poaching eggs just like this one for about $5 [www.amazon.com]