On a similar note, my mother was able to make pretty good taco bowls by taking tortillas, folding them over the top of an upside down coffee can (in a roughly bowl-like shape), and baking them. They turned out really well and were great for taco salads.

When my parents had ants, my father did some research and eventually decided on traps using boric acid. I'm not sure of the ratio he ended up using, but the gist of it was that you mix boric acid with either sugar water or some type of sweet food, and set it somewhere the ants can get. They were all over it the first…

That's not exactly true, depending on who your carrier is and when you got your phone. On my US AT&T S4 I unlocked my bootloader early on and am able to flash roms and kernels like I have with any of my other phones before that (without any special micro-sd card partition requird). You have to have a loki'd version of…

I use Swype as my main keyboard, and I've tried switching to SwiftKey every time they update. I always end up going back to Swype though because SwiftKey's Flow always seems to be worse at figuring out what word I'm trying for than Swype, even after multiple days of use (for it to learn my swiping style). In addition,…

I get alternating yellow and reddish brown

Google updates its apps in staged rollouts. That means they release it for X number of people, wait a couple of hours/days to make sure there are no major reported bugs, release it for another X people, repeat. Unfortunately, this means it can sometimes take several days/weeks for everyone to get the update.

As a side note, does anyone know any tricks to getting staged rollouts earlier (like somehow moving myself "up" on the list)? I know I can usually find the apk online and install that early, but it always feels like I get the updates several days and sometimes up to a week after it "starts" rolling out, which is…

Would this make NFC unusable for anything else? For instance, if I have this sticker on, could I still pay for something with Google Wallet, or would the phone only detect the sticker and not the paypass terminal?

Teamviewer is an application that runs on the both computers, and allows one to remotely control/access the other using VNC. They manage this without a domain name by having their server keep track of your IP address so that other clients with your Teamviewer Id (and password) can connect and control the computer.…

You can also just change your search settings to return more results (if you aren't using instant).

Yeah, didn't work for me either.

Unfortunately, one of the features that chrome beta for android introduced has spoiled me (probably also in non-beta version at this point). The double-tap and drag to zoom is indispensable if using the phone with one hand. Using other browsers now feels really annoying and limited, because I can zoom in all the way…

I never actually stated anything was/wasn't valid, I was just stating for those who might not realize that we don't get 100% efficiency when burning gas or charging phones. Also, it says below the fact that the Exxon mobile person who said this was talking about energy density, not charging efficiency.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_… , the approximate amount of energy in a gallon of gas is about 33.41 kWhr. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5s the iPhone 5S's battery holds 5.92 Whrs of energy. If we divide 33410 Whr by 5.92 Whr, we get about 5643 full charges. Now, the fact says…

Well, while you're mostly correct, technically it will still go through you skin. However since the fraction of the current that goes through any single path is inversely related to it's resistance, very little will go through the body. As long as the needle is touching the carbon fiber in some way, greater than 99%…

Actually, that depends on whether the probes are still touching the carbon fiber while the current is flowing through the wire. If they are, the majority of the current will flow through the carbon fiber, while only a tiny fraction will flow through the body (consider the resistance of the skin to that of carbon…

I read it as just missing a comma.

From what I saw, it's not very hard to set up a WiFi Direct connection on stock android, you just can't actually do anything with it unless you have an app that uses it. For instance, All-Share Play (I agree, ridiculous name) adds an item to the share menu that does 2 things: allows you to select from nearby people…

What makes this better than WiFi Direct? WiFi Direct doesn't require a WiFi network (it creates an ad-hoc connection). And it doesn't require using qr codes or NFC to initialize. I don't know what phones/tablets do or don't support it, but you just have to go to WiFi settings, click WiFi Direct on the receiving…

Yeah, I've always been able to do the cross-eyed version almost instantly, but I've never really been able to get my eyes to diverge for more than a second or two. The magic eye books were always easy to do, but figuring out the object in the picture was hard, since it's not always easy to tell when it's inverted.