I second the proclip recommendation (and made a separate post about it). I have a Mini Cooper, and it seemed nigh impossible to find a car mount that wouldn't also block existing features (radio, heat, glovebox, cupholders, lighter port). The proclip mounts are made specific to each make/model of car, and mine was…

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Do you have a Mini Cooper? Literally every style of car dock/mount I tried didn't work well for my car (and I tried many). They were all guilty of at least one of the following: 1. Couldn't be easily seen/reached while driving (like those that attach to the oddly angled windsheild), 2. Covered important…

I love these small retractable USB cables. At under $4 (free shipping), they're a great deal, and are tiny and easily fit in pockets, purses, bags, cars, etc. They're a little on the flimsy side - the ones I use regularly need replacing once or twice a year - BUT, they're so cheap and convenient, that I don't mind…

The (Lifehacker recommended) Anker Astro2 8400mAh external battery pack/charger is great. It's the size of a deck of cards, you can charge two devices at once, and it also has a built in flashlight. It has enough juice for 3-4 full smartphone charges, and if I'm on the go and need to charge, it's easy to fit both this…

Proclip car mount - I had a hell of a time finding a car mount for my (Android) phone in my Mini Cooper that kept it in easy reach and didn't also block the audio/heat controls - nothing worked... until I found Proclip - they make a mount customized to every model of car, and then you choose a clip to attach to the…

In my experience in the STEM field, your grades matter only if you're looking to enter another degree program after you leave. If you're in your terminal degree program, they matter a lot less. If you're trying to go from Bachelor's to Masters, or Masters to Doctorate, they look at your grades. But if you're looking…

Seems HIGHLY likely these are fakes and the women are in on it. In addition to the perfectly positioned camera angles and hand positions (when he's clearly a few feet away from the women) that would require some guidance and trial and error, in several of them there's no way the woman wouldn't have noticed what he was…

Dude, this whole post is ridiculous. You can't expect to pop in to the VERY last episode of the series, which is wrapping up almost 10 years worth of story telling, and like or get it. If you'd actually been watching the series all along, sooo much more would have made sense and you'd know that it all fell into place…

I gave Cover a try, and I like it so far, BUT... it doesn't seem to be doing a good job of figuring out where I am. It was doing fine at home over the weekend, but when I got in the car to head to work today, despite being connected to the car's bluetooth (and that being turned on in the app's settings), it switched…

Even better would be if you could use a similar technique to measure the furniture (tap phone on all sides). Also, FWIW, Google Floorplanner is free and easy to use for figuring out furniture configuration

What sort of mic(s) would I need to be able to accurately record conversations happening around a large conference table (e.g. everyone participating in a discussion, occasionally interrupting/talking over one another)?

Agreed. If I had to give up one or the other, I'd give up the toaster oven in a heartbeat, because I have a regular oven that can do the same things. I don't often use the microwave for outright cooking, but for defrosting, reheating cooked foods, some frozen prepackaged food, heating up liquids, etc - it's hard to…

I wanted to underscore the notion that you Daniel Livingston pointed out, that "Cheaper lenses.... will have power variations, noticeable as waves and distortions, across the whole lens surface." I ordered a pair of Gamma Rays after reading this article (and having been interested in Gunnars for years) and noticed…

I wanted to underscore the notion that you said that "Cheaper lenses.... will have power variations, noticeable as waves and distortions, across the whole lens surface." I ordered a pair of Gamma Rays and noticed this very issue. After a few days of use, I definitely noticed something about the optics was "off". I…

Seriously, it only offers 3 styles? That's not NEARLY enough. Literally every journal (or family of journals), medical and otherwise, has its own citation style. Programs like EndNote and RefManager (which work with Word) allow you to choose any style and have it update the citations and bibliography on the fly. If…

Yup, I'm pretty sure that's the way it is everywhere. At least that's exactly how it goes in NC.

For what it's worth, I'm 39, and just got called for the third time in the past few years (I checked, you can get called every 3 years - and 3 years was up a couple of months before I was called in). The first time, I served on a jury for an interesting case. The second time, I was told that I was lucky to have gotten…

I have the Evernote Moleskine notebook, and I was really hoping I'd be able to snap pictures of my handwritten notes and have Evernote convert them to text and/or make the text searchable. The few I tried didn't seem to work so well for that, so I've not tried again in a while. Maybe my handwriting is just terrible,…

The copper IUD essentially irritates the uterine lining to prevent implantation, and disrupts sperm mobility, damaging sperm and keeping them from fertilizing eggs. It can last for about 10 years. Unfortunately, they also come with an increased incidence of crampy and heavy periods, and an increased risk of pelvic…