I tried it out briefly and thought it looked nice, but quickly found that I had to keep rotating my phone or trying to read sideways every time I wanted to switch between reading and composing tweets, because it didn't support reading in landscape mode. This is frankly unacceptable and renders it unusable to me as…

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Personally I wash my hands and then apply a soft hydrophilic (anti-fog) wax cream to my lenses with my fingers, let it dry a bit, then buff it out with either a microfiber cloth or a cotton polishing cloth. The stuff works amazingly well to clean all of the dust, oil and grime off the lenses, and helps fills in the…

The main reason you need to be careful cleaning eyeglass lenses isn't the fear of scratching the lens itself. Even glass lenses are pretty tough and scratch-resistant. The problem is the special coatings that are applies to the outer layer of the lens: polarizing, anti-UV and anti-glare coatings are common, and the…

You'll still probably have better luck with the cabs than the cops in finding a stolen vehicle just about anywhere. Your odds are going to be slim either way, but where there are few cabs, there are fewer cops, and the cops really don't care about reclaiming your car.

Don't forget the sound of the gun's action, often louder than the report when using a suppressor.

Well played sir.

I got suspended from school once for disobeying the teacher's instructions to tilt my head back during a bad nosebleed. My parents never let me do it right again after that. True story.

Excuse the shoddy photos—cellphone camera. One workbench is behind the bikes on the right side of the garage coming in, though it's seldom a problem since one or more bikes are usually pulled out into the open work area on the other side when we need to use it. We also have a mini 'barn' alongside the house where…

It works in XP also.

I tried them back around 2006 I think. I was never real impressed with the wallpapers or art style.

The 'simple' method is to manually resize the image to the perfect resolution for your setup, then use the 'tile' feature in Windows for setting the wallpaper. It will appear across all monitors.

+1 Request for triple-monitor wallpaper post. 3 monitors is becoming more common, so it's surprising to me that I haven't really found dedicated wallpapers in appropriate sizes. I run 3x 1920x1200 and have generally had to resort to downloading huge astrophotography images and cropping and sizing them manually.

Not to mention you have 400%+ more usable screen space while typing.

Damn, I wish I had found that phone when I was looking to replace my G1! I ended up with a G2, which shifted the bottom row and generally rearranged keys so it was impossible to type on without un-learning years of touch typing on a proper qwerty keyboard. It was so bad I returned the G2 for an Evo and Hacker's…

If you can swing it, get a phone with a legitimate hardware qwerty keyboard. If you're a touch typist on a PC, this is the best option since a hardware keyboard provides tactile feedback, and *if the buttons are in a correct, 101-key-like qwerty arrangement*, your brain easily translates the spacial memory of where…

Over a year later and still no root for HTC Evo 3D. Damn shame. Too bad I'm still locked into the contract for another year and can't get a phone that works and isn't loaded down with all the HTC and Sprint crap.

I'll be impressed when I see someone manage to do this to eat the same food as it stored in said box, without using a transitory container to hold it while unfolding it into a plate.

Using NOAA's data? Please, it's not a localized micro-climate forecast without wunderground. From the title I was expecting something impressive that aggregates local weather monitoring stations or something. This is just Yet Another Weather App claiming to be special despite running off the same data as everyone else.