For those of you who'd rather buy a packaged solar-charged battery solution, Voltaic Systems sells a 3000mAh USB battery/2W solar panel combo for around US$60+tax/S&H. (I have no connection to them aside from being a customer.) This version works only for phones, though. While they do have a solar-powered solution…

No, it's the slatted chair thread ("I'm stuck to my chair. I'm so very scared. Help."). rofl.

My guess is that most people won't do this safely, and will instead create a fire hazard. I'd be worried about the constant cable flexing, as well as possible cable abrasion issues by drawer guides, drawers above/below, or the stuff in the drawers above/below.

Fark is a site where people get together to mock the news, or themselves. The mocking can range from the legendarily hilarious, to the snarky/unfunny, to the downright tasteless (however, unlike other web sites, Fark does a passable job at keeping the tasteless to a minimum). Here's an example of a legendary Fark…

Ah hells no. -666

If you want an LED with maximum brightness, you want to get the compatible replacement that has the highest lumens. A couple of years back, I installed an LED replacement bulb in my three-D-cell maglite, and that sucker is BLINDING (sorry, I have no idea who made it, but I explicitly looked for the LED replacement…

As others have said, if you're not jailbroken, iTunes works just fine. I keep most of my data in the cloud (encrypted or accessed via SSL), and so only my apps and app-specific settings really need to be backed up (my media is already in iTunes, and so that doesn't have to be backed up). If I do a connected iTunes…

As others have said, virtual machine FTW. There's no way I'm going to dual-boot a potentially buggy OS, as it might wipe out the entire hard disk (it is a preview test, after all). That can't happen with a virtual machine. Yes, it'll run a tad slower, but it's a preview — I don't care.

No, don't. Dogs are social animals, and will go crazy/neurotic when isolated. Leaving a dog alone for long periods of time is similar to leaving a child alone for that time (no, I'm NOT saying that it's the same kind of "crime" — I'm saying that the end results for both are bad). Also, the more intelligent breeds…

Also, some people think that even gmail addresses are unprofessional. I don't necessarily agree with this, but some people do. I'd hope that people would at least consider the opinions of their clients and potential employers, or they just might be screwing themselves. (Before people start complaining, let me point…

Noble idea, but not practically possible, alas. :-(

While it may be only $0.99, it's another $0.99 to get ssh.

* Truecrypt & dropbox — I keep my financial records in a truecrypt container in dropbox. That way, my home can burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp without losing my records.

Well, I think appsandoranges is currently better than most (all?) app search engines, because the "top" apps are displayed in a decent order (the "best/most useful" ones are generally at the top). I just tried doing some searches on quixey and, while the results are OK, the display order isn't all that useful — it…

Right now, this is actually quite useful and interesting — but that's probably only because there are few people creating categories and voting. As someone else said, it's like a site of "high five" voting.

No, I got three, too.

So far, the recommendations look reasonable. I haven't seen anything that looks like vote-stuffing, but this is pretty early, and I'm sure that spammers haven't yet invaded, due to the limited number of invites. It'll be interesting to see how appsandoranges handles this in the future.

AFAIK (and I could be wrong), iTunes songs don't have .mp3 file extensions; they have .m4a and .m4p extensions.

This, a thousand times this.

No, negative reinforcement methods might work, but you're often just suppressing the behavior and stressing out the dog: [www.4pawsu.com]