I live in a dumpy apartment in Juneau, Alaska and the heat supplied by the building that's included in the rent constantly goes on the fritz (a term for when the landlord doesn't have the oil company put fuel in the tank) during the winter. An oil filled electric heater has been incredibly useful when I get home from…

It bums me out a little that programming, science and politics were so big early on and became such a small fraction later in Reddit's lifespan. While it's good that site continues to grow, it's gotten to the point where I subscribe to small subreddits where there's still a sense of community and people willing to…

It's not 100% perfect, but in IE there is a developer tools option under the "settings gear" on the top right corner of the window.

My sister lived in Hong Kong for nearly 7 years. I got a lot of counterfeit clothes and watches from her. I also got some amazing knock off video game systems. My favorite was the Saga GameJoy (it was a Sega GameGear knockoff that played gamegear games and some other weird cartridge based game system I wasn't…

PowerGLoooOoooOooooOve! Okay basically the actual powerglove for the NES taught me one valuable lesson as a child... buyers remorse is very real and do a little research before you buy something to temper your expectations of the product.

Not exactly a hack, but I purchased a super golden joy for my Super Nintendo in the early 2000's, you could load SNES roms onto 3.5" floppy discs to play on the SNES. The unit plugged into the cartridge slot. It was pretty amazing back in the day. There are a few people out there trying to do something similar with…

Ken Burns Prohibition was also fantastic just finished it on Netflix.

I rarely use alkalines anymore except for things like a few clocks on my walls that will run on a single "AA" battery for 5-8 years. Everything else I pretty much use Sanyo Eneloop rechargables. They hold a charge for a very long time so you can charge them and then put them on the shelf until you need them. I use…

You're absolutely right. I actually bought a few BT receivers from amazon and ebay before I wound up with this one. I suggested the Logitech BT receiver because it seemed to have the best reception out of all the ones I had tried. A few of the cheap ones I got on eBay didn't work so well unless you were within…

Logitech Wireless Speaker Adapter for Bluetooth Audio Devices $30

Conductive glue already exists, I bought some at a hardware store so it's gotta be somewhat common, and yes it's kind of awesome it's basically super glue that works with low voltage electronics just fine.

It's a somewhat functional Cheat Sheet broken into categories, but yeah not what I imagine when I hear infographic.

I ended up using Google Earth to plot out different distances, plus I could see the hilly sections and plan it out so I'd have hill climbs in the right places to pull off interval training. Google Earth was super helpful for me initially and after a bit of running/biking I was able to tweak them a bit to make them…

My parents had a very similar thought about having a pet a few years before having children. It really sucked when our dog died when I was 10 years old, but it made us talk about life and death and helped prep me for the next few years of cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents dying off like crazy for about 5…

I've always kept my phone locked, but I use it so heavily for work (I.T.) that if anyone were to find it and start going through it there is a treasure trove of network information on it. My happy in-between is that I have it set to lock after 5 minutes so a series of quick texts don't drive me crazy with unlocking…

I want one to put by my cubical entrance at work...

I think graphene is still in that awkward stage where there isn't a process to mass produce it reliably yet. It's kind of like where carbon nanotubes were 25 years ago, full of potential, but they couldn't figure out a reliable process to manufacture them in bulk all they could pull off were small petri dish growths…

I use a spare laptop for using MS OneNote, and then I use the camera in my phone to take pics of the whiteboard when we're writing out organizational charts or brainstorming.. Then I plug my phone into the laptop and copy the pics into MS OneNote. I don't think OneNote is all that great for note taking, but it's…

My father unexpectedly passed away a little over two years ago. That week of prepping for the funeral was a blur. After the funeral while people were filtering out of the church and shaking our hands I heard so many people say "If there's anything I can do..." although I couldn't tell you who a single one of them…

I listen to podcasts and it's always driven my crazy that I can stream a podcast over and over again but if I wanted to download it instead of stream it I can't, even though it's basically the same thing... 100MB might make it possible to download some of the audio podcasts that always seem to sit round 60-80MB. So…