I haven't been very happy with Western Digital portable drives. I've had two MyBooks crash and quit working on me in the past few years. I've now switched over to just buying external hard drive cases and buying an internal drive and popping it in there. I've used Western Digital internal drives for nearly two…

I've got an older Harmony remote that controls everything. Setting it up even with the website full of hardware profiles and a USB cable that loads all the profiles onto the remote it still took an evening to set it up and another week to slowly get it working perfectly. Once it was working well it was awesome…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

After the first couple of weeks it gets pretty easy to enter your info into a calorie counter style app. After a month you'll almost be able to look at most foods and intuitively know roughly how many calories it is. Plus most calorie counter apps have bar code scanners in them to automatically bring up all the…

Vote: Handbreak

Ditto, big fan of Windirstat for figuring out where all the drive space has gone. Awkward moment when you're boss's boss calls you down to trouble shoot his "travel" laptop and you see it's 180GB drive has no space available on it. Then you find 90GB of porn in a folder tucked away in the system folder. Truly…

First PC I got to use was an Apple ][e that my dad brought home for the summer from his classroom. The first computer I ever purchased was an Apple Performa 600 that was a horrible POS for just shy of $3000.

I've tried a few bicycling gamification style apps to keep me riding my bike on a regular basis. What kept me going was competition, my preferred bike app shows best times for different legs of the ride times that other people have done. So I can see what times my friends have on them and try to beat them. That's…

Mainly I just use Chrome as far as google apps go being able to send a page from my desktop to my phone in chrome is super handy and dead simple. Google Maps are great, but I only use that while traveling and I don't travel more than once or twice a year for work so it's not really something I use every day. I've…

I like the fact that I can use my iPhone Netflix App to find a movie and then send it to my PS3 to watch, being able to use the iPhone as a remote control is also a nice touch. To be fair I haven't tried Netflix out yet with the MS SmartGlass app on the 360 yet. I do hope the PS3 gets something similar to MS…

We're going to need an artists interpretation of what you think you saw before we'll believe you! =P