I've looked at EL wire for making my bike stand out at night, but I ended up going the simple route and bought some 3M Stealth Reflective tape. It's black and hardly noticeable on a dark bike, but when headlights for cars hit it at night it reflects white light brilliantly. That with a front facing light and red LED…

Learned about this a long time ago and have generally either owed or gotten back less than $50 each year. This year I got back $15, I just can't decide if I should buy a new car or go on a South American vacation with all that sweet, sweet tax money.

VOTE: Blue Icicle XLR to USB adapter

I work in I.T. and would like to thank you for this article. I've added it to my list of bookmarks for frequent questions from users. In the last year I've gotten back a couple laptops from users that had left them on in their bag during a trip. One actually had discoloration and warping on the back of it around…

It still is a Keurig though, so decide if you want to support a company that wants to add DRM to coffee pods... Personally, I hope they crash and burn on this.

I work in IT, self censorship is a survival skill. I understand that a big part of IT is really customer service skills with users, being able to keep that "smile in your voice" while they're freaking out at you over some presentation they can't get to work that they needed 5 minutes ago. It can be really…

I work in I.T. about the only way I'm able to make it through the day is with sarcasm and apathy, because after helping a user who can't print for the umpteenth time by showing them how to put paper in the printer that has a large color touch screen on the printer that plays through step by step directions with…

I just use the push to chrome extension that can send pages (links or whole web pages) to my iPhone's Chrome App. Might check pushbullet out, but it looks like the same kind of functionality.

You should have another article talking about the differences between charging on USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0 on a PC I'm surprised by how many people don't know that USB 3.0 charges faster due to carrying significantly more milliamps. Now I just gotta take my multimeter and see what kind of power is getting pushed through…

We kind of had one, it was under the sink in the shared bathroom on the 2nd floor. It was less of a chute and more of a trapdoor, from the laundry room you could reach up with a hook and open it and then toss all the clothes and towels down. As a little kid I used to throw my socks at my mom down below while looking…

Seriously... it's going to pay off eventually.

Yup going to lifehacker, I like to think of it as procrastination/self improvement.

I'll second this... I live in a large apartment building with shared heat and hot water heater. Both are out more often then they're on, we pay more than many of the apartments around us and were told it's because the water heater and unit heating was included in the rent. Now I just get to pay more for rent while…

Neodynium magnets while really strong compared to most cheap magnets still aren't that powerful once they're more than half inch away from something. The thickness of that board should be plenty to protect stuff sitting on the top shelf of it if they have magnetic media.

Black and White laser because I use it so little that an inkjet just clogs up and dries out by the next time I need it. I occasionally take a thumb drive to Fred Meyers to get a few pictures printed out on kodak paper and for larger format stuff I take it to one of my towns local print shops. Unless you're some kind…

My GOD! We've been looking power sources all wrong. Wind, wave, solar, nuclear and hydro all pale compared to the all mighty potato. It's an energy source, it makes decent vodka and throw it in the ground and it's somewhat self replicating. Sorry, I gotta go hit up some conspiracy theory websites now to confirm my…

Plug a couple electrodes into the potato and you could have a super futuristic self powering potato watch... we really are living in the future! </sarcasm>

I started doing this regularly a couple of years ago. I try to set aside the last five minutes of each day to write up a list of things I haven't finished that day and any major things happening the following morning. That way when I leave work I don't find myself constantly reminding myself of the things I need to…

It's a shame we never really had a chance to recover after the great bedazzler wars of the late 80's. We lost a lot of good men and women to a product that should never have been released to the general public. That machine was only supposed to ever be used by figure skater fashion designers and moms with children…