Luckily Gawker Media blogs are predominately reposts from other sites. Removing them from my RSS feeds didn't impact me much at all. LifeHacker is one of the few Gawker sites I still check in on regularly although I feel the quality of it's posts have gotten a bit spotty in the last five years.

It really is a shame RSS never took off in the general public. I know a lot of people that use it for their jobs that do a lot of writing and news coverage, but it never had a killer app that made it stupidly simple for most people to use. I really can't image not having RSS feeds as I would have no way to cover all…

Awesome idea, I've built quite a few Arduino projects over the last three years, but I'm still always really nervous about hooking it all up to higher voltage sources via relays as I don't entirely trust my soldering and wiring skills.

I just moved into an apartment my problem is the bedroom door and it's frame has been painted over so many times the door closes okay, but when you open it, it sounds like you're breaking a seal on an ancient vault. It's a really loud crackling noise as the paint from the door and the frame seem to get tightly…

I'm a big fan of GOG and being DRM free is greatly appreciated. Mainly I buy games on GOG to load onto my travel laptop I use for work (just intel integrated grahics). I've got a couple of really kick ass gaming desktops at home, but I have a very plain business laptop for work and am unwilling to pay the premium…

I used to never do spring cleaning when I was younger, but as I've got into my late 20's it began to make more and more sense, especially as often as I move (every 2-3 years on average) so spring cleaning is about doing some deep cleaning around the apt or house and annual maintenance type things like cleaning dryer…

One nice thing about leaning bookshelves is that they don't end up sitting on the tack rail for the carpet. If you're trying to push a normal bookcase up against the wall the tack rail makes it lean forward and look like it's always about to fall away from the wall. Sure you could use a few bits of wood to shim up…

What!?!!!? Where was this post six months ago when I first moved in with my girlfriend. It would have saved me from so many painful nights of holding in my farts until I'd be able to think of an excuse to leave the apartment for 5-10 minutes. Usually I'd take the garbage out or run down to the corner store to pick…

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.