I've looked into using Problem Steps Recorder and was really unimpressed by what it did. For most users it's easy to have them use the "snipping tool" in Windows 7. I can't count the number of times I've gotten work orders that just said "It doesn't work". I generally have to hold back from writing a snarky email…

I ate them all, De-lic-ious! Which is why these lids need to be edible!

I take pictures of our whiteboard in nearly all my meetings. It's trivial to open the pictures in Camera+ and turn up the brightness, contrast and saturation. They even have a text setting for pics that works about 90% of the time. Then I use TurboScan to compile them into a PDF on my phone before sending them out.…

If in a desperate situation, can I cook a meal in it? Well then obviously it's junk. </sarcasm>

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.

"resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, and criminal mischief"

Thanks! So far it seems it also does a good job of getting a response from someone to further gauge if they're an asshole or not. I tip my hat to you good sir for seeing through my ruse.

The thing I've found is that every "group" is going to have a small percentage of assholes in it, doesn't matter if it's drivers, skaters, bikers, pedestrians or a gaggle of toddlers there will always be jerks in every group that even the people of that group will be embarrassed by. The trick is to try and not be the…

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 programmer, but have been dabbling with Arduino's for about three years now. They are great for getting your feet wet and figuring out digital electronics. Some of the things I've built with an Arduino so far is a RepRap 3D printer (Mega 2560), a 5x5x5 LED Cube (UNO), a motion sensitive 3 axis RGB LED pen for…

It was quite a novelty to wake up and have a cup of coffee and watch all the cruise ships roll into Juneau's ports during the summer. Plus the views of Douglas Island's mountains are pretty impressive. Having been here in Juneau since the early 2000's the "awe" of all the mountains and nature have kind of warn off. …

Yep, I was there late 90's through very early 2000's. I also mentioned I was a student at the time still the price difference between those non AC crapholes and really nice places was only about $50-150 difference in price. I ended getting a more expensive two bedroom apartment closer to school with a roommate. I…

They do, when the NEST was coming out and Honeywell was posturing to sue them there were a few sites that did comparisons between Honeywell's systems and the NEST. The big issue in the reviews was that the Honeywell's user interface was a confusing mess on most of their thermostats.

Hell, I lived in Phoenix for nearly 5 years and I was really surprised by how many apartments only had "swamp coolers" for AC. I was going to school and was tight on money, but there was still no way in hell I was going to rent a place in Phoenix without AC especially since I moved down there from Fairbanks Alaska.

Dustpan/Vacuum! hmmmmm I might have an equally useless bit of hardware to sell people in six months!

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…

Another really neat design that throws functionality to the wind... I see so many of these kinds of things posted often by design students where they look cool as hell, but would most likely suck to actually use. A light breeze and you lose the majority of your heat source.

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…