I've definitely gotten used to it. I now find that if I hold it in my left hand, I can flip one end of the rubber band over my left index finger, which hold it in place, whilst still allowing my to slide out any cards/cash I need. Then once I'm done, I can just flip the band back from my finger without having to…

A couple of years ago, I did an honest review of all the items in my wallet, and thought about what I really needed to be carrying every day. For the majority of my membership cards (eg. Frequent Flyer cards, Health Insurance cards, library cards, etc) I have my membership number in my phone for a reference, and take…

Here's my rubber banded daily carry. Credit card, debit card, drivers licence, public transport card, folded paper with personal notes, cash. It comes in at a total of 6mm thick, and surprisingly, I'm still on the same rubber band from two years ago.

Oh, good to know I wasn't the only one that had to do a quick rewind to make sure that was what he actually said.

Possibly, installing the Google Authenticator app on your tablet will let you get authorisation codes that way. But if you're loggin into a new computer in a place where your tablet doesn't have WiFi access, you'll be stuck.

As long as your phone can receive SMSs, then you should be fine. The codes will just be sent to you that way.

FWIW, I'm running Chrome sync and Gmail 2-step verification and have never had any issues.

Before you claim that - a friend at work recently had his online banking hacked and $10k stolen whilst two-factor authorisation was in place. Hacker convinced phone provider to port phone number over to them, then received SMS authorisation codes that way. Having since spoken to some telecommunications security…

If the picture zoomed out, you'd see that it's actually a vulture.

I'm in the same boat - one for home and one for work. I love my trackball.

Having cycled through a whole bunch of low-spec linuxes (lubuntu, xubuntu, puppy, DSL, etc.) on the 8 and 11 year old desktops that I regularly use at home, I'm not convinced that any of them run better than Windows XP. Granted, there's a lot more to it than just how well they run (especially when XP security support…

I'll also vote for this. In Australia on Optus, there's no additional charge for tethering. But with only 2.5GB/month on my mobile plan, it's definitely a "sometimes food".

I'm much the same - I'm 31, so my max should be 191 according to this formula (or 189 in the original one), but I've recently clocked myself at 206 while pushing the final 500m in a 10K race. But similar to Kate, I've always seemed to idle at higher than normal while running (175-180bpm is still a conversational pace…

I've been using RSS feeds as my main source of news for the past 5 or so years. I've got a couple of trusted sources (for me in Australia it's ABC and SBS) and I subscribe to their 'Top Story' feeds. For both of them, the feed is set up to display the headline and first paragraph of each article. With the two…

I'll weigh in a vote for this app, too. I've got a few different Tasker profiles set up with it as well. And a homescreen shortcut to drop the brightness down to 32% at a single touch. It's great for phone use as night while the missus sleeps.

Noticing that the cooling fan seemed to be working harder than I expected, I opened the case on a 5 year old computer at work to find a manual and all the installation CDs all tucked inside.

My main tagging system is in my Evernote recipe database. I have tags for Dietary Requirements (eg. Vegetarian, Dairy Free, etc) and tags for type of recipes (eg. Roast, Soup, Condiment, etc.). This lets me easily filter to scan through a list to work out what to cook for the occasion and people.

For the past few years I've used the "Runner's Tie" lacing method (mentioned under "Heel Slipping" in the attached article), combined with an "Ian's Secure Knot" (http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secur…). This combo has served me very well.

I thought exactly the same thing. The three reasons seemed to be, it's cheaper, there's one unit of anecdotal evidence that it's good, and there might be better options but I've never tried them.

I thought exactly the same thing. The three reasons seemed to be, it's cheaper, there's one unit of anecdotal evidence that it's good, and there might be better options but I've never tried them.