Anyone have a good tutorial on setting up Tasker to turn off the lock when my home wifi is in range? And for that matter, a good way to tell tasker to turn wifi off when I leave and back on when I arrive home?

For a lot of these you could use Tasker. Also, Nova Launcher has the handy gesture support. I use double tap anywhere on the home screen for Google Now Search. Not as battery hogging as "OK Google Now" and you won't sound like a dork.

That's really the point. A lot of people have called Thunderbird dead just because Mozilla isn't pushing it as hard as they used to. When I wrote a post a while back on some great Thunderbird extensions, the most common response from some corners was "Isn't Thunderbird dead?" to which I had to redefine "dead" to those…

I just use an excel spreadsheet. Initially it takes a little bit of time to set it up to your liking, but once it is done, its just a matter of making it a habit to fill it.

I've always had good luck with the Newegg/MicroCenter combo... Amazon works in a pinch as well...

Best Video Converter: Handbrake. I'm in the video production business and video encoding quality is paramount. It's not a "push one button" solution but Handbrake produces the best looking MP4 video by far, particularly at low bit rates. It will also encode MP4 video into MKV containers and will rip directly from…

VOTE: Handbrake. One stop tool for converting my videos. Gives me a ton of control over the video and audio quality, and that fact that is can rip right from dvd's (assuming the proper libraries are install) is a plus. Oh and it's cross platform.

Why sort your apps by color, when you could sort them by functionality?

So I send an email to someone who is having their email spied on and the result is a read email by the NSA, no? It seems these services only work if the sender and recipient are on the same service, else at some point, a non-encrypted email is available somewhere, phone, gmail server, etc.

Ditto on the water heater bit. I've had two separate home inspectors tell me it is worthless to wrap up your water heater in any way. They are internally insulated.

Agreed. I've kind of given up on Microsoft offering a truly monumental update. Instead, I've learned to spend money on good premium apps that integrate with Windows and add new features, rather than spending that $100 on a new version of Windows. I still ended up upgrading to Windows 8, but the money was much better…

here is what i do:

I've wanted to give up cable for so long, but sports is what keeps me around. Yes, there are sites like Frontrow sports etc to stream it, but at the end of the day it's too much hassle with pop ups, shitty connections... and more pop ups, and it's much easier to press on / espn, boom.

I used to see comedian/actor Jim Gaffigan at the Bowery YMCA in New York all the time. He'd be giving it full pelt on an elliptical machine, while reading what looked like a script or new material - and making notes at the same time. I admired his ability to do this....I cannot so much as flick through a magazine when…

Crashplan software does it. For free even.

Don't forget the Amazon barcode search app thingy. I'll be in a store, price check an item then buy it on Amazon with 2 day shipping.

I just use a smaller cast iron pan instead of a dedicated press. It's something I already have that does the job just fine.

How does did compare to Disconnect.me...? It was recommended here just a short while back... Over DNT or Ghostery...

AutomateIt Pro is awesome for tasking too. I found it much easier at time to program tasks and you can download user created tasks too!

The biggest reason I use RSS feeds and look for a good Reader alternative was to read the Gawker-at-large sites (LH, Giz, iO9, etc). Now that you only publish truncated teasers for your feed, honestly there is little benefit to using the feeds. I liked knowing what the whole article was about before I dove in and…