Most utility companies offer plans to average out your payments over the year. These amounts get adjusted, but usually only once or twice a year. In Minneapolis, my utility bills switch from gas-heavy in the winter (for heating) to electric-heavy in the summer (for cooling), but the bills for each of those utilities…

The funny thing is that I've been running iTunes on Windows for years and I've not ran into ANY of the crashing and instability you speak of. A good portion of my music IS manually arranged - I'm not exactly sure what you're speaking of there.

CCleaner is more than just an uninstaller though.

My PNC account has PopMoney integration as well. I get to send money straight into the recipient's bank account with no fees at all. Best option for cases that don't involve cards.

You can actually use the password over and over again. However, it's a completely random, 16-character string, so I'm not too worried about someone brute-forcing the hash, should Google ever get hacked.

Or you use a key-exchange protocol such as Diffie-Hellman to securely generate a session key.

Two-factor should be at the top of this list, IMO, not the bottom.

Hmmm. Bikes? Toys? Lawnmower? Snowblower? This is a great garage for a childless person with no yard.

They would drive to your house because people often have their house keys on the same key chain. You should always keep your keys on separate chains. I have a car key chain, a house key chain and gym locker chain. It's a bit more cumbersome but if I lose a key chain I don't lose every single key that I own.

My personal assumption is that this discounted price means we're going to see a new version announced very soon. Perhaps trying to take a bit of wind out of the upcoming iPhone announcement? Still, great price for the hardware.

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.

You can generate the keys from the command line once you have installed gpg.

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

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…

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.

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