Snap Drop uses a central site to mediate the peer-to-peer connection between your two devices. All data and metadata stays on your LAN. Since it runs in a browser, you can inspect all of the JavaScript yourself. You can also install your own private server to mediate the connections and not have to talk to the default…

How did I miss this? This is easily the best life hack I’ve seen so far this year! (Admittedly, only four days far, but still…) I am a bit disappointed that it’s only hiding the additional home screens and not actually getting rid of them, nor does it let me re-order the screens. Still, this is a great start. 

Pro-tip: get artwork big enough to cover the cables.

“Load up on reading material… Check out books from library. “

When I was in college, i was sharing a beer with an older acquaintance who commented, “You don’t know that you’re getting old until the day that your kids have their friends over and you suddenly realize that they’re hot.”

Now I need to clean out my closet. Somewhere I’ve got wall-wart provides a private WiFi network that i think would work with this. (It also has a USB port to share storage. I wonder if I could share movies from it directly to the Chromecast?)

The best reason to own a pool is that your children are teenagers and will invite all of their teenage friends over to swim. The best reason to not own a pool is that your children are teenagers and will invite all of their stupid friends over to swim.

Pinterest. No, really. My wife just went through two shelves of cookbooks and is going to donate all but a couple of family hand-me-downs to Goodwill. Why? Because she doesn’t open any of them anymore, except over the holidays when she uses her mother’s and grandmother’s old recipes for some of the meal.

Most of these seem to require having a smart TV. Many of us, such as myself, not own such a TV. I do however own both a large screen TV that supports Consumer Electronic Control (CEC), which allows HDMI-connected devices to control one another, and a Dish Network Hopper, which also supports CEC. This gives me the…

Where did $60,000 come from? A one year supply of food for four people comes in at just under $4,000. Check out http://bit.ly/1Fhoabu, for example. But I do not own nearly that amount. I’m talking about maybe $60 out of every paycheck for a few months, not 40 years. At this point, I have maybe $1000 invested in this,…

I would like to recommend also having an emergency food “savings account”. Places like Amazon, Costco and Walmart have “prepper” bulk foods for sale, sometimes in the store, sometimes on-line. These are either #10 cans or large plastic tubs with a shelflife of 10 to 30 years. You can store them under your bed or along…

LastPass on an iPhone 5S or 6 lets you use Touch ID to unlock. Heaven!

You’re right, it does sound snarky. A lot of sites don’t understand good web design, and don’t put a link to their home page in an easy-to-find location. If I find myself on such a site, especially if I had followed a deep link, it would be nice to have a easy, consistent way to find their home page without resorting…

“I Began to See Rejection and Failure as Progress”

I love this idea, but unfortunately, the TV I am most likely to use is already mounted to the wall. I think that I will have to get a piece of acrylic and drill the holes myself to mount my Raspberry Pi off center.

When driving, I've noticed that if I answer my phone using the display, it starts in private mode, whereas if I use the button on my steering wheel, it starts up in Bluetooth mode.

"So true," I thought to myself as I looked at my living room curtains, which at one end barely touch the floor but have a good 1/2" clearance at the other.

Okay, I'm can no longer watch Arrow, at least until they get this guy a job as the stunt archer.

The Dish Network Hopper has a button labeled "Find Remote" on the front of the console. I only need it every three or four months, but at those times it has been a life saver.

What are you talking about? I've never had any problems with the customer service. I don't fault them for not wanting to make new software run on old equipment that they don't sell anymore, even if it is theoretically feasible. As for your middle item, to what are you referring?