I picked up one of the 96" butcher-block ikea countertops this weekend, and didn't realize until I'd drilled the legs into the wrong side until I flipped it over and saw a dark black "IKEA" stamp on what was now the top of my desk. Fortunately the countertop was only $59, so I'm moving it to the basement as a…

I'm pretty sure CTRL-ENTER inserts a page break, which should be noted along with that tip because it's not really the same as pressing enter a few times.

@TheFu: I learned about bundling from the "OneBag" guy (essential reading for people who are commited to packing/traveling light):

I use this app in place of SMS when signing up for transit and city alerts that I'd rather not waste my SMS messages on.

@jaledwith: +1 1password

When updating/upgrading will cause something I use often to stop working. For example, Selenium IDE plugin for Firefox is incompatible with v3.5 so I am still running the previous release.

Two sort of related hacks that I use:

This is not a very good tip from the standpoint of food safety. Food left at room temperature for too long is a breeding ground for bacteria. If you insist on using this method, I'd encourage you to steer clear of recipes that involve meat.

No 3G poll choice?

I'm partial to Mark Bittman's Parmesan Cream Crackers, which are a little more elegant (probably because I like parmesan cheese more than cheddar) but equally simple:

If I have lunch with one of my friends that owns their own business, and they interrupt me because their Blackberry is buzzing or a call comes in, I don't take issue with it.

I have a contact in my iPhone address book titled "Do Not Answer", I add all the numbers I'd rather not answer to that contact. The phone still rings, but I know not to answer.

I've found most non-HD season passes cost *under* $30, not upwards of (which means "in excess of") $30.

The comments below that article are more helpful than the article itself. Be sure to read them too.

@ehed: For any interested, I ended up buying a Brother MFC-495CW ([bit.ly]) - a multi-function inkjet printer with built-in WiFi (and an ethernet port) for $89 on sale (through one of the lifehacker deal roundups, incidentally). It has a document feeder, and worked out-of-the-box with Mac OS X 10.6 (after a quick…

fav4.org is pretty neat

Killed. There's so much social overlap at this point, it's annoying.

i wonder how much they pay

Can anyone recommend a decent but affordable piece of Mac-friendly hardware to handle scanning statements and other physical documents quickly and easily to PDF?

Anyone know of a tool I can use to generate ePub files from online articles? Instapaper kind of does this (it lets you export an ePub file of everything in your reading list), but I'd like one file per article ideally, not one giant book full unrelated articles.