Is it just me or is the did Azadeh misread the PC-World email? I think "This opportunity may be a bit more hands-on than I'd like" is the PC World writer's commentary on the email header "Help Your Customer Live the Fantasy"... the same is true for all the other examples that were listed; those are PC World…

Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000.

I hooked this into Launchy using the Runner plugin. Somehow my install of Cygwin didn't have the dig command, so I downloaded it from [members.shaw.ca] instead. Having installed it, I couldn't call it directly from Launchy because the prompt it opened closed immediately. So I wrapped it in a .bat script, added a…

I got this hooked into Launchy; first I had to download the dig utility because my install of Cygwin didn't seem to have it. I got it here: [members.shaw.ca]

Facebook for links that are especially relevant to one person, but others of my friends might be interested if they happened to come across it. Some of those friends comment that the discussions resulting from such links (especially the political ones), makes their News Feed much more interesting, even if it's not a…

I wonder if such cooling absorbant crystals could be embedded in the collar of a shirt. Potentially less ridiculous a look?

These articles would be much improved if they compared to lifehacker standards (in this case notepad++); under the presumption that lifehacker readers often use the lifehacker download packs / hive five winners, I imagine readers would only wish to change if they had better features than in those standards.

I've used AndreaMosaic a few times, which has plenty of options (letting you choose how much tint-cop-out-ness you allow, among other things) and seems generally to be more powerful (also Freeware, Windows only).