I'd love Tivo streaming as well, but the problem is always with content locking. FTA: "The device's capabilities are limited in several ways due to restrictions placed by content providers...You can also only transfer certain content to your iOS device for viewing later. It depends on the network, but Comedy Central…

This is all fine advice, but I wonder how realistic some of it is. "I have a sleep ritual of disengaging from the day at 9:30 PM and sleeping at 10 PM." Every day? A person with commitments to spouse, children, friends, and community organizations may find it difficult to disengage at 9:30 every evening. I too enjoy…

Just make sure the box you want to install this in is big enough to handle it. These are significantly larger than "normal" outlets.

Postbox isn't bad, but the problem for me is the list behind the comment, "The ability to use some of Thunderbird's most popular add-ons." The list is woefully short when compared to the full set of add-ons available for TBird. There are a number of these that I consider necessary, so not having them makes moving to…

Postbox isn't bad, but the problem for me is the list behind the comment, "The ability to use some of Thunderbird's most popular add-ons." The list is woefully short when compared to the full set of add-ons available for TBird. There are a number of these that I consider necessary, so not having them makes moving to…

Postbox isn't bad, but the problem for me is the list behind the comment, "The ability to use some of Thunderbird's most popular add-ons." The list is woefully short when compared to the full set of add-ons available for TBird. There are a number of these that I consider necessary, so not having them makes moving to…

Ugh. Well that's a deal killer, at least for now.

I dumped GoDaddy for Namecheap back in April and have been very happy. Do you really need to be paying your registrar for Super Bowl ads?

I use DoggCatcher and like it. The only problem is the retries, as mentioned. Really this shouldn't even happen except that my phone seems unable to maintain a WiFi connection for any length of time. Incredibly frustrating.

I'd do it if Google supported Google+ for Google apps users. But, bizarrely, they do not.

I'm tempted to switch to an "e-bank" like ING, but what do you do if you need a physical bank service? Like getting a cashier's check or doing a wire transfer? Just curious.

My parents used to do this when we were kids. Who knew they were suburban MacGyvers?

So you can check the box telling the app to enable last.fm scrobbling, but I don't see any place to tell it what your last.fm account is. Am I missing something?

OpenOffice has a good spreadsheet, an OK word processor, and a poor presentation editor. If you're an individual (meaning you won't get software purchases sponsored by your employer) and your primary concerns are spreadsheets and documents, then the cost for MS Office is probably not justifiable.

Shipping beta-quality software as release-ready. Software arrives full of bugs then gets incessantly updated with patches and new "features" that you get whether you want them or not.

@blacktf — thanks! I'll investigate...seems there's no end to what you can do with Tasker

I'm a big fan of Tasker and like the idea of turning on WiFi when I'm home and off when I'm not...but a couple of questions. It's easy to create a location-based task that turns on WiFi when I'm home, and in fact I just did that. But will this task cause Tasker to turn GPS on all the time to know if I'm home? Second…

I run hMail on my local system and use imapsync to do a nightly sync of my Gmail mailbox and a mailbox on the local system. Similar to the fetchmail solution but has the added benefit of running a real IMAP server on the local system. Coupled with DynDNS I can get at my mail from any IMAP client even if Gmail is down…

OpenOffice's components are uneven. The spreadsheet is very good, the word processor is pretty good, and the presentation software is horrible. And of course there is no Outlook equivalent.

My watch. Sure your phone will tell you what time it is, but generally I look at my watch not to know the current time but to know how long before the next thing I need to worry about. And that's easier with an analog watch. Your brain's really good at knowing what a 120-degree span (that is, 20 minutes) feels…