@RustyO918: Probably. ;-)

I actually find it annoying how FB is constantly trying to make itself my email client. I always use my gmail account to reply back to messages sent through FB. To me, FB is an entirely different animal and I feel no desire to make it the hub of my internet experience, not least because of their highly fickle way of…

@B1663R: I'm usually far more willing to circumvent a website's restrictions (say, by downloading YouTube videos) than to circumvent the restrictions of the people who pay me. :-) It's not that most corporate restrictions can't be gotten around, it's that the evidence of such getting around may very well be a firing…

Some of the images are really cool. I like:

Anyone who's interested in this might find the Energizer To Go a more compelling, extensible and cost-effective option. I got one a year or two ago and love it as a backup option. Basically, it's a pod that holds 2 AA batteries and has a variety of plug-in tips that transfer the charge to your device.

Weird, I added this to my bookmarklets last week but I assumed I'd come across it from LH. Now I can't remember WHERE I found it. :-) Two features I love . . . one, that it has a bookmarklet, and two that it has, essentially, command-line switches. That is, you can pre-make an URL that generates the PDF. So you…

Beautiful project, beautiful result. My wife is a librarian and though we don't have any exposed rafters in the house, I'm worried she'll see this and start pulling down ceiling drywall. :-)

@Andy Konecny: I've been using it on 3 WinXP and 1 Vista for more than a year without ever having a problem, so you must have a much higher standard than I do for "work reliably". :-) It's been very reliable for me.

There's an excellent and tiny MS Utility here:

@GldRush98: That's nor on my Performance Tab in Task Manager. I'm using Win XP SP3. Where should it be?

@chromenewt: Or you know what else might work? Any of these:

@SQLGuru: Still not as easy as mu USB Plug-in light. :-) Plus, I'm guessing that when you "turn on" the light by pressing the CAPS LOCK, you're going to be typing in CAPS. ;-)

Wow, certainly impressed that he made it work, but even as a guy who loves to tinker and hates carrying extra stuff, I just can't imagine that soldering a new chip onto the motherboard *of a laptop* would ever be preferable to just bringing along a USB light. Desktop, sure, though of course you won't need it there,…

@kirnkorner2001: True, though free wasn't part of the original request. Goldwave is $19 for a year or $49 for lifetime. And the trial version is actually quite robust, the OP could probably do their whole project within the confines of the trial. Even though my use of GW never exceeds the trial parameters, I bought…

Goldwave has a batch processing mode which would do this very simply. It's an excellent program. Goldwave.com

I visited the Clickfree Automatic backup booth at CES. It was incredibly impressive if you're wanting to set up easy-to-use backup for a non-techie.

@bluewraith: Once the Roombas learned to cooperate and hunt dirt as a pack, they started to make me nervous.

@Lexan: And actually, even if you *are* using the VESA holes, you could simply buy longer screws and still use them. You could have the a shelf bracket on either side of the mount, screws going through the shelf bracket, through the mount, and into the monitor holes. Then a shelf could go on the top of the shelf…

@winshape: Wow, that may be the dumbest surviving human ever. Great video. Which part of 32 degrees did that numb-nuts (pun intended) not understand? :-)

Step One: Don' walk on thin ice.