Thank you for this, Thorin! I've always owned Windows machines and have only had a Mac for about a month. I'm comfortable with custom ROMs for Android, but have always flashed in Windows. I tried it for the first time this weekend on my Mac and had a really hard time, partially because I'm not very familiar with the…

Maybe Evil Week isn't for you, or you don't understand the theme. I recommend you not read anything else on Lifehacker until Evil Week is over.

I'm glad this post came up, because this relates to my current situation. I am a project manager at a financial technology company. I have a Bachelor in Business Administration in Marketing and management experience (in banking).

I'm definitely turned off by apps that don't follow the Android design guidelines. I don't know why more devs don't follow the guidelines. Are they unnecessarily difficult to implement?

Dude! I had that same bug zapper racket thing all through college! We used to shock each other with it when we were drunk.

I've been using Drivebender for about 10 months or so on my home server. I converted it from a headless WHS machine to a Windows 8 machine in my home office that I can use for some light computing at my desk.

I tried adding a few powerline adapters on my network and found out that it doesn't work well with AT&T UVerse. It caused the TV signal to freeze up constantly on all of my TVs.

Neither do I. Must be rolling out.

It will backup any hard drives in your computer. I am uploading 1.4TB spread over 6 HDD's right now. It won't backup an external hard drive (I don't think), but anything internal is covered.

Root your phone and get Titanium Backup from the play store. It will let you uninstall (or freeze) any app. Just learn what you're doing before you do it. It allows you to uninstall and freeze system apps, which can cause problems if you mess with the wrong apps.

I think the security of the app specific passwords comes from them being easily revoked and not accessible after you've generated them. Once you generate them and accept them, you can't ever see the password again unless you've saved it somewhere. Theoretically, the application you're using them in could store them if…

The app easily accommodates that. I have 2 google accounts and lastpass linked to my android app. I've never had a problem. It just shows codes for each listed on the same screen. Really easy to use, no excuses not to.