Avoid scratching your glasses in the first place by only cleaning them with your toothbrush and a single drop of dish soap. It gets into all those crevasses and gets both lenses and frames sparkling clean, and the bristles can't trap the damaging grit like a cleaning cloth can. Once clean and rinsed, a couple of…

Eh. You guys are welcome to your editors. I'm sticking with the one in NDN. Syntax highlighting, regular expressions, block mode editing - and all part of an insanely powerful file manager. (With FTP/network support.) I've been using it in its various incarnations for over ten years, and I'll keep right on using…

Two things:

***WARNING*** This only applies in the US. Data rates in Canada are absolutely ridiculous. Case in point: I just received my first bill from Bell with the 'Unlimited Browser' plan. It's a darned good thing that I didn't use my browser much, as they are charging me $51.20 per MEGABYTE! I talked to a dealer and he…

One trick I learned as a lad was to always have a half-dozen pieces of expanded steel plate (12-18"x24-36") and a dozen or so quick-links in my truck. The plate's sharp(ish) edges dig into the ice, and several linked together will give you traction all of the way out of that ditch. One nice thing about their open…

After throwing away the tenth or so pot that my learning-to-cook kids had destroyed, I stopped buying cheap non-stick pots and went straight to thick stainless steel Revereware like my mom had. Now whenever the little darlings make charcoal rice because they forgot to turn the heat down, I just hand them my electric…

Did I miss some news report? Have they discovered that Secunia is full of malware or something? That's the only reason that I can think of that it hasn't been mentioned as of yet. I have been using it for a couple of years now, and it is one of the 'must have' tools for updating clients' systems. It seems to look…

The Aeropress looks interesting, but my fave combo is an full-lid kettle (good for ramen, chili, etc.) and my beloved Bodum Travel Press. (I glued the outside sleeve in place after inserting a label clearly identifying it as mine.) I keep refills of coffee (purchasing a week's worth at a time from a local roaster)…

Oscar Lopez, Ottmar Liebert, and Jesse Cook are my 'Round Tuit Buddies'. I have an 'Up Guitar' playlist on my iPod that I can groove to whenever I need to get things done.

Just go down to Wally World and pick up a 5lb bucket of 'Oxi Stain Remover' (i.e. Sodium Percarbonate) for $3.50, dump a half-dozen scoops in your (empty) washer (Don't add any soap), fill it with hot water (150+°F / 65+°C), agitate for a minute or so, drop your towels in, agitate for another minute or so, then leave…

@Duy K. Bui: O rly? ;D

Dagnabit! Decades ago, I came across a metal one that put a small piece of tape across the tab (using a standard tape roll ) to keep it from coming loose, but didn't grab it, and now I can't find any link to it.

Behold the power of SED! [sed.sourceforge.net]

Hmmm... Interesting. *My* fix was to exit Google Desktop. I guess the combination of the two processes was the culprit. (Combined with my propensity for tabs numbering in the triple-digits. )

I predict that the key will have:

FWIW, Steam, once installed, is *highly* portable. I have my favourite Steam-based games on a 60GB USB drive, and I can play them from any computer that it is plugged into, or from any other computer on the network.

@theninjasquad: Deal Extreme has cheap rare-earth magnets in disk, sphere, and ring forms. (BTW, while they have a good rep, their free shipping is definitely not for the impatient. )

Still no better resolution for Draw. Yes, I know that it isn't supposed to be AutoCAD, but .13" *IS NOT* the same as .125", and there is *no* good reason not to have 4 digits of accuracy in a modern application.

I've started using Zoho Meeting for my remote work. It's easy to use, supports multiple connections to one PC (e.g. showing how to use OpenOffice to ten people at once), and offers ActiveX, Flash, and Java interfaces.

I've had a lot of 'recipe managers' over the years, and have ended up getting rid of all of them, as they all seem to require at least two or three ingredients that I don't have, and going shopping for just one or two meals just doesn't make sense to me. Honestly, it could be the best recipe manager in the world, but…