Hi Joel - nice to get a reply from a real human! ;-) So, just because the animations themselves are smooth definitely doesn't mean they don't drag on your system. Activator, just as an example, may itself operate smoothly but can really drag your system.

Midnightblues94 - this is your first comment on lifehacker/gawker, ever (and it's a pretty annoying and snarky one at that - congrats to you if that was what you were after). Are you the developer, or somehow involved with DisplayCandy? If your response is negative, you'll have a hard time convincing me that you're…

not sure if you're aware, but there's a whole community out there that debates about the high-end blenders vehemently. Vitamix vs this vs that... Just wanted to give you a heads up before you think that there's going to be a clear winner for you.

oh my. if ever there was a useless tweak that was guaranteed to slow your iPhone to a crawl, this has got to be it.

when will the kindle read ePubs, and if the answer is never, then when will there be a hack to *make* it?

Protect yourself, and install tools that hide your browsing habits from 3rd party sites. CSFire is one good tool http://albosure.blogspot.com/2010/04/plugging-privacy-leaks-with-csfire.html . You can also exclusively block facebook and twitter via adblock plus…

meh. needlebase was really where it was at, until google pulled a "google" and bought and disbanded it.

meh. get a sleeve and stick it in whatever bag you already have.

I'd also be curious to see what you might come up with! I haven't built such a system myself, but I'd like to. I figure one could go with USB cameras, Ethernet cameras, WiFi cameras, or a mix of the three. Then yeah, just wire the USB cams to a PC and the network cams to your network and run them all from PC…

1) Didn't mean to "bash" anything (hence my giving credit to the effort and DIY knowhow involved in the project).

wait, what? a video switcher?? This project uses a video switcher that switches between the video cams at a user-settable interval. Are we still living in the 1970's?? This solution took alot of effort and DIY knowhow, but nah, if I'm going to put in that kind of effort, the thing sure as hell ain't gonna work on…

I feel secure enough using a password manager (stored locally - NOT online), and having unique, (mostly) random and strong passwords for each login. I need access to my accounts when I don't necessarily have my phone, etc, so I'm going to skip the two-factor auth. If you're always in a city within cellphone range,…

big, BIG thumbs down for twitter. Very bad tidings. for me, the most concerning part is the user limit that apps like tweetbot are being slapped with. They'll have a year or two of room, but after that... I hope that twitter experiences enough outrage to change their tune before any of those limits are reached. …

have you ever played with mediamonkey? i'd be surprised if foobar's tagging tools were better...

wow - an organism that eats CO2 and creates biofuel? holy crap! If only trees and corn could do that!!!

feels like someone should make a dropbox template for this. droppages?

yep. not sure if you've seen it, but https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ebpikpglbmpefffekgcdhogkpihphjja and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kotaku-fix-fox-edition/ if you want out. Still doesn't get you the 'Featured' | 'All' | 'Post' one... thing, but better than the junk they're feeding us...

Nice observation. I think this is EXACTLY the kind of behavior that the entertainment industry needs to take advantage of! Instead of ruining kids lives over 37 songs and garnering buttloads of bad will, they should be taking advantage of our inherent laziness, and make music and songs so available, so cheap, such…

let me decide for you - NO, you don't like it. :-)

agreed! the only problem is that, while some of us have koatku fix, we're robbed of all our old community members who haven't/can't install it. So, we're a poorer community now, kotaku fix or not.