I've been doing this for several months now with my Netflix DVDs. Works pretty well.

I know there's a way to address the packages for UPS to auto-hold them at the pickup station, as I asked about that when complaining to UPS after a screwup a couple years ago when i requested depot pickup twice for a missed iPod delivery, and two days in a row, they tried to deliver it to me, instead. I didn't write…

Wolfram alpha will also answer questions like

Alternatively, use dimes and pennies. Dime, lemon juice-soaked-paper,penny. Repeat. It'll be thicker than using half-sanded pennies, but it will be quicker, and won't require power tools.

A commenter (hercules_100_98) on the "How to Perform any task from your browser's Address bar" ( [lifehacker.com] ) article suggested setting a Search engine in Chrome that would search the site you're currently visiting in much the same way that this extension does, though it doesn't pull the native searching…

I'll often use Yahoo pipes to turn partial-content feeds into full-content feeds, and when it comes to making a nicely-formatted RSS feed for a site that doesn't have one, it's what I usually turn to. Page2RSS and WizardRSS are fine for quick and dirty feed-creation and full-contentizing, but Yahoo pipes is what I'll…

If you're writing a program that needs to get the user's external IP, having a simple page that you can fetch and import is pretty useful.

I'm looking for a free email-to-RSS service that will put the full content of the email in the RSS feed, and whose feed can be fetched without authentication.

As do I. Strangely, it was the Chrome Web Store that ultimately convinced me to switch from Firefox. I'd been using Chrome as a secondary browser for quite some time, but after the announcement in December, I spent a week trying out the webapps and pretending I was using a ChromeOS machine. And then discovered that…

RSS Subscription Extension by Google.

The DTV converter box will do the channel-selection for all TVs connected to it. You'll only be able to watch the channel that the converter box is tuned to, and if it only has an IR remote, you'll have to go to the room where it is to change channels.

I wonder. Would popping open an Incognito/Private Browsing window in your browser of choice work?

It's not widely known to most people, but the iPhone apparently has excellent accessibility features that make it extremely useful to the visually impaired, primarily thanks to VoiceOver.

I liked the Time Machine books, myself. wherein the mysterious Time Machine Organization sent a child into the past (or in one case, into the future) to solve the mysteries of history. You couldn't die in those books, you'd just loop back and get another try; and their idea of proper equipment was sometimes…

Hmm, looks like a job for full-drive encryption...if he'd done it before the lawsuit.

@davepermen: Conflickr doesn't check the same domain every time , it picks 500 from a list of 50,000, and all whoever's updating it has to do is register one of the 500 during the appropriate time window.

I use the Belkin Tune Ties. Typically inexpensive, but pretty awesome.

From iOS 3.1-3.x, I had terrible problems with keeping my place on podcasts and audiobooks, if I tried to listen to them both through iTunes and on my iPod touch. Extremely annoying, since podcasts and audiobooks are pretty much everything I listen to.

When looking for a string that would allow me to search Google Calendar, I ran across this Chrome Help Boards post, which gives search strings for a number of Google Services.

@Whitson Gordon: Hmm. I'd not thought of that. Thanks.