Ugh, my parents do this. They don't use a data miner, but they collect info about people they expect to meet and make up a word doc that they print and study (like a college cram session!) in the car on the way to social events. They did this recently at an Easter get-together with my new wife's family, and they had…

As an added bonus, the water bottle trick won't wipe your credit cards like the magnetic thing-a-ma-jig would if one bumped into your wallet as you passed through.

I've seen safety razors in movies and such for a very long time, and always thought that since they only appeared in older movies, or in newer movies set in earlier times, that cartridge razors were a technological marvel of the modern age and were far superior in every way. I've been using them my entire life. Now…

I tried it on my Nexus S and it failed to install several times. Boo. Running CyanogenMod 10.1.0 (Android 4.2.2) for whatever that's worth.

I was wondering the same thing...

I just slapped RaspBMC on mine and called it a day. Figuring out how to "upload" keymap tweaks via pasting the keyboard.xml file into a backup and then "restoring" it made me feel like a super genius. There's probably a more proper way, but this worked for me. Now the "Info" button on my Harmony remote (using the VCE…

And the title of THAT Lifehacker article is called "How to easily amputate your pinky with household nylon string".

I've been using this for a while now, not because of the autofocus thing, but because of the camera shake that comes with tapping the screen. I'll have to pay more attention next time and see if waiting for the autofocus helps any.

Vote: Gerber Dime (in red and black, of course)

There are a few things in the GA area that might be worth checking out in addition the stuff other folks have already mentioned (D*Con!): Battle and Brew is a gamer bar near Marietta, and they host a good round of Geek Trivia every Wednesday. Also, Georgia is home to a large number of LARPs, which are all chock-full…

Please, someone edit the hell out of that .gif and replace the golfclub with a lightsaber...

Okay, here goes:

Kind of threadjacking here - but I've been able to install Touchpal and set it as the default keyboard on my jailbroken iPod Touch 5. I tried iSwipe and found it extremely lacking, but Touchpal is a thoroughly decent option for swipe-typing on iOS. Not talking about the Touchpal app available through iTunes where you…

Nope, no problems yet. I don't use the keyboard as much as I expected (as I said earlier, it's not as polished as Swype, at least not for iOS - or maybe I'm just too set in my Swype ways), but it's nice to have the option. I leave it enabled in settings, and can click through to it using the "globe" key on the…

This is "Voyn" again, I guess I lost my lifehacker/burner login... I wanted to come back and say that you may run into trouble with getting to the right keyboard at first. When I first installed it, it came up as a sort of T9 keyboard that didn't work very well for me. To get to the standard QWERTY keyboard, simply…