The most important thing I would stress to anyone thinking of setting up a home theater arrangement is that you absolutely do not need a screen. If you have a good space just paint the wall a neutral grey and keep it a general purpose room... Modern projectors are bright enough and sharp enough that a real screen is…

The most important thing I would stress to anyone thinking of setting up a home theater arrangement is that you…

You can also use the PHP built-in server in the same way:

Wow, a company I've never heard of wants me to trust them with all my data and I'm sure they will still be operating in 3 years when I actually need them... And it's only about as expensive as Google or Amazon...

Reason #3 looks like an excellent way to slice your hand with a knife. Don't do that.

Anyone know why Feedly cannot consume Reddit feeds? Reddit has private but no-auth URLs for your feeds and they used to work. But no longer... They just don't refresh. I was wondering if they made single user feeds a pro feature... or if it's just a bug?

I was surprised that iMovie on the iPhone itself did not support the slow motion. I assume this must be coming in an update.

Not putting a lens cap on the back element is about the worst thing I can think of... First it's totally exposed (unlike the front element which probably has a neutral filter on it for protection) and second all of the dust and lint that you get on it from flinging it into your bag goes straight into the camera body…

I'd rephrase the opening sentence as: "Excel is a great app if you live in 1995 and only use Windows and never collaborate on your spreadsheets with anyone and do your own backups and like to pay for things that you could get for free..."

Obviously if you *can* make a perfect hierarchy of your notes as they come to you then that is the best way to write them down. The problem is that in real life you may not know the hierarchy at the beginning. Making the hierarchy is the application of your intelligence to the stream of information you are…

This comment is much more useful than the original post. I always have to laugh at the lifehacker stories that boil down to "put this thing in or on top of another thing" or "build a lightbox out of a box and some lights". Now we learn that we can put food in the fridge to make it last longer :) I wish lifehacker…

You can also use a Mac, which has had this built-in to the OS for ten years.

Better way: Fold the Skymall catalog into an iPhone stand. Roll half of the pages back and tuck them into the catalog (make a half-tube). Then pick up about 25 pages and tuck them under the first tube to make a base. Crease the base and fold back the edge to make a lip. If you do this correctly you'll have a nice…

My favorite lifehacker stories are those that explain how the basic mechanics of living in a three dimensional world. Need to make something higher? Put it on top of something! Want to stop it from going lower? Put something under it! Put your garbage in a garbage can! Make a lightbox out of a box and some…

For god's sake don't give this random site your real birth date and all of your personal information... This has *so* got to be a scam. "You send them your credit card number and they tell you if it's lucky!" — Simpsons.

Handbrake is awesome and if the batch converter util works that is great. However I was relieved recently to discover that there is a sensible command line for HandBrake (https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CLIGuide). It allows you to do things like: ./HandBrakeCLI -i /Volumes/DVD -o movie.mp4 —preset="iPhone & iPod…

thewirecutter.com tries to identify the "best" thing in each category and they punt on speakers... There are just too many variables / requirements to label one best for a given scenario. Personally I have tried the Bose Companion 20 and the Klipsch 2.1 computer / desktop speakers for TV arrangements. (I did not…

I would guess that battery will last about an hour... Seriously, does it make it through a day on a 9V?

where can we get these? — nevermind finally saw the link.

It's a "revelation" to carry food in an inconvenient way to make it prettier?