I use a similar method for cooking everything from steak to chicken breasts to over-easy eggs to omelets. You cook it half way, then either finish it gently in the oven or just let the residual heat of the pan do the rest.

Demonstrating that Lifehacker commenters are a different lot than everyone else. Thinking about all the methods people employ to get television content to their TVs through the internet, iTunes would have to be in the top five.

If only Apple would make a service for downloading TV and movies. If they did, I'm sure it would be tremendously popular and often mentioned in Lifehacker articles like this one.

Cool link, but today is not tax day in the US. Monday is.

Remember, the poll doesn't exist in a vacuum. We live in an age where computers and smartphones and tablets all have incredible lists of features and functions, most of which are entirely opaque to the owners of these devices. I regularly train users in the use of software and support them when they get it wrong. I…

"You're fat, in debt, bite your nails, live in a filthy hovel you call an apartment, can't find a decent job, and your life sucks." It's like you can see me right through my web browser!

I keep a shaving mirror hooked onto my shower curtain rod. It fogs like no tomorrow, but just a dash of soap clears it up for the duration of the shower. Can't beat it.

I like the idea of making non-instant oatmeal in one's rice maker. Put in oatmeal and water to soak overnight, hit the button in the morning. Presto.

You almost had me with the DIY thing, but I'm not completely buying it. Being efficient, productive and getting things done—also what Lifehacker is about—isn't always about doing everything yourself. One doesn't need to rebuild one's own transmission if one's goal is to drive more safely and get better gas mileage. …

The people who are going to switch from Android to iOS (and there are going to be quite a few) are *not* the people who are interested in doing the things described. If they valued the kind of openness Android offered they wouldn't be switching in the first place. (Me, I think the openness is mostly about openness…

@klyph: maybe you're right. Electronics are not my forte. Just saying it makes me nervous and I would wonder whether I wasn't being penny wise and pound foolish.

It's interesting, but it'll be a brisk day in the underworld when I plug something I soldered myself into my $1800 camera.

I would like a setting which allowed specified contacts to generate an audible ring while silencing all others. Call it "important calls only." Just my kids or my boss. Like when I'm sleeping at night.

It's all the terrific Android openness that makes this possible. Woe is me, languishing in the iOS prison.

@Error601: anyone who uses professional image editing software on a "low end" machine deserves what they get.

It's bewildering how many people want to judge this development on the speculation—for which there is absolutely no evidence—that this will become the only avenue for Mac software installation. People, please. Breathe into the paper bag for a few minutes and try to relax.

At the risk of being snarky, I think something really needs to be said here: it's precisely the celebrated "openness" of the Android app environment that necessitates these kind of fixes. If some think it's a good tradeoff, fine. But let's at least all acknowledge that it is indeed a tradeoff. Apple's app store may…

I think a great many Mobile Me subscribers are going to drop it now that this feature is free. And I think a great many holdouts are rejoicing that the one useful feature of Mobile Me is now unbundled and free.

I've been correcting people on the sugar-causes-kids-to-be-hyperactive thing for years. The almost universal response is angry denial. People are SURE that this is a fact and utterly dismiss anyone who corrects them.

Raises were nominal this year. I told my boss he could keep it, that what I really wanted was to work at home on Fridays.