HTPC Remote Controls: What does everyone use?

+1 on the Honda Civic. I have a del Sol (Civic with removable top) and there are guides everywhere on how to do everything to it, as well as hack it to add lots of extra goodies.

I'm not going to be too much help because I went through the same thing not too long ago and I don't recall all the steps I did because it was so crazzzzy nuts. But I do remember I got rid of homegroups all together. Make sure both computers are in the same Workgroup (you do this under the option to change the…

Just discovered my 9 month old kitty has allergies, too. And his sneezes are human-sized! (not the cute little kitty sneezes you'd expect)

this is awesome! I can think of at least a dozen bands offhand that would be interested in your site. Great idea!

HTC Touch Pro2? It's a windows mobile phone so syncs nicely with MS Outlook, and it doesn't require a data plan or one of those updated expensive plans (mine's $30/mo). I've heard people use it with Sprint's prepaid plan as well.

Take a look through this: [www.mrexcel.com]

@Criosphynx: I have the same problem, but am plagued with the crappier IE7 browser. It's been like this forever, and I don't expect it to ever change. :(

My last flight I sat next to a newlywed couple who burried their heads in their iPads the entire 5+ hours. (Only discovered they were newlywed during the 15 min they had to turn them off.)

The issue I bump up against is that it *seems* so easy so it should be easy. Explaining to people that making it look easy doesn't mean it *is* easy doesn't get very far. :-/ Expectations can be difficult to manage sometimes. My private catchphrase is "I have no magic for that today."

@nman: I wouldn't trust anything even remotely linked to Monsanto. [en.wikipedia.org]

@Singing Kitty: oooh, one more: take a bubble tea straw and cut into the end of it. Then take a bathrobe belt and insert in the cut and secure around straw. then tease the heck out of the kits with waving it around like a squirrel tail.

Ping pong balls and straws, and any way of hacking them separately or together. Recently came across a pack of bubble-tea straws for $1 which has made for nice variety, different cuts into them make them visually interesting. Make holes in the ping pong balls and insert whatever will make it wobble differently or…

@Kamatari : Considering you get a full E-ink reader PLUS a full Android tablet, PLUS interoperability of the two, I think it's a pretty good value. I got the 10" one for around $200 on Ebay (originally priced around $600, which is waaaay too much) and it really looks barely used, or you can get the 7" one brand new…

@Kamatari : I am in the process of a somewhat similar project, but for sheet music. I got one of these: [www.entourageedge.com] on ebay (lightly used), and have been scanning to pdf, I can either save them to sd or read them from nas. In your case, the feature that would be helpful is you can open a webpage in…

@e-tat: Now that sounds great! Pulleys could allow you to pull them up and out of site when guests come over. Another option I was looking at is a cloth "magazine rack" from the Container Store that can be attached like a picture to the wall, but then it would be permanently attached to the wall. CS also has some…

I made my piles crawl the walls by using an over-the-door shoe cubby, 24 piles in all!

@nevermindtheend: Extremely moving, sad and exciting at the same time.

@Archnemesis_Goldenhair: Gov't here too. There are lazy gov't workers, but there are just as many lazy private sector workers. Most (not all) gov't workers I work with are super hard-working and could never, ever be described as "lazy." Some of us work at least as hard if not harder than private sector and receive…

@Derfel: Me too, HTC Touch Pro2, it works great, and is my favorite! :)