Gawker has yet to announce my replacement, but until that day comes, Alan Henry will take over as Lifehacker’s interim editor.

Good excuse to use my fountain pens.

USAA is the best full-spectrum financial services organization in the US, bar none. For automobile insurance only one other company ever rates higher (Amica).

I’m not an “expert” but I did sell used cars for 2 years and I can tell you that without a doubt, my customers that went through USAA were the easiest to work with. I also found that USAA would give people better approvals (more money, lower apr) and most other banks they looked through. I can’t speak for how it works…

If it doesn’t cost you anything...you have nothing to lose.

This has always been my favorite part of Lifehacker and Mark's kindness and honesty just cemented that position. It's rare that someone interviewed actually has something to give us (besides their questionnaire information) and also actively offer to help anyone out there who's curious or needs it. Thank you so much,…

For iOS iNet, Scany and LanScan all work well.

Trello is a really useful project management tool, us has a small learning curve and new users can get working within minutes of loggin in.
Its simple, allows people to vote on items, and attach docs from google, skydrive, dropbox etc.

Multiple reasons to use GV:

I found that the StayFocused plug-in not only kept me off the sites, it also helped me figure out HOW MUCH time I was spending on them. Setting just Facebook and Reddit to "limited" opened up more time than I would like to admit.

I found it really useful all last academic year - I was working on my MA fulltime with a back and neck injury, so typing was "problematic" to put it mildly. Dragon allowed me to make notes verbally as I was reading a pdf document on my computer, and also to piece together research into large chunks to make paper…

Yes. Extensions will run in the background and gobble up RAM, thus impeding performance somewhat. You can always get a sense of just how much your active extensions are slowing down the performance of your browser by opening and using incognito window, where your extensions are turned off by default.