There's a much easier way to get rid of canker sores. Just get a layer of baking soda on the tip of your finger, then hold it on the sore for a minute or two. Hurts like hell for a second, but keep pressing. It calms right down, and the thing starts healing. It neutralises the acid, or something like that. Cheap,…

I spent a couple of years looking into the precautions necessary to protect backed-up data on a recorded CD. The problem with using Post-It notes on CDs is the risk that the chemicals in the adhesive will interact with the chemicals in the data layer of the CD. Your first clue will be lost data. It might happen in a…

Turkey: my wife learned to cook a turkey without basting it, instead you put strips of bacon over the top, and replace them when they're cooked. Sure, the health nuts will scream, but it's only twice a year. The turkey comes out moist and delicious. I've never had any other bird that tasted half as good. And the…

If you want to see how many people in the office fall for a fake phishing scam ("fake phishing scam" - now, there's a redundant phrase for you!) and management keeps shooting it down, what do you think that means? Management obviously suspects they'll fall for it and reveal their own cluelessness...

I think the point is that so many people use Google, at least some of them will adopt this, especially those who don't understand the built-in headaches of using the Google Toolbar. Google guarantees a certain semi-universal adoption. Others, needing or wanting to increase their visibility on the Web, will adopt this…

I'd agree with your comment, with two very important exceptions. First, I use a HOSTS file that excludes those domains which pose a particular security risk - I've been startled at just how many "legitimate" advertising services (not nearly all, but not a completely insignificant percentage either) use servers that…

Heh: this comment was in reply to Gina's, far below. The comment edit box appeared in the right place, all seemed fine - until I confirmed my comment. Then, when the actual comment showed up, it was floating all by itself. Another comments glitch to look into, perhaps?

Gina, when you try to print to a PDF the "More About Troubleshooting" sidebar overlays the main text of the article. My "printer" is Adobe Acrobat Pro, so perhaps it is just another example of Adobe being overpriced and underperforming, but thought you should know.

There is only one way changing your DNS would affect the result, and that is if the domain name lookup process itself was bogged down. If you were using your ISP's DNS before, that might tell you something about your ISP... At least, I'd want to start looking elsewhere if I noticed something like that.

I don't think you could fairly call that "stealing". Anyone who prefers to can make one themselves. The cans may have cost nothing, but there is a certain amount of work involved in turning them into lanterns. Say you could make one an hour, on average. Thirty bucks an hour may sound like a great return - but you also…

Am I losing my mind, or was there a post above this one, about "singletasking" which disappeared suddenly? I always skim LH and open new tabs for each post I want to read. When I went back to this post, the tab was messed up, and every time I've reopened LH since then, this is the top post. Either I'm cracking up, or…

This is sad. The two titles I see mentioned most here are ClipDiary and ArsClip. I've tried both, and they're about the worst tools available. I take my clipboard tools seriously: back in Windows 3.1, when there weren't many choices and I was using WordPerfect for Windows 5.2, I wrote my own macro to save and manage…

VOTE: Yankee Clipper III

No one else seems to have noted that a Wave blog is apparently only accessible to those who have a Wave account. I clicked on the link in the article, which brought up an error page explaining the blog contained Wave content.

If they are not neutered, they need to be neutered. You cannot stop an intact male from spraying. If they were neutered as kittens, and they are still marking, then it means they are stressed out. There's a spray you can get, it enhances natural cat pheromones; you could try that. You should also talk to your vet -…

Puppy Linux doesn't take up anything even close to 2 GB - and, of course, today's big "keeper" drives may end up tomorrow's tiny giveaway ones, so it's good to think ahead, too. :-)

I know I'd love to see the list. I have a lot of stuff on my own flash drives (yep, that's plural - my "main" data, emergency apps for fixing most computer messes, bootable Ubuntu, bootable Puppy Linux, and one with e-books and miscellaneous stuff on it) but I wonder if I'm missing out on anything good. ;-) Hey, you…

There's an inherent problem with this approach. "If you've never done anything like it, don't try it" sounds great until you think about it. In that case, how do you ever learn to do it yourself and save cash? I'm sure all the people charging big bucks love this article's premise. A much better rule would be if you've…

Well, this post explains why a simple Google search seemed to freeze up. I was afraid it was a weird software issue on my end - but I couldn't think of any reason why a basic Google search would trigger it when everything else was working fine. Now I feel stupid, but that's the first time Google search ever gave me…

@Deprong Mori: Ah, but for anyone but the stockholders, the important question is: how have they done that? Apple products cost more, and offer no more real functionality. You may have reason to buy Apple stock, but why should I buy Apple products? Once enough users realise that, the stock price will go down a lot…