Anyone who’s a part of a mailing list has been party to email threads that just went on way too long. If you use Gmail, did you know you can mute the conversation to keep all future additions out of your inbox: By using the ‘m’ shortcut key, new messages added to the conversation bypass […]
To prepare routes of varying lengths while training for her first marathon, The Marathon Mama (a.k.a. Kristina Pinto, my wife) used to simply drive from the house and clock distances using her car’s trip odometer. But training for her second marathon, this time as a mother, she began to realize: It can get tedious to […]
You don’t need to use iTunes to stream audio to an Aiport Express. You can use the Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Rhapsody, etc… oAEP – Stands for ovesen.NET Airport Express Player. This small application records the music and sound played by your pc and streams it to an Airtunes enabled Airport Express. It has never […]
As featured later on Mythbusters (and mentioned on the Make blog awhile back), Wildwood Survival shows how to make a fire without tools, using just a can of coke, a chocolate bar, and some tinder. A follow-up post provides some alternative methods for “people who would like to make a solar reflector from the bottom […]
In the Hacks Instructables pool, tracydanger provides a great life hack for downsizing your wallet: I got sick and tired of having a dozen little “bonus” cards to carry around, so I made this simple fix. Basically, I just scanned in all my barcodes, fit them nicely into a row in photoshop and then printed […]
I like to switch between computers; I might prefer Mac OS X one minute, Linux the next, and Vista five minutes later. To make this work, I like to keep all my files in sync (sure, I could set up a file server at home, but I want this to work seamlessly if I leave […]
Jim writes in to tell us about a great parent hack at Baby Toolkit:: This is a great way to make an open banister safe for babies and toddlers. Instead of paying through the nose for commercial child proofing solutions, my wife came up this great hack using materials from a local awning and commercial […]
