Store Small Items in Tic Tac Dispensers for No-Hassle Storage [Clever Uses]
If you tend to lose small items like bobby pins and paper clips, using an old Tic Tac dispenser can be the perfect storage solution for keeping them all together. More »
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
The Secret to Being Self-Taught: Curiosity [Learning]
One thing most self-taught (and self-made) people have in common is curiosity—immense, driving curiosity. If you can develop your curiosity and have patience, you can learn anything on your own. ...
AVR programmer made without a programmer
[blueHash] uses this cheap development board as an AVR programmer. What’s interesting to us is that it solves the chicken-or-egg problem that is usually encountered when bootstrapping a programmer. We’ve written about this issue before. Most programmers use microcontrollers, which first need to be flashed using a programmer. But it turns out the chip on [...]
Wirelessly Control Any Appliance on the Cheap with Remote Control Power Switches [Stuff We Like]
If you're sick of flipping switches all over your house just to turn the lights on, getting a set of remote control power switches may be the perfect solution. More »
A truly professional Raspi analog input
Much to the chagrin of hardware tinkerers, the Raspberry Pi doesn’t have analog inputs on its GPIO pins. Sure, you can blink a LED with just a few console commands, but reading sensors with a bone-stock Raspi requires a little additional hardware. [Brian Dorey] just released a board that allows for 8 analog inputs on [...]
TwoFingerScroll Dramatically Improves Windows Touchpads [Windows Downloads]
Windows: More often than not, the touchpads on Windows laptops frankly suck. They tend to be unresponsive and clumsy. TwoFingerScroll greatly improves the Windows touchpad experience, with new features ...
Save Time on Family Tech Support by Sending Them YouTube Videos Instead [Tech Support]
As the resident computer expert, many of you probably get asked to explain things all the time to your less tech-savvy friends and family. Redditor David722 recommends saving yourself the hassle by find...
Dumping a C64 kernel
[Blark] picked up a couple of Commodore 64 machines on Craig’s List so that he could play around with the SID chips inside. But there’s some other fun stuff in there and his attention was drawn to the PROM which stores the kernel. He thought it would be a fun adventure to build a ROM [...]
What Is Markdown, and Why Is It Better for My To-Do Lists and Notes? [Ask Lifehacker]
I've heard a lot about using Markdown for writing and editing text, especially in the case of writing on tablets. But I'm not really sure what people like about it. Is it worth switching from plain text...
Private sector wary of fed cyber security regs, oversight
A recent survey finds most respondents believe the private sector does not need more government cybersecurity regulations or want NSA or DHS oversight.