Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - Page 2
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Save Yourself The Reach By Installing A Socket In Your Desk

If you’re an occasionally travelling laptop user, you know it’s annoying to plug your system in and back out, before and after every trip. Blogger Pat Hartl solved this annoying issue by installing a wall socket right in his desk.


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How To Remove Super Glue From Practically Anything

Super Glue and its off-brand cousins are the next best thing to duct tape when it comes to good-enough repairs, but heaven help you if it spills. Luckily, there’s a guide to getting SuperGlue out or off of nearly anything.


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Six Kitchen Skills You Can Pick Up This Weekend

With a second three-day weekend coming up, you’ve probably got some real free time. If you’re not on the road, might we recommend developing some new cooking chops? These relatively pain-free projects and how-tos are yours for the learning.


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Use Xmarks To Sync Firefox Bookmarks To An iPhone Or iPod Touch

iPhones and iPod touch models can’t sync with Firefox bookmarks, but you can regularly push your bookmarks to them on a Windows system. The trick involves the Xmarks sync service, Internet Explorer and a tiny system tray utility.


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MailDrop Automatically Adds Email Attachments To Your Dropbox

Windows: Yesterday we showed you how to remotely control a computer through Dropbox. Want to further automate your online syncing? MailDrop automatically grabs attachments from a particular email folder or label and stashes them in your cloud-based Dropbox storage.