Who among us hasn’t quickly reclaimed a floor cookie when no one was looking? If nobody’s seen: it didn’t happen and it’s not dirty. Well, not quite.
I have a confession to make: I’ve only just recently begun to understand and appreciate wine in terms more nuanced than white or red. What helps is knowing how best to drink a given varietal, and why.
So you’ve created an awesome, play-anything media centre with XBMC, but it’s a too hard for your less tech-savvy friends and family members to use. Here are a few ways to make your home theatre PC so easy that your four year old could use it.
You might have some hilarious friends who still think rick-rolling someone is funny, or you may know people who toss around NSFW links while you’re at work. You can’t help yourself, you click, you shriek, you close immediately. You fall for it every single time. Here’s a tip on how to prevent yourself from falling for shortened bit.ly link pranks.
You don’t always walk away from a TED Talk feeling like you’ve learned something useful, but this time you will. Joe Smith presents a simple but incredibly useful technique that guarantees you can dry your hands using just a single square of paper towel.
Have you noticed Meebo, that annoying bar on the bottom of some websites like Men’s Fitness and TVGuide.com? Of course you have. It spits up ads and nags you to share stuff on Facebook while you’re just trying to read. It’s a website add-on increasingly used by publishers who hate their readers.
Like they’ve done in the past with new services, Google is slowly rolling out its new Google Drive cloud storage solution to users of Gmail and Google Documents. So if you’re dismayed that the Google overlords haven’t blessed your account with 5GB of free storage just yet — don’t be. Now is the best time to prepare for the new service.