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07 Oct 22 : 59 | Hive Five Winner for Best Media Converter: HandBrake [Hive Five Followup] HandBrake took home the top prize in this weekend's Hive Five Best Media Converters despite its limitation to converting just DVDs. (It's just that good!) If you want to convert media from a source other than DVD video, check out the rest of the Hive Five Best Media Converters for some great... Source : Lifehacker 10 hours ago |
04 Oct 01 : 00 | DIY Butcher Block Knife Slot [Weekend Project] Weblog Ikea Hacker demonstrates a simple but inventive idea for carving a knife slot in an Ikea butcher-block island. The method: simply cut a slot with a circular saw, stick in a few knives, and call it a day. Surely a bit more finesse could go into this idea to hold the knives at more... Source : Lifehacker |
06 Oct 15 : 30 | DIY Skills You Know (and Don't) [DIY] This weekend's reader poll of common DIY skills everyone "should" have turned up interesting results: most of you know how to iron a shirt, put out a fire, and install a graphics card. But the fewest poll respondents know how to tie a bowline knot (where are the sailors?!), remove bloodstains from... Source : Lifehacker 41 hours ago |
28 Sept 00 : 00 | DIY Cat Litter Box Ventilation System [Weekend Project] Cat-lover Alan couldn't stand the stink of the litter box in the garage, so he built in a bathroom fan that vents out the side of the house. To smarten up the system, his Mac mini automates the whole business so it's not running continuously: In front of the litter box sits a motion detector. When... Source : Lifehacker |
26 Sept 15 : 30 | History Hacker Pilot Debuts Tonight [Weekend Watching] Set your DVRs on record tonight, do-it-yourselfers: Bre Pettis (of MAKE and Etsy) debuts his new TV show, History Hacker, tonight on the History Channel at 8PM. In it, Pettis is out to recreate inventions of the past using "stuff in his closet." Pettis writes: The pilot is all about Nikola Tesla and... Source : Lifehacker |
21 Sept 23 : 30 | Accomplish More by Doing Less (But Thinking More) [Weekend Watching] Zen teacher Marc Lesser offers some great advice on how to put more things on your "not to-do list" and accomplish your goals without getting caught up in meaningless busy-ness. This talk, which happened at the Google campus back in January, is lengthy at almost an hour, and some folks might find it... Source : Lifehacker |
02 Oct 00 : 00 | Best Media Converters? [Hive Five Call For Contenders] Virtually every gadget you own is now capable of playing back music and videos—from your computer and phone to your MP3 player and video game console—but the problem is compatibility. Popular format X may play perfectly well on your computer, but it won't think about playing back on your iPod.... Source : Lifehacker |
25 Sept 01 : 00 | Best Sites to Stream TV? [Hive Five Call For Contenders] Television has made an unprecedented move to the internet this fall season, meaning you can now catch tons of your favorite shows on-demand from the comfort of your browser. We all want to keep up with our stories the best way possible, so this week's Hive Five sets its sights on the best web sites... Source : Lifehacker |
24 Sept 16 : 00 | Museum Day Means Free Admissions [Free] Looking for something cheap and kid-friendly this weekend? Saturday is Museum Day, a Smithsonian-sponsored chance to get into lots of museums at no cost. Check the Museum Day map for a list of venues near you offering up free admission. [via] Source : Lifehacker |
21 Sept 20 : 00 | On Reading Well [Ungeek To Live] If you're anything like me, then you have a difficult time tearing yourself away from the work you do for any length of time. Like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Indeed. That's why I refuse to read business books. Not for lack of interest. There's many a... Source : Lifehacker |
14 Sept 22 : 00 | Entertain Kids with a Cheap End Roll of Paper [Kids] Newspapers get printed on tight deadlines, so tight that enormous rolls of paper are yanked with a good deal of material still on them if there's another roll ready to go in. The Simple Dollar blog points out that buying one of these rolls gives you a good amount of uncut paper perfect for all kinds... Source : Lifehacker |
13 Sept 02 : 00 | This Week's Best Posts [Highlights] If Lifehacker's crowding your newsreader a little too much, switch to our trimmed-down, no-nonsense top stories feed. Sick of hearing about Google Chrome or the iPhone? Customize our URLs to exclude the topics you don't care about. This week's most popular posts include: The Power User's Guide to... Source : Lifehacker |
08 Sept 15 : 00 | Call Mid-Week for a More Believable "Sick Day" [Work] The Asylum blog compiles some solid advice on how to call in sick, even if you don't meet the traditional definition of "sick"—take that how you will. One of the best bits of advice involves the timing of your sick day, as noted by the editor of the Save the Assistants blog: Pick a random Tuesday... Source : Lifehacker |
