Clever and cheap fly repelling, secret passage bookcases, Wi-Fi cracking, and Google's Chrome OS piqued your interest this week.
Repel Flies with a Bag of Water We've featured many, many, many different ways to deal with mosquitoes using DIY solutions. But what about the even more common household fly? Turns out all you need to deal with that is a plastic bag or two.
Turn a Bookshelf into a Secret Passage Who hasn't dreamed of having a mystery-story-style secret passageway? While a trick bookshelf is pretty awesome in itself, this secret passage hides a home office with clever style.
Nine Must-Have Features We Want to See in a Google OS What's inside Google's just-announced Chrome Operating System? How does it work, exactly? Nobody outside Google knows. We can, however, build a dream operating system from the ground up, and that's what we're doing with some help from the hive mind.
Set Up "Push" Gmail on Your iPhone Despite iPhone 3.0's push notifications and previously mentioned Google Sync's contacts and calendars syncing chops, push Gmail still hasn't come to the iPhone. But with the Prowl iPhone application, you can now push Gmail notifications—and then some—to your iPhone.
Google Releasing Chrome Operating System In a sudden, if not unexpected, announcement this morning, Google said it would release an open-source operating system based on its Chrome browser. The OS will be free, geared (at first) toward netbooks, and focused on "speed, simplicity, and security.
VLC Hits 1.0 with Better Playback and File Support Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC Media Player, the open-source solution to media players that can't play your media files, reaches the 1.0 milestone today. What's new?
How to Send Back Restaurant Food It's never fun to be a squeaky wheel, but whether you've been served an overcooked, undercooked, or just plain wrong dish, there's a proper and improper way to let your waiter know that you're less than satisfied with what's on your plate.
WEP Cracking Redux: Beyond the Command Line Last week we showed you how to crack a Wi-Fi network's WEP key using a live CD and some command line fu. Today we've got other cracking options—but more importantly, clarification on the point of all this.
Five Best Online Image Editors Editing your images on a desktop image editor might be ideal, but sometimes you're away from your home workstation and need to do some impromptu editing.
