Rampant DIYing aside, this week we rounded up five of the best start pages for your browsing convenience, detailed how to set up a fully automated media center, and reminded you to always, always write it down.
Five Best Start Pages Your start page is the first thing you see when you open your browser or load a new tab—your gateway to the rest of the web. Get the most from your start page with one of these five favorites.
Set Up a Fully Automated Media Center We love a good media center almost as much as we love automation, so self-confessed media geek Alex Ward's fully automated media center caught our eye.
When It Doesn't Pay to Be Google's Guinea Pig Besides a killer algorithm and brand-name recognition, Google's greatest strength is its speed at releasing new products. We get to play with new, cool, and ever-improving tools for free.
A Celebration of Duct Tape: Our Favorite Duct Tape DIYs If the DIY community had a universal symbol, it most certainly would be a roll of duct tape. Inexpensive, abundant, strong, and ready to stick to nearly anything, this versatile DIY companion is a must in your DIY toolkit.
Top 10 Windows Media Center Plug-Ins and Boosters Microsoft's powerful home theater centerpiece, Windows Media Center, is easily one of the best applications that ships for free with Windows. But you can still make it better—and take it into new realms—with these plug-ins, helper apps, and tweaks.
Flavors.me Is a Simple and Elegant Personal Portal If you're looking to set up an elegant portal for your online identity that brings together social networks and other aspects of your online presence, Flavors.me is as simple and easy to use as it gets.
Convert Your Old Laptop into a Digital Projector Some people have an extra $1,000 just lying around to buy a digital projector. Unfortunately, most of the people that I know, myself included, do not.
How to Cook Something in the Dishwasher Authors Gever Tulley and Julie Spiegler's Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do) builds on the premise that "dangerous" things we avoid are often eye-opening and educational.
"It Didn't Happen If You Didn't Write It Down" Borrowing an idea from a Tom Clancy novel, software developer and blogger Christopher Schanck explains why he writes everything down, then suggests a handful of worthy tools for the job.
