Bookmarklets, tiny chunks of JavaScript packaged in a browser bookmark, offer uses a simple and cross-platform way to interact with the web. What are you must have bookmarklets?

This is not the kind of Siri experience you want to happen to you!

Screenlets are small applications that are similar to Gadgets in Windows 7, that allow you to place things like sticky notes, clocks, calendars on your Linux Mint desktop. Screenlets represent items you might keep on a physical desktop, plus more.

Why limit your enjoyment of astronaut ice cream to museum gift shops? This how-to guide will help you craft some in your work shop.

The massive flooding in Thailand late last year put thousands of hard drive factories under water. Hard drive prices skyrocketed as a result and have remained high since. These charts map out the prices over intervening months.

Although this alarm-clock-to-email-notifier could have been packaged in any sort of shell, the Space Invaders angle really sells the whole project.

We’ve mentioned using two-factor authentication with a text or voice message in the past, but the Google Authenticator app can be more convenient. It displays a code that changes every thirty seconds. The code is generated on your device, so you can use the app even if your device is offline.


Although Amazon would be pleased if you only used the Amazon Kindle Store to put documents on your Kindle, there are many other ways to put content on the popular device. Read on as we show you how.


The move to the new Metro UI as the default for Windows 8 has stirred up a good bit of controversy since its introduction this past Fall. Now Microsoft is taking another step in this new direction with the removal of the Star...

In this fantastic video from the International Space Station, tiny drops of water are set into a beautiful electro-static orbit around, of all things, a knitting needle.

Photography often involves improvising and adapting to your setting–including securing your flashes and accessories to whatever odd but available surface is at hand. This DIY SuperClamp offers a cheap but strong grip for securing your gear.

If you’d like to add in some technology from a galaxy far far away to your Skyrim experience, this well-executed mod adds in light sabers. Check out the video to see them in action.

New versions of Windows don’t fully support classic DOS games and other old applications — this is where DOSBox comes in. It provides a full DOS environment that runs ancient DOS apps on modern operating systems.

Once a week we round up some of the reader questions we’ve answered and share the answers with everyone. This week we’re looking at “dead” Wi-Fi channels, how to transfer PS3 content to a new PS3, and how to map your 25GB SkyDrive to your PC.

If you need to download all your Google Docs at once to, say, back them up or work with them offline, Google Takeout makes it dead simple to grab them all at once.

Office peripherals aren’t the most aesthetically pleasing objects, so we hardly blame you if you want to stash them away. This clever hack hides a printer in a dresser drawer with a DIY fold-down front.