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Slow Chrome Extensions, Wall-Mounted Routers, and Saving Facebook Articles [Video]

Readers offer their best tips for speeding up Google Chrome, mounting your router on the wall, and saving articles from Facebook for later reading. More »

Clean Up and Organize Your Music Library This Weekend [Weekendhacker]

So you've spent a lot of time discovering and downloading new music, but your library's a mess. You're still using the same player you used 5 years ago, the files are in 10 different places on your hard...

Ringtone Maker Creates Custom Tones for Nearly Any Phone in Just a Few Clicks [Friday Fun]

Windows: We've shown you a few ways to create a ringtone for your iPhone or Android device, but free app Ringtone Maker makes the process just about as quick and painless as possible—and it works ...

Cubby Is Like Dropbox… If Dropbox Also Had Free, Unlimited Syncing (And We’ve Got Invites) [Video]

Windows/OS X: Cubby is a new cloud syncing service with one major difference from its competition: It doesn't have any storage limits when you're syncing from computer to computer. More &raquo...

Put Together Your Own Arduino Board (for Half the Price of Buying One) [DIY]

You can make a lot of cool DIY electronics with an Arduino board, but you can actually make your own Arduino for a fraction of the cost—with a bit of room for customizability, too. More &...

How to Securely Share a Password with Someone Using LastPass [Passwords]

Occasionally, you need to share a password with someone. Maybe it's a shared office-wide password, your family's Amazon login, or maybe you just want to share a Netflix account with your roommate. Rathe...

Turn Off the New "Elastic Scrolling" in OS X Lion [Video]

Lion introduced a new feature called "elastic scrolling", in which you can scroll past the top or bottom of the window and it'll "bounce back" like a rubber band. If you find this feature distracting o...

ProxTube Unblocks US-Only YouTube Videos for International Users [YouTube]

Chrome/Firefox: Non-US users know the pain of having services blocked from them pretty well, and YouTube is no exception. If you're tired of stumbling on videos you can't watch, ProxTube will fix the pr...

Iced Tea, Dull Scissors, and Gmail Errors [From The Tips Box]

Readers offer their best tips for making iced tea, sharpening scissors, and checking Gmail for sending errors. More »

Middleman Syncs Virtually Any Device with iTunes on a Mac [ITunes]

Mac only: iPods are great, but if you want to sync your music with another device—like a Sansa Clip or an Android phone—iTunes doesn't exactly have your back. Middleman is a free service for...

Manage Your Cables Without Blocking Your Power Strip Using a Wire Basket [Cable Management]

We've shared a ton of ways to manage the cables under your desk, but Instructables user getgreg offers a simple solution that gives you super easy access to your power strip. All you need is a wire bask...

How to Make XBMC Easier to Use (Especially for Non-Geeks) [Xbmc]

So you've created a kickass, play-anything media center 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 theater PC so eas...