Father, Son and Shuttle Launches

these are two photos of a father and son together -- the first pic is the first shuttle lauch, the 2nd pic is the last shuttle launch

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MuteTab -- mute sound on buried tab

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MuteTab Quickly Finds and Silences That Noisy, Buried Browser Tab It's difficult enough to keep track of all your open tabs, so when one starts playing an ad for mouthwash, it's a pain to root out the source. For Chrome users, MuteTab by Jared Sohn identifies the problem tabs, allowing for easy toggling of any unwanted noise. The extension sits in your navigation bar, and when clicked, displays a pop-up menu with information on all your active tabs. From there, you can choose to mute all background tabs, or single out a specific source. The menu can also be accessed via right-click. MuteTab isn't perfect, though. When used with YouTube, trying to mute all other tabs at once will sometimes mute your current tab as well. Kwame Opam at Gizmodo also points out that the search for specific plug-ins can get complicated. Still, when you're browsing sites that autoplay their ads, MuteTab is pretty useful. MuteTab | via Gizmodo Related Stories Read more at lifehacker.com

 

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High Tech but Old School -- USB Mix Tapes

ahhh the 80s...

Mix Tape USB Stick is a regular shaped flash drive, but the case is shaped like a cassette. The Mix Tape USB Stick is designed to be gifted to someone with a drive full of music. But again, a paltry 1GB and a hefty price of £20. Read more at www.instantfundas.com

Container Car is Beautiful Guest House

This is amazing. There are multi pics on the site. Definately worth the time to click across and look. Unlike anything else I've seen... Beautiful

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Beautiful Efficient Sneaker Display

idea for jewelry

iPhone App -- Coundown Timer On Home Page

I use my iphone's built in timer almost daily. It's a great way to force myself to take breaks -- to remember that 3pm conference call -- or to split projects up into timed segments to plow through unpleasant tasks.

This free app adds just a bit of convenience above the apple standard clock. I can see the timer on my home screen like a widget so I don't have to leave the app open to see how far along I am.

Another terrific tip from lifehacker.   lifehacker.com

Timer Minutes to Go Puts a Countdown Timer on Your iPhone Home Screen

One annoying issue with iOS is its lack of home screen widgets, forcing you to launch an app to get simple tidbits of information. Timer Minutes to Go is a free app that solves that problem by placing the minutes remaining in your timer in the badge on its home screen icon. There isn't much else to know beyond that. You set a timer in the app just like you would in the Clock application built in to your iPhone, start it, and watch the badge icon drop down minute by minute. If you want to be warned prior to the final alarm, you can set pre-alarm notifications as well. The notification you get can be customized, too. Overall the app does one thing really well, looks really slick, and is 100% free. That's hard to beat. TIMER : MINUTES TO GO (Free) | iTunes App Store

Power Cord Splitter -- Handy for Charging Multi Devices

Power Cord Splitter Charges Your Devices when Outlets Are at a Premium

Wherever you're short on outlets—whether at home or in a coffee shop, airport, or library—this super cheap, portable power cord splitter will keep all your devices powered as long as you need them.

It's not the newest concept in the world, of course—we've been splitting cables since the dawn of time (or at least since we've had electricity—thanks Ben Franklin). Despite that, it's hard to beat this power cord splitter from Monoprice. Not only is it small enough to fit into any travel bag, but it's only $2. In addition, it's Y shape gives you enough room to plug in even the biggest, heaviest power bricks without so much as a whimper, unlike more ubiquitous adapters. Hit the link to grab a few, and never be without power again.

14inch 16AWG Power Cord Splitter Cable | Monoprice via Cool Tools Read more at lifehacker.com

Milk?

EZ Free way to test Standing Desk

Turn Your Office Chair Into a Makeshift Standing Desk

Whitson Gordon

We've sung the praises of standing desks many times before, but if you aren't quite ready to replace your desk completely, you can try it out with this simple trick.

Step 1: Lower your chair to the minimum. (If you don't have an adjustable height office chair, you can stop here and get yourself a decent chair)

Step 2: Get your fat ass off your chair, put the chair on the desk, and your Mac Air Book Pro on the chair. (Of course, if you have a SPARC server, you have two problems now.)

Step 3: Adjust the height of the chair as needed, and enjoy your new standing desk.

It isn't exactly the most polished hack of all time, but it is the quickest and freest way to try out a "standing desk" for a week to see if you like it. Hit the link to read more. Read more at lifehacker.com

iPad Repair Options

As I am not adept at holding onto a greased eel - I was not able to hold onto the comparably slick iPad. Boy does that screen break easily...

Why didn't I have a case? Think I must have put it with my thoroughly daily pc backups -- filed directly on my to do list.

Anyway... I haven't tried the help offered in this clipping but plan to soon and thought I'd stick it here too in case someone else has butter fingers and needs the info too...

BTW -- even with a shattered screen the touch screen works and I've been using it broken for six weeks or so now with no problem other than the inconvenience of a spiderweb of cracks. Kudos to Apple that at least it has reliably worked even after being dropped.

Problem with the Apple iPad (32 GB) WiFi Tablet PC Broken screen

you should take it to the apple store. If they won't help you, You can try to replace the part yourself, it is available on any auction website. There is an iPad Repair service that can fix it for you, but if you're a little tech savy you should use an iPad repair guide that teaches you how to do the repair yourself.

You may replace the screen yourself for around $129 at www.directfix.com. This Youtube video will show you how to replace the screen. These guys will do the repair for you, parts included, for a total of $159. http://www.missionrepair.com/WIFI_iPad_Service_Repairs_s/478.htm Hope this helps! Thank you for using FixYa! Read more at www.fixya.com