Tech Is the Amazon “Tip My Driver” Promotion a Scam? Amazon may be training us to pay their workers for them 8 December, 2022
Tech Google Chrome Broke Mac Keyboard Shortcuts Bookmark Shortcuts Extension saves the day 6 October, 2022
Projects Listen, I like the B+D Multi-Purpose Inflator But Its Biggest Design Flaw is Insane Some Dremeling required 2 January, 2022
Projects How to Get Your Dishes to Dry in Your Bosch 300 Dishwasher You might have to steal a few legos from your kids 2 January, 2022
Projects Capresso Infinity Burr Grinder Assembly Diagram I drew a diagram of how to reassemble your Infinity grinder assembly since Capresso didn't 28 November, 2021
Cycling, Posts How I Came to Unintentionally Own the Bike of the Year 2020 No, I had not always seen a MOOTS in my future 29 November, 2020
Projects, Tech How To Make Your Old EyeTV Archive Viewable Again What to do after Elgato stranded you with no way to view or export your recorded videos 7 October, 2020
Projects, Tech Horizon: Zero Dawn on a Mac with gyro aiming: YES YOU CAN Running the PC version of HZD on a mac with gyro controllers is not for the faint of heart 23 September, 2020
Projects Snow Joe iON 8024 2019/2020 Review TL;DR: 3 of 5 stars. OK for early adopters in suburban environments with snowfall up to 8" per batch 3 December, 2019
Cycling The Heavy-Handed Way to Stop Your Seat Post From Creaking Rust-oleum: Great for gutters, roofs, flashing, ductwork, PVC, masonry, concrete...and bicycle seatposts?! 29 August, 2019
Cycling My Favorite New On-the-bike Cycling Snack Hipmunk oatmeal snacks are a lot less work than chewing through a granola bar and more substantial than a power gel 14 August, 2019
Cycling Salsa Journeyman: Building A Year-Round Do-Anything Commuter Customizing a gravel bike for use on America's crumbling infrastructure 2 August, 2019
Cycling Ortlieb Commuter Daypack City Lightning Review When I finally got tired of holes in my garbage bags 19 June, 2019
Cycling SRAM eTap Review Electronic shifting has changed my ride as much as adopting cleated pedals or wearing lycra 9 September, 2017
Cycling Leading a Virtual Ride on Zwift Five things I've found to make your group ride a success and keep people coming back 19 February, 2016
Cycling Some reasons to not get down on yourself over your winter Strava stats It happens to all of us 4 November, 2014
Cycling What to Wear When It’s 40 Degrees And Raining Live your best life while others are running for cover 4 November, 2014
Cycling No Medals for Blizzard Commuters If you're really feeling your oats you can still ride the city in the snow 13 February, 2014
Projects Rancilio Silvia Reservoir Replacement (Hack version) Fixing Rancilio's HORRIBLY DESIGNED plastic water reservoir 23 January, 2014
Cycling Review: U.S. Divers Cold-Water Diving Gloves. Wait. What? Sometimes the best gear for cycling comes from other sports 17 January, 2014
Cycling, Posts Winter Whistling Pro tip: apply a little lip balm before your ride so you can maintain your messenger-style traffic whistle 12 December, 2013
Cycling, Posts Planet Bike MTB Fenders vs. Cascadia Fenders. Winner: Portlandia The best "set" of fenders for urban all-weather riding 2 February, 2013
Posts, Tech iPhone: Slowing Changes ≠ Stagnant water ...it means Apple has made the right design choices 28 December, 2012
Posts Garmin Gone AWOL Last night I had a prophetic dream that I took plastic shopping bags and taped them to my shoes... 26 December, 2012
Posts What to Wear When You’re Going Fast and It’s 37 Degrees When the number on the thermometer looks warm but there is a bite in the air... 24 December, 2012
Posts Over The River and Through The Woods and… The forecast was 20mph winds and an average temp of 32 degrees. Perfect weather for an ascent up Bear Mountain! 22 December, 2012
Posts Commuter Packing List Here is my packing list for my short, all-weather urban commute 20 November, 2012
Posts Commuting through Nor’easter in the NorthEast There is something about a good ice bath that refreshes the soul! 20 November, 2012
Posts How to Adapt a NiteRider MiNewt/Lumina for use with K-Edge GoPro Handlebar Mount Using some GoPro parts and basic tools you can hack together a very professional-looking mount for your light 3 November, 2012
Cycling, Posts Hillier Than Thou is a ride specifically designed to break the human spirit The forecast changed at the last moment from normal suffering to rain and temps in the 40s... 7 October, 2012
Posts Highlander 2012 Ride Recap Riding the corkscrew up and down some of the most beautiful hills in Upstate New York 14 September, 2012
Posts Commuting: Reduce Wear-and-tear on Your Rack Pro Tip: To prevent sanding your expensive rack and panniers down to dust you can use tape on the contact points 12 August, 2012
Posts Epic Rides from New York: The Apple Orchards of Concklin Located 35 miles from NYC, The Orchards at Concklin has fresh air, hill climbing, and pie! 24 June, 2012
Posts The Longest Day 2012 Ride Recap A one-day, 208 mile ride from Port Jervis NY to Cape May NJ with no queue sheet or on-road support 16 June, 2012
Posts Going Long With Your Garmin Using An External Battery Use an external battery to extend your recording time 4 June, 2012
Posts Your Online Security: Don’t forget to look at where you are PSA: Just a reminder to never click on links in emails! 8 May, 2012
Posts Getting the advertised life out of a battery should not require long, convoluted instructions Battery makers: nobody reads your instructions and properly calibrates their batteries which is why everyone is so angry at you 2 April, 2012
Posts Riding that extra 10 degrees colder, the thereifixedit.com edition Like so many things, there is little that duct tape and saran wrap can't fix... 4 February, 2012
Posts Update Swype on HTC Evo 4G (rooted) Forcing an update to swype to fix the bug that turns numbers into words 2 December, 2011
Posts Epic Rides from New York: Gimbel’s The premiere training ride of the northeast, Gimbel's attracts upwards of 100 riders and racers from all over the tri-state area 16 August, 2011
Posts Mt. Washington Auto Road Climb Scaling "The Rock Pile" in N.H., one of the hardest races in the United States 12 August, 2011
Posts What are the pockets for in a Cycling Jersey? For the uninitiated the cycling jersey seems to be all about performance but it is also about survival 15 July, 2011
Posts The Conservative Guide to Riding in Traffic (NYC Edition) It's all about the angles and trajectory 10 July, 2010
Posts Lessons I’ve learned from bike commuting It should probably go without saying that you shouldn't chase cabs... 10 July, 2010
Posts The Simplest Designs are Often The Most Deceiving Nothing simple in life got to be where it is through a simple process 5 January, 2010
Posts Gearing up for Mt. Washington A 53-39 crankset is too much for a mountain climbing race 12 August, 2009
Posts Lightning Review: Camelback Raceback A little floppy but a nice way to add more capacity when you'll be far away from faucets 14 July, 2009
Posts Lightning Review: Adidas Adistar Gloves Lots of mesh = lots of breathability. A Godsend for late summer riding. 14 July, 2009
Posts Bike Review: Merlin Works CR 6/4 Race-inspired geometry. Light weight. Road dampening. I'm in love. 10 June, 2009
Posts, Projects Watching and Recording HD video on Mac OS X Setting up your own DVR gives you control over storage and formats but it is a minefield! 3 May, 2009
Posts Using Your Treo 755p as a modem on Mac OS X with Sprint PCS is silly easy When you're on the road or when your cable internet flakes (and it will) you just can't beat USB Modem 13 January, 2009
Posts, Tech How to play Guitar Hero III on a Mac, in 11 easy steps You were expecting less? 22 August, 2008
Posts, Tech Palm releases a new “crutch” to survive, now has 2 Totally missing the point and hammering in the final coffin nail 22 August, 2008
Cycling, Posts The Conservative Guide to Bike Commuting It seems like most bike commuting articles are written like vegetarian rants. Not this one. 27 April, 2008
Posts, Tech Guitar Hero III (GH3) For Mac: We might be able to make this work yet… When in doubt, throw some fire at it 28 March, 2008
Posts, Tech Performance Problems with Guitar Hero III on Mac Mac OS X has a bit of ADHD and won't always FOCUS on the game you're playing 9 March, 2008
Posts, Tech Transferring Domains from Network Solutions? Better Start Early! Do you think that $35/year is a little much to charge for an entry in a database? Yeah, I do, too. 26 January, 2008
Posts, Tech iPhone weblinks for Palm Centro and Treo using Sharklinks Weblinks makes app-like shortcuts on your Palm device 22 January, 2008
Posts, Tech Guitar Hero III (GH3) For Mac, some important notes You'll need a lot of computer plus some optimizations 8 December, 2007
Posts, Tech How to migrate SD cards on a Palm Treo with Mac OS X You can use an Apple disk image to temporarily hold your phone's data between SD cards 23 October, 2007
Posts, Tech One Last (Long) Gasp For Garnet Palm is still more functional than iOS but it doesn't look better 19 October, 2007
Posts, Tech How Similar are the Saeco Estro Vapore and the Starbucks Barista? Only the stickers and portafilter handle differ 7 September, 2007
Posts, Tech Dear Palm: It’s time for an intervention It's probably too late to right the ship 21 August, 2007
Posts, Tech Intuitive Technology. Still apparently really hard to do. The development arc of new technology 24 July, 2007
Posts, Tech Matias tactile pro 2.0 takes steps back Strong in the keys. Weak in the legs. 25 May, 2007
Posts, Tech How to Remove QuarkXPress from OS X This will remove the files, but will it remove the contempt? 31 March, 2007
Posts, Tech New Intel Macs: Either go Universal or Get Out Emulate and die a slow death-by-translation 22 March, 2007
Posts, Tech The problem with cellphones and why PalmOS is still the best mobile platform Most cellphones are "teases" that are either crippled by their carrier or are unable to live up to their promise 19 March, 2007
Posts, Tech How to record multiple simultaneous instruments in Garageband With the right hardware and some hidden options you can bring the band to Garageband 9 March, 2007
Posts, Tech Three’s A Crowd Three distinct characters, all glad that they are not one of the others 9 February, 2007
Posts, Tech The Raging Battle Over 192.168.1.1 Most routers don't work out-of-the-box. Apple's does. 20 January, 2007
Posts, Tech Running Virtual Machines on PowerPC Macs Running linux on top of Mac OS X using Virtual PC 27 December, 2006
Posts, Tech How to Watch Movies on your Treo 700p using Mac OS X Use handbrake to convert your movies to a format that your Palm device can read 26 December, 2006
Posts, Tech Getting a handle on the Treo 700p Figuring out all the things this new phone can do 12 September, 2006
Posts, Projects My Ascent Through the World of Coffee Grinders tldr; Buy as much grinder as you can affort 10 September, 2006
Posts, Tech Pete.pkg My cat found a perfectly square box from a delivery and compiled herself into her own pkg 30 August, 2006
Posts Ramapo Rally, How I Hate Thee Less climbing and more McMansions--what is there to like? 20 August, 2006
Posts, Tech Receive and Broadcast Internet From The Same Computer With 2 wireless cards you can use one card to receive wifi while the other broadcasts it 8 August, 2006
Posts, Tech Old Phone Conspires Against Self The move from a candy bar to a smartphone was a revelation 25 July, 2006
Posts, Tech Treo 700p has Mac OS X “Spotlight”, Kind of Palm has a keyboard shortcut that you can activate for contact searches! 25 July, 2006
Posts, Tech Triangulating Why the Motorola Q is a Disappointment It's a feature phone in the skin of a smartphone 31 May, 2006
Posts, Tech When do I Need a New Computer? Your activity monitor holds clues to whether you have enough computer 28 April, 2006
Posts, Tech JetBlue Offering wifi on Flights? Maybe my wifi card is a bit TOO powerful... 28 April, 2006
Posts, Tech When Supply & Demand Goes Wonky There is apparently no depreciation for Palm Treo 650s! 23 March, 2006
Posts, Tech Cell Phones: The Long Constant March Two-year contracts are the stepping stones into the future 16 March, 2006
Posts, Tech Turn Your PowerBook Into The Wifi Lone Ranger Increasing your range by using an external antenna 15 March, 2006