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Uploading.to Uploads Files to Multiple File Sharing Hosts Simultaneously [Webapps]

November 14th, 2011 0 Comments

Uploading.to Uploads Files to Multiple File Sharing Hosts Simultaneously [Webapps]If you're in need of mirroring a file across multiple file hosts, Uploading.to is a service where you can simultaneously upload to sites like Rapidshare, MediaFire and more. It has a nice, clean interface where you can check or uncheck any hosts you'd like to upload to and you can get up to ten files going at once. Once complete, you're given links to each of the sites or one landing page offering all the mirrors in one place. If you're more...

This Week’s Most Popular Posts: September 10-16 [Highlights]

September 16th, 2011 0 Comments

This Week’s Most Popular Posts: September 10-16 [Highlights]This week we learned to make a few simple but must-know dishes, learned how to get a great workout without buying expensive equipment, broke a few rules to upgrade our off-the-shelf stuff, and more. Here's a look back. 10+ Dishes and Drinks Everyone Should Know How to Make At Home (Including You) Whether you have trouble boiling water or you know your way around an immersion circulator, there are some foods that everyone should know how to...

From the Tips Box: Laptop Stats, Mono Earbuds, and Google Calendar Navigation [From The Tips Box]

June 7th, 2011 0 Comments

From the Tips Box: Laptop Stats, Mono Earbuds, and Google Calendar Navigation [From The Tips Box]Readers offer their best tips for getting detailed info on your laptop, listening to music with one earbud, and navigating through Google Calendar. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit...

How I saved my Porsche from a flood by floating it [Feature]

May 6th, 2011 0 Comments

How I saved my Porsche from a flood by floating it [Feature]The owner of the rare Porsche spotted floating above Ohio River flooding this week by AP photographers has been found. Here, Bill Musselman explains how he managed to save his one-of-a-kind car from a certain drowning. Twice. — Ed. Bill Musselman is a man used to floods. You can hear it in his voice as he assures me my call is welcome and not too early, "this is a fine time to talk, we're still fighting the flood and trying to get ready...

Light Writing With Kinect Comes To Nordstrom [Video]

April 5th, 2011 0 Comments

Light Writing With Kinect Comes To Nordstrom [Video]High end retailer Nordstrom is using Microsoft's hands-free Kinect controller for Xbox 360 in its window displays to give the fashion conscious a chance to play with light. At Nordstrom's downtown Seattle flagship store, the company's Interactive Development, Visual Merchandising and Operations Teams installed Kinect cameras to let passersby toy interact with displays with the motion of their hands. If you're in the area, you can go hands-off...

Sign Up for Boxes of Tech Parts You Can Upcycle [Reuse]

April 3rd, 2011 0 Comments

Sign Up for Boxes of Tech Parts You Can Upcycle [Reuse]Could you use parts from non-functioning gadgets for your worthwhile (e.g., hackerspace or educational) projects? ThinkGeek may be able to give you boxes of such upcycle-able goods, while you help the store reduce its growing pile of returns and damaged products.The program that ThinkGeek is exploring is a quarterly subscription for a "hackerspace box of borked stuff" — kind of like a CSA for geeks. The gizmos and gadgets (such as...

Like Cherry Blossoms, The Force Is All Around Us [Note]

March 25th, 2011 0 Comments

Like Cherry Blossoms, The Force Is All Around Us [Note]No, Luke, I Am Your Gardener | Bought these a while ago on my honeymoon and only just got around to putting them up. Looking good! (Photo: Luke Plunkett) Wake Up, Kotaku Let's Play Left 4 Dead 2 ‘Cold Stream,' The New, Outdoorsy Zombie Campaign Earlier this week, Valve released the beta version of "Cold Stream," the community-made campaign coming to the PC, Mac and Xbox 360 in the next big Left 4 Dead 2 update. Let's see what it looks like,...

Use a Simple, Loose Overhand Knot to Coil USB Cables Without Kinks [Video]

March 11th, 2011 0 Comments

Use a Simple, Loose Overhand Knot to Coil USB Cables Without Kinks [Video]We recently adapted a headphone wrapping method for other cables, though some of you with more expensive cables were uncomfortable wrapping them that tightly. Reader Travis shares a cord wrapping technique he learned working at Apple to keep the bundle kink-free. It's probably the simplest method we could think of (in fact, we're surprised we hadn't seen it before). You're essentially just folding the cable in half a number of...