Author: Evan Wondrasek

  • Don’t be Interesting, Be More Interesting than Every Person I’ve Ever Met

    “I don’t have to be more interesting than you. I don’t have to be more interesting than your friends. I have to be more interesting than your phone; more interesting than ALL the friends you’ve ever had.” Nick Douglas nailed one of the biggest problems we have with modern social interactions in a recent YouTube rant (note: brief NSFW…

  • Fix: “Print driver host for 32bit applications has stopped working” Error in Windows 7

    One problem I’ve experienced when using my Windows 7 64-bit computer with networked printers is that I intermittently get the error: Print driver host for 32bit applications has stopped working It appears that this problem occurs for most people when printing to network printers, but I was seeing it even when not printing (I would…

  • Forget to Log Out? New Facebook Security Features Will Save Your Reputation

    Prepare to be impressed: Facebook is rolling out some great new features that will help protect your account from unauthorized access.  They might not have the whole information privacy thing figured out yet, but they are definitely taking the right steps when it comes to keeping your account safe. Generate Temporary Random Passwords via SMS…

  • Limited Edition Android Collectible Giveaway WINNERS!

    Thank you to everybody that participated in our limited edition Android collectible contest! Because of the enthusiasm shown for these little Androids, we will definitely do another contest soon. That being said, these Androids need a home!  Here are the three lucky winners, chosen at random: Jonathan Musselwhite – Confirmed Heath Rost – Confirmed JoJo…

  • Mykea Turns Your Boring IKEA Furniture Into Works of Art

    I’m a big fan of IKEA furniture.  Sure, it might not be the most durable (and certainly doesn’t hold a candle to your grandparents’ solid oak chifforobe), but it’s typically affordable and they offer sleek, modern styles.  If you have the luxury to visit an IKEA showroom, you can easily spend hours wandering through the…

  • Friday Fun! Blow Up Your Favorite Websites with a Bookmarklet

    If you’ve ever played the video game Asteroids, then you’ll be delighted to know that you can bring the destructive joy of this simple game to any website on the internet with a simple JavaScript bookmarklet (ok – the JavaScript isn’t simple, but clicking a bookmarklet is!). 18ish-year-old Swedish developer Erik Andersson has done a remarkable…

  • We’re Giving Away Limited Edition Android Collectibles! [Updated]

    The contest is now closed, check out the results! Check it out: we have THREE sold out, limited edition Android collectibles created by artist Andrew Bell that we can’t wait to give to a few lucky readers.  Only 2,000 of these bad boys were ever made, and you can pretty much only get them on eBay nowadays…

  • Create Budgets, Visualize Expenses, and Reduce Debt for Free with Mint.com

    When I got my first glimpse of a “big kid job” by taking an engineering internship in 2008, I quickly realized that my strategy of “save enough money for food” wasn’t going to cut it anymore.  Since I was earning significantly more than I was at my previous part-time jobs, I needed a way to…

  • How to Fix Chrome’s Broken RSS Feed Handling

    If you’ve ever tried opening an RSS feed in Google Chrome, you may have been dismayed to find that it does a horrible job of handling them.  RSS feeds (like ours) are meant to provide an easy subscription method to a website, allowing you to view your favorite websites all in one place with an…

  • Why Buying Music Legally Still Kinda Sucks

    For some reason, I take some small amount of pleasure in buying music legally.  It’s not just because most people my age have devalued digital media to such a point that they don’t even pause before downloading an entire album illegally – a friend of mine recently told me that she wanted to “preview a…