Temporary Location Sharing App Idea

With virtually everyone carrying a GPS locating device at them at all times, it would be great to have an app where, for a discrete period of time, you could share your location with specific people.

This would be great for social events like pub crawling, where your group of friends could pick up their devices and see where their comrades are if they get separated.

Baked in functions:
Chat, for quick communication
Ability to temporarily suspend revealing your location for a certain amount of time
Notification when pre-defined time period of reveal or suspended location is ending to confirm the end. There should be an option to "snooze" the effect here too. (Keep revealing location to friends for a certain period, or keep suspending your location.
To save battery, the user could select how often they want for their location to be updated (at a period interval, or whenever another user opened the app to query their location).

The temporary nature of this is key, because after you leave the pub crawl, you don't need to be sharing your location anymore. (Or if you're too wasted to confirm the end of your location sharing, you friends can come find your body passed out in that alley.)

Using multiple large monitors effectively

Have multiple large monitors attached to your computer? Find yourself using the window snap feature on Windows OS, but find that it is too limited in the 2x2 options?

I found a great open source app called GridMove that I highly recommend.

GridMove allows you to build custom "grids" that have preset window dimensions, for example splitting your monitor into thirds, instead of just halves. A must-have especially for high resolution displays.

My favorite grid made by user Tyinsar is the TripleHead2Go grid, which has screen thirds and more. I modified his TH2G v2.grid to work with my two monitors.

Pastebin link to my adapted grid.

In order to use this grid, make a notepad doc, paste in the code from pastebin, and save the file into your GridMove\Grid directory with a .grid extension. The default directory is C:\Program Files (x86)\GridMove\Grids.

Edit: If you have three monitors, and your video card only supports two, I suggest using MonitorSwitcher to set up a hotkey to change your active monitors on the fly.

New Gmail emails not showing up in Inbox, only showing up in "All Mail"

If you're having this problem, check to see if new emails you are receiving are getting the "Inbox" label. If they are not, go into Settings -> "Filters and Blocked Addresses" and check them carefully. You may be skipping your Inbox!

Fixing garbage disposal

Our garbage disposal wouldn't start grinding when we flipped the switch. Instead all we heard was an electric hum. With a little searching found this: http://removeandreplace.com/2013/11/25/fix-humming-garbage-disposal-fast-easy-diy/

After a bit of forced rotation using an Allen wrench on the bottom of the unit, it started functioning properly again.

Turn on keyboard backlight Toshiba Satellite Radius P55W

If you are trying to toggle or switch on the keyboard backlight with the Toshiba Satellite Radius P55W, try pressing Fn+Z to cycle through the settings.

Abbreviation Fail

"White blood cells" has fewer syllables than "WBC," but I've heard people giving scientific lectures say "double-u bee cee." What a waste of breath and loss of clear communication.

Ebola survivors expressed lower levels of inhibitory CTLA-4 and PD-1

Take a full read here.

Turns out Neil Degrasse Tyson is an asshole

Turns out Neil Degrasse Tyson is an asshole https://imgur.com/gallery/34fjXT6

Scared the Carp out of Me

Perhaps you have heard of spirit animals. While many identify themselves with one, my life was instead a reimagined menagerie.

My spirit bear would bare its teeth in wide ranges of anger. My spirit horse would lead me to run on distant shores. My spirit snake would sneak me past my garrulous neighbor who could endlessly speak about her arugula.

Their visitations ranged from sensible to senile.

After every production, my spirit pigeon made me feel a mere epigon. My spirit snail has slain my social schedule. But the newest, and perhaps worst, my spirit newt imparts a wetness to my armpits.

As you may sense, this regular spirit mestee has a self-esteem of a snibbed bison. My love life had the prospects of a male mantis.

Regardless, a lovely young lass had taken a liking to me.

Aside from animal spirit exceptions, our first date went as well as could be expected, but I was so nervous for our first kiss that when she puckered her lips, it scared the carp out of me.

Artist credit

Downloading Voicemail Audio from Project Fi

If you have Project Fi, you can access, share, and download your voice mail from the internet from your Google Voice account.

1. Log in to your Project Fi account.

2. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click on the "Google Voice" link.

3. Find your voice mail on the list, then click the "more" button to open a list of options to save or share your voicemail. You can download the audio from a voice mail as an mp3; very convenient..

Thanks to Scott Greenstone for his (more detailed) guide.

Roomster.com is a fake scam

Recently made a listing for the room we are looking to rent in our house. I was contacted by a fake identity suggesting I look at thier profile on Roomster.com. It is purportedly a site that connects owners and people looking to rent, but I assure you, it is purely a scam. Do not check it out.

How do you personally go about identifying what is legit and what is just clickbait on the web? It's too bad there are so many websites like this.