टिप्स बॉक्स से: अस्थायी एलईडी रोशनी, ड्रॉपबॉक्स में ईमेल फ़ाइलें, और वॉलपेपर प्रबंधन

It’s getting warm out and my wife loves entertaining. This weekend she wanted to throw a party in a really scenic park near our house and tasked me with coming up with a clever way to illuminate the whole affair. I didn’t really want to spend the money on solar lights or anything expensive for that matter (since it could get misplaced, left behind, etc.) I stumbled on a really great little hack at the Evil Mad Scientist blog. He used cheap mason jars, LEDs, and a coin cell batteries to make what looks like a garden solar light but without the expense, you know, of buying an actual solar light. So clever! The only thing I’d suggest is that you buy your coin cell batteries online. If you go to the local store to buy them, even a specialty battery store, they’re a total rip off. You can find bulk generic coin cell batteries online for 30-60 cents each instead of $2-3 retail.

After I read your guide to setting up a watch folder in your Dropbox directory to remotely trigger torrent downloads I started doing some tweaking. Because it was the most compatible with a variety of desktop and tablet apps I use… I really wanted a way to email.torrent and.NZB files into the watch folder. I ended up combining your guide with this guide on setting up a way to dump email attachments into a designated folder. The result is an email address I can send file sharing files to that automatically dumps them into Dropbox and then loads them into the file sharing client. Bam! Thanks for getting me started on this project.

There are lots of wallpaper rotation apps, but I have yet to find one that does as much as Wally. On top of rotating your existing wallpaper collection you can download fresh wallpaper from tons of sources automatically (like Flickr, DeviantArt, Panoramio, and more). Even if an picture service isn’t supported, someone can whip up a module to support it independently. On top of all that you can customize just about everything the application does. It makes the simple wallpaper management in Windows look like a caveman’s tool!