Any time a new technology is introduced, it disrupts values, routines and behaviors. This goes back well before the printing press replaced oral histories or the telephone replaced face-to-face conversations, but is evident today in our regular habits of checking our smartphones for notifications. Kids are growing up with the expectation of auto-playing streaming videos and having access to our phones when we need them to be quiet.

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Digital photo frames are great, but when you’re using one to display a slideshow, it tends to look terrible when it displays photos in the opposite orientation of how you have it set up. Over on Hackaday, Tim made a frame that automatically rotates to show the best picture.

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While you can install Linux on just about anything, old tablets are probably the cheapest way to do it. Case in point, Node put together a guide that repurposes a Nexus 7 tablet and converts it into a micro-sized laptop.

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The weather is definitely turning colder here in the United States, but that doesn’t mean you have to avoid the great outdoors. The folks at Oyster have a great list of fall hikes to take to take in the fall foliage before it’s gone for good, and get outside while it’s cool enough to enjoy it sweat-and-shiver-free.

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The great thing about smartphones is that you can charge any of them over USB with whatever cable came in the box. But the last couple of years have seen a proliferation of new standards and technologies, meaning that not all chargers are created equal. So read on to find the gear that’ll power up your handset the fastest.

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