每周一次，我们都会从HTG提示框中收集一些很棒的提示，并与大家分享；本周，我们将研究如何回收Android**在家中使用，通过发光的LED开关提高安全性，以及如何轻松加密Dropbox内容。

回收一部旧的安卓**，做家务

妮可在信中写道：

While you might need a brand new phone to take advantage of cutting edge features, older phones are both cheap and more than powerful enough for around-the-house type tasks. I routinely pick up old Android phones either by asking friends for their old friends or buying cheap ones off eBay. One of the ways I’ve repurposed them is super awesome multimedia remotes for my XBMC boxes. If I wanted a commercial “super remote” I’d have to spend over $100 but using Wi-Fi I can use an Android phone (with a touch screen no less!) for as little as $30 off eBay. Just because a phone isn’t super powerful, super new, or your daily talker, doesn’t mean it needs to get scrapped out! Any of the useful apps you used before, at least the ones that didn’t require cellular service, will keep on working.

好吧，如果有读者的电子邮件，让我们感到内疚，没有把老HTC英雄变成一个超级可怕的XBMC遥控器，这是肯定的。我们马上去，妮可，我们发誓！

把电灯开关拨亮

马克用一种相当聪明的方法来解决他办公室电气设计中的一个疏忽：

I work in a very, very old office. On top of working in a very old office, I work in a basement workshop frequently. For reas*** beyond me, no one has ever wired up the basement with a regular light switch at the top of the stairs. The only lights are operated by a pull chain down at the bottom. There is enough light on the stairs to get down, but once you’re down there it’s nearly pitch black. Huge pain to get to the pull cord, let me tell you! A few months ago I stumbled upon this extremely inventive solution on Instructables… a guy ripped apart a solar light and rigged it up to a pull chain on his bedroom light. When the lights are off the pull chain glows, when the lights are on it doesn’t (and it charges the battery in the solar module to boot!). I finally got around to installing it on that darn pullchain and it’s somewhat of an illumination miracle. I’m curious to try and work the design into other things. Maybe my fellow readers will come up with something.

在室内灯的拉链上增加一个太阳能花园灯无疑是解决这个问题的一种非传统方法。我们喜欢！

使用SecretSync轻松加密Dropbox内容

弗兰克写了一篇关于Dropbox用户的小贴士：

I love syncing files with Dropbox but I’m a bit paranoid. I’ve messed around with manually taking care of sensitive file encryption but it was a hassle. What I was really looking for was a simple way to partially encrypt my Dropbox folder so that the sensitive files were on-the-fly encrypted and the other stuff (like my MP3s) were just sitting there happy and accessible. A free account from SecretSync was just what I was looking for. You install it and it creates a folder in your Dropbox account that is synced across your computers and decrypted locally. Much easier than manually unpacking the encrypted container!

好小费，弗兰克！另一个提供类似功能的优秀服务是前面提到的Boxcryptor。

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