There are plenty of tools that allow you to take simple text notes and organize them so you can search and filter them later, but Fetchnotes is the first one we’ve seen in a while that’s coming out of the gate with full cloud syncing across multiple devices, an easy-to-use webapp, Android and iOS apps, and desktop widgets so you can stay on top of your notes, all right up front on launch. More

If you’re getting started with your backyard or container garden and want to be ready for when the inevitable unwanted guests move in, you don’t have to run out and grab a couple of bottles of commercial pesticide from your local hardware store—there are safer, more natural options that won’t leave your fledgling produce covered in chemicals.

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Keep Your Garden Pest Free with These Natural Pesticides, Made with Ingredients Already in Your Pantry [Gardening]

You’ve got, what, one DVD drive on the front of your computer? You have so many empty drive bays—how embarrassing! Here are a few awesome (and absurd) things you can put in those bays to add extra features to your computer. More

Our entertainment centers are more stuffed with gear than ever, but it’s no fun keeping a half-dozen remote controls and game controllers on your coffee table and switching between them every time you want to watch a movie, change the volume, or switch to a different device. This week, we’d like to know which universal remote you prefer to trim that stack of remote controls on your coffee table down to one, that works for all of your devices. More

A leaked document gives us some insight as to when several Microsoft products will launch, Facebook upgrades its “Download Your Information” feature, and Apple releases another Java update to combat the Flashback malware scare.

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Remains of the Day: The "Roadmap" That Leaked Microsoft’s Upcoming Products [For What It's Worth]

If you have a pair of jeans that is beyond repair you can repurpose them into a gardening (or other activity) apron by cutting away everything not part of the apron. More

Chrome: If you like to pin your tabs in Chrome you may have noticed that you usually lose new item notifcations that several sites such as Gmail, Facebook, and others add to the page title. With Chrome extension Icon Badger many of these notifications are moved to the favicon so you can know when your favorite sites are updated even when their tabs are pinned

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Icon Badger Provides Favicon Notifications on Pinned Tabs [Chrome Extensions]

If you grow blueberries or other fruiting plants that are preyed upon by birds you can keep the winged thieves at bay while allowing access to your plants for honeybees by using inexpensive wildlife netting and a PVC frame for the netting.

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Use Wildlife Netting to Protect Blueberry Bushes From Birds [Video]

If your home or office has unique security challenges or you just want the geek cred you assemble a system to open a door via an RFID signal. At around $100 the parts aren’t expensive, but in addition to basic electronics skills you’ll need familiarity with Arduino Uno boards and access to a laser cutter

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Hack a Door to Open Via RFID [Video]

If you’ve lost a 72mm lens cap Flickr user Frans Leys advises that you can use a lid from a 220gr jar of Nutella; it’s a perfect fit. The 220gr jar is not the standard size sold in America but you can find it in European and Australian speciality shops

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Use a Nutella Lid as a Nikon Lens Cap [Clever Uses]