“Last week we shared a commercial solution for securing your loose pegboard pegs. We’re back to share a cheaper and more effective solution, courtesy of an industrious reader.

Kim disliked Peg Locks, the product we highlighted last week, because they take up two holes on each side of the peg you’re trying to secure, and they never seemed to stay put for his. When he put up new peg boards in his workspace, he decided to use zip ties instead. You can loop them through a single hole and they hold the peg in place with a rock-solid grip.

The downside of course is that you need to have access to the back of the pegboard to use zip ties to secure the organization pegs. Kim overcame this problem by mounting his pegboards in a hinged frame. Most of the time he never needs to access the back, but when some rearranging is needed, he simply flips the whole thing up like a garage door and has access to the back where the zip ties are locked. Check out the link below to see more photos of his setup and additional information.

Have a clever workspace hack? Let’s hear about it in the comments.”

“Ever notice an annoying, persistent lag every ten seconds or so when you’re watching a YouTube (or other) video in Firefox? Reader Bernard Sandberg has, and he’s written in with a smart about:config that solves the problem for him.

Although Bernard’s talking specifically about YouTube, this tweak should help fix any similar jumpiness in Firefox.

Many users, myself included, visit YouTube on an almost daily basis. Ever since Firefox version 2.0 implemented the session restore function, when you are watching a video on YouTube (perhaps on other video sites as well, I haven’t really tested that), you may notice a tiny freeze-up of the video every 10 seconds or so. This happens because the session restore is by default set to save all open tabs every 10 seconds. This is especially noticeable if you happen to have a lot of tabs open at once.

The quick fix for this problem, at least for my own sake, is to increase the time between each of the saves performed by session restore. By opening about:config in your Firefox address bar, then typing browser.sessionstore.interval in the filter box, you’ll see a value of 10000, which is in milliseconds. (Meaning your session is saved every 10 seconds.) I changed this to 300000, or every 5 minutes, as I don’t have the urgent need for tab restoration. If you feel like being more on the safe side, try increasing it to something a bit lower, say 120000, or every 2 minutes.

We did a bit of research, and it looks like Bernard’s not alone with his solution. I’ve experienced this problem plenty in Firefox, so it’s great to see a relatively simple solution, even if it does mean sacrificing a bit in the way of up-to-the-minute session saving. If you give it a try, let’s hear if it does the trick for you in the comments (assuming you’ve experienced this problem in the first place).”

“Firefox: Keyboard shortcuts are handy time savers, and when it comes to web browsers, a keyboard/mouse shortcut is even handier. Zip through your history on a web page with this simple shortcut.

Lifehacker reader Raghav, a Firefox completist who previously brought us a middle-click reminder, writes in with a great trick for zooming through your browser history:

It’s common knowledge that control-scrolling increases/decreases font size and that alt-scrolling slows down scrolling in firefox, but did you know that shift-scrolling shuffles through your history for that page? Shift + Scroll Up shuffles forward, and Shift + Scroll Down shuffles backwards.

Since you likely already have your hand on the mouse, this shortcut is quite the speedy one. If you have a favorite Firefox shortcut, obvious or otherwise, let’s hear about it in the comments below.”

“Blogger Anastasia didn’t want to pay $44.99 each for four seasons of Stargate Atlantis—she wanted the online price of $19.99. Using her phone’s data connection, she managed to knock about $96 off her purchase.

Anyone who’s done some serious price comparison might already know of Best Buy’s strange differentiation between online and in-store prices. Anastasia found her way around that schism by buying the items online from her T-Mobile G1, while standing in the store she wanted to pick them up from. The only tax was about 20 minutes of waiting, most of it waiting for the email confirmations to return—and, let’s be honest, most of us can find something to gawk over for a short while in an electronics store.

Read the full details of her use of post at the Long Live Geeks blog for complete details of her quest, and read up on Best Buy’s In-Store Pickup policies at their site. How have you worked around the online/brick-and-mortar divide at Best Buy or any other retailer? Share your strategy in the comments.”