The week’s almost over, but rather than counting each agonizing second until you can punch out at work, start your weekend off a little early in this week’s open comment thread. Photo by naughty architect . You know the rules, folks. The open comment thread is your weekly opportunity to mix it up in the comments with your fellow readers, discussing anything and everything your hearts desire. Ask your burning questions, wax philosophical, or just unwind with a little water cooler chat.

Running through the sprinklers might be a fun way to cool off, but it involves getting soaked with water. A misting system will cool you with water sans the thorough soaking. Photo by Todd Baker . If you live in an area that has high summer temperatures but generally low levels of humidity, a misting system is a great addition to your outdoor spaces. Misting systems are used everywhere from rabbit farms to theme parks and require very little materials and a very small amount of water to work effectively.

Windows only: If you’re looking for an all-in-one image capture tool that offers more than just capturing, look no further than PicPick. With a built-in image editor (similar to but more feature-rich than Microsoft Paint), a color picker, a color palette (which offers outputs in HTML, C++, RGB, and Delphi), a magnifier, a pixel ruler, a protractor, a crosshair option, and a whiteboard, PicPick covers common designing/editing needs without slowing down your system.

Life gave you an abundance of lemons (and other fruit). What do you do? You could make berry lemonade , or you could make some carbonated fruit that’ll literally make your taste buds tingle. Instructables user noahw has a guide to turning regular fruit into a refreshing, carbonated treat. You’ll need to track down some dry ice, a soda or Nalgene bottle, and, of course, some fruit. Note that firm fruits such as “oranges, apples and pears” work better than softer ones.

Yesterday Google Reader updated with more social features , including a “like” feature—but didn’t give you a way to view all the items that you “liked”. Reader Michel writes in with the solution. To view a list of all the items that you liked, simply navigate to this URL in your browser to see the list of your liked items—no doubt the link will eventually be added somewhere in Reader, but for now you can see the list this way.

Download Ultimate Windows Tweaker on Windows 7 – windows7hacker.com 07/17/2009 We have covered few tweak utilities here, I’ve also mentioned a small teak utility called “Windows 7 little Tweaker 1.1″ that designated for Windows 7 to save your time and speed up your machine. However, with the little Tweaker it only works for 32 bit machine, people have requested 64 bit and it won’t work. Thanks to theWindowsClub we now have an “ Ultimate Windows Tweaker ” with a much richer UI and function that works for both Windows 7 32bit and 64bit .

10 dumb things users do that can mess up their computers – Users find plenty of ways to run into trouble, from gunking up their system with shareware to leaving it exposed to attackers. This list will help them avoid such problems.Mozilla, Google plug high-risk browser holes- Just 48 hours after the release of exploit code targeting a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 3.5, Mozilla’s security response team has rushed out a patch to protect users from code execution attacks.