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The film industry's big prom is this Sunday, and there's a good chance someone around the office, or at the party you're invited to, is putting together an Oscar pool. Up your chances, and winner-picking prestige, with probabilities and smart guesses.Wired's How-To Wiki has some simple advice on picking the Best Picture winner, which is sometimes a wild card, but often follows a tried and true path:

Four years ago we recommended TheFilter as a way to sort through your iTunes music and automatically build playlists. You can still get TheFilter as an iTunes plug-in but it's also a web-based suggestion engine for media of all sorts.

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When you want to to share music, movies, photos, or other files online, you've got countless options. We've examined most, and for our money, one tool emerges on top of the heap for its ease of use, wide support, and all-around excellence.

When you bop between your work and home computers all the time, it's tough keeping your favorite music at your fingertips ("Which computer has my Once More, With Feeling soundtrack on it?") AudioBox lets you listen to your music from anywhere.(Click the image above for a closer look.)

Windows/Mac/Linux (Java): Data Crow doesn't just catalog your movies with IMDB look-ups, organize your MP3s and CDs with discographies, or handle pictures. It handles all three, plus contacts, software, books, and much more, and runs on any system.

If you regularly tear the wrinkled sheets off your bed to use them as a makeshift projector screen, it's time to upgrade. Make this portable screen on the cheap that stashes away in a closet til the next time you need it.The DIY portable projector screen project over at Instructables can be whipped together in about an hour, and costs next to nothing to assemble. All you need is a white sheet, some eyelets, a few screw-in hooks, and about 12 feet of PVC pipe.

If your excitement about being able to watch Hulu on Boxee was dampened by your inability to access mature content, this simple hack will let you watch movies and television shows with a mature rating.

The proliferation of online media has made is really easy to track down new and interesting things to watch that aren't always in your native language. Subs.to makes it easy to find subtitles.Subs.to is a simple subtitle search engine. Plug in the name of the movie or television show—make sure to include the season and episode number!—and the language you'd like to read the subtitles in and Subs.to will return the subtitles in SRT or SUB format.

Mac only: Having a two terabyte drive filled with movies and games is beautiful, but OS X's default .iso icons sure aren't. Free app SlipCover solves this problem by quickly creating custom case icons to jazz up your media collection.