Archive for the 'hacks' Category
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
Command-Tab has some information on hidden keys for your ipod.
“I grew tired of Googling each time I needed the correct button sequence to put iPods into their various modes, so I’ve put together this little interactive display. Click on one of the three darkened buttons above to display the key presses necessary to put the […]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
“The iPod is a deeply personal device. The music, contacts, calendars and notes you store on it reveal much about your personality. From playcounts to playlists, our iPods can tell others what we enjoy, how we think and even who we are. But if you truly want to transform your iPod into an engine of […]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Chris Prillo has given a heads up to a ebook over the blog firefox facts.
“There are many different aspects to Mozilla’s Firefox, do you know about them all?
Firefox Facts is the definitive guide when it comes to using the world’s most famous alternative browser. Inside the pages of this eBook you will get tips and […]
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
The del.icio.us blog points out that del.icio.us the link sharing web site now allows you to save links that are private. Could be handy! Particularly as the geekyinfo daily links are generated automatically from del.icio.us – so, now if I want to save a link that is not of a geek nature then I can […]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
Tom Adelstrin pens an article about Why people like linux.
So, here’s the most current findings I have in order of importance. They differ greatly from the reasons Ransom Love gave at a Linux Business Conference in Austin six years ago when the major reasons people used Linux included: File and Print serving, an Internet Platform, […]
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Marc Orchant has posted about the forthcoming foldera – an online organizational tool that looks very promising.
“I read this morning that Foldera, an online organizational tool that virtually no one has seen, has already had 400,000 people sign up for access to the public beta whenever it is finally made available. That’s a remarkable number […]
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
A friend of mine emailed me details about his home theatre pc project a couple of days ago and I thought it was worth sharing for those of you who are thinking of setting up a computer for your own music, video use on your TV.
Hardware: I had 2 leftover Athlon XP 1900+ (2.2GHz thoroughbred […]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
activehowto.com have a interesting list of things that you can do to improve the performance and make your windows machine run faster.
They write:
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Make Your Windows Fast As Never Before!
I’ve focused here on the ones which are simple to do and won’t cause problems if you get it wrong, rather than listing registry tweaks etc.
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Read […]
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
Ever wanted to boot windows xp from a usb disk. No? Well me neither but I can see it might be handy for those times that windows wont boot. Tom’s hardware has a nice article on how to install windows xp on your usb disk.
‘All it takes is a minor error in the Windows Registry […]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
The Spymac forums have a post by Brock Robert’s who illustrates the way to extend the range of your Griifin iTrip for your apple ipod. I must admit that I have the same problem but I am nervous about doing this.. but…
‘I was sick and tired of how everytime I pulled up to a traffic […]
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