| 9 November |
50 Cent Speaks On Loyalty! “You Know The Game. These Young Bucks Have A Tendency To Turn On You. But My Most Loyal Soldier, Tony Yayo, Has Been With Me Since Day 1″ |
Archive for the ‘How to’ Category
| 9 September |
Chrome’s Keyboard Shortcuts |
Google Chrome has lots of built-in keyboard shortcuts, check a few out:
(Chrome only) Ctrl+B toggles the bookmarks bar on and off.
(Chrome only) Shift+Escape opens Google Chrome’s Task Manager.
Ctrl+L to move your cursor to the address bar.
Ctrl+K moves your cursor to the address bar to enter a Google search.
Ctrl+T opens a new tab.
Ctrl+N opens a new window.
Ctrl+Shift+T opens the last closed tab.
(Chrome only) Ctrl+Shift+N opens a new window in “Incognito Mode.”
Ctrl+Tab cycles through open tabs; Ctrl+Shift+Tab reverse cycles through open tabs.
Ctrl+J opens the Downloads tab.
Ctrl+W closes the current tab.
Ctrl+R refreshes the current page.
Ctrl+H opens the History tab.
Alt+Home loads your homepage.
Ctrl+1 through 9 switches to a particular open tab position.
Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0 Enlarges, reduces, and restores default text sizes, respectively.
Tweak Your Options
Hit up Chrome’s Options dialog (click on the wrench, and choose Options) to customize Chrome’s behavior even more.
| 14 August |
How to make an animated Movie |
An animated movie about an animated character who tries to make an animated movie…
| 23 July |
Linux Tools to Convert File Formats |
“English and other languages include some special typographical
characters in addition to the normal 26 letters. Have you ever watched
the movie Æon Flux or sent in a curriculum vitæ? If you have to import
German text, you’ll find lots of vowels with an umlaut on them, and
some ß characters as well. Spanish adds ň and acute accents to the mix,
and French has grave and circumflex accents (”pie à la mode,”
anybody?)…
You don’t need Unicode for Standard English: you can do perfectly well
with ASCII characters…”
| 23 July |
Ladies … De-Grease Unwashed Hair with Baby Powder … MacGyver Tip brought to you by LifeHacker |
You’re almost out the door on a no-shower, rush-rush morning when you spot your reflection—and you totally look like you haven’t showered. The quick fix? Take about a teaspoon of baby powder, rub it into your hands or onto a trusted comb, and run it through your hair. This is one of those life hacks I don’t love admitting to thoroughly testing, but it’s saved my hair from looking like I woke up at a frat house on a number of frantic mornings. Good stuff to have around, too, as it can also quiet squeaky floors and shoes and even control ants. Got any other triage tips for no-shower hair?
| 23 June |
How To: Cheat on Any Test |
How to cheat on any test
| 26 May |
How 2… Expand the storage capacity of your cable DVR |
Many of the Scientific Atlanta DVR boxes offered by the cable companies allow you to connect an external hard drive to increase the storage capacity of your DVR. 
To do this, your DVR box must have an external SATA port (eSATA) and it must be active. Most of the DVRs offered by Bright House Networks allow you to do this, but the company says it cannot provide technical support if you run into a problem. A Comcast spokesman said the company’s boxes do not support this.
TiVo and satellite DVR boxes may also support hooking up an external hard drive. The following instructions are based on the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HDC, but the process should be similar for other Scientific Atlanta cable DVRs.
- Get an external hard drive that has an eSATA connection and an eSATA cable. Some compatible drives include the Western Digital My Book Home Edition Series ($130 to $300) and the Seagate FreeAgent Pro series ($120 to $200). Western Digital sells a hard drive specifically for expanding your DVR’s storage (My DVR Expander, $170, includes eSATA cable). Seagate plans to release a similar product later this year. For cables, check CompUSA or look online.
- Note the amount of space used and/or remaining on your DVR and write it down. Turn your DVR off and unplug it.
- Connect the power cord to your external hard drive and plug it in. Do not plug it into a power strip or other power source that can be turned off with a switch. If possible, plug the drive into an uninterruptable power supply (UPS). Connect the hard drive to the eSATA port on the back of your DVR box using the eSATA cable. Plug the DVR in and after it finishes booting up, turn it on. If you get a message that your drive needs to be reformatted, follow the instructions to reformat the drive.
- Check the capacity gauge on your DVR. If there is more storage space available than before, the drive is working properly. If not, or if your recorded shows do not appear, turn off and unplug the DVR and hard drive and repeat step 3.
- The next time you record a show, it will be saved to whichever device has more room available, the external hard drive or the DVR. You cannot choose where to store a show. Do not unplug or disconnect the hard drive without unplugging the DVR first.
You can’t unplug your hard drive and hook it up to another DVR or computer to watch recorded shows. If you get a new DVR box, you can reformat your hard drive to work on the new box, but you will lose all of the shows you recorded with the old DVR.
Like other external hard drives, there is a possibility that you will lose your data, or in this case, your recorded shows, if there is a power surge.
| 26 March |
How To Build An iPod Stereo |
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