Archive for February, 2011
Lucky Kid Gets Playable Angry Birds Cake [Video]
If you’re a six-year-old that loves Angry Birds we’re not sure you could get a better cake than a playable Angry Birds mock-up. It’s one thing to make a static Angry Birds cake, that takes a certain level of cake baking skill. It’s another thing altogether to make a cake that is a playable mock-up [...]
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See the Lord of the Rings Epic from the Perspective of Mordor [eBook]
Much like the wildly popular book “Wicked” mixed up the good/bad dichotomy in the Wizard of Oz, “The Last Ring-Bearer” shows us the Mordor’s take on the Lord of the Rings. The work of a Russian paleontologist, Kirill Yeskov, “The Last Ring-Bearer” frames the conflict in the Lord of the Rings from the perspective of [...]
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Smart Taskbar Is a Thumb Friendly Android Task Launcher
If you frequently use your phone one handed you’ll definitely want to check out Smart Taskbar, an add-on for Android phones that makes it easy to launch apps with the swipe of your thumb. Smart Taskbar tucks an application launcher on the side of your screen, out of sight. Swipe your thumb across the screen [...]
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How To Make Hundreds of Complex Photo Edits in Seconds With Photoshop Actions
Have a huge folder of images needing tweaks? A few hundred adjustments may seem like a big, time consuming job—but read one to see how Photoshop can do repetitive tasks automatically, even if you don’t know how to program! Photoshop Actions are a simple way to program simple routines in Photoshop, and are a great [...]
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Week in Geek: Botnet Epidemic Fueled by Malware Toolkits Edition
This week we learned how to stream media files from any PC to a PlayStation, enable user-specific wireless networks in Windows 7, monitor the bandwidth consumption of individual applications, configure the Linux Grub2 Boot Menu the easy way, “add Dropbox to the Start Menu, understand symbolic links, & rip TV Series DVDs into episode files”, [...]
21Feb2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Desktop Fun: Feathered Friends Wallpaper Collection
Birds can serve as wonderful sources of inspiration with their varied colors, song, and feats of flight. Today we have a beautiful flock of birds that you can add to your desktop with our Feathered Friends Wallpaper collection Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7 How to Use [...]
19Feb2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Comix is an Awesome Comics Archive Viewer for Linux
Do you have a terrific collection of comics in electronic form but need a great app to view them with? If you have a Linux system then we have the perfect app for you…Comix, the open source comic reading powerhouse. For our example we installed Comix on our Ubuntu 10.10 system. Just go to the [...]
19Feb2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Get the MakeUseOf eBook Guide to Speeding Up Windows for Free
Our friends over at MakeUseOf.com have released yet another eBook in their series of Guides to, well, just about everything. This one gives you some tips for speeding up your Windows PC. The guide has a ton of different tips, and while I wouldn’t necessarily say you follow every single tip to the letter (since [...]
19Feb2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Need Tech Support? Call the Star Wars Help Desk! [Video Classic]
Having problems with the Tractor Beam? Did a weapons malfunction bring your computer system down? Is the Replicator making your Earl Grey Tea taste odd? Wait…what??!! Just call the Star Wars Help Desk to get the personalized help you need. Star Wars Help Desk [YouTube] Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Enable User-Specific Wireless [...]
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Reclaim Vertical UI Space by Adding a Toolbar to the Left or Right Side of Firefox
Do you need to make the most efficient use possible of vertical UI space on your system’s screen, but have horizontal space to spare? Now you can shift the toolbar icons and their awesome functionality to a slim sidebar in Firefox using the Vertical Toolbar extension. As you can see above the sidebar even picked [...]
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