Archive for May, 2011
Play SNES Games on Your iPad with Wiimote Support
If there is one thing the iPad doesn’t lack for it’s games. Unfortunately if you’re in love with retro games from a bygone era, you’re largely out of luck. Today we take a look at how you can play SNES games on your iPad (and iPhone too!) Play SNES Games on Your iPad with Wiimote [...]
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Wake Up Your Computers Using Your Android Phone
Add a trick to your Android phone’s toolkit: boot your computers from afar by pushing the command from your phone to your home network. At MakeUseOf they’ve shared a small tutorial on how to configure the free Android application PC Auto Waker. Essentially it’s just a lightweight wake-on-LAN (WOL) client that sends a packet to [...]
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How to Bring Back the Firefox Default Menu Button in Ubuntu 11.04
The new Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal uses a Global Menu which puts the applications menus (File, Edit ,View…) on the top panel. In Firefox, this also removes the Firefox menu button in the upper left corner of the browser window. If you liked that menu button and would like to get it back then you [...]
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DIY Photo Booth Features Custom Single-Purpose Button
What do you do if you need users to be able to press a keyboard button but you don’t want then roughing up the keyboard or accessing any other buttons? Build a custom and durable single-use button. Over at Rasterweb they wanted to build a simple photo booth setup for an office party. They used [...]
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Hack a Balance Arm Lamp into a Microphone Stand
Professional swing-arm microphone stands cost upwards of $150. This clever lamp-to-mic-stand hack costs a mere $9. Cheap microphone swing-arm stands usually start around $75′ish. Decent ones easily break $150. If you’re looking for a cheap microphone stand for your home recording adventures, however, this IKEA Tertial work lamp turned mic stand gets you a functioning [...]
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Ask HTG: Multiple Gmail Instances, Securely Erasing SSDs, Using Disk Quotas
Every week we dip into our reader mailbag to answer your burning tech questions. This week we’re looking at signing into Gmail with multiple instances, securely erasing SSDs, and using Window’s Disk Quotas. Top 10 Geeky Projects to Earn Yourself a Memorial Day ER Visit Soluto Solves PC Crashes and Speeds Up Boot Time. Download [...]
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Top 10 Geeky Projects to Earn Yourself a Memorial Day ER Visit
What better way to kick off your summer than building something to dazzle your neighbors with a symphony of booms, zaps, thumps, and other assorted better-call-the-ambulance noises? Read on as we highlight 10 geeky and dangerous projects. While geeky projects of all stripes are fun there’s just something about projects that require safety goggles, protective [...]
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7 Search Tips You Probably Don’t Know About
Not a day passes by without doing an online search. You may know of basic search operators like AND, OR, etc. but an increasing number of web applications support even more keywords that’ll help you fine tune your search to the core. Here are some you may have never heard of. This is a guest [...]
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Week in Geek: LinkedIn has Security Problem with User Account Cookies
This week we learned how to install and configure OpenVPN on a DD-WRT router, receive Android Phone alerts on a desktop computer, how you manage and organize your photos, got to download the wallet-sized HTG photography cheat sheet, save money with the latest set of Geek Deals, and more. Photo by leg0fenris. Top 10 Geeky [...]
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Desktop Fun: Rainforests Wallpaper Collection
Rainforests are renowned for their beauty, mystery, and diversity of wildlife. Now you can bring a part of these amazing places to your desktop with our Rainforests Wallpaper collection. Note: Click on the picture to see the full-size image—these wallpapers vary in size so you may need to crop, stretch, or place them on a [...]
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