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DIY Electronic Wire Stripper Gives Visual Feedback
This clever DIY wire stripper turns the razor blades into a circuit–the moment you slice through the protective sheath of the wire you’re cutting you get a visual indicator that the wire is ready to be rotated. It’s a rather ingenious design; assuming you cut slowly you’ll never risk over cutting and damaging the inner [...]
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Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With TTL and TCP Window Sizes
Did you know that you can find out which operating system a networked device is running just by looking at the way it communicates on the network? Let’s take a look at how we can discover what operating system our devices are running. Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With TTL and TCP Window Sizes How To [...]
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IT: How to Install Hyper-V Virtualization on Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 and later releases of the product ship with a virtualization platform called Hyper-V, which works quite well since it’s built into Windows. Today we’re going to show you how to install it. Note: this is part of our ongoing series teaching IT administration basics, and might not apply to everybody. Hacker [...]
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The Best How-To Geek Articles for January 2012
This past month we covered topics such as how to extend your wireless network using Tomato-powered routers, shared the best password tips to keep your accounts secure, how to fix Shockwave Flash crashes in Google Chrome, and more. Join us as we look back at the best articles for January. Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With [...]
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How To Extend Your Wi-Fi Network With Simple Access Points
Last week we showed you how to extend your network without wires, this week we’re looking at how you can use use an existing hardwire network to easily and quickly extend your wireless network using simple access points. After we published our guide How To Extend Your Wireless network with Tomato-Powered Routers, we received a [...]
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Ask HTG: Checking Wi-Fi Signal Strength, Syncing iTunes to Android, and Backing Up Windows Home Server
Once a week we round up some of the great reader questions we get in the Ask HTG inbox and share the answers with everyone. This week we’re looking at checking your Wi-Fi signal strength from your phone, syncing iTunes to Android devices, and how to back up the Windows Home Server. How to Use [...]
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Geek Trivia: Which Film First Featured A Completely Computer-Generated Character?
Which Film First Featured A Completely Computer-Generated Character? 1) Tron 2) Young Sherlock Holmes 3) Looker 4) Superman Think you know the answer?
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Ethernet Cable Hack Extends Your Flash Sync Cord [DIY]
If you’re looking for a quick, dirty, and cheap way to extend your camera’s flash-sync cord, this tutorial shows you how to splice it to an Ethernet cable for easy length customization. Flash sync cables are usually rather short and lengthy cables are obscenely expensive for what they are (often $1-1.50 a foot). This simple [...]
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Orkanizer Is a Web-Based Pomodoro Tracker With Stat Tracking, Task History, and More
Orkanizer is a free, web-based, and feature rich Pomodoro Technique tool that includes productivity statistics, tagging, task histories, and even relaxing music to listen to while you work. If you checked out previously reviewed PomodoroApp and were put off by the Windows-only aspect or the freemium model aspect, you’ll want to take a look at [...]
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Build a Stylish Standing Desk for Under $200
If you’re looking for an on-the-cheap standing desk but you’d like to use solid wood instead of particle board/MDF, this IKEA-based hack uses solid wood counter tops and still keeps it budget-friendly. Similar to a previously featured IKEA standing desk, this model–courtesy of Brad at IKEAHacker–uses the CAPITA angled brackets. It varies by ditching the [...]
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