Wall-O-Monitors project — twelve 30-inch flatscreens mounted
When “Crazy Jon” called and told them about a project he was working on, they didn’t believe it at first. But when we got to his house, sure enough — twelve 30-inch Dell flatscreen monitors are sitting in his office, and he’s grinning from ear to ear. Also among [...]
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TicTac flashlight
A disposable torch with long life (I hope I don’t invent the wheel once more) I bought ‘tic-tac’ mint candy and found out that this package must be ideal for 3 AAA batteries to make a small torch (or lamp) with.
Decent little instructions on how to make a simple LED flashlight from a TicTac [...]
Microsoft Software Forum Networks (MSFN), has a complete guide on how to completely customize your Windows installation CD.
Slipstream Hot fixes, silently install applications, automatically configure WLAN settings, themes, visual styles, etc.
You can make a Windows install that does everything you’ve always wanted.
I see a great use for this, as a Computer rebuild DVD.
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I’ve often looked at the 3D cutaways in Popular Science and Mechanics wondering how much work went into it, how they did it. And I always assumed it was a lot of CAD. or just a very detailed hand drawer. But I was only a little right. Kevin Hulsey spends a good bit of time [...]
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Some people are quite fanatical about quieting their PC, whether for Media use in the Living Room or the uber gamer. Most involve water cooling and such, but you’ll still hear the hard drive. Well Chris figured out how to silence the hard drive with popsicle sticks and a couple other odds and ends.
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I just read an interesting article about how doing a few things, could speed up a website (in this case digg.com) The combining of .css and .js files into master files and then precompressing them was making a reported 65% increase of speed, and a savings of 50% of bandwidth.
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A guy wrote a post on some simple things that could be done to survive the Slashdot Effect on your website. It could also be considered the Dugg or Fark effect. Basically when your site get’s noticed and thousands of users all at once visit your website. Usually sites will crash and [...]
I’ve been an avid reader of the Langa List and he’s been a good source on how to explain something complicated simply. This latest How-To from im is a lifesaver if you find you have a need to fix a damaged XP install and need to boot into XP to do it.
Since our earlier discussions, [...]
AS if you needed speeding up in your web browsing… Here is a post that explains how to surf faster by ignoring your mouse and using your keyboard.
This guy got his wireless router to use his cell phone for Internet, so he has a cheap Internet hot spot everywhere! Total cost $40 for the phone, $30 for the router, and $9 for the data cable. This would be great for nerds driving in a pack. Best part is most people already have [...]
