D.I.Y – Digitize your slides and negatives!
While browsing the web I came across this interesting article that I might even give a try myself! It's from the wonderful people at Make.
Using a single sheet of thick A4 silver card stock and a template from Make's website, you can create a handy piece of origami that helps you scan all your old negatives and slides into your computer. Something that most scanners can't do. This could be a useful thing to have lying around for when you dig up all those old photo negatives hiding in the back of a draw somewhere!
You can find instructions on how to make this handy "device" here at the Make:Projects website
How To – Install Ubuntu onto a Bootable USB stick
Have you ever wanted to "play around" with Linux, but didn't want to burn a disk with it because you found it to complicated or you thought it would be wasting a CD? Well with most modern computers its possible to boot off a USB stick. You can install many operating systems onto a USB stick with a simple utility called UNetbootin. In this How-To I’ll show you how to install Ubuntu (or your operating system of choice) onto a USB stick.
You Will Need:
- USB thumb drive (minimum 2GB)
- A Windows PC (I’m using Windows 7, but you can also do this on Linux and MAC)
- An Internet connection (I’m assuming you already have this as your reading the How-To!)
Step one involves opening your favourite web browser and pointing it towards http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/. This will take you to the UNetbootin webpage where you have three choices of downloads. One for Windows, one for Linux, and one for Mac.
We’re going to select Windows.
iOS 4.3 battery problems? Upgrade to 4.3.1
Having problems with iOS 4.3 reducing you battery life? well fear not as there is a simple fix.
Go to Settings > General > Restrictions and turn on restrictions. Once you have done this slide the switch next to Ping so that it is set to off. and this should increase you battery life!
There is now also an update to 4.3.1 which apparently solves this battery life problem. Just plug your iPod, iPhone, or iPad into iTunes and press update.
We hope this helps you, please comment below if you have had any troubles or your battery life is still affected.
How to make Avast Anti-Virus talk like a pirate!
Avast anti-virus is a great program stop stop computer nasties from getting in! Not only is it very functional, but its also quite entertaining!
Its possible to change the language of Avast so that all the text will be in pirate talk and the alerts will be read out to you in pirate speak! In this How-to i will show you how to change the language file in Avast so your computer can talk in pirate to you as well! This does however require you to have speakers/headphones attached to your computer!
For step one you will need to have Avast Anti-Virus installed. You can find that here (Takes you to Avasts website. Free version).
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1. Open Avast
How to – View you iPod or iPhone on your computer
Have you ever wondered how Apple got there iPhones to display on the big screen? Well I have no idea how Apple did it, but I can tell you about a couple of way of doing it, and show you one of them!
First of all lets go over two ways of getting you iPhone to display on your computer.
Method 1:
This involves having a jailbroken iPhone, which will void your warranty. There are two programs for this method that you will need. The first is ScreenSplitr and the second is iDemo. I will not be showing you how to use this method as you can only view you iPhone, but not control it at the same time. Also, I have not been able to make this method work for me, but many people have had much success.
The two links you will need are:
Screensplitr installs on you iPhone, and iDemo on your computer. (iDemo is a trial)
Method 2:
This is the method I am going to show you, it involves using an iPhone plugin called Veency. Again you have to have a jailbroken iPhone to do this, so remember this can void your warrenty!