Optimus Maximus Keyboard

Hey!

I'm checking new gadgets released at CES. One of the gadgets that caught my attention was the new keyboard called Optimus Maximus. The best thing about the new keyboard isn't it's revolutionary keyboard layout or wireless capabilities.

The best thing bout the new keyboard are it's keys. Every key is a small OLEAD screen. Keys can be predetermined or set by the user. They can also change depending on the application you are in. Really useful.

You can read more about the keyboard here.

Best, M

Wireless HD

Hey!

We will be getting a new WiHD standard very soon. The first products are scheduled to hit the shops in the beginning of the 2008. The standard will be using 60Ghz, so it won't need a special permission to function. It will be capable of speeds 4 Gb/s. Very nice!! :))

You can read more here

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How to make a mp3 ringtone

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Recently i watched a keynote presentation from mr. Steve Jobs from Apple that was about their new function, making ring tones wit Itunes. The idea is great, you take a song, cut 30 seconds that you think would make a perfect ring tone and press cut. The catch is that you have to pay 0,99$ for the song and 0,99$ for the ring tone you just made... If you already have a song, then you just have to pay 0,99$ for a ring tone...

I thought a bit about that and realized, why not find a free program on the internet that allows you to edit audio, and to make your own mp3 ring tone, or in any other format for that mather. I found software called WavePad from NCH Swift Sound. It's really simple to use and it's really simple to cut mp3's and to make mp3 ring tones out of them. You can also convert audio files with software that comes with WavePad. Just be sure to install the converter in the WavePad installation process.

So now you have installed the program, how to make a ring tone??:
-open a song you want to make a ring tone of
-listen to the song, and when you find that special peace of song you like, just use you mouse to color it
-now click CRTL+C to copy that part
-then open a new file, it pop's a window, just click OK
-when the new window opens, press CTRL+V to paste the part you copied
-listen to it once more and if you are satisfied click the X to close the window
-it will ask you if you want to save the file, you click yes, you name it and choose a format you want to save it in and that's it

Enjoy!

Best,M

Installing laptop computer memory

For all of you who still don't have Apple laptops. :))

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The guy hacks a big screen!

Hey!

The guy hacks a big screen on the railway station somewhere in the Netherlands. Very funny :D

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Is it OK to steal Wifi?

Hey!

I came across this article about the ethics of stealing Wifi connection from you neighbors, coffee shops,...

I personally think if the Wifi network is in range and has no protection then go for it. Those who want their network to stay private the use a password to protect it. Of course that password can be cracked but i don't support that. If the network has no password then the owner doesn't want it to be secret or he/she doesn't know how to set up a password. But that is their ignorance. I know that setting up a password can be done by a monkey if you showed it how, so for people with a basic or almost none computer experience that shouldn't be a problem. If it still gives you a hard time, there are a lot of handyman's' out there that can help you. You just need to ask.

So stealing Wifi is OK if it's not protected and even then, don't use it for downloading huge files or smth, because that can cripple the connection for the owner and that is NOT OK!

LINK TO THE ARTICLE

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Removing and istalling memory to Macbook

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Removing and installing a hard drive to Macbook

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I never knew if it was hard or not to change a hard drive or memory in the laptop computer. I know that doing that with a PC is a piece of cake and i did it several times, but laptops were an enigma. I found this video showing how you can easily remove the hard drive and exchange it with new one in an Apple Macbook. The reason i have posted this proces for Macbook and not for a laptop is that i'm waiting for my Macbook to arrive from U.S.A. and i want to be ready for it. :)))

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Levitation trick #2

I tryed the levitation trick myself but it didn't work. Maybe it was because i used the Redbull can istead of coca cola, but that was the one i had at my house.

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Cool levitation trick!

Very cool levitation trick that you can do yourself!

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Making a Wi-fi antenna

This video shows how you can simply make a Wi-fi antenna, that will boost your Wi-fi signal. It is really simple to make, so everybody will be able to do it. More about the antennas can be found here Freeantennas. It can be very useful if you have your Wi-fi router on the edge of the house/apartment and you want to boost your signal in the house, because this antenna "takes" the signal from one side and boosts it on the other side. I have provided a picture so you can understand.

Happy building!

M

Zamzar

Zamzar is a very useful tool for converting all sorts of formats. You can convert picture formats or MS Office formats to pdf,... The number of formats is really big and the Zamzar is really well spoken of.

The proces is really siple:
1. you choose the file you want to convert
2. you choose the format you want to convert to
3. you type in you email so they can send you a download link
4. click on the link in your email and download the file

It is that simple.

Zamzar www.zamzar.com

Games!

I like playing games, as many of you do to, so i added this Miniclip to my Blog, so you can play the games from here!

Best, M

Colors on the internet

Hey!

I found a site, where you can change RGB colors to HTML colors,...

Very useful for web developers.

LINK TO COLOR CALCULATOR

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Google Hacks

I found this movie on the Videopedia page. It shows some Google search hacks. I guess only the first two are interestesting for a normal user.

The first one is how to "hack" security cameras. You just type in this in you google search: inurl:"viewerframe?mode=motion". Whit this you will get a list of security cameras. You can click on any of them and you can move it arround, zoom,... pretty neat!

The second one is how to "hack" live cameras. You have to type this in: intitle:"Live View / -AXIS". You will get a list of live web cams that you can watch. Some of them can be moved arround and zoomed.

Other two hacks are not that interesting, so i won't explain them. Be aware of all spaces in the search keywords.

Best, M

HOW to make you WEB page more visible?

There are many ways to make you web site get better position when being searched in search engines such as Google.

One of the ways is to add meta tag to you web site. This means you provide informations about your web site for search engine robot to pick up. You do that by adding a line of meta code.

Examples are provided here!

You have to add this line of code to theHEAD of your page and when you tipe in your keyword, don't use CAPSLOCK. If you use CAPSLOCK then somebody who searches for that keyword will have to type it also with CAPSLOCK. For example:

your keyword is LONDON
if somebody type's in london, your page will not show

Best, M

Netvibes

Today i decided to write something about Netvibes. Many of you probably heared about Netvibes many of you did not. I think it is a very useful thing and can save you so much time...

So, Netvibes.com is a home web page that you can personalize. Just log on to http://www.netvibes.com and i will explain it to you. First you have to make an account, you do that by clicking a button in the upper right corner which says sign in. Now that you registered you can start shaping you page.

Best thing to start with is by adding gadgets. You do that by clicking add on the upper left corner. There are many gadgets to choose from. I think most useful are:

Email wizards: you can set it up so you can read you email, without leaving the netvibes site.

Weather: it shows your weather in a nice graphic way

Webnote: you can write something down and it immediately saves, so when ever you open Netvibes it's there

Facebook: to keep up to date with you frieds

Google search, Youtube search, Picture search: so you have all search engines in one place

Rss reader: this is my fauvorite, you can read as many rss feeds as you want (more explained in my previous post)

These are only few i like, but there are many more on Netvibes.

After you finish with adding them to you page, you can easily move gadges with a mouse. You just click & hold it and move it where ever you like. It's that simple.

In Netvibes you can also make tabs, so you can have Rss feeds in one tab, search engines in one tab, possibilities are limitless. One more step in personalization is changing the graphics of your page. You to that by clicking the settings button in the upper right corner. Then just click wallpapers and choose. You can also name you site, just double click on the previous name and change it.

I hope this post shead some light on Netvibes
which are pretty cool and easy to use. I highly recommend it.

I supplied this video, which shows mr. Tariq Krim of Netvibes.

Best, M

What is RSS?

RSS is Rich Site Summary. :))

Have a clue? I guess not!

I found a video that explains it very well (better then i would :))). So rather then me typing it and you reading it, you can just watch this. It also explains using Google reader which i use. The thing i can do for you is to write you some useful RSS adresses(feeds) so you can use when you learn how to from the video. Most of them are Slovenian but some are International.

Slovenian:
24ur.com - http://rss.24ur.com/index.rss
Dnevnik.si - http://www.dnevnik.si/novice/kaj_je_rss (this is not a RSS adres, copy/paste this in you browser and scroll down, you will see that Dnevnik offer more RSS chanels)
Delo.si - http://delo.si/rss/
RTVslo.si - http://www.rtvslo.si/rss (sam as dnevnik, multiple RSS feeds to choose from at the bottom of the page)
Vecer.si - http://www.vecer.com/rss/

International:
Google news - http://news.google.com/?output=rss
CNN - http://www.cnn.com/services/rss/ (multiple RSS feeds, tipe this in your browser and choose one or more)
BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3223484.stm (multiple RSS feeds, tipe this in your browser and choose one or more)

Best, M

How to capture/record your desktop?

I browsed the web and i found this really neat and FREE program called CamStudio, that can be used to record your PC screen.

So, how do you do it?

Firstly you have to download it from this web site http://camstudio.org. Scroll down a bit and find the download link and save it to your desktop. Install the program and double click the blue icon, that appears on your desktop. A small window opens and you are ready to go.

Using the program is very simple, you just have to set audio and region options everything else is already pre-set. First click on the Options button and choose which audio you want to record (no audio, from microphone or from speakers). Then click Region button and click which region you want to record. You can choose between full screen or a specified region. After you have choosen you are ready to go.

After you click the red recording button it starts recording. I suggest you choose a region to record if you are using audio, because otherwise the audio can be really bad becasuse it's too much data for it to record. (I tried recording in full screen with audio from spekers and it was a disaster. I guess this also depends on your PC processor speed. I tried it on a Pentium 4, 1.5Mhz,512MB RAM.) After you click the stop button, program asks you where you want to record this movie and how you want to name it. After that just wait for it to encode audio, and when it finishes a video player will pop up. You can close that and watch your video in any standard video player.

I have also found this video, that pretty much shows you everything you need to know about using Camstudio.

Enjoy!

Best, M

Make your PC run faster

Hey!

In this post, I'm gonna touch the theme "making the PC faster". From my experience many people don't even know how to install antivirus programs, let alone the regcleaners and adaware removers...

So this is a post, that will make that operation much easier for those kinds of people.

Firstly YOU NEED AN ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM! There are many out there so its plenty to choose from. My personal best is NOD ANTIVIRUS (http://www.eset.com/) which takes up least of your RAM and processor power and its really good too. BE AWARE: If you already have an antivirus program, be sure to remove it completely (Control panel > add remove programs > unistall) before you install the new antivirus, this is essential. After instalation it is higlhy recomended to run the antivirus program, to clean you computer. I suggest doing this before you go to sleep, because it tends to take some time. The installation of the program should be straight foward, you just click next, next,... (also read what it says before you click next!)

The next step is to download an ad aware program. One of the FREE programs out there is AD-AWARE LAVASFOT, which you can download and install for free (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/). After the instalation you just click scan and clean in the end. That means you PC is free from all of the bad buggs. GOOD JOB!

After you have you antivirus program and an ad aware, then i suggest that you download some kind of Registry clener, again, there are many available on the internet but my personal best is CCLEANER (www.ccleaner.com) it's FREE and has also a file cleaner installed which is pretty neat. After you download it, click on the Registy button and scan for issues. Then just click the Fix button, and make sure you make a backup copy of your registry before you fix it. ( I supplied a picture so you can see what to do)

Ok. Now you have no viruses, no ad aware, your registry is in order. Your computer should already pick up some speed and response time.

The next step is explained in this video. It tried it myself and works fine, but i have to warn you, if you don't know what are you doing then just don't DO IT. I will not be resposible for any loss of data or anything simmilar, ok? Good

Now watch the video and MAKE YOU PC FAAASTERRRR! :))

Best, M