Do you install more than one browsers on your computer? Some people run more than one browsers. They use such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari.
Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome all use different rendering engines. The software that figures out how to process the code of a web site and display it for you. Like me, sometimes I use Firefox as my favorite browser, but sometimes websites do not work then I must switch over to another browser. Now, you don’t need multiple browsers because Lunascape has released an alpha version of its Lunascape browser. Lunascape is…
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Tear your iMac’s insides out
Saying that [Ian] had some overheating issues with his iMac G5 would be an understatement. After losing three hard drives due to heat he decided to do something about it. The first step was replacing the thermal paste with Arctic Sliver. The solution for the hard drive was a little more unorthodox.
[Ian] picked up a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Blue drive because of its very low noise rating. He used rubber grommets to mount it outside the case and ran SATA data and power extension cables through a quarter inch hole to the motherboard. He mentioned to us…
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Toilet and Figlet
We thought [Kristofer's] Tech Tip about using figlet with scripts was kind of fun. It’s a throwback to the days of logging onto a BBS and being greeted by a vertically scrolling ASCII art image that had been meticulously hand crafted (although a lot of the coolest stuff was actually ANSI art). No hand crafting here, just feed (or pipe) your text to figlet and it outputs the message in ASCII style letters.
When we went to try install this in Ubuntu, the toilet package was suggested. This one’s worth checking out too. It works in much the same…
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A Handy Recording Tool for Work and Play
The digital voice recorders from Olympus are wonderful tools for the always pressed-for-time folks who desire to have a greater number of options than the traditional tape recorders to capture songs or ideas. Olympus Digital Voice Recorder offer distinct sound quality, longer duration of recording, as well as convenient file management.
The Olympus vn2100pc digital voice recorder offers wave software as well as a USB connection. This diminutive and accurately designed model of digital voice recorder produced by Olympus, makes it easy for you to move your files, index your recordings, and set an alarm. The style can be used…
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Some useful orkut tricks
how 2 get invisible on orkutjust go 2 ur edit profile optiondelete first nd 2nd namethen on the first name text box type ALT + 0173do th same for the 2nd name box then update the pagesimplekeep the ALT key pressed while typing 0173———————————————————————————————————–how to miss call on orkut…………..just type [ i ] withought spaces nd an invisible scrap will b sent means empty scrap or [u ] [ b]————————————————————————————————————–how 2 mirror a message& # 8 2 3 8type it without spaces b4 ur msg nd submitt ur message will be inverted………………————————————————————————————————————–CRAZY SCRIPTSjust copy paste them in ur adress…
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The Right Blog Software Can Make A Blog Stand Out from the Crowd
Blogs are an easy way to get your voice out onto the Net. Forthe Web-It-Yourselfer, custom blogs are a great way to learnabout web technologies and create something from the ground up. With a little bit of tech savvy anyone can create their owncustom blog. When choosing blog software or a blog serviceconsider the following: Support -Implementing new software will create a lot of questions. Doesthe software have a support siteforum? How large is the usercommunity? Is the user community helpful? Is it Free? – Therereally is no need to pay a lot of money for either the softwareor a…
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Firefox CSS hack: change navigation icons
Why settle for the standard home icon on your browser? If your home button brings you to hackaday.com, why not make the icon reflect that destination? This hack is quick and simple. We’ll take you through it using Firefox 3 and the default theme with standard sized icons.
We start by using our favorite graphics program to make an icon that is 24×24 pixels, and then saved is as a PNG file without compression.
To use the new image as a home icon, we edited a Cascading Style Sheet which is stored in the file classic.jar. On Ubuntu 9.04,…
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Modular computing
This is the Illuminato X Machina, a “cellular” style computing system. Each unit is a fully functioning computer with its own processor, storage and communications. You can watch above as a change in the operating software is propagated across the grid. You can see the LEDs in the video going nuts, there are actually LEDs on the sides too. [Justin] described it to us as a personal fireworks show on your desk. This system is fully open with the schematics and source code available on their site. You might recognize these guys too, we covered their Open Source GameBoy.
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The wake up machine
Meet the Wakeup Machine. It is here to ensure that you are up and ready to go when the time comes. This machine will vibrate your bed, remove the sheets, make coffee, play music, even adjust the temperature in the room for optimal wake up experiences. We like the large heavy industrial look of it too, but after looking inside you’ll see it is only a prototype which could be made much smaller with its own pcb. This thing brings back fond memories of Rube Goldberg style alarm clocks from movies such as Pee-wee’s big adventure, Back To The…
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Only Once
Sometimes we have no option to select people who we doesn’t want to meet with. Again and again we have to face them; it is not quite right to say they’re bad; the fact is we’re in the wrong channel, perhaps we differ in patter and style.Back to the key of trust, I could tell you that the only thing we should count on – Payback. In any situation, i don’t really care-did they treat me the same like i used to treat them, what i really dislike the most:they treat us in a opposite manner.Well, they can stay in…
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Hack a Day is hiring
We’ve added a handful of contributors in the last couple months, but we’re still looking for more people to contribute daily posts and help expand the site.
This is a paid, freelancing position that requires professionalism, consistency, and reliability. We want to hear from people that are passionate about software/hardware hacking and growing Hack a Day. To apply, send the following to jobs@hackaday.com
A short bio about yourself
3 example daily posts written in the style of Hack a Day
3 software or hardware how-tos you’d like to see. For examples of work we’ve done in the past, look…
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Sending HTML Emails with Gmail
HTML email newsletters have come a long way in the past five years since this article was first written. They’re still a useful way to get a web page delivered to interested readers to encourage them to visit your website or have your readers perform an action. The email marketing process also has become routine.
This article brings you up to date on how best to code HTML email so that it will display well in most email software. It provides an exhaustive overview of how to code html email newsletters (even in Outlook) with links to free html email…
