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How Can I Save Un-downloadable Online Video Content to Watch Offline? Lighten up, Francis.

How Can I Save Un-downloadable Online Video Content to Watch Offline?

You may be infringing on the copyright, or may not, depending on your use and purpose. Fair use offers a great deal of defenses which have been upheld regarding format and time shifting. It is likely that you are violating the terms of service agreement in doing so, and the worse thing that can happen to you in that case is simply being cut off from service. It's perfectly legal to use a VCR or DVR to record TV shows. How is this any different? So by default any time you visit a website and view something you are infringing on the website copyright!?!?! On a side note: Does YouTube hold copyrights of user uploaded content or does the user retain the copyrights?

Besides, lifehacker has nothing to worry about as explaining how to do something illegal is not illegal, unless it is deemed dangerous. ( ie. Make Chrome Less Distracting with Vimium (and These Settings) Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Slow Technology. I wouldn't bother overclocking any high-performance desktop GPUs.

Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Slow Technology

These days they're generally factory overclocked already, and hence you probably won't be able to push them any more, and even if you can, you'll probably experience graphical artifacts (i.e snow, random pixel data getting scrambled, or more subtle problems with rendering). It may be worth trying to push a low-end GPU, or a laptop GPU (if you're sure it can handle the heat), but in the case of the latter, good luck finding a tool that works with both your laptop's chipset and GPU. I was impressed by the DNS benchmarker, but that Soluto tool you linked to is absolutely useless, at least to any real lifehacker(er). Sure, it makes some pretty graphs about your PC's status, but I already know my motherboard's model name, CPU specs, etc. It essentially simplifies some pretty basic stuff, such as changing startup entries, etc. Create your own font from your handwriting. This is a cool little 10-15 minute activity that will keep on giving back to you for years to come.

create your own font from your handwriting

That’s right add that final customizing touch to your Windows, Linux or Mac machine – Your handwriting as a font! With some free time a visit to a website called YourFonts.com, a scanner and a printer you can create a font for use in any application on your computer. To me this sounded way too cool to pass up. I went and downloaded the printable template from here and carefully followed the steps. The template looks like this: You print it out and add your letters to each corresponding box. So if you just wanted to have a font contain numbers, letters or characters just fill in those. I was pretty excited, I grabbed a sharpie and went to work on my page. Now I messed around with the scanning properties and decided to use the grey scale you see above at 200dpi. Most scanning programs can save as for you. I filled in the fields uploaded and then waited about a minute to be show this: Top 10 Uses for Wi-Fi (That Aren't Just Connecting to the Internet)

The 50 Best Registry Hacks that Make Windows Better - How-To Geek - StumbleUpon. We’re big fans of hacking the Windows Registry around here, and we’ve got one of the biggest collections of registry hacks you’ll find.

The 50 Best Registry Hacks that Make Windows Better - How-To Geek - StumbleUpon

Don’t believe us? Here’s a list of the top 50 registry hacks that we’ve covered. It’s important to note that you should never hack the registry if you don’t know what you’re doing, because your computer will light on fire and some squirrels may be injured. Also, you should create a System Restore point before doing so. Otherwise, keep reading. Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer We’ve all been at our computer when the Windows Update dialog pops up and tells us to reboot our computer. There’s a couple of ways that we can disable this behavior, however. Turn Your Home Router Into a Super-Powered Router with DD-WRT. Wireless is everywhere and routers are the force that makes it happen, so why not supercharge yours to take proper advantage of it?

Turn Your Home Router Into a Super-Powered Router with DD-WRT

DD-WRT will let you boost your router’s range, add features, and more. DD-WRT has a ton of features—more than we can cover in this guide, which is focused on helping you get your router upgraded. Stay tuned, as we’ll go into more depth in a couple more days on all the great things you can do with it, but even if you don’t use the additional features, DD-WRT is worth installing to make your router work better. What Is DD-WRT? Here’s our router. DD-WRT is an open-source alternative firmware for routers. Router Support Turning your home router into an almost professional-level tool is a great project that has one major caveat: support. For our purposes, the important spec to consider is NVROM, or ROM. Preparation The most important thing in any project is research. The friendly forum gave us some useful info for our particular model. The Process.