Top 10 End-of-Year Office Upgrades (You Can Probably Write Off) @elizawhat: Two things: 1: There's no reason to take your battery out if your laptop's plugged in, or fully drain your battery before charging. This was a useful thing back when batteries were NiCad, but modern batteries (NiMH, LiIon, LiPoly) don't suffer memory effects, so it's OK to charge them at any point.
They could lose capacity if overcharged, but your laptop, phone, whatever is specifically designed not to do this. 2: It's bad for the battery to be stored either fully charged or fully drained. Fully charged batteries lose capacity rapidly if they're stored and not used. OTOH, fully-drained batteries aren't actually fully-drained, as a fully-drained LiIon battery can't be recharged.
There are electronics in batteries that retain the last bit of charge to prevent this from happening; however, if the battery is stored "fully drained", there's a chance it could lose that charge and become a paperweight. @elizawhat: That's a bunch of whooey. Crytek's Official Modding Portal | Crymod Downloads. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done.
A sunrise and sunset lamp with LEDs. You need these things: o 12V or 24V power-supply o A socket for a 3.5mm phone-jack, or any other connection from the serial-port to the microcontroller to program the picaxe o 1 pushbutton and 1 toggle-switch, or 2 pushbuttons o 1 IC7805 with capacitors, this converts us the 12V or 24V to the 5V we need to operate the microcontroller o 1 IC ULN2803A, This is a Darlington Transistor Array for the direct use on TTL-Level outputs. Alternatively use 8 single Darlington-Transistors with suitable resistors but it also works with the standard BC547-transistors. o 1 High-Power FET like the IRF520, or some other Power-Darlington-transistor like the BD649 o A whole bunch of LEDs, different colors like red, yellow, white, warmwhite, blue and ultraviolet.
O 1 10k&-potentiometer, preferable with a long knob o 1 300&- potentiometer for testing purposes o Some resistors, some cables, a board to build the circuit and of course a soldering-iron For the rest just check out your local dealer. Jolicloud Netbook OS Is a Bit Like Chrome OS with Awesome Deskto. @AnnataVarro: You and I read that quite differently. I read it as, instead of having to partition your drive first, then install it into that partion, the installer takes care of the partitioning and places the OS into it accordingly. Note the fourth screenshot in the gallery, showing Jolicloud as one of two OSes running on that machine. Plus, for what it's worth, this comes from the website: "We recommend you use the Jolicloud Express installer above. However, if you want to use the partition install or simply if your netbook is not running Windows, you can download the Jolicloud ISO and Jolicloud USB Creator.
" @AnnataVarro: Not really. It would appear (both from the screenshot and the description) that their Express Installer is based on Wubi. @AnnataVarro: it's more like a shell on top of Ubuntu. Kind of like edubuntu. Chrome OS Virtual Machine Build Ready for Your Testing - chrome. Voyage Turns Your Firefox History into a Visual Map - Browser Hi. Most Popular Top 10s of 2009 - Lifehacker Top 10 - Lifehacker.
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@dhuff: I've got to agree with nbenko. Just like nbenko, I thought the typing action was a bit strange at first, but it's actually shorter than the action for my PowerBook G4 12"... which I'm typing on now. Less travel = WIN! Conceal Speaker Wires with Wood Trim - DIY - Lifehacker. Five Best Wallpaper Sites - Wallpapers - Lifehacker. NoDrives Manager Hides Your Hard Drives - Hard Drives - Lifehack. All the latest PC news. VG Arabia » Splinter Cell: Conviction new co-op and multiplayer. Modern Warfare 2 Epic Javelin FAIL. Modern Warfare 2: Mod Tools in development. Microsoft Declares War on Software Pirates. MW2 Multiplayer Is a Hot Mess - DualShockers. Featured, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 Infinity Ward brought us Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which many gamers were calling a masterpiece and possibly the next best thing since sliced bread, but alas it seems the franchise has taken a sharp turn into a dark region, known as the crap zone.
The multiplayer on each platform is plagued with issues from players having the ability to hit their 10th prestige without earning it on the PS3, to players having speed hacks on the PC version, to just an utter loss of control of matches on the Xbox 360. there have even been matches where players do not reload and have infinite ammo during death matches, Infinity Ward needs to get on these issues before players lose interest in taking part in a multiplayer system that is obviously not working. I have to say that I play mostly on the Xbox 360 and matches over Xbox Live are a terrible mess. Wave Gadgets - The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Goo. From The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave You know all the ins and outs of Wave's built-in features.
Now it's time to enrich your waves with third-party gadgets. In Chapter 5 you started adding rich content to your conversations with Google Wave's built-in Maps and Yes/No/Maybe gadgets. That's a good start, but there's a whole universe of third-party gadgets available for Wave. In this chapter, you'll learn how Wave extensions enable developers to create—and users to enjoy—new functionality beyond what's available in Wave by default—specifically through the use of gadgets. Wave Extensions: Gadgets and Robots Wave extensions are add-ons that enhance your waves with new features and functionality. [1] If you've ever used any Gmail Labs features, [2] Wave extensions are very similar—they add functionality to the Wave client, normally accessible through a button inserted on your edit toolbar when you install the extension.
What's a Gadget? Gadget Extensions Figure 7-1. Jolicloud.