10 Awesome Online Classes You Can Take For Free - Aurora. Cool, but you need iTunes for nearly everything, and that gets an 'F.' Are there really no other places to get these lessons?
I was sure there are some on Academic Earth. Flagged 1. 7 of them are available via YouTube. 2. iTunes is free. 1. 2. Don't worry, we're looking out for you! While I have no personal beef with iTunes, I know that many people share your sentiments — so I actually made a concerted effort to include relevant youtube links when possible. Handcrafted internet radio.
How to make a Sawed-off USB Key. Holy crap– somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!!
No– wait– sorry. That’s just my USB drive. My bad. Never mind. (And after the jump, how to make your own.) It’s no secret that there are a lot of strange USB devices out there, particularly flash drives. Despite all that, the picture above is a little surprising– because yes, it’s a working USB flash drive. This is a KingMax 1 GB USB flash drive, one of the smaller varieties out there. The plastic cover is attached only weakly, by a bit of silicone adhesive, and peels off fairly easily to expose the bare printed circuit board of the flash drive.
Next we need a victim USB cable. Cut deeply enough that you actually cut through to the metal shell underneath the rubber, at which point you can start to peel back the rubber parts. The metal shell underneath the rubber overmolding consists of two of pieces of thin steel that are stamped and folded into place.
Funny Fake Facebook Walls - The Wall Machine. Spezify - Aurora. IE9 vs. Firefox 4. Let's compare IE9 to Firefox 4 HTML5 test Firefox 4: 255 Firefox 3.5 (two years ago): 142 source In 2011, IE9 now supports Canvas, Video, Geolocation and SVG.
Platform supported IE9: Windows Vista/7. Firefox 4: Windows Vista/7, Windows XP, GNU/Linux, Mac OS, Android. HTML5 compatibility Firefox 4: 88% source CSS3 compatibility Firefox 4: 87% source JS API compatibility Firefox 4: 90% source All Web Standards Compatibility Firefox 3.6 (one year ago): 65% source Hardware Acceleration Firefox 4 = IE9 On Windows Vista/7, Firefox 4 supports Full Hardware Acceleration, as much as IE9. Firefox 4 also supports Hardware Acceleration on Mac and Windows XP (Compositing Acceleration) and Linux (Content Acceleration). on compatible hardware source What's missing in IE9? Compared to Firefox 4 What's missing in Firefox4? Compared to IE9 Text-overflow. Facebook. Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] Don’t limit yourself to just plugging in simple search terms to Google; check out this infographic and learn a search string search or two.
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You don’t need to limit yourself to searching just for simple strings; Google supports all manner of handy search tricks. If you want to search just HowToGeek.com’s archive of XBMC articles, for example, you can plug in site:howtogeek.com XBMC to search our site. Get More Out of Google [HackCollege via Mashable] Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to.
If it can be modded, optimized, repurposed, or torn apart for fun he's interested (and probably already at the workbench taking it apart).