How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Secondary Display. If you own an Android tablet, you probably get most of your real work done on a desktop or laptop PC, and use your tablet primarily for casual Web browsing and content consumption. But you can use your tablet to improve your productivity, too. Since a tablet is essentially a portable touchscreen, why not repurpose it during work hours as a secondary display? In this article I'll outline how to configure an Android tablet (or a compatible Android smartphone) as a secondary PC display.
I'll explain how to install a couple of apps on an Android-based tablet and on a Windows 7 PC, and then I'll show how to configure them to work together to extend (or mirror) the PC's desktop. These capabilities are not confined to Android and Windows 7, however; do some digging on your own, and you should discover other screen-mirroring apps for any version of Windows from XP forward, as well as for Mac OS X, iOS, and Android. What You Need Install the Tablet App, and Give Your Tablet a Name A Few Drawbacks. Ikea versus Apple. 13 Things You Must Do First with Your New PC. A new computer is like a blank state--there's a lot of potential there, but without some work on your part, it's useless. It's not hard to get started, but there are some essential first steps that everyone should follow when breaking in their new PC. In this guide, we've compiled a step-by-step list of essential tips, tricks and advice from many of our other features, to provide you with just the information you need to get off to a great start with any new PC.
So if you got a new rig under the PC under the tree this year, or even if you're just thinking about getting one in the future, read on to find out more! 1. If your new PC is a premade system, and not one that you built yourself, it’s likely that your operating system came with a few little “bonus” features, like toolbars and other crapware. Making a vLite disc is a pretty easy process, but you’ll need to have your Windows 7 disc handy. 2. Finally, link up your PC with any NAS boxes or Window Home Servers on your local network. Boost your pc’s performance in 5 secs. Have you ever noticed how you pc tends to slow down near the end of the day? Well there is a way you can put it back in its fresh start state without a restart! First up, why do you need a booster? Well, it’s not so much a question of why because we all want a faster PC.
This is more a question of WHEN. If you’ve been running a large application (or several large applications, maybe a game, Photoshop, something like that) the RAM can get taken up quickly. You’ll notice this effect at the end of the day. So, here’s what you need to do. Step One: Open up Notepad (it’s in Accessories) Step Two: Type in MYSTRING=(80000000) Step Three: Save the file as MEMORY.VBE (or RAM.VBE if you like…just remember the .VBE) Step Four: Make sure you save the file to your DESKTOP. Step Five: Just double-click the newly created file on your desktop whenever your PC seems sluggish.
If you have less than 128mb of RAM. That’s it. Default Password List. The fanless heatsink: Silent, dust-immune, and almost ready for prime time. The fanless, almost-silent, dust-immune, 30-times-more-efficient Sandia Cooler heatsink is almost ready for prime time. Sandia National Laboratories has announced that two companies — one computer heatsink maker, and one LED light maker — have licensed the technology. In the Sandia Cooler, the heatsink itself is the fan. It is a cast metal impeller that floats on a hydrodynamic air bearing just a thousandth of an inch (0.03 millimeters) above a metal heat pipe spreader, powered by a brushless motor in the middle.
The end result is a cooler that is very quiet and 30 times more efficient than a fan-and-heatsink solutions. The prototype (shown above and in the video below) is 10 times smaller than a commercial state-of-the-art cooler, but has the same cooling performance. The Sandia Cooler’s silent operation is due to the fact that a fanless design has a lot more flexibility, whereas the fan in a standard air cooler just needs to drive as much air as possible. Night School News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker. Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands « Icrontic Tech. Note: This article is now available on the Amazon Kindle Bookstore: Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands. Download a convenient e-book version of this article to keep at your side while you repair your computer.
Every IT tech from casual to professional should have a copy of this handy reference on their e-reader! Most of us have seen it at one time or another; perhaps on our own PC, the PC of a loved one, or perhaps a PC at your place of employment. The system spends weeks or months operating in a smooth fashion, taking you to the far reaches of the wide, wibbly web, and after one particularly late evening of browsing and gaming, you shut your PC off and go to bed.
Millions of people across the globe do just this every night, but a few of us have turned our PCs on the next day not to the standard Windows XP loading screen, but instead this dreaded error: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Select ‘R’ at the first screen to start repair. The animated guide to Building a PC. Learn to build a PC from scratch with PCitYourself! Wireless graphics card takes the desktop out of desktops. Now that wireless keyboards and mice are the norm, there's just one cable left that tethers us to desktop computers: the display cable. With a wireless graphics card, you can finally cut that last cord and get all your desktop power anywhere you want it. The KFA2 GeForce GTX460 is a standard (and halfway decent) NVIDIA graphics card that's had its display ports ripped out and replaced with five antennas, making it the world's first wireless graphics card, according to the company.
The card broadcasts on the WHDI (wireless home digital interface) standard, and can pump uncompressed 1080p video at 60Hz through the ether to a base station that plugs in to the back of a monitor. The wireless is supposed to work up to 100 feet away, even through walls, and the upshot is that you can now wander around your house with a wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, and external monitor and set up your desktop computer wherever you feel like. KFA2, via OhGizmo and Bit-Tech. A Beginner's Guide to Overclocking Your Intel Processor. Tips and downloads for getting things done. @jsim: do you really need your stuff from 1972? Start a plan of data shredding. I have ZERO financial documents past 7 years old.
It's a liability to have them longer than that. As for my flatfile Database of my Albums and cassettes I had in 1981... I dont care if it goes away. This also allows you to find the real important files and back them up. @jsim: Get a Drobo or build a FreeNAS @jsim: @Tim O'Brien: A Drobo? Smallnetbuilder.com has been a great resource for me @jsim: 1) dont let the size of the project intimidate you 2) make a list of all hard drives, internal / external, and size 3) consider WinHoSo or some other NAS software for a central source for managing all drives at the same time 4) define an external "TO" location. this is where "Files I want to keep" are going. 5) (Google) search (I. 6) run through all the other stuff deleting what you dont want and organizing what you do. 7) Have an 'end solution' for once you go through all of that data. Howstuffworks "How Liquid-cooled PCs Work"
The First-Timer's Guide to Building a Computer from Scratch. Top 10 Hard Drive Upgrades and Fixes. 99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast. Over the last several years working in IT for various companies as a Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, and Help Desk professional, I’ve written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to Windows Vista.
In this article, I hope to compile a complete list of all the different methods and tricks that I’ve used to get the last bit of juice out of a slow PC. Whether you are using an old PC or the latest and greatest in hardware, you can still use some of these to make your PC run faster. Note that since I write two blogs, Help Desk Geek and Online Tech Tips, I have previously written about many performance tips already which I will link back to throughout. If I have not written about it, I’ve throw in a link to a relevant article from some of my other favorite sites. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.
25+ Useful Linux and Unix Cheat sheets. Faster programming gives you more time for small business website design and other projects. This is my first post on Cheat sheets. Actually Cheat sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. Cheat sheets will contain most of the shortcuts needed to program faster. And it is meant for newbie users who can’t remember the shortcuts or commands. In this post , I have collected almost 27 Cheat sheets available for Linux users. You may think that one cheat sheet is just enough for me , so why should I need to look at so many cheat sheets. Click on any of the 687 commands below to get a description and list of available options. Tired of using your mouse so much? I hope that these cheat sheets will definitely help you to remember some difficult commands for sure. Mozilla Firefox. I was opening up my almost brand new Dell 600m laptop, to replace a broken PCMCIA slot riser on the motherboard.
As soon as I got the keyboard off, I noticed a small cable running from the keyboard connection underneath a piece of metal protecting the motherboard. I figured "No Big Deal", and continued with the dissasembly. But when I got the metal panels off, I saw a small white heatshink-wrapped package. Being ever-curious, I sliced the heatshrink open. I found a little circuit board inside. Being an EE by trade, this piqued my curiosity considerably. On the other side, one Microchip Technology PIC16F876 Programmable Interrupt Controller, along with a little Fairchild Semiconductor CD4066BCM quad bilateral switch.
Looking further, I saw that the other end of the cable was connected to the integrated ethernet board. What could this mean? The reasons Dell would put this in thier laptops can only be left up to your imagination. Capsida.Net - Remote Admin Service. Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks. How To Crack A Wi-Fi Network’s WEP Password. You already know that if you want to lock down your Wi-Fi network, you should opt for WPA encryption because WEP is easy to crack. But did you know how easy? Take a look. Today we’re going to run down, step-by-step, how to crack a Wi-Fi network with WEP security turned on. But first, a word: Knowledge is power, but power doesn’t mean you should be a jerk, or do anything illegal. Dozens of tutorials on how to crack WEP are already all over the internet using this method. What You’ll Need Unless you’re a computer security and networking ninja, chances are you don’t have all the tools on hand to get this job done.
A compatible wireless adaptor—This is the biggest requirement. Crack that WEP To crack WEP, you’ll need to launch Konsole, BackTrack’s built-in command line. First run the following to get a list of your network interfaces: airmon-ng The only one I’ve got there is labelled ra0. Now, run the following four commands. Now it’s time to pick your network. Airodump-ng (interface) Suite and PortableApps.com Platform | PortableApps.com - Portabl. Computer Repair Flowchart. Portable applications - CodySafe, the best portable apps manager.
Massive 500-LED Extreme Flashlight. The first question some may ask is “Why?” Those of us who are LED addicts say “Why the hell not?” This guy literally took 500 bright white LEDs and created his own giant 50W flashlight. While it may have been just ever so slightly overkill, it’s still an impressive build. Can you imagine soldering all of those 500 LEDs?! Don’t Miss: DIY Super-Powered Flashlight Beam As you can tell in the video above, it has an absurd amount of controls for various brightness settings. Heck, it could even be a non-lethal weapon as it would temporarily blind any bad guys. Similar DIY Projects: Windows XP: Set up a wireless network without a router. Dr Dobbs - Embedded Systems and Intel's AMT.