50 Ways to Liven Up Your Labor Day How to Set Up a Projection-Based Home Theater, Step by Step Watch movies on the big screen, at home, with the perfect home cinema set up for any budget. Nothing beats the big screen experience for movies or gaming, but home theater is an expensive hobby to get into. This is the guide you’re looking for, so get out your shopping list and tape measure as I walk you through every aspect of planning your own home theater, from layout to choosing curtains and the most important part of the set, the projector itself. Projector Projectors are the kind of device where you really do get what you pay for. Most projectors will be either 720p or 1080p, with a few hundred dollars in price difference. One specification you’ll see quoted very often is the lumen value (except where it’s so low as to be shameful). Another key point to pay particular attention to is the life of the bulb (quoted in hours) and cost of replacement. In addition to bulb replacements, you’ll need to clean the air filters every 3-6 month, replacing them if they’ve perished. Screen
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MinuteTaker and Meetings Help You Produce Professional iPad Minute Reports In my free online MakeUseOf Online Meeting Guide where I provided some tips for planning and holding meetings over the Web, I referenced a few minute taking apps as well. While very few of us enjoy taking and producing minutes, Meetings ($3.99) and MinuteTaker ($7.99) not only make it easier to take minutes, but the reports you share will actually encourage meeting participants to read the minute reports. If you use your iPad as a laptop and you have the laborious job of taking minutes at meetings, I couldn’t make better recommendations than Meetings and MinuteTaker for iPad. MinuteTaker ($7.99) In order to get meeting participants to review minutes, reports should be browsable just like well-designed web pages. Naturally, MinuteTaker comes with a built-in text editor for taking minutes, though the user interface may feel a little awkward the first time you use it. Meetings ($3.99) Meetings takes a more traditional approach to taking minutes. Bottom Line Download: Meetings for iPad ($3.99)
24 Essential Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Tools Mind mapping is the process of using visual diagrams to show the relationships between ideas or information. Its popular uses include project planning, collecting and organizing thoughts, brainstorming and presentations — all in order to help solve problems, map out resources and uncover new ideas. It can be more useful than trying to keep track of our ideas by scribbling them on paper, and can aid in manipulating and generating concepts. We've compiled a list of 24 mind mapping tools to help you organize, summarize and visualize information, with both free and paid versions available to suit any budget or requirement. The tools mentioned are either browser- or desktop-based, with a selection of mind mapping mobile apps at the end of the article for use on iOS and Android devices. Is there a particular mind mapping tool you would recommend? 1. MindMeister was built to facilitate collaboration for mind mapping and brainstorming, with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. 2. iMindMap 3. 4.
How to Optimize Your Profile Photos Across Social Media Choosing your social media profile photos is an important task. They represent the physical you in the online world, while providing an all-important first impression to anyone viewing your profile. In order to make the most of the available space, we took a look at how you can optimize your avatars and cover photos on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Google+. Read our guidelines below, which include the optimum sizes for imagery across all sites, and some handy tips and tricks to bear in mind when choosing the right photographs. Facebook Facebook profile photos are cropped square, so we advise you to use an image that is already in this ratio — that way, you can avoid hastily cropping it right after you upload it. Cover photos come in at 851 x 315 pixels. Your profile photo is the one that's seen most around the site (next to posts, comments, etc.), so it's important that your choice works well as a small, standalone image. Twitter Twitter header photos can be up to 5MB in size.
Learn to Code with Harvard’s Intro to Computer Science Course And Other Free Tech Classes I’ll confess, when it comes to computers, I’m pretty much strictly a user. And these days, with the potential freedom and creatively afforded by open access software, the endless hacks for virtually everything, and the availability of free online computer classes, that seems like kind of a lame admission. So I’m tempted to rectify my programming ignorance by pushing through what promises to be a rigorous intro to computer science, CS50, Harvard’s introductory course for both majors and non-majors alike. The course offers a broad knowledge base to build on, as you can see from the description below: Topics include abstraction, algorithms, encapsulation, data structures, databases, memory management, security, software development, virtualization, and websites. Harvard has made this course available free to anyone---via YouTube, iTunes, and the course page---with a series of lectures filmed during the Fall 2011 semester. Professor Malan has become something of a hot shot at Harvard.
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How to Type Spanish Keyboard Symbols … ¡ Á ¿ é í ó ü ñ ú How to Type Spanish Keyboard Symbols With new computers, first check the “help” screens for language and keyboard options. Suggestion: Save and print a copy of the method you choose. Keep a symbol guide close to your computer or with your course notebook. On a Mac, use the following: Option + e, a = á; Option + e, e = é; etc. Option + n, n = ñ. To create a Spanish-language keyboard on a Windows machine to use with any program, including webpage composers and email, follow these steps….but first you will probably need your Windows program disc to insert for completing the keyboard. Go to your Control Panel (through Start > Settings or through My Computer) Double-click Keyboard Click on the Language tab Click Add Select Spanish (Mexico, Spain, traditional or newer sort) from the list ("Mexico" is a generic Latin American keyboard) Click OK and close the Control Panel. Spanish will now appear on your keyboard list. Click on Insert menu and select Symbol and a dialogue box will pop up.
How to Organize the Family Command Center By Stephanie Sisco Dream of trading in your perpetual piles for an appealing hub that keeps family life running smoothly? Thanks to clutter coach Chip Cordelli, your wish is our command (center). Start Here Find the Right Spot A zone that everyone passes through is the most effective: a corner in the kitchen, a nook in a hallway, or a centrally located home office. Make Some Rules To keep this area from becoming an unloading zone, determine what belongs here and what doesn’t. Take Care of the Nos If there’s no plan for the junkifiers, your precious command center is toast.
50 Things a Geek Should Know (Apparently) Not only is geek culture a lot more popular these days, in some circles it’s even a competition. We’ll entertain the notion, but I suggest we ignore the more elitist, aggressive tones. Let’s instead share and embrace the geekery! How many did you know? 50 Things a Geek Should Know | Virtual Hosting