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Weekendhacker News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker

Build Your Own VPN to Pimp Out Your Gaming, Streaming, Remote Access, and Oh Yeah, Security Homemade Water Rocket Is Cheap Low-altitude Fun It’s Monday; if you’re lamenting another weekend past without a cool project then it’s time to add this inexpensive water rocket to your weekend project list. Make magazine reader Cobbler built a water rocket based on the specs from the pages of Make vol. 5. In the above video he shows you how he built it as well as some test launches and then finally an on-board video of the flight in action. DIY Water Rocket with Video [Make] Jason Fitzpatrick is warranty-voiding DIYer and all around geek.

Sous-Vide 101: How to Cook the Most Tender and Flavorful Meat You’ve Ever Tasted Good settings [edit] Things to read first Downloading as fast as your connection allows requires good settings based on the upload speed of your Internet connection. First, fix your NAT problem if you never see the green smiley as torrent health and do not Force Start your torrents. Running another P2P program while Azureus is running will stall your downloads badly as they will fight for the same bandwidth. The following suggestions should work well most of the time. [edit] Good settings based upload speed Note: Find your upload speed at next chapter. If the chart below does not list your upload speed, you might use a calculator page or get new settings using AzBot. If you are running several file-sharing programs on the same internet connection -- on one or more PCs -- you need to split the upload bandwidth and calculate queue settings accordingly. Attention: You need to change the User Proficiency Mode (Mode options) at least to "Intermediate" to be able to change all settings! If you get green smileys

How to Live Without a Jailbreak in iOS 5 Works fine for me and all my i-devices. Perhaps it's not iOS 5. I tried to send a file to my wife's iPhone using Bluetooth. We both we standing next to each other and turned on Bluetooth for both devices. We tried several combinations of "you go first, now I go first" etc.. to no prevail. iPhone doesn't support file sharing over bluetooth, with any device. I know about Bump. It wasn't much hassle for us to play around with it. Good settings Things to read first[edit] Downloading as fast as your connection allows requires good settings based on the upload speed of your Internet connection. First, fix your NAT problem if you never see the green smiley as torrent health and do not Force Start your torrents. The following suggestions should work well most of the time. Good settings based upload speed[edit] Note: Find your upload speed at next chapter. If the chart below does not list your upload speed, you might use a calculator page or get new settings using AzBot. If you are running several file-sharing programs on the same internet connection -- on one or more PCs -- you need to split the upload bandwidth and calculate queue settings accordingly. Attention: You need to change the User Proficiency Mode (Mode options) at least to "Intermediate" to be able to change all settings! See Options -> Transfer options and Options -> Queue options. Set your upload limit to about 80% of the maximum possible. If you get green smileys

How to Choose the Perfect Mouse and Keyboard 20 Best Online To Do List Apps for Freelancers To do list task managers and full productivity software is essential to a freelancers business. The style of design your looking for in a to do list app will differ based on the size of your small business, the nature of the services you offer, and your personal preferences. You may be a one man freelancer and prefer a stripped down, easy to use task app that syncs well in the cloud and works with your preferred devices. Or you may regularly work with a team and need some specific features to have you all working in harmony and efficiently. While every user will have different needs in a to do list manager, there are some features that clearly add functionality, and looking at them will help you choose the best to do app for you. How a to do list task manager implements these features has a big impact on it's user base. Featured To Do List Apps If you're still lugging around a paper based day planner, then now is the time to switch to digital. 1. 2. 3. This app has been around for ages.

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