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Amp Up a Laser Pointer From Wired How-To Wiki Illustration by Lab Partners Your laser pointer could be doing so much more than highlighting PowerPoint slides and blowing your cat's mind. It could be sculpting ice, sparking campfires, or searing one bad mofo on your leather jacket. This article is a wiki. 1 Disassemble the unit by removing the batteries, opening the housing, and taking out the laser module. 2 Search the circuit board for a variable resistor. 3 To intensify the beam, use a small screwdriver to gently tighten the resistor. 4 Reassemble and aim your potent pointer at safe targets like ice, wood, or plastic. Contributed by Terrence Russell

Watch Movies with no limits Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent... What is the "Invisible Web", a.k.a. the "Deep Web"? The "visible web" is what you can find using general web search engines. It's also what you see in almost all subject directories. The first version of this web page was written in 2000, when this topic was new and baffling to many web searchers. These types of pages used to be invisible but can now be found in most search engine results: Pages in non-HTML formats (pdf, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), now converted into HTML. Why isn't everything visible? There are still some hurdles search engine crawlers cannot leap. The Contents of Searchable Databases. How to Find the Invisible Web Simply think "databases" and keep your eyes open. Use Google and other search engines to locate searchable databases by searching a subject term and the word "database". Examples: plane crash database languages database toxic chemicals database Remember that the Invisible Web exists. The Ambiguity Inherent in the Invisible Web:

Getting Links from the Top 50 Domains | TheGoogleCache: Search Engine Marke... Isn’t chasing links for links sake a bit outdated? Surely a link on a page not in any way related to your site isn’t worth that much? Maybe I’m wrong – discuss. lol :o) Author Response: While the issue is up for debate, I agree with your first statement and disagree with your second. How To Remove Vocals From Music Tracks Using Audacity - How-To Geek - StumbleUpon Ever get a sudden, inexplicably irresistible desire for karaoke? Maybe you like the music of a song but can’t stand the lead singer? Here’s how to use remove the vocals from most music tracks in a few simple steps. How It Works Vocals are normally placed in the “center channel.” On the whole, however this process works really well if you start with good quality audio. Removing the Center Channel Fire up Audacity and load your song of choice. The first thing we need to do is break the song’s two channels into two separate tracks. Next, pick a channel (it doesn’t matter which) and double click to select the entire track. Go to Effect > Invert. If you hit play, you’ll notice the song sounds a little funny. That’s it! Yatri Trivedi is a monk-like geek.

Top 5 Websites To Learn How To Hack Like A Pro - StumbleUpon You might be surprised to learn just how many people want to learn how to hack. The stereotype is that of the young college guy – a computer science major for sure – who spends his evenings and weekends writing up intricate hacking scripts to break into whatever computer system he can get his hands on. The truth is that what was once a male-dominated community is fast changing into one that includes folks – men and women – from many walks of life, from many countries and with many backgrounds. A recent CNET article about DEFCON makes note of the fact that claims of sexual harassment and unwanted advances are increasing. This isn’t because hackers are getting more obnoxious or offensive, but because more female hackers are entering into the community and trying to find a home there, only to find insulting behavior, and other actions unbecoming of a gentleman. There’s a caveat that I have to share before diving into these sites. #1 – Hacking Tutorial: Tech Tips and Hacking Tricks

5 Fun things To Do on School Computers - Pahgawks Animations - StumbleUpon November 26th, 2010 I know it's been a while, but I'm reinstating my weekly blog post policy. This week will be about something I've wanted to write about for a while: School computers! They're just too easy to hack and do fun stuff with, especially because teachers are just so incompetent with technology sometimes. 1. There's all kinds of really annoying things you can do with Javascript, and all you need in order to do some of these things is a text editor and a web browser. So what do you do with this code? So, what does this code do? 2. Yep, it's actually quite easy to do. Or if it's actionscript 3 write the following: Press Control-Enter when you're ready to crash your computer. 3. Want to be an administrator? Although, you have to replace USERNAME with whatever your username is. Note: This may or may not work if they have disabled the command prompt. 4. It's usually useless... Start > Run. It's bluescreeneriffic! 5. Open notepad. Warning On that light note, see you all next week!

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