64 Things Every Geek Should Know - laptoplogic.com The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field. Google Search Tips Here's a small list of tips that may help you use Google search better. 1. If you're on Google's homepage, click on "I'm feeling lucky" if you're searching for the site of a company or the official site of a product.
Cult of Mac Mobile » Use A Secret Gesture To Switch To The Previous Space [OS X Tips] There’s a secret gesture you can use with Mac multitouch trackpads that lets you double-tap with four fingers to switch back to the most recently used desktop space in OS X Lion (although not previous versions of OS X). For example, should you switch to the Dashboard space from the main desktop, double-tapping in this way will switch back to the desktop. Note that this gesture involves merely tapping on the trackpad, and not clicking. This remains true even if you have Tap to Click turned off in System Preferences. To activate the gesture, you’ll need to use a hidden setting. Open a Terminal window (Finder->Applications->Utilities->Terminal) and type the following:
11/30/12 Hendersonville, NC Tess was very excited to tell me today that we could make lipstick from crayons and coconut oil and that she wanted to make all the colors of the rainbow and use a different one every day of the week. And so we did. How to make a maintenance flash drive for computer repair I enjoy being the tech hero. Relatives and friends come to me with their computer problems, and more often than not, I help them. Their problem gets solved, and my ego goes up a notch. It helps to have the right tools, and unless a friend has a hardware problem all of those tools fit onto a single flash drive.
20 Useful OS X Tips Because we are all different, operating system developers always put more than one way of doing things in their systems. One example is there’s often keyboard shortcuts, menus and toolbars in applications for doing the same thing. Consequently, it’s very easy to get into the habit of doing things a particular way without ever learning other ways. Hopefully for the average user there might be at least one tip here that you weren’t aware of and that will be useful to you. Otherwise, I officially re-title this article: “20 Useful OS X Tips for Beginners and Switchers”. Cult of Mac Mobile » Change Settings, Launch Apps And Dial Friends Through Notification Center, No Jailbreak Required There’s a lot to like about iOS 5’s Notification Center, but unfortunately, it’s not nearly as configurable as it could (and perhaps should) be. If you want to wring more power out of your Notification Center, though, we’ve got good news: there’s a really simple way to turn Notification Center into a quick launch bar for all your favorite settings and contacts. Even better? Unlike many Notification Center tweaks, there’s no jailbreak required. The app is called App Switcher, and what it does is allow you to quickly and easily launch your favorite tasks right from the Notification Center. Here’s how it works.
7 Tools to keep your Mac Healthy For the four years I’ve been using a Mac, I haven’t used a maintenance tool. All I’ve ever done was verify disk permissions, and maybe use Drive Genius to perform some optimisation. But even that was just something ‘extra’ and not necessary according to me. The real question is, can maintenance tools really help in getting your system speedy, healthy, and less prone to crashes? 25 Useful Ubuntu Shortcuts To Make your Life Easier Sponsored Links Earlier, i have posted about useful windows shortcuts. This time, i have compiled a list of 25 useful Ubuntu shortcuts (not those commonly known Ctrl+C type shortcuts) that make your life easier. These shortcuts will help you do routine tasks more quickly and easily. Ubuntu
How To Make AirPrint Work with Just About Any Printer A quick rundown on How to Use AirPrint Hacktivator to Make AirPrint Work with Any Printer: I’ve talked a lot here recently about how hugely disappointing the much-hyped new AirPrint feature has turned out to be in the recent iOS 4.2 update. Apple originally promised it would support a wide range of wireless printers and virtually all shared printers. On release, it supports a very small handful of HP wireless printers and no shared printers at all – making it unusable for the vast majority of iPad users. Top 5 New Kickass Torrent Search Engines Searching for torrents can be a little tricky, after all Google wasn’t made as a torrent search engine. This is where torrent search engines comes handy, which makes finding simple and easy. We decided to compile a list of Top 5 new torrent search engines, its the beginning of September 2008 we bring you some new players in this field (except Torrentz which is 5 years old). The list includes only public websites, which allows you to search for torrents without registration or ratio requirements. Note: These search engines do not host the torrents on their servers.