How to Calibrate Your HDTV and Boost Your Video Quality in 30 Minutes or Less Don't know about you... but TVs I've owned have Store and Home modes, Store is horribly bright, high contrast, Home is sensibly done. Last time this article came around it only needed a DVD player. Now you've made it even harder to do. You *can* use a DVD player, but considering no DVD player is capable of 1080p/i display, it wouldn't make much sense. That said, "Store" or "Cinema" or "Vivid" is the mode warned against in the open.
How to create your own Chrome theme | How To One of the great things about the Chrome browser is the ability to customize its appearance with the use of themes. The Chrome Web Store has a decent selection of themes to choose from, but if you're not thrilled with the premade themes, you can create your own. Here's how: If you're already familiar with JSON files, the Theme Creation Guide might be all you'll need to get started For the rest of us, there's a Web site called ChromeTheme.net that has a Web-based Chrome theme creator. Step 1: Go to the Chrome Theme Creator. Step 2: If you just want to use your own wallpaper in the large white space of Chrome and be done with it, upload the wallpaper at the theme_ntp_background image element, then move on to Step 3. Step 3: When you've finished creating your theme, go to the "Pack" tab and click the "Pack and install theme" button. Step 4: At the Chrome prompt, click "Continue" to install the theme. That's it.
How to Build a Computer from Scratch, Lesson 4: Installing Your Operating System Ah, good eye! So, generally, your motherboard runs all RAM at the lowest speed (correct me if I'm wrong on any nuance of that particular fact, guys). As I mentioned in part 2, RAM speeds don't really matter. You're not going to get any noticeable difference from 300MHz in your RAM. However, where those RAM speeds DO come in useful is if you overclock your processor. Many of today's processors are tightly linked with the RAM, meaning that if you raise the clock speed of your processor, you also raise the clock speed of your RAM. So in the end? RAM speed do provide performance increase, visible in memory intensive task, such as photo editing, CAD or gaming. Your problem is easy to solve. Hope this helps. :) (please keep posted) I had this problem with my new build I bought some 1600 ram but it was running at 1333 on auto. Also, if I recall correctly, there are dividers associated with the bus speed and memory speed so it's still possible to overclock the CPU and keep the RAM in spec.
George Lakoff: Michigan's New Corporate Servitude Law: It Takes Away Worker Rights Michigan has just passed a corporate servitude law. It is designed to take away many of the worker rights that unions have conferred throughout their history: the right to a living wage. The right to equal pay for women. The right to deferred payments in the form of pensions. The right to negotiate workplace standards and working conditions. The law is intended to destroy unions, or at least make then ineffective. The deeper truth about unions is that they don't just create and maintain rights for workers; they work for and create crucial rights in society as a whole. Since Democratic candidates tend to support the same progressive views, defunding unions would take away their power to campaign for Democratic candidates. Language matters. Progressives and conservatives have opposing views of democracy. Conservatives don't accept this truth, if they perceive it at all. The press is not being neutral in using the Republican name for the law.
The Best PCs You Can Build for $600 and $1200 Bookmarx Adds Keyboard Shortcuts to All Your Bookmarking Actions Chrome: If you're a heavy bookmarker than you likely have a ton of different folders and sites in your browser storing all the amazing stuff you come across. If you want to speed up this process, Bookmarx is a Chrome extension that adds a few handy keyboard shortcuts to make bookmarking a breeze. Bookmarx defaults to Ctrl+X to load the bookmarks box (but you can change it if you need that for cutting). Everything else you do with bookmarking can be done with keyboard shortcuts, including creating folders, finding folders, flip through currently existing folders, and more. It's handy if you're the type that constantly bookmarks and organizes the web sites you come across. Bookmarx | Chrome Web Store via Addictive Tips
Stream Your Music Online From Wired How-To Wiki Vintage radio photo by monogatari via Flickr You've spent a lot of time and money collecting digital music. But let's say you want to take that library to go? This article is a wiki. Step 1: Host it somewhere Most web hosts offer data plans around $10 per month that come with plenty of storage and bandwidth to hold and serve your music. Besides the cost, you trade off a good deal of control over the data because it resides on some machine out there in the ether. Hosting music on your own computer using a broadband connection is a preferable option, especially since you know exactly where it is and there's is no need to transfer your music anywhere. Tip: Webmonkey.com has an excellent introduction to using Dynamic DNS.Tip: Dan Hilgert also has an explanation of his Dynamic DNS setup and streaming music guide. Step 2: Create a playlist Perhaps the easiest way to get your music online is to use your favorite music player. Extended M3U The XSPF format is below. <?
Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity by Maria Popova Why creativity is like LEGO, or what Richard Dawkins has to do with Susan Sontag and Gandhi. In May, I had the pleasure of speaking at the wonderful Creative Mornings free lecture series masterminded by my studiomate Tina of Swiss Miss fame. These are pages from the most famous florilegium, completed by Thomas of Ireland in the 14th century. In talking about these medieval manuscripts, Adam Gopnik writes in The New Yorker: Our minds were altered less by books than by index slips.” Which is interesting, recognizing not only the absolute vale of content but also its relational value, the value not just of information itself but also of information architecture, not just of content but also of content curation. You may have heard this anecdote. Here’s the same sentiment from iconic designer Paula Scher on the creation of the famous Citi logo: Kind of LEGOs. And iconic novelist Vladimir Nabokov was a secret lepidopterist — he collected and studied butterflies religiously.
The Daily Routines of Famous Writers By Maria Popova UPDATE: These daily routines have now been adapted into a labor-of-love visualization of writers’ sleep habits vs. literary productivity. Kurt Vonnegut’s recently published daily routine made we wonder how other beloved writers organized their days. So I pored through various old diaries and interviews — many from the fantastic Paris Review archives — and culled a handful of writing routines from some of my favorite authors. Enjoy. Ray Bradbury, a lifelong proponent of working with joy and an avid champion of public libraries, playfully defies the question of routines in this 2010 interview: My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. Joan Didion creates for herself a kind of incubation period for ideas, articulated in this 1968 interview: I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I’ve done that day. E. I never listen to music when I’m working. Photograph by Tom Palumbo, 1956
The Art of Being Still Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. Many of the aspiring writers I know talk about writing more than they actually write. Instead of setting free the novel or short story or essay that is sizzling at the ends of their fingers, desperate to set fire to the world, they fret about writer’s block or about never having the time to write. Yet as they complain, they spend a whole lot of that precious time posting cartoons about writing on Facebook or putting up statuses about how if they only had more free time they just know they could get their novels written. The problem is, too many writers today are afraid to be still. The people who see me out in the world might scoff at this since I am nearly always in motion, but those who know me best realize that I am being still even in my most active moments. Most writers today have jobs or families or responsibilities, and most often, all three. There is no way to learn how to do this except by simply doing it. Sarah Williamson
Brain Pickings | Love - Part 13 05 JUNE, 2013By: Maria Popova “Do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love.” “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer,” Anaïs Nin admonished.“It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821 — 1881) — a man of brilliant mind and tormented soul — is one of those peculiar figures who, not unlike Anaïs Nin herself, attained only marginal acclaim for their formal body of work, but whose posthumously published private journals have gone on to become timeless masterpieces of philosophy and literary thought. In the original introduction, French critic M. The man who, during his lifetime, was incapable of giving us any deliberate or conscious work worthy of his powers, has now left us, after his death, a book which will not die. Among Amiel’s greatest, most abiding insights are his conflicted thoughts on love.
Charles Darwin's List of the Pros and Cons of Marriage by Maria Popova “My God, it is intolerable to think of spending one’s whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all.” “The day of days!,” wrote 29-year-old Charles Darwin in his journal on November 11, 1838, after his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, accepted his marriage proposal. If not marry Travel. Several weeks later, in July of 1838, he revisited the subject, with another meditation on the value of a life-partner (“better than a dog anyhow”): This is the Question [circled in pencil]MarryChildren — (if it Please God) — Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one, — object to be beloved & played with. — better than a dog anyhow.– Home, & someone to take care of house — Charms of music & female chit-chat. — These things good for one’s health. — but terrible loss of time. He then produces his conclusion: Marry — Mary — Marry Q.E.D. …and moves on to the next question: It being proved necessary to MarryWhen? Six months later, the two were married.