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This week: How to build your own TiVo (or, How to never miss an important football game ever again.) Building your own TiVo—or FreeVo, as some call it—is more than a dream. It's more than a trend. It's the new cool way to stick it to The (TiVo) Man while impressing your friends. Make and Wired have published detailed how-tos. There are also several online communities like The Green Button that will help guide you through the tricky parts. For the technology dunces of the world—myself included—I had several friends break down the jargon into simple steps we can all understand. Your mission: To build your own digital video recorder from mail-order parts. The payoff: An integrated entertainment system that records TV programs with no monthly fees. Keep reading for your marching orders... Ingredients 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. "You have to consider WAF (wife acceptance factor -- or HAF if it's the wife doing the installation). Steps 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

32 Custom Birth Announcement Postcards and Greeting Cards by admin | May 26, 2010 | Design The birth of a new life into this world is definitely worth a celebration! Whether or not a baby shower is in the works, baby announcement cards are a must to share the new family’s joy with relatives and friends. Make birth announcement cards even more special by making them as unique as the baby they’re welcoming! Click on the images for individual design credit. We hope this collection leaves you bubbling with ideas for your own birth announcement card designs! Tagged as: Birth Announcements, greeting card designs, greeting cards, Postcard Design, postcard designs, save the date cards This post was written by admin+ Leave a Comment

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12 Fun Hacks for Getting More Out of YouTube There's no doubt that plain old YouTube can be tons of fun, but when you get bored of watching clips the traditional way, there are a ton of sites that can help enhance the experience. Whether you want to view a video with a far-away friend, compare two clips, or find more interesting ways of browsing and sharing, there are plenty of options out there. The web community is known for creating hacks that improve your surfing experience; now we've dug into some of those tools and hacks built around YouTube. Have a look through our 10 choices and let us know of any other YouTube mashups, hacks, or similar sites and services you've used. 1. This site features a super-simple premise. 2. DragonTape allows you to remix YouTube videos into a seamless mixtape. 3. This "mashup helper" exists "because you have better things to do than work." 4. SynchTube allows you to watch synchronized YouTube videos with up to 50 other people with a chat window along the side so you can IM about what's happening.

How to Deliver a Speech that Gets a Standing Ovation Rebecca MacDonald, a Canadian immigrant born in the former Yugoslavia who started with nothing and is now executive chair of Just Energy, a $2.3 billion (market cap) energy firm, delivered such a vivid and passionate speech at the Womens' Presidents Organization annual conference on Thursday afternoon in Vancouver, that the entire audience of 650 women business owners spontaneously leapt out of seats to clap, howl and cheer her on. 'I laughed, I cried, I almost had to leave the room when she spoke about her relationship with her mother,' said Nancy Lyons, president of Clockwork in Minneapolis, raving about the range of emotions MacDonald inspired just moments after the remarks. So what can you do to make a speech that spurs your audience to similar applause and admiration? Get personal. Be honest. Tell jokes. Talk to your audience. Act as if each attendee is the only one. Forget notes, visuals or a PowerPoint presentation. End on a high note.

Guide To Building An Open Source HTPC / Media Center on Ubuntu | Linuxlookup HTPC is an acronym for Home Theater Personal Computer. A computer system designed with the sole intention of being connected to a television, for entertainment purposes such as watching live TV, playing movies, surfing the Internet, games, listening to music, or viewing digital photographs. A HTPC may also be referred to as a Media Center, which is usually the software portion of the device that combines the functions of a personal computer and media software into a single convergence device. You have likely seen a few commercial Media Center products in stores. Hardware recommendations Creating an Open Source HTPC/Media Center requires some hands-on assembly of standard PC hardware components. HTPC Case When selecting a Home Theater PC chassis it is a good idea to first determine where it is you'd like to physically place the case. Motherboard The ASUS P5QL-EM Motherboard is an Intel G43 chipset Micro-ATX motherboard supporting the latest Intel Core2 processors using socket LGA775. Memory

How to Become a Human Calendar Mentally finding out the day of the week for any date is a skill you can easily learn. You don’t need to be an autistic genius – all it takes is basic memorization effort and some trivial math. When I first learned this technique many years ago, I did it just for fun. The Method To find out the days of the week for any date, use the formula: [day of week] = (yearcode + monthcode + day) mod 7 If you’re not math-inclined, this may look quite scary at first, but don’t worry: using the formula is straightforward. Month and Year Codes The month codes are one of the formula’s most troublesome parts, since they don’t follow a clear logic. January: 1 February: 4 March: 4 April: 0 May: 2 June: 5 July: 0 August: 3 September: 6 October: 1 November: 4 December: 6 We also need the year code, which are also apparently arbitrary. Days of the Week The result is always a number from 0 to 6, and its interpretation couldn’t be any easier: The Calculation Step 1: Get the codes for month and year. August.

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Top 10 Beginner Video Tutorials To Learn GIMP Fast Since I’m also a learner of GIMP, I thought that tutorials illustrating the first few points of the official user manual from GIMP.org may just be what beginners need to familiarize themselves. This collection here gathers clearly-narrated screencasts and are thus very good starting points for those that don’t prefer to read long user manuals. So hit the jump to learn more GIMP terminology. GIMP Basics This is a video walkthrough of the installation and user interface of GIMP, made by a university instructional design staff member, so you can expect a very easy-to-follow and informative narrative. By watching these, you’re basically going over the first text tutorial on GIMP.org, GIMP Lite Quickies. Optimizing Images For Web Use The following video shows how to export a file to JPEG and monitor the file size of the new image. In the video, the user tries to save a JPEG with the highest quality while keeping her image under 256KB which is the YouTube limit for channel background images. Paths

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