Ever since I first read about the Atmospheric Water Generators (AWG) I was intrigued. The idea of plugging in a gadget… waiting a handful of hours… then having “clean” drinking water out of the air just seemed like magic to me. So… after reading about the AWG’s for about a year… I finally purchased an [...]
How To Get Started With Boxee on Howcast
Boxee has made a name for itself by simplifying the process of consolidating entertainment content for the PC. The product is great… but not everyone wants to watch TV on their computer… or have a computer tethered to a TV in the living room. [...]
When we were attempting to repaint both the interior and exterior of our house… we almost went crazy. We brought home swatches… we painted test patches… we repainted test patches… we painted entire walls and then decided the color didn’t look good… you get the idea. This color matching app by DuPont for the iPhone [...]
This is a quick how-to on Windows GodMode (or God Mode) for Windows 7 and Windows Vista (32-bit). For those of you new to GodMode for Windows… it is a very cool trick to get all of your operating systems control panels in a single magic folder.
Read on for details of how to use this [...]
At first I thought this was a joke… microwavable smores… come on. Looks like it is real… and the more I thought about it… not a bad idea. If you don’t have the luxury of camping by the open fire, or live in an apartment, microwaving s’mores might be the way to go. Less [...]
Too much time on your hands? Drink lots of soda (Mountain Dew specifically)? Some crafty fellow has both time and a ton of soda cans and built himself a mountain dew Christmas tree. Oh yeah, let’s not forget the 2 liter Mountain Dew star on the top of tree. More pictures of how he pulled [...]
Dragon’s Naturally Speaking speech recognition software for windows is pretty amazing stuff. It basically types what you say, and is amazingly accurate.
Well a bit of that magic is making its way to the iPhone in the form of a dictation application. You talk… it dictates… and gives you the option to send the text [...]
Physics and me never really got along in school… so I can’t tell you how this works… but it is pretty cool. Basically two fans pointed at each other make some magic happens and allows a paper plane to defy gravity… sorta.
I was just discussing the wonders of fried food with friends the other day… specifically “French fries”. Actually the conversation was about how amazing French fries are… and that there is no way the French actually invented them… sure enough after research we found out it was the Belgians who discovered French fries.
Had [...]
If you have worked with Windows PC’s for a bit… you are most likely familiar with the blue screen of death. You know the one… looks like DOS and has a blue background with white text that says something like, “A problem has been detected on your computer, you are screwed…”.
I guess Microsoft got [...]