Computers

How to make your car to a mobile office

Submitted by Nik on 12 February, 2009

Because I need to travel with my car in many places and I need to have my emails, contacts and presentations with me I thought that it could be very good to apply to my car various projects that I found around the net that will help me to advance my work and my driving experience.

1. Portable Computer

First of all we need a netbook, you know the smaller versions of notebooks. At Amazon you can find many kinds of them.

Netbooks are cheap and can do the most of your office work, play podcasts, run thunderbird and sunbird, firefox and all the other tools you need to have with you when you going to a trip.

I suggest to buy one with at least 80gb of Hard drive, 1024 or 1G Ram, and 10 inch screen because the smaller ones are not so usable (I seem to have large fingers :)

So you have your netbook huh ?

Now prepare it for your car. Buy a car charger for your netbook, to charge it while on your trip.

2. GPS Navigation System


How to get the most out of your creativity

Submitted by Nik on 25 January, 2008

Image courtesy of Campin' Guy

This post is about how you can get the most of your creativity and your creative mind

Beeing a fan of Apple's Macintosh computers, I had a conversation with a very good friend. Why is a Mac better than a Pc in multimedia, video/audio proccessing, graphic design, 3D animations etc ?

My friend provided the answer.

"Pc's and Mac's are the same" he clamed.

"You can use photoshop here and photoshop there, there is no difference at all"

You are right I said, Photoshop is the same. But think also of the other capabilities and featurees a Mac has.

Without any thoughts my friend answered "Well on my pc I can get the best software for image, video, audio proccessing I need. Why should I buy a Mac?"

 So without having any strong argument I answered him with an example.


Offline view of an animated image (gif)

Submitted by Nik on 18 December, 2007

Dale asked me the following question:

"How can i save the dancing lady file so that i can show it (animated)
when i'm working offline?"

Well Dale, it's easy. You get your mouse over the image and right click.

On the menu that pops up press "Save image as"

And save it on your Desktop or a folder. The magic is on the viewer that you open the image with. If it doesn't support animations then it won't animate.


One Dollar Speaker

Submitted by Nik on 24 November, 2007

In this video you can see how easily you can build your own speakers without much money. Less then a $ per piece.


How to install Rar archiver (rar) in Linux

Submitted by Nik on 16 October, 2007

How to install Rar archiver (rar)

Image courtesy of Howard Gee

Open a terminal window and type in:

sudo apt-get install rar
sudo ln -fs /usr/bin/rar /usr/bin/unrar

After that you can find Archive Manager in the Gnome menu under Applications -> Accessories.


Firefox addons to increase productivity

Submitted by Nik on 15 September, 2007

There are a bunch of extensions that you can use for fun or for your convenience. But I've marked some that are increasing our productivity, our concentration to our work, and decrease our wasted time.

Productivity

Image courtesy of veo_

I will list the extensions by Alphabetical order.

Aardvark 2.0

Powerful and user-friendly "selector" utility for selecting elements and doing various actions on them. It can be used for cleaning up a page prior to printing it (by removing and isolating elements), for making the page more readable, and (most appreciated by web developers), for analyzing the structure of a page.

Aging Tabs 0.5.2

Makes unused tabs fade with age and highlights the selected tab.

Ask Power Tools 2.0

Extends Firefox with Ask.com features

BBCodeXtra 0.2.5.6

BBCodeXtra is an extension, compatible with Mozilla FireFox and Mozilla Suite, which adds to the context menu new commands to insert BBCode/Html/XHtml codes in an easy and fast way.

CoLT 2.3.0

CoLT adds two menu items to the browser's context menu, both of which are only visible when right-clicking a hyperlink. The "Copy Link Text" menu item copies a hyperlink's associated text to the clipboard, while the "Copy Link Text and Location" menu item copies both the hyperlink's text and URL to the clipboard in the format you choose: either as plain text, as an


Selling on Ebay - Tips for bloodless auctions

Submitted by Nik on 8 August, 2007

We are all hearing from Ebay and it's power on selling stuff. Making money etc etc.

Well I must say that I couldn't withstand the temptation to try it myself.

Ebay

So I give you some tips so you can learn from my mistakes:

Rule #1: Never start an action before knowing what to pay for !

Learn exactly what your shipment costs, your packaging costs, your money transfer costs are.


How do I protect my credit/debit card from being stolen ?

Submitted by Nik on 18 February, 2007

Offline protection, protection in the real world

  1. Do not give your credit cart number to anyone. Pay only using an authorised electronic payment machine wich is linked with a bank.
  2. Do not have your credit card pin written somewhere like your purse or briefcase. Remember if someone withdraws money with your pin then you can't do anything to get the money back.
  3. Change pin every 3 months. You can have 2 pins and every 3 months change it.
  4. Always check your receipts from the bank to see if something was purchased without your will.

How do I burn my mp3's in a cd ?

Submitted by Nik on 10 February, 2007

Mmm good question. A friend of mine asked this and here I am to answer it.

Well when you burn a cd with a utility like Nero then you have to select if it is a Data or an Audio cd. If you select data cd then your mp3 will be burned as is in the cd.

But then the problem is that if you want to play this on a regular cd player you simply can't. Your cd player cannot read mp's but only audio cd's.

So select Audio Cd and when inserting mp3's in your compilation Nero or whatever utility you use will convert them automatically to cda format (the format which is recognized by the cd players).

Now your regular cd player can play the and you can enjoy the music almost everywhere. If you have questions too don't hesitate to ask me.


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