I have a Canon printer that uses the PG-30 black ink cartridges; I’ve always wanted to try ink refill kits to save a bit of money, so this was my first attempt. I ordered the kit from eBay for about $12 — all I had to do was find a refill kit with my print [...]
Children of Men: A complex story told through simple editing Alfonso Cuaron’s film Children of Men utilizes an unusual editing style to immerse the viewer in the world of the film and create a sense of reality that would ordinarily not exist in a traditional Hollywood movie. Long takes, and more specifically the absence of [...]
Thanks to an official patch from Blizzard, it is now possible to play Starcraft and Warcraft III without a CD! To play Warcraft III without a CD all you need to do is connect to battle.net and download the latest patch file. After that’s finished you will no longer need the CD to play! Running [...]
So you’re typing in a word document and everything you type seems to run right over the text in front of it — that is, instead of inserting more letters like you’re used to the computer erases an existing letter for every new letter you type. This is called “Overtype” and it’s an evil, evil [...]
I came across an interesting article today — apparently it’s possible to recover data from a dead hard drive by freezing it. The article explains that the process of freezing the hard drive causes the metal to shrink and be able to function for a short period of time. The ridiculous number of responses on [...]
So every once in a while you’ll come across a situation where you want to highlight text vertically. Why would you want to do that? Maybe you want to delete a bullet character that’s at the beginning of each line, much like the arrows at the front of forwarded emails. Wouldn’t it be convenient to [...]
So you’ve been needing to get to your computer while you’re away from home? Easy. All you need to do is use a remote access software — one such service is WebEx. This kind of remote access software basically makes it as if you were sitting in front of your desktop monitor from any computer [...]
So you bought a song from the iTunes music store but you cant seem to listen to it anywhere outside of iTunes or your iPod. Yes, that is dumb and really annoying. This is copy protection technology called “DRM” or “Digital Rights Management” and it exists solely to keep you from sharing the song with [...]