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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
0 How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8
We previously explained why so many geeks hate Internet Explorer, and even though Internet Explorer 9 and 10 are greatly improved, and on par with the competition, we’re still going to explain how to uninstall it from Windows 8 if you should want to do so.
Press the Win + R keyboard combination and type appwiz.cpl into the run box, then hit enter.
When the Programs and Features window opens, you are going to want to click on the “Turn Windows features on or off” hyperlink on the left hand side.
Next, find Internet Explore and uncheck it.
You will then be given a warning, you can just click yes to continue.
Now click on the OK button, and then reboot your machine.
Once you machine has restarted, you will see that Internet Explorer is no longer in the taskbar
You should also notice that the Metro version of Internet Explorer has also been removed.
That’s all there is to it.
0 Dollar store Terminator replica
Okay, now we think [James] is just on a mission to see what he can build using the dollar store as his parts bin. This is the nearly finished replica of the cyborg skeleton from the Terminator franchise. It’s made mostly from things that cost $0.99.
Actually we’ve got that a bit wrong. [James] is really shopping at the £0.99 store but the concept is basically the same. He’s already shown us that he’s a pro at this with the arc reactor replica we recently saw from him. This time around a set of speakers donate their enclosures to build up the spinal column supporting the skull. Fittingly these are glued together using a hot glue gun from the store. The sides of the skull are carefully crafted from a set of four plastic bowls. The jaw comes together thanks to the corners of a plastic box’s lid. And finally the majority of the face is from a golden skull costume mask. Spray it all grey and pop in some LEDs for the eyes and he’s done it! He show’s off his final creation in the video after the break.
0 How to Easily Watch Netflix and Hulu From Anywhere in the World
Ever wanted to access an online web service, only to find it’s only available to those people living in the United States? Read on to find out how you can get around this restriction by changing one simple setting in Windows.
Press the Win + R keyboard combination, then type ncpa.cpl into the run box and hit enter.
Then right-click on your current network adapter and choose properties from the context menu.
When the properties dialog opens, scroll down and choose Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), then click the properties button.
Then change your DNS Settings to the following IP’s:
Preferred DNS: 149.154.158.186Alternate DNS: 199.167.30.144
Click OK, and then browse away.
When you are done browsing the restricted sites, you should change your DNS settings back to what they were before you changed them.
The DNS Server IPs come from the fantastic folk over at Tunlr.
0 Resurrecting a PS3 controller that won’t charge
[SJM4306] grabbed a used PlayStation 3 from a game store that was going out of business. He got a pretty good deal on what had obviously been the floor model for a number of years. The one real problem was the controller that came with it. The thing was so filthy that he literally used gloves to disassemble and sanitize it. It worked just fine after that,until he discovered that it wouldn’t charge from the USB port as it’s supposed to. But he managed to replace the charging circuitry with some of his own.
When cleaning the insides of the controller he found there were numerous deposits of sludge which he attributes to spilled soda. This must have damage one of the chips responsible for charging because he was probing an unstable 2V rather than the regulated 5V which should be coming in on the USB lines. His solution was to desolder the USB port in order to separate its 5V pin from the PCB. He then etched a tiny board to host a MAX1555 charging IC. With the new hardware in place the controller is back in action.
0 VGA message board displays SMS without a computer
[Achu Wilson's] latest creation is a VGA message board which is written to via SMS text messages. This doesn’t sound too interesting at first, until you find out he’s doing this with a microcontroller rather than a PC. All of the complexity is in the code that drives the VGA. He managed to do it without any jitter while using an 8-bit microcontroller.
But first, the cellular side of things. A GSM modem takes care of connectivity. To communicate with the modem [Achu] used an ATmega8. He mentions the he could have used a much smaller uC, like an ATtiny, but this is what he had lying around. When a message is received the ATmega8 feeds the characters to an ATmega16 which is driving the VGA monitor. Rather than deal with the analog voltages necessary to run a color display he simply ganged the three color lines together and drives them from one of the microcontroller pins. This results in white and black which correspond to voltage or no voltage.
You can see him showing off the system in the clip after the break.
0 Official List of ‘Windows 8 Release Preview Ready’ Anti-Virus/Malware Software Now Available
With the recent availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview you may be wondering just which anti-virus/malware apps have been cleared/approved by Microsoft to work with it. Well, your wait is now over. Microsoft has posted an official list along with the download links for the anti-virus/malware apps that are Windows 8 Release Preview ready.
Antimalware apps for Windows 8 Release Preview [via The Windows Club]
0 Geek Trivia: Which Defunct 1990s Web Host Is Now Archived By The Pirate Bay?
Answer: GeoCities
In the mid-to-late 1990s an explosion of free ad-supported web hosts led to hundreds of thousands of people creating personal web sites. Among these free hosts like Angelfire and Homestead, GeoCities was by far the largest.
GeoCities, at the peak of its popularity in 1999, was the third most visited website on the web. Users could build simple web sites which were located in “neighborhoods” corresponding to the topic of their website–if you had a web site about Sci-Fi, for example, your web site went into the Area51 neighborhood. People flocked to the site by the hundreds of thousands, ultimately creating over 38 million user generated pages between the launch of the site in 1994 and the closure of the site in 2009.
Because GeoCities served as such a hub of activity and such a large piece of Internet history, various attempts were undertaken to archive it. When the impending shut down was announced by Yahoo! (Yahoo! acquired GeoCities in 1999 from the original founders David Bohnett and John Rezner) multiple groups, including The Internet Archive and Archive Team, scrambled to download all the content before the lights went out.
On the first anniversary of the GeoCities closure, The Archive team released a 641GB torrent file, available on The Pirate Bay, that contains millions of GeoCities web sites. In this compressed and distributed fashion, the most popular web host of the 1990s–and one of the most popular destinations–lives on.
0 Quadrotor opera begs for lasers and Pink Floyd
In case quadrocopters aren’t cool enough, here’s an orchestrated quadrotor light show that was shown at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this last week. With 16 quadrotors and a few can lights, it’s a light show not to be missed.
This quadrotor show was created by a collaboration between KMel robotics and Marshmallow Laser Feast. The guys behind KMel are the same brilliant minds behind this nanocopter swarm that can play the [James Bond] theme. For this light show, the guys at KMel Robotics used a Vicon motion capture system to coordinate the flock of quadrotors, as seen in this picture.
With a servo-controlled mirror on the bottom of each quatrotor, each vehicle in the fleet is able to reflect beams of light around the stage and into the audience. Now it’s only a matter of time until a setup like this is used for a showing of Laser Floyd.
Tip ‘o the hat to [cesar] for sending this one in. Via IEEE Spectrum.
Edit: They’re not can lights. After watching in 1080p, [Impulse405] is pretty confident they’re High End studio spots or a wash with a tight focus. Thanks for keeping us honest, [Impulse405]!
0 Bowser’s Weekend with the Kids [Video]
Bowser decides to have his son Larry be a boss on one of the airships when he comes to spend the weekend with him. The question is can Larry be a tough enough boss for Mario to deal with or will things go horribly wrong for him?
Bowser’s Weekend With The Kids [Dorkly]
Sunday, July 1, 2012
0 When Programming Logic is Applied to the Pursuit of Romance [Humorous Comic]
Persistence, persistence, persistence!
June 28, 2012 – SMBC [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Blog]
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0 BlueStacks Android App Player Now Available for Macs
Last year we showed you how to setup BlueStacks on your Windows machine in order to enjoy Android apps on your PC desktop; now BlueStacks is available for Mac OS X with that same cross-platform Android goodness.
The Mac version functions much the same as the PC version, if you’re interested in the Mac version be sure to check out our detailed guide to setting up the PC version.
BlueStacks for Mac [via TUAW]
0 Raspberry Pi enclosure turns it into a desktop PC
While you’re still waiting for your Raspberry Pi to be delivered, why not build an enclosure for it? This build comes from the fruitful workshop of [builttospec], and gives the Raspi a very nice case well-suited for being placed on your desktop.
Like most of [builttospec]‘s case builds, this enclosure was made on a laser cutter out of acrylic and features everything you would expect in a good Raspi enclosure. All the hardware ports are available, and there’s also a slot for a GPIO ribbon cable, perfect for connecting an enclosed Raspi to whatever hardware project you’re working on.
One thing we’re loving about [builttospec]‘s enclosure is the tasteful use of light pipes that funnel the light from the LED indicators on the Raspi to the surface of the case. Sure, they’re just a few bits of laser-cut polycarbonate, but its little touches like this that transform a good case build into a great one.
Files available on Thingiverse.
0 Ask the Readers: How Do You Keep Your Email SPAM Free and Tidy?
Email can be a fantastically efficient way to deal with communication, but not if it’s bogged down with SPAM messages and poorly organized. This week we want to hear all about the tips, tricks, and ninja-filters you use to keep your inbox tidy.
Whether it’s special filters for your Bacon (spam-like marketing that you actually want to receive and occasional review), services you use to block spammers, or organization tips you use to keep your email inbox streamlined with no message unreplied to, we want to hear all about it. Sound off in the comments with your proclamations of your inbox-fu and how you maintain zen-like mastery over your email workflow. Be sure to check in on Friday for the What You Said roundup.
0 Mi-Fi LEGO Contest Showcases Ultra Minimal Sci-Fi Designs
Many LEGO creations showcased by geeks across the web involve thousands upon thousands of bricks to create perfectly scaled recreations of buildings, movie scenes, and more. In this case, the goal is to recreate an iconic Sci-Fi scene with as few bricks as possible.
Courtesy of the LEGO enthusiast site The Living Brick, the Microscale Sci-Fi LEGO Contest or Mi-Fi for short, combines Sci-Fi with tiny, tiny, recreations of scenes from shows and movies in the genre. Hit up the group’s Flickr pool for the contest to check out all the great submissions–including a tiny Star Gate, a mini Star Destroyer, and a surprisingly detailed scene from Planet of the Apes.
Mi-Fi Picture Pool [via Neatorama]
0 The Star Wars That I Used To Know [Video]
Run away hit Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye is on track to become the tune of the summer; this extremely well executed parody replaces the subject of a lover scorned with a Star Wars fan scorned (with quite entertaining results).
Courtesy of Teddie Films, the 5 minute parody video faithfully recreates the music and set of the Gotye video but layers over plenty of Star Wars references and some rather subtle (and not so subtle) jabs at where the Star Wars franchise has gone in recent years. If you’re even remotely dishearted over what Episodes I-III changed about the original trilogy, this one’s for you.
The Star Wars That I Used To Know [via Geeks Are Sexy]
0 Video Games from the Bad Guys’ Perspective [Video]
We’re so used to seeing video games from our perspective–the hero with the endless power ups and do-overs–but how does the video game world look from the perspective of the bad guys?
Rather grim and confusing, as the video above highlights.
[via Geekosystem]
0 DIY ROV explores the watery depths
This rig looks so good it’s hard to believe this is the first ROV that [DZL] has ever built. It houses an HD camera which feeds the display at the operator’s station. You can see the controller to the left of that screen which uses a joystick and buttons to pilot the underwater vessel.
In order to simplify construction, [DZL] decided not to use propellers. The problem with that technique is that you need to have bearings that will allow the propeller shafts to turn without letting water in. Propulsion is instead provided by a group of small water pumps whose intake is on one end and outflow is on the other. These are mounted at various places on the body and each have one power cable that connects to the control circuitry in the main housing. The passage of cables through the enclosure is another possible leak point, but [DZL] found some off the shelf bushings that ended up making it pretty easy.
The link at the top is a round-up of all the different project posts. For us, the most interesting Flickr set is the one showing how the enclosure is put together. There is also a pretty neat dive video after the break that shows the craft being tested underwater.
[Thanks Vanessa]
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