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Using the whites seen above i went with a 60 matte and 40 parts semi gloss to get a nice neutral flat colour.
Inspired by a post in Lifehacker. I traced the shape of a frame on butcher paper, then taped onto a wall. Moved papers around to a pleasing arrangement.
Note: while tracing the frame I used a pencil to poke a hole where the nail would be placed.
This is my wondows 7 desktop customization.
Rainmeter
Object dock Plus 2
Cloud wallpaper from Lifehacker WW last week
thanks Lifehacker desktop pool for the wallpaper! and Geektool...of course. Stoked that the moon gif's actually work! Now I can tell where we are even in our perpetually cloudy environment.
This is my desktop. Pretty simple, with date and time at the bottom right. I used a modified Enigma/HUD Vision White Rainmeter theme to get the total package.
A quick wipe down with lacquer thinner and then bondo in the areas that pockets or grinder gouges. A quick 80 grit paper sanding and then one or two coats of spot filler. Here it sits on two lawn chairs after a soap and water bath and quick dry so the spot filler doesn't soak it up.
Long time fan, first time writing.
I don't know about you guys, but without a window into my fridge's crisper, I completely forget about everything that goes in there. Many a half-used head of lettuce, or scissored Italian parsley has turned brown and countless cucumbers have turned into disgusting puddles of water in my vegetable crisper... until now.
Like any other discovery, it happened completely accidentally. This summer, I was stocking the fridge with beer but I was completely out of room so I opened the crisper. It was empty and then it dawned on me, I'm never going to forget beer! So I stocked the drawer with beer and since then I've repeated the process countless times. The beer has never gone bad because unlike a celery heart with a pair of stalks missing, beer is unforgettable.
I hope this sparks an "aha moment" for someone else out there, it may just save you from having to soap up a smelly veggie drawer.
- Ian
My Desktop.
Running Windows Vista
Clearo Theme.
Sidebar is Desktop Sidebar because it has Exchange support and it shows my Mails, Calendar, Some Clocks, Weather and Winamp Control.
And just some icons as I don't spend time on my desktop! Sidebar is always on top.
Got Launchy to launch applications.
Thanks to vitasimplex for linking to some great new (old) functionality. Working on modifying it now.
www.flickr.com/groups/lifehacker-desktop-showandtell/disc...
Corners like this had to be hit with a flat grinder disk to get out the pitted rust and cut down the excess filler welding.
Similar in design, much faster to build. Huge thanks to MG Tuning hous for all the time, location and equipment. Can't thank the proprietor, Big Man Blake enough. Its amazing how much sarcasm a mere mortal can suffer through.
Under about a hundred pounds for a week and no signs of movement, cracking, or bending. It is unfazed by two people standing on it.
In honor of South Parks return this week, here is a cool desktop idea. The Boys and the sign are on a separate dock from the dock on top (objectdock plus) allowing for the illusion that they are a part of the wallpaper. I set them to always be on bottom and set the icon shortcuts to system-y types of things, like task manager, shutdown, restart, and control panels.
A while back my dresser quits on me. I remember the Lifehacker article on making a bookcase with the drawers.
lifehacker.com/5433799/make-a-swanky-bookcase-from-old-dr...
Since the drawers are the same size, can't quite get the bookcase hack to work. But I could hack an existing bookcase. My mother made one for me when I was a child, not being a carpenter, one shelf was much larger than the others. For the last 15 or so years it's held some books and largish items, but not really useful. This week I added the extra drawers to the case to create an extra shelf.
Pics will be added to the Flickr tips group with more details.
Trying out this Lifehacker tip. I don't know if I'll use it, but was curious to see what it would look like. (I didn't use it to drive home from the office, I know the way.:)
Sick of unnecessarily long charger cables for my d700 and GF1 (really, who needs three feet of cable for a battery charger? Where does it need to reach?), I performed a little surgery. I'm pretty sure I got the tip from Lifehacker, but I'll be damned if I can't find the article.
After rigging one of the cut cables to the new plug, I realized the plug was big enough to fit two cables. So I did. I wish I had some wire mesh and heatshrinks to cap it off, but it's still a pretty simple yet elegant solution.
Now I can bring either one or both chargers with me when I travel.
CAVEAT: Though wiring a new plug is pretty much the most basic electrical project one could take on, you can never be too safe when dealing with electricity. In this specific case, I made sure to use a plug big enough to accommodate two leads per terminal comfortably. Likewise, I took a pair of grooming scissors and trimmed away any errant wire fiber that wasn't neatly wrapped around the terminal screws. For even further safety, you could get a hot glue gun and give the terminals a little bit of glue to further insulate the wires.
It should also go without saying that if you do not have much experience working with wiring and basic electrical work, you should probably not do this. It's not an overly-complex hack (really, it's the most basic electrical 'hack' you could think of) but I don't want anyone electrocuting themselves and then suing me.
from bit.ly/11Na4zX
Through GoPro Through GoPro - They are heroes, look through their eyes
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Mount a GoPro Camera on Your Car for Vehicle POV ShootingLifehackerMount a GoPro Camera on Your Car for Vehicle POV Shooting The GoPro camera is a great tool for getting personal POV videos, but challenges arise when you want to mount the camera to, say, a car. Instructables user gjchandler offers a simple solution: …
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I curled the zip ties so that when i put it through the top it would come out up through the hole next to the I put it through.
From the last workspace, this guy is getting sacrificed so I don't have to make new VESA monitor mounting plates.
I guess I could add a front/back divider to make it a bit neater, but it does what I need it to at the moment. Namely, hide shit in a drawer.
After a a career of several years as a researcher it is nice to do some absolutely unscientific pseudo work at home. At our local grocery they sold tomatos like Easter eggs. It happened to be a quite bright day and I decided to compare some cameras at kitchen table close to the window. This time I used a tripod.
This photo was shot with an old second hand Canon Ixus 80 IIS with all automatic settings.
I made some exess comparision work in this photo project, For a reason or two (or none?) I succeeded to lose the whole series of photos taken with this camera during the transfer from SD card to the computer. So I had to seek a recovery program. Early morning googling gave a nice source of wisdom: lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools. After downloading some of them I made some comparisions in installation and using. At first my blood pressure rose to Heavens. Then I tried www.piriform.com/recuva and in a few seconds all was rescued - and without a single ad & stupid popup. I strongly recommend Recuva!
Inspired by a series of wallpapers featured on Lifehacker (Ring of Time Desktop). Scripts are made with GeekTool and helped along by this post: secure.flickr.com/photos/daeee-i/5841910818/ (look at the notes for script details).