Amulet Brings Voice Activation to Remote

Filed in archive How To... by Chris Matier on January 12, 2009

What do you expect from a $299 remote? Personally, if I am going to lay down the cost of a low-end computer for a remote control, it better make my life a whole lot better. This remote made by Amulet ...

Finally A Real Mouse

Filed in archive How To... , Just For Fun by tiago on April 29, 2007

There are some mouses that have the shape of an animal, and there are others that contain a real mouse as the material - which happens to be the case with the Mouse Mouse! It can be a bit gross to u...

P3 International Kill A Watt EZ

Filed in archive How To... by Mark Rollins on January 9, 2007

If you're like me, you open your electric bill with much hesitation. These days, Electric power is like gold, and it seems like it takes more and more gold to get power. How can we be sure that th...

Unscratch your CDs

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on March 24, 2006

I can't count how many scratched CDs I got laying around that I don't know the content inside them, but this might be a good start to revive them. Also, in the past I tried to use other produc...

Invisible Monitor Background

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on March 13, 2006

It's not a David Coperfield article but it almost looks like one, it's actually a trick to make a cool background image for your computer or laptop, that will make your friends go "WT*?&q...

Make LED wheels for your bike

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on March 10, 2006

After 22 steps, you'll be ready to show-off with your bike and new flashing wheels. At a certain speed, when the wheels are spinning fast enough, the flashing image will be clear for everyone to s...

Own iPod Dock

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on March 6, 2006

If: You want to do things by yourself Don't want to spend money Have an iPod Nano A desk where you can make a whole And want to have your own iPod Dock in your desk Result: Check this Flickr ...

Make your own Media Center PC

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on February 23, 2006

PCMag is in a roll of very useful how-to's, the Get Safe was good, but this is one is better. Make your own Media Center PC in ten a few easy steps.. To get you started, here is a list of produ...

Own Ring Tones

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on February 17, 2006

With so many services that provide paid ring tones for your cellphone, like Jamba in the picture - which actually had a kind of scam here in Portugal, but that's another subject I could talk for ...

Wireless Music Player

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on February 17, 2006

There are three two ways of having things of your own: buying, doing it yourself, or stealing. Usually, you opt for buying because there's a lack of technical knowledge among other things but th...

Get Safe by PCMag

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on February 15, 2006

The subject for today's tip at PCMag is a must for all every-day-computer-users. It's an article with 94 tips to keep you safe from all the evil in the online and offline world. Some are obvi...

Turn the Power Glove into a computer mouse

Filed in archive General Cool Stuff , How To... by tiago on February 10, 2006

If you still got a Power Glove from the last-century-gaming-system NES, don't throw it away! Just think of what you can do with it. Could it be possible to use it as a computer mouse? Yes, and ...

PSP - Own USB Charger, XBox saved games

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on February 9, 2006

There will always be people making mods for all kind of gaming systems, and PSP looks like a hot target for this. I already shared some cool "tutorials", but if you have some of your own d...

Legos and Mic

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on February 7, 2006

And when you thought that building Microphone Arms were only for pros, comes a How To about creating that piece with Legos. It looks pretty cool and it's very original, don't you think? Che...

Customize your Xbox 360 and PSP

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on January 28, 2006

If you're a true techy geek and are not afraid of Cracking up your game consoles for customization purposes (or repairing) take a look at The Lamma's articles. The latest article will teach y...

Bring your gadgets back to action

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on January 24, 2006

As all the other How To articles are very educational and useful, I'll keep on doing that and add another nice one to the list. There are plenty of ocasions where you or someone else drops some...

Resume where you left it on iTunes

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on December 21, 2005

At The Unofficial Apple Weblog there is a nice tip that can be well-known and easy to make up yourself if you're an advanced users, but for the people that are now diving into the iPod world thi...

DUN For The Mac & The Treo 650/Verizon That Actually Works

Filed in archive Creative Reporters , How To... by tiago on December 6, 2005

I've been trying to get my Treo 650 from Verizon to work as a DUN client with my Mac for the last few weeks. After visiting numerous forums and following numerous people's advice, I actually ...

Download RSS and Atom feeds to your iPod

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on November 23, 2005

Here is a nice application that lets you download RSS feeds to your iPod, it requires Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger. Very easy to use (only 2 steps required, screenshots available at carnglas.com) and it's...

Get Podcasts on Your Xbox 360 and Maximize the Media

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on November 22, 2005

At gamesfirst.com there are plenty of "how-to" articles, but the hot ones right now are about...yes...you got it right...Xbox 360. With 4 easy steps you'll be able to listen to podcas...

How to improve your iBook 12 G4

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on November 21, 2005

This is a great how-to that can save you some bucks, (or not if you damage any material) and make your iBook 12" more powerful than it already is (it isn't that powerful actually...). What ...

How-To Podcast Using Garageband 2 (Video)

Filed in archive Creative Reporters , How To... by tiago on November 19, 2005

In this video I show "How-To" podcast using Garageband 2. I walk through the steps I use each week to create, edit, encode, and post my Podcast. Please leave your comments below. You'l...

DVD to iPod - Part 3

Filed in archive How To... by tiago on November 17, 2005

Optional - Still in the Options tab, in ME Functions pick Exhaustive. This will increase the video quality in cost of a MUCH longer codification time. It's up to you. After this, it's read...