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Four Best Inspiring Blogs Every Life Hacker Should Subscribe To
By Dean Sherwin on Feb. 12th, 2010 www.makeuseof.com
Wikipedia describes the process of life hacking as “anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way”. The term became popular in the blogosphere and is primarily used by geeks who suffer from information overload or those with a playful curiosity in the ways they can accelerate their workflow.
This process has become an internet meme over the past few years and has been blogged about extensively. Many blogs are practical in nature such as Lifehacker, but others are inspirational and use the process of hacking to have a wider effect on your life – not just one problem you might have.
I enjoy reading these blogs and over the past year or so I have subscribed to, and unsubscribed from many. As of the time of writing this article there are four of the best inspiring blogs, which I give a prominent position to in my RSS reader.
Firstly, I’d like to separate his blog from his book. Ferris wrote a terrific book about building a small business and streamlining workflow (which I highly recommend). However he also updates a blog by the same name at FourHourWorkWeek. The man has pretty much become a legend for using life hacks to travel the world and also run a highly profitable business which takes just a few hours every month on his laptop, all through the magic of lifestyle design.
Check out the full article here.
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6 Tips To Optimize Your PC For Playing Movies
By Abhigyan on Feb. 10th, 2010
Gone are the days when the couch potato was confined to the TV. Web 2.0 brought a flurry of interactivity along with it that totally changed what entertainment means to the masses. Video sharing sites like You Tube are commonplace and more and more people are moving towards easily accessible rips instead of unreliable, breakable DVDs. While the couch has maintained its spot in the living room, the provider is now the PC. Thousands have (and many will follow suit) hooked up their rigs with their TVs to have the best content at their disposal anytime.
However, not everyone optimizes their PC to play everything like it should be played. People have a zillion doubts about codecs, players, and services. We folks at MakeUseOf thought that we’d help you out with some of those mind-numbing questions and provide you with the simplest ways to hop on to the media bandwagon. Here’s a primer on how to optimize your PC for playing movies.
Update Your Video Drivers
It might sound ridiculous but a majority of playback problems are solved by simply updating your display drivers. You could head over to your manufacturer’s website to see if there’s an update you missed.
You can also use previously featured Device Doctor to get hold of the latest drivers for your rig. Once you have the latest drivers installed, don’t forget to restart your system.
Install Codecs
The problem with software giants is that they keep coming up with new codecs. If one is a novice, one can be drowned in the barrage of MKVs, AVIs, WMVs, H.264s, etc. floating around everywhere. It helps to have one consolidated set of codecs, which can handle any video file you throw at it.
One such software that plays anything that you can throw at it is the VLC Media Player. Personally, I haven’t yet found a player that handles so much with so much ease. Head over to their website and download the latest version for your system.
Check out the full article here.
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How To Make A Printer Wireless
By Karl L. Gechlik on Feb. 2nd, 2010
So you have yourself a wireless network and a printer. The printer is not wireless. The challenge is that you would like to print over the wireless network from any computer connected to your network either wired or wirelessly. How do do it?
The answer is quite simple and the logic behind it is quite sound. No matter what the make or model the printer is, you can simply send print jobs to it through the wireless network by connecting it to a computer that is always on and share the printer from that machine.
I will be using good old Windows XP as the client and print server to show you how it works. It will be a little more complicated on Windows 7 or Vista but if you have your share permissions down, it should be easy.
First things first. Make sure that you have the same username and password set up on the machine you want to use as your print server and the machine you are going to print from. This is required so that you can communicate with the other machine. Once you have the machines’ usernames and passwords synced up, you can turn to the machine with the printer attached to it.
From this machine (which we will call the print server), we will need to set up the printer on it (if it is not already completed). Test that you can print and the output is what you expected. Then we will need to go to Printers and Faxes in the control panel.
Check out the full article here.
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