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April 2011 Calender Wallpapers by Smashing Magazine
Apr 4th
Smashing Magazine publishes unique artworks every month. These exceptionally beautiful pieces of art also have an optional Calender overlay that perfectly matches the artistic theme. Download these for free only at Smashing Magazine.
35 great wallpaper calendars again this month by Smashing Magazine, download them for different resolutions. They also come with or without the calendar. In the year of the rabbit let’s make our desktops look better.
via [Smashing Magazine]
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Search MP3s from the address bar
Mar 30th
Wednesday is hereby declared as the day of a quick tip on mrpant.com. Watch out for awesome new tips and tricks every Wednesday.
Today you’ll learn how to use your browser address bar to do everything. Use it for: searching mp3s, files on file sharing websites, shorten URLs, update twitter and anything new you can come up with. Use this trick without the use of any add-on. Here is how to set it up for the first time on Firefox.
Firefox (eg: search MP3s)
–Open bookmarks organizer and add a new bookmark. To keep your custom searches organized new bookmark folder and name it something like ‘custom search’. We have to just focus on the Name, Location and Keyword boxes here.
–enter the Name eg: ‘MP3 search’
–For location: Get the URL in the address bar after doing a dummy search. Then replace just the dummy text with %s in the URL. Copy this link.
–Now enter the Keyword. This is the word you’ll use in the address bar as a prefix to the search you are making. eg: mp3 (for this case)
To search mp3s, just type in ‘mp3 name of the song’ in the address bar.
For Chrome you can right-click the address bar, select edit custom search engines and follow the same steps.
read more at [Lifehacker]
Desktop wallpaper calender – March 2011 by Smashing Magazine
Mar 29th
Smashing magazine this month’s wallpaper calender update. You’ll find wallpapers for everyone and every mood. Catch the 35 beautiful wallpapers for the month of March on Smashing magazine website here. Each wallpaper has separate links for most of the popular resolutions. They also come without the calender, just in case you think your task bar calender is enough for you.
via [Smashing Magazine]
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The best way to cheat in exams
Dec 8th
Disclaimer:
The following post has no intentions to encourage one to cheat in exams. It is totally reader’s discretion to cheat or not using this technique. The author cannot be held responsible for any related incidents ever pulled off by smart asses. Please read no further if you think you’ll be greatly influenced or if you think you cannot execute it without getting caught.
In short: Teachers and parents can’t sue me.
Okay, back to the real stuff now. Recently Apple iPod nano 5th gen got cut into half (Fig1)
The Nano 6th gen is much smaller now – Fits the wrist well. It also has a new clock interface – The one which looks like an analogue clock (Fig2)
Also, you get one of these (Fig3) for 25$ on the internet: The RockBand and Incipio’s NGP
Well, if I still need to explain. The new iPod nano can be converted into – what your teacher may think as a simple analogue wrist watch. You just have to buy the extra strap accessory (if you already own the truncated 5th gen device). Next, to put all your notes into it follow this.
Connect your iPod to your computer as you normally would
Once iTunes opens, select your iPod under Devices in the Source List on the left side of the iTunes screen
Click the Summary tab
Click the “Enable Disk Use” checkbox in the Options section. You’ll find this checkbox at the base of the screen under the “Summary” tab.
Once finished, then open your File Manager application. Your iPod is now enabled as a disk drive, your File Manager app will recognize it as such. If you click on your iPod, you’ll see the Notes folder. Now highlight ‘the file’ (which should’ve been saved as a .txt file) and copy it to this Notes folder. Then highlight your iPod in iTunes, and choose to eject it.
Voila! Get ready for the exam now. Your weapon should look like this when complete.
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Color Combination
Jul 25th
I went through a phase of scrutinizing a few entries from a contest for designing a “contents page” for a tech magazine. Some of the worst entries had a pathetic color scheme. With hot pink texts on dirty green and black background made my mind shutdown for a while. I then decided to post something that would help inexperienced color pickers. Be it good typography or design, it is always underpinned with the proper use of colors.
Attaining good sense of color mixing sense demands great experience. Still some places on the web help us generating new colored ideas. Some of the tools which help finding a perfect color scheme are:
http://www.colorcombos.com/ Personally my favorite place for finding a color scheme for any occasion. This website has a huge gallery of pre-made color arrays. You just have to scan them and pick the best one that suits. There isn’t any hassle of turning knobs or pushing buttons to generate a scheme. On finding a box that is the best for your project, click on it for a full-page display with the hex codes. Though the hex codes are within the box in the library itself. But having a look at the colors on a full-page helps you decide.
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
and the list goes on…
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