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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…
You would have to look some of these related articles to find great color picking tools on the web.
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Chromium contrast problem – Ubuntu
May 31st
Most of the monitors have a poor contrast with light shades of grey and whites. It gets irritating when you have to find the scrollbar while going through long pages in Chromium browser for Ubuntu. The scrollbar looks something like this before and after the fix.
Before
After
Using Gnome color chooser doesn’t change it in Chromium. The Google Chrome extension specifically for Ubuntu Chromium users helps rectify this problem. Though a lot of incompatibility and crashes are reported in the comments, I had incompatibility wit some sites but no crashes yet. [EXTENTION]
This makes the scrollbar blue like the blue clear looks style. The vivid blue on grey makes spotting it easy on long pages also.
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Unhide application feeds – Facebook
Mar 3rd
I used to hate those millions of Farmville and Mafia war’s feed on my Facebook feed. I blocked them, they got added to the blocked app list. But trust me when you actually start playing these you have hard time surviving without those feeds. Now when I want to enable them i find no option to do it. Facebook changed its interface recently just after the “birthday”. Everytime Facebook changes its look, its like “you better devote some time to find all those misplaced areas”. I did that. I found where the applications can be added to the feed again.
The trick is to move to “Top news” first. The most used “most recent” page doesn’t let you do it.
- Go to Top News link on the top of your feeds.
- Now navigate to the end of the page and find “Edit Options”
- Go to the “applications” tab in the floating box.
- Click on the “add to news feed” button. You are done.
The catch here is that you’d kill yourself from frustration after not finding any such options under the “Most Recent” page. True that you never go to the “Top News” page. But for this you’ll have to go. There is no other way on the present Facebook interface to unhide applications from your news feed.
P.S. You also find blocked pages there.
A perfect start page for the browser
Mar 2nd
Start pages are always a mess in web browsers. Firefox put up a design contest for users to design a perfect start page recently. Be it Chrome’s most used pages or Firefox’s default Google search page. Well, Chome does the work to a pretty good extent not to mention opera’s and safari’s speed dial pages. But it is totally a different experience when you have the start page on the cloud that is perfectly customized according to your needs. All those web services on your home page for you to access at a click. Doesn’t that seem perfect.
Symbaloo - Start simple, is a simple interface that basically focuses to refine your first contact with the internet everyday. The symbaloo pages houses draggable boxes that link to your favorite web services like feeds, mail, radio, search, translate and what not. If even that doesn’t make you scream enough. You have free places where you can add your own boxes that link to a service specified by you. Now that’s too much YOU.
To set it as a start page. Just click the button at the bottom of the page that says “Set as startpage“. The following light box a the center of the screen gives you the instructions. OR simply drag the link http://www.symbaloo.com to the home in firefox.
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