Generally, it takes about 2 hours to chill a bottle of wine or a six pack of beer in the refrigerator and roughly about and hour or so on ice alone. If it’s wine you are cooling, the freezer will help to speed things up a bit, but that’s rough treatment for delicate wines. Here’s [...]
Vertical gardens are a space-efficient means of producing all those favorite veggies you love so much, especially if you live in the city where space is a premium. DIY site Instructables has a handy guide on how-to create one of these wonderful eye pleasing gardens together. There are plenty of ways to set up a [...]
Here’s a nice and easy way to install Linux on your netbook just like you would any other application, no partitioning, no formating your hard drive, just install, and take Ubuntu’s Netbook Remix for a test drive. With Ubuntu’s Netbook Remix you can install and remove Ubuntu from Windows, just like any other software application.
Good knife skills are a combination of knowledge and practice, the knowledge of how to hold and move a knife along with what types of knives are best to use on the types of foods you want to cut. Almost everyone sooner or later has to cook their own food, and that means there is [...]
Many of you have seriously considered making the switch to Ubuntu or have already done so. One of the problems with switching operating systems is knowing what to do or where to get it and how things are done. Linux is an awesome OS and rules most of the server world. But it can be [...]
Windows Home Server is a fantastic and easy way to start streaming Internet content and sharing files between your home computers. Even if you only have one computer the set-up offers some nice benefits such as automatic backups that will protect your data in the event of a failure. WHS allows you to schedule daily [...]
Deep-fried turkey is a concept that started in the south and has risen in popularity all over the world, and for good reason: the results are delicious. I know you’re shaking your head right about now, but just trust me on this – it doesn’t come out like you’d think. The turkey is not greasy; [...]
It’s been real joy watching movies on the big screen in my living room, but it’s also a pain because it can take ages to transfer my movies wireless from the desktop to the media center PC. This gets old after a while, and gets older when you know that a hardwire configuration would make [...]
For a couple of years now engineers have been developing Google Wave down in Austrailia, and the final field testing is about to start via invitation only of 100,000 people. Each of these testers will be able to invite five people to join in on the testing. What is Google Wave? Google Wave is a [...]
This is a really cool article on how to build a Hackintosh for under $800—then covered how to do the same with less hacking. Now that the Snow Leopard Operating system has been released, there revisiting the Hackintosh,
Last week I had to install Windows on a few machines around here, one for my daughter and one for my son. Seems my daughter wanted to go back to XP and my son wanted a new install of Vista. So I decided to make a bootable USB flash drive in order to make this [...]
Check out this overclocking tutorial from HotHardware.com! It’s worth the time to watch this, they did a great job making this video. Anyway Intel’s Core i7 processor offers a significant performance increase over previous generation Core 2 processors. In addition, like the legacy Core 2 architecture, the new Core i7 also has a bunch more [...]
So your PC is not running as fast as a few months (or maybe a year) ago when you bought it. If you’re like most people when it comes to computers then you’re probably frustrated, but hopefully these five simple tips will help you to optimize its performance and get the most out of it. [...]
