February 3, 2012
If you’re on the lookout for a new geeky craft for yourself or the kids you’ve probably considered making your own board games as an idea. But you probably didn’t realise that you can do it very easily for free. There are a number of games available online which are easy to print and play without the need for fancy things only available in boxed board games.
February 3, 2012
I personally think having a knack for knots is one of the essential skills to have or acquire in your toolset of manliness. After all, one never knows when you might be called upon to rope a steer…or knot a tie. So, if you weren’t a Boy Scout, here are a few resources that give you a notch to add on the manliness scale.
February 3, 2012
DMCA, SOPA, MegaUpload shut down, piracy becoming a religion in Sweden – not a week goes by without some shutdown, anti-piracy laws or shocking statistics about torrents – and I have to ask myself, is it really worth it? Is this really how want to be spending our time as a society? Is piracy actually all that bad?
February 3, 2012
Wordpress is a brilliant invention, and has made it possible for more and more people to have amazing websites, with beautiful themes. However, there is still the matter of the content area, which still needs to be formatted for pictures, ads and well-spaced content. With a few simple steps, you can create your very own carefully formatted content template that will appear every time you click “Add New” in Wordpress.
February 3, 2012
We recently reported that Picnik will be closing on April 19th. The demise of the popular online photo-editing service has been met with scorn from fans, who are unhappy with Google’s decision to kill one of the web’s best free tools in the name of consolidation. There’s no need to panic, however. There are some solid alternatives available that are just as free.
February 3, 2012
Symantec has just launched the beta version of their password manager, Norton Identity Safe. Password management is a tricky business, particularly for people with both a computer and a smartphone. These needs have so far been addressed by a limited number of services, such as LastPass. Now security giant Symantec is getting in on the [...]
February 3, 2012
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February 3, 2012
A few months ago I wrote an article highlighting some of the best resources on the web for finding 8bit music, all manner of MOD files and the software required for playback. Today I’m going to be venturing a little deeper and digging out the tools you’ll be needing in order to create some chiptune yourself. The modern MOD-scene is a friendly, care-and-share alike community.
February 3, 2012
If you’ve been following the news lately at all, you’ve probably heard of both the SOPA/PIPA acts against copyrights infringement, and the arrest of Megaupload’s founder, Kim Dotcom. You don’t have to be a file sharing enthusiast for these things to affect you and while I am hardly an enthusiast myself, it’s hard to ignore the obvious connection between these events, and the obvious conclusion we should all be reaching.
February 3, 2012
Make simple changes to any PDF file in Linux. Move pages around, edit the bookmarks, add pages from another PDF or remove pages altogether. It’s a snap with PDF Mod, a simple Linux program that does one thing and does it well. If there’s something PDF files aren’t really supposed to be, it’s editable. The format, originally created as a way to transfer data from a computer to a printer, is essentially a digital piece of paper.
