How To Upgrade Your PS3 HDD
The days of having a slot-in memory cartridge are far gone - a few hundred gigabytes would be modest by today's standards. Let's upgrade. Luckily, Sony made it really easy and user-serviceable to upgrade the internal storage drive - unlike Microsoft, who locked it down and demanded you buy first-party approved models only. Upgrading your PS3 drive will not void the warranty.
Lacie Rugged Mini vs. AData DashDrive Durable: A Comparative Review and Giveaway
Electronics of all kinds aren't really built to withstand much in the way of knocks or extreme weather, but a special breed of portable hard drives exists to serve this very purpose - to withstand the everyday tumbles and adverse weather without sacrificing your precious data. It's not often I get to break things in the name of science, but today is a special day. In the interests of all backpackers, hikers, summer poolside partygoers and urban adventurers - I'll be putting the claims of two "rugged" portable drives to the test.
How to Do Green Screen Video in iMovie and Adobe Premiere
Technically known as chroma-keying, green screening is the process of masking a video using color - removing specific parts so you can overlay one video on top of another. An obvious example is the weather, where a presenter will stand in front of what appears to be a giant map. Today I want to show you how to do green screening in iMovie, and Adobe Premiere. It's actually really easy, but something a little unique to consider for your next video project.
5 Options to Consider For Your Next Media Center
I've spent the last 5 years of my life searching for it and countless thousands of dollars in the process. I'm talking of course about the holy grail - the ultimate media center. Truth be told, I still haven't found it. There is no one solution that suits all my needs, that can do everything and do it with panaché - but some of these 5 hardware options certainly come close.
Save Space On Your Mac By Storing iPhoto & iTunes Libraries Remotely
With my head held low with shame, I publicly admitted last week that I'm a digital hoarder. My once blazingly fast Mac is now left with just 100GB of a 1TB drive left. I've already shifted all my downloads onto a NAS, but now I'm left with a legacy of nearly 20,000 photos and MP3s, which together add up to at least 200GB of space. There is a better way to store your media that doesn't involve using all the space on your local hard drive - using either network storage, or an external drive.
Learn Today & Earn Tomorrow: 8 Hobbies the Web Can Help You Start for Fun
You can learn literally anything on the Internet -- and one of those might just go on to pay your bills someday. Sharpening your skills online is an open door to improving the quality of your life. You could be surprised at how the Internet could help you shallow out the learning curve once you decide to start with and learn about a new hobby. Here are my pick of 8 hobbies you can get started with online, which might eventually pay you back one day in the future.
8 Essential Tools For the Digital Hoarder
Yes - I'm a digital hoarder - and my hard drive was so full I had to buy a 4TB NAS. Movies, music, photos, eBooks, stock footage -- I just know I'll get around to watching, listening, reading or making use of them someday. Without the proper tools (or counselling, probably) a collection like that can quickly grow out of hand. But I'm not here to judge - no, I'm going to enable you. These tools should help, at least until you realise it's time to purge yourself of these meaningly virtual things.
Razer Hydra Review and Giveaway
Say the words "motion controller" to any serious gamer, and they'll screw their face up and scream gimmick. The WiiMote, Playstation Move, Xbox Kinect - none of these have made any real difference outside of casual and fitness gaming. Which makes it even more surprising to learn that Razer - a company traditionally known for pro-gaming accessories - also produces a motion controller for PCs. This is the Razer Hydra, but how does it hold up for real gaming, and is it an essential bit of kit? Find out in this review, then join the giveaway to win a free unit!
What is Node.JS and Why Should I Care? [Web Development]
JavaScript is a just a client-side programming language that runs in the browser, right? Not any more. Node.js is a way of running JavaScript on the server; but it's so much more as well. If you're at all interested in web development, you really should find out a little about Node and why it's making waves in the community. JavaScript is after all, just a language - there's nothing that says it couldn't be used on a server as well as in the user's browser.
Make Your Own Tweet/Like/+1 To Unlock System with jQuery
Going viral used to mean a disease epidemic, but now it's something all content creators crave. You could rely on the quality of your content alone - if it's good enough, people will share it, right? Maybe. But you could also help things along by offering something extra of value to those who do share - a coupon, a download, or a smiley face sticker in the mail. Today I'll show you how to create your own like/tweet/+1 to unlock system with a little jQuery and the native APIs.
LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Review and Giveaway
LEGO is a product that transcends generations - I still have a few boxes in the loft. It is one of those few brands that has adapted well to the changing times - introducing themed sets and more recently expanding to create the Mindstorms line. Today we'll be reviewing LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0, the next generation, version 2.0 of the core Mindstorms product. And we'll be giving this $280 set away to one lucky reader.
7 Crucial Tips: How to get Your Blog Listed in Google
A wise man man once asked "if a website exists in the forest of the Internet and no one visits it, does it truly exist?". I made that up actually, but the point is solid - a website is useless if it has no traffic, and in order to get traffic you need to be listed on Google. You could argue that Google isn't the only search engine and Bing matters too, and ... but you'd be wrong. Google is the search engine that matters, and if you want to get listed you need to play by their rules. Here are 7 crucial tips to get your blog listed on Google.
Party Planning Made Easy: 12 Of The Best Resources
As summer rolls in (and out again, for the famous week long British summer), the time for garden parties is upon us. You’ve set a theme and instructed everyone to come in costume, but as the host your job is the hardest: food, decorations, perhaps activities and games. So here, my fellow party planners, are (at least) 12 sites that should be your first stop for inspirational ideas to help you pull off that perfect party.
Collect ALL The Things With Delicious Library 3 for Mac OS X
There's a pretty good chance that you have things. Many kinds of things in fact, from gadgets to toys, books to power tools and piles of DVDs. What if there was a way to organize them all? To catalog them digitally in some way, get stats on your collection, show it all off somehow and manage that vast network of friends that you keep lending aforementioned things to? Say hello to Delicious Library 3 ($25). If you're struggling to keep track of a vast physical library of stuff, it may be exactly what you need.
Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into An NAS Box
Do you have a couple of external hard drives lying around and a Raspberry Pi? Make a cheap, low powered networked attached storage device out of them. While the end result certainly won't be as impressive as a $500 NAS device like the Synology DiskStation, it will give you a low-powered bit of network storage - particularly useful if you're getting weary of having all your data rifled through by the prying eyes of the NSA - you can hide this in the attic.
5 Oculus Rift Demos That Will Blow Your Mind
Forget the Playstation 4 or the Xbox One - I've seen the future of gaming, and it is neither of them. The Oculus Rift is amazing - and with $16 million in fresh funding, the team are hard at work on the consumer version. A few months have passed since the dev kits dropped, and we've now seen an explosion of demos. Some are good, some are bad, but some are so cool they ought to blow your mind. If you have a Rift and want to find something else to try out, or if you're not convinced yet that this is the future - this list is for you.
How To Recreate The Classic Pong Game Using Arduino
Pong was the first ever videogame that reached the mass market. For the first time in history, the concept of a "video game" was brought into the family home, thanks to the Atari 2600 - so it's only right that we pay a little homage to this historical gem. Now, you can re-live that (admittedly somewhat boring gameplay) using an Arduino and some common components.
Logitech Harmony Ultimate Review and Giveaway
Your living room is chaos - admit it. You're forgiven for wondering which remote controls which device. What with the TV, amplifier, TiVO, BluRay player, maybe even the lighting - switching activities becomes a long and delicately manoeuvred dance called the "remote shuffle". No longer. The Logitech Harmony Ultimate universal remote is here to bring, well - harmony - to your living room. The Logitech Harmony Ultimate can control up to 15 devices, which should be more than enough for even the most avid AV enthusiast's living room. We'll be giving this review unit away, so read on and join the contest.
Getting Started With GPIO On a Raspberry Pi
If you though the Arduino was cool, just wait till you get your hands on a Raspberry Pi - these things are amazing. As well as being a fully functional computer, they also have a selection of General Purpose Input/Output pins. Just like an Arduino, we can use these to create electronics projects - and it's surprisingly easy to get started.
What's New in iOS 7?
A new generation of iOS is nearly upon us, revealed at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week. Guided strongly by (Sir) Jony Ive, iOS 7 marks a clear departure from the skeumorphic UI elements of the past decade as 3D shadows and leather stitching have been replaced with clean lines and flat layers. In terms of features, there's certainly nothing groundbreaking - but more than enough to bring iOS inline with the competition. Read on for a sneak preview of what's to come in iOS7, arriving in the autumn.