[franca]

Yod'm 3D Windows

[ferrija1]

Originally Posted by franca

Yod'm 3D Windows

That's awesome, thanks.

[franca]

Your digital camera is safe at airport security

Digital gear does not pose the same problems. I've passed many flash memory cards through airport screeners. I have never had a problem. That goes for data as well as photos. But if you're still concerned, ask that your equipment be checked by hand.

Theft is likely to be a bigger problem. At checkpoints, you often get separated from your carry-ons. Try to keep an eye on them.

A lot of equipment is lost, too. Airports' lost and found collections are filled with laptops, phones and handhelds. If your gear disappears, check with the lost and found.

Here are some other helpful Tips:

http://www.komando.com/columns/index.aspx?id=1022

http://www.komando.com/downloads/cat...%20and%20Video

http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=1361

[franca]

Make your own PVC pipe cable catcher
diycablecatcher.jpg

Do-it-yourselfer Kevin decided against a $50-$100 cable catcher for his desk and built one himself with a little PVC pipe. For people with laptops on their desk who unplug often, this keeps your plugs from slipping off and falling down behind the desk. Kevin says:

Just cut a small length of PVC pipe down the side and glue some washers/spacers/whatever to an interior edge. Clip it onto the edge of your desk, and spend the hundred dollars on the "Cable Catcher TM" by Altinex to buy a plane ticket to California and give those purveyors of overpriced desk accessories a hard kick in the nuts.

And that about sums it up. Check out Kevin's pics in his Flickr photostream. — Gina Trapani
DIY Cable Organizer

[valis]

Originally Posted by franca

Make your own PVC pipe cable catcher
diycablecatcher.jpg

Do-it-yourselfer Kevin decided against a $50-$100 cable catcher for his desk and built one himself with a little PVC pipe. For people with laptops on their desk who unplug often, this keeps your plugs from slipping off and falling down behind the desk. Kevin says:

Just cut a small length of PVC pipe down the side and glue some washers/spacers/whatever to an interior edge. Clip it onto the edge of your desk, and spend the hundred dollars on the "Cable Catcher TM" by Altinex to buy a plane ticket to California and give those purveyors of overpriced desk accessories a hard kick in the nuts.

And that about sums it up. Check out Kevin's pics in his Flickr photostream. — Gina Trapani
DIY Cable Organizer

had no idea those things even existed. I just secure my cables every 6 inches with velcro, tthen at the top of the back of the desk put a sticky piece of velcro there, and attach the velcro holding the cables together to that. Cost about three bucks at hobby lobby.

[gurutech]

Grrrr.... another item for my "honey-do" list this weekend... At least this is computer related!

[valis]

dude, that list never shortens.....fact of life.....best you can do is hide it from her for bit, or, my tried and true method, lie. Lie like a freakin' rug and turn on a hockey match.

btw, we used to live just north of princeton.......worked for a company in somerset......

[ferrija1]

Originally Posted by valis

had no idea those things even existed. I just secure my cables every 6 inches with velcro, tthen at the top of the back of the desk put a sticky piece of velcro there, and attach the velcro holding the cables together to that. Cost about three bucks at hobby lobby.

Mine just lay free in a huge jumble.

[valis]

heh.....why does that not surprise me?

my wife just looks at my office/garage/closet and shakes her head. I look at her organizational mode (hand grenade, apparently) and just shake my head.

Takes all types to make the world go round. You can conduct brain surgery in my closet, her's is like an archeological dig. And yes, when we were house shopping, two closets was not an option, per se, but rather something that the house WOULD have.

[ferrija1]

Originally Posted by valis

heh.....why does that not surprise me?

my wife just looks at my office/garage/closet and shakes her head. I look at her organizational mode (hand grenade, apparently) and just shake my head.

Takes all types to make the world go round. You can conduct brain surgery in my closet, her's is like an archeological dig. And yes, when we were house shopping, two closets was not an option, per se, but rather something that the house WOULD have.

I am, for the most part, neat.

[valis]

I apparently suffer from borderline ocd, according to wifey....no big.....I like things in their place, is all....

[franca]

Madotate (Windows)

[franca]

You know those annoying lyric sites that instantly try to freeze your computer back to the Stone Age? Well, the next time you've just got to remember the lyrics to Air Supply's "All Out Of Love" (see above), try LyricWiki, a large and growing database of over 200K lyric pages.

You can search by artist or song title; I do wish that they had more a more intuitive search that went out and grabbed partial song lyrics as well. You can also find lots of background info, news, and interesting musical commentary here - worth a look.

LyricWiki

[valis]

next time I need to hear those lyrics I'm jumping in front of a train.

[ferrija1]

Originally Posted by franca

Madotate (Windows)

Looks cool.