In the latest installment of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, Alexander Rose shows how to use Google Earth to provide cost-effective GPS mapping in real time: I have been doing a lot of exploring and surveying in the desert recently, and have been trying to find the right GPS mapping solution. The solution I found incorporated […]
If you press F1 in an older program on Vista, you’re in for a disappointment; the old help format is not supported in Vista. However, Microsoft has made the old Windows Help program available as a free download. – [via] Link
In Vista, if you’re logged in as a normal user but need to execute something with administrator privileges, there’s a quick shortcut that will let you do just this from the start menu’s run box. Just type the command, say “cmd”, into the run box, and then hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter instead of just the Enter key. […]
Sometimes an otherwise useful application is missing a feature or two. Take the Stickies app, for example. For whatever reason, the authors decided not to include a scrollbar. Perhaps this was because it’s not a necessary feature for most users. Perhaps it was just overlooked. Thankfully, you can customize most OS X apps with the […]
If your iPod decided to take the dirt nap, there may be a few tricks, short of buying a new one, that will put you back in tunes. Hackszine pal Sam writes: I recently discovered by 1. Simply opening your ipod 2. Disconnecting your drive 3. Turning the ipod back on and letting it boot […]
Back in the day, Linux users ran a utility called hdparm to make sure that their disk drives were operating at the ideal speeds. These days, Linux distributions usually can figure out the best settings for a modern drive, so it’s not needed as much. Still, it’s a nice tool for probing your hard drive’s […]
At Google Blogoscoped, Philipp Lenssen has a great Google Maps hack to overclock the resolution of Google Maps, bumping any location up to the resolution available in Google Earth, simply by tweaking the URL: Select a location and switch to satellite view Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” […]
