Electronics, programming, and tech tips — simple, practical, useful.
Found a nice website, www.pilothandwriting.com, where you can create your own Digital Handwriting. On that website, you create your own handwriting, digitally “type” your handwriting and send the handwriting to your friend. The recipient will going to receive an image that contain the text using your own handwriting. That’s cool..
Recently Google allow user to add a background image to the Google homepage. Visit www.google.com, and you should see a “Change background image” at the bottom left of the google homepage.
I saw some videos on how to build simple Homopolar Motor, and decide to build mine. It actually require only very simple component, Neodymium Magnet, AA battery, and single core wire. Please watch the video for the step by step on how to build the Simplest Homopolar AA Battery Motor.
Have a try!
Anyone using Windows Media Center to watch movie and listening to music? Well, I didn’t use much, but this application, MacroTube is really nice and useful for those who like Windows Media Center.
22 May 1980 is the date of the first released of Pac-Man arcade game in Japan (more info here). If you visit www.google.com today 22 May 2010 (Pac-Man 30th Anniversary), you will found out that the Google homepage theme for today is Pac-Man.
Found this nice website, http://listen.grooveshark.com/ where you can listen to free MP3 online, you don’t have to download, and no media player required, you can simply run in on the internet browser.
I am not sure what this feature is called under Google Chrome, I am going to call it as “Quick Search”. This is actually a very nice feature for Google Chrome, and I learn about this feature from a friend (thanks to him!). So, this Quick Search actually allow you to search on other page besides Google, at Google Chrome address bar quickly.
On the previous post, “Display a Webpage on Your Desktop (Window XP)”, I had show you how to display a webpage on your desktop using Active Desktop feature under Window XP. For Window Vista and Window 7, Microsoft has remove this feature, and replace it by Desktop Sidebar Gadget. Therefore, to display a webpage on your Window Vista or Window 7 desktop, you will need to use this gadget called ActiveDesktop. You can get the gadget at the ActiveDesktop page, or download it from the end of this post.
Today, I am going to show you how to change the Window 7 Logon Screen. The default Window 7 Logon Screen (I can’t get the print screen of my Logon Screen, I get this image from Google Image):
On this article, I will show a step by step guide to display a webpage on your desktop (only for Window XP).
