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• DIY Super Mario “Kite” Lights Up the Sky [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Throw some LEDs in helium balloons, string them together in a pixel-style grid, and you’ve got yourself a massive and glowing 8-bit sprite (in this case, a giant Super Mario). Read on to watch the video and see how you can build your own. Check out the video notes for more information on constructing it or, hit up the link below for more projects…

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• Ask the Readers: What’s Powering Your Media Center?

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Whether your media center is laptop you occasionally plug into your television or a whole-house arrangement of computers with a home server dishing up the movies and music, we want to hear about your media center system and what you have installed on it. With the recent release of XBMC 11.0 Eden, we have media centers on the brain. This week we…

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• Ask How-To Geek: iPad Battery Life, Batch Resizing Photos, and Syncing Massive Music Collections

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Christmas was good to many of you and now you’ve got all sorts of tech questions related to your holiday spoils. Come on in and we’ll clear up how to squeeze more life out of your iPad, resize all those photos, and sync massive music collections to mobile devices. Once a week we dip into our reader mailbag and help readers solve their problems,…

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• How to Reuse Your Old Wi-Fi Router as a Network Switch

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Just because your old Wi-Fi router has been replaced by a newer model doesn’t mean it needs to gather dust in the closet. Read on as we show you how to take an old and underpowered Wi-Fi router and turn it into a respectable network switch (saving your $20 in the process). Image by mmgallan. Why Do I Want To Do This? Wi-Fi technology has…

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• Google Books Downloader Downloads Google Books to PDF and JPG

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  If you’re looking for a way to download and format shift books and magazines found in Google Books, Google Books Downloader can help. Google Books Downloader takes what you can see in Google Books and downloads it either as a PDF file or as a series of JPGs. The key to using Google Books Downloader successfully is to understand that it…

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• Potentially The World’s Filthiest PC [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  We’re confident we’ve seen some dusty PC cases in our day, but nothing we’ve ever cleaned produced the sheer volume of smoke-bomb like dust this neglected tower spews out. That noise you hear, about 1:15 into the video, is the sound of the compressor motor kicking back on to top off the pressure tank: behold, a PC so filthy the…

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• Luke Skywalker’s Adoption [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  How precisely did Luke Skywalker come to be secreted away on Tatooine? In this clip we see Luke Skywalker’s uncle Owen is entirely uncertain about Obi Wan’s plan for leaving Luke in his care. Luke Skywalker’s Adoption 6 Start Menu Replacements for Windows 8 What Is the Purpose of the “Do Not Cover This Hole” Hole on…

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• 100 Yen Is an Intriguing Look at Japan’s Video Arcade Culture

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  While the video arcade culture of the 1970s and 80s has largely vanished from the American landscape, it’s alive and well in Japan–100 Yen: A Japanese Arcade Experience is a documentary exploring Japan’s still thriving arcade sub-culture. The documentary explores aspects of Japan’s arcade gaming culture ranging from the…

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• Earth’s Radiation Belt Sounds like Whale Song [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  The radio frequencies of Earth’s radiation belt have uncanny resemblance to a sort of whale/bird song remix. Check out this video to learn more about NASA’s efforts to explore the belts and listen to the Earth’s song. When we hear the “song” of the Earth, exactly what are we hearing? Science@NASA explains: Chorus is an…

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• Awareness Makes Sure You’re Not Tuned Out While Listening to Music

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  iOS: You want to listen to your music but you don’t want to be totally unaware of your surroundings. What do you do? Install Awareness, a simple app that will alert you if your device mic picks up loud noises. Whether you want to fall asleep listening to some relaxing music while still hearing bumbs in the night or you…

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• Ask How-To Geek: Clone a Disk, Resize Static Windows, and Create System Function Shortcuts

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  This week we take a look at how to clone a hard disk for easy backup or duplication, resize stubbornly static windows, and create shortcuts for dozens of Windows functions. Once a week we dip into our reader mailbag and help readers solve their problems, sharing the useful solutions with you in the process. Read on to…

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• Pyro Jam Can Is a DIY Mini Ruben’s Tube

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Earlier this year we showed you how to make a full-size Ruben’s Tube; now make a tiny single-column fire speaker with the Pyro Jam Can. Instructables’ user Patrick needed a simple device to enter into an Instuctables contest centered on fire-themed projects. His contribution, seen in the video above, is a…

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• Ask How-To Geek: Blocking Text Messages, Prioritizing Wi-Fi Connections, and Revitalizing a Windows 6 Phone

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  You’ve got questions and we’ve got answers. Today we highlight how to block unwanted and spam text messages, how to teach Windows 7 to prioritize Wi-Fi connections, and how to revitalize your aging Windows Mobile phone. Latest Features How-To Geek ETC Have You Ever Wondered…

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• Link’s Yard Sale; Artifacts Up For Sale [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Link, of the Legend of Zelda fame, has adventured far and wide–so far and wide, in fact, that it’s time to dump out the inventory screen and make room for new things. Masks, boots, a rudder off a trusty ship, it’s all up for grabs at Link’s yard sale. We’d put in an offer on the Double Hookshot–what bit…

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• Artemis Is The Absolute Geekiest LAN Game You’ll Ever Play [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Prepare to have your sense of what really geeky computer gaming look like with this Star Trek-like mockup that involves a projector, multiple monitors, and a crew of six. If you have five friends willing to pool some resources–because let us tell you, it’s not going to be cheap to build this gaming…

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• Ask How-To Geek: Fix Annoying Arrows, Play Old-School DOS games, and Schedule Smart Computer Shutdowns

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  You’ve got questions and we’ve got answers. Today we highlight how to fix the oversized shortcut arrows in Windows 7, play your favorite DOS games in emulation, and schedule intelligent shutdown routines for your PC. We get tons of emails with every kind of technology and computer question under the…

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• Visual History for Chrome Maps Out Your Browser History in an Interactive Graph

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Curious how your adventures on the web interweave? Visual History for Chrome maps out related web sites in your browsing history into an interactive chart–visualize your browsing over the last hours, days, or months. One of the interesting elements of Visual History is that it doesn’t simply link…

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• Ask the Readers: What’s the Best Order for Installing Apps on a New Computer?

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Whether your computer is brand new or feels brand new after an OS refresh, we’re curious to see what order you install applications in. What goes on first? What goes on last? What is forgotten until you need it? This week, inspired by this Best Order to Install Everything guide over at the Windows…

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• Van Gogh’s Starry Night Rendered in Hubble Telescope Images

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  The process of making a large image out of mosaic of smaller image “pixels” is certainly nothing new; this rendition of Starry Night using images from the Hubble telescope, however, is a particularly fitting use of the technique. Crafted by Alex H. Parker, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian…

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• Curiosity’s Descent to Mars in HD [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Thanks to the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) mounted on the fore-port side of Curiosity we’re treated to a high-resolution video of Curiosity’s descent to Mars. The video from MARDI, combined with the video editing of YouTube user DLFitch, yields the above video. He writes: This is a…

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• This Week in Geek History: NORAD Tracks Santa, First HTTP Test, Babbage’s Birthday

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  History trivia shouldn’t be limited to just treaty dates and wars ending, we’re marking off major milestones in geek history—one week at at time. This week in history we’ve got Santa on the Cold War radar, baby HTTP going for a spin, and Babbage’s birth to help usher in the age of…

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• Iron Man’s Arc Reactor Built from Dollar Store Parts

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Building a good looking Iron Man cosplay suit on a budget is no easy task; this clever Dollar Store inspired build combines cheap off the shelf parts to create a surprisingly awesome Arc Reactor. LED lights, sink strainers, and some sewing pins were all sacrificed to create this…

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• Ask HTG: Using the Malicious Software Removal Tool, Scheduling Computer Startups, and Diagnosing an Overheating Laptop

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Once a week we select a few questions from the pile of emails we answer and share the solutions with the greater readership; this week we’re looking at the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, scheduling computer startups, and how to diagnose an overheating laptop. …

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• What You Said: The Technology You’re Most Thankful For

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Earlier this week we asked you to share the technology you were most thankful for–big or small, old or new–and you responded. Read on to see the tech your fellow readers are thankful to have. Many readers were thankful for the Internet as an entire technological advance. Lee…

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• Ask How-To Geek: Speeding Up the Start Menu Search, Halting Auto-Rotating Android Screens, and Dropbox-powered Torrenting

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  This week we take a look at tweaking the Window’s start menu search for fast and focused searching, locking down a hyperactive Android screen, and fueling your torrenting habit through Dropbox. Once a week we dip into our reader mailbag to help readers solve their problems,…

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