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How Not to Start a Startup

I think sometimes I have trouble seeing the big picture. I have always loved the idea of working for myself, or starting my own company but have never really hit on what I believe to be my million dollar idea. Oh, I have ideas, tons of them. But I’m not sure if any of them […]

Obvious HowTo: Nintendo DS Surround Sound

This may seem like a pretty obvious How To article, but admittedly, I discovered this by accident and sheer boredom. Over the weekend, I was driving around some friends. We were listening to my Zune that I had connected to my car’s sound system with a casette adapter. After a while, my Zune’s battery died […]

Manage Your Feeds With Firefox

My growing list of RSS feeds is quickly becoming quite difficult to manage. Luckily, I use Firefox. With some simple organizing, I found a pretty simple way to manage and navigate through all my current feeds without ever leaving my browser’s toolbar. With this method of feed reading, you can quickly browse through the days […]

SOAP: How to make a mouse work in mid air

Soap is a pointing device based on hardware found in a mouse, yet works in mid-air. Soap consists of an optical sensor device moving freely inside a hull made of fabric. As the user applies pressure from the outside, the optical sensor moves independent from the hull. The optical sensor perceives this relative motion and […]