Beautiful

Date February 18th, 2010 Comment No Comments

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Full Screen Weather

Date February 15th, 2010 Comment No Comments

We’ve always liked Weather Underground for its no-nonsense, real-time weather info. Today they’ve released a new service called Full Screen Weather that mashes up Google Maps with weather data for nothing but maps and up-to-the-minute weather info.

[Via: Lifehacker]

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Lego Cubestormer Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in Sub-12 Second Whirlwind

Date February 15th, 2010 Comment No Comments

Robots born with the sole purpose of solving the Rubik’s Cube are nothing new, but we’re pretty sure we haven’t seen one crack the code in under a dozen seconds before.

[Via: engadget]

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Wall-Mounted LCD

Date February 10th, 2010 Comment No Comments

We finally began redecorating the livingroom last weekend, and we decided to wall-mount the television. The Plasma Centre provided all the supplies:

Wall-mounted TV, with cable ducting and shelves
  • UM101M Tilt – Black Universal Slim Tilting Wall Mount
  • PAVS-2 – PAVS-2 530mm Cable Management Trunking
  • 3x PAVS-S – PAVS-S Premier AV Support Shelf Unit

Now all we’ve got to do is finish papering, and get new skirting boards and door and window frames.

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Aero Snap with Multiple Monitors

Date January 27th, 2010 Comment No Comments

I tried to use the window Aero Snap feature on Windows 7 today that allows you to snap windows to the left or right of the screen by holding the title bar and dragging to the left or right edges. This work well for systems with one monitor, but with dual monitors, the desktop is treated as being the size of the entire multi-monitor area and therefore the right edge is on the right hand side of the second monitor.

What if you want to snap a window to the right edge of the primary monitor, or the left edge of the secondary monitor for that matter?

Well, thankfully, Aero Snap can also be utilised via the keyboard:

  • Holding the Windows key down and tapping the left cursor key will cycle the current window from monitor edge to monitor edge anti-clockwise.
  • Holding the Windows key down and tapping the right cursor key will cycle the current window from monitor edge to monitor edge clockwise.
  • Holding the Windows key down and tapping the up cursor key will maximise the current window on the monitor which it is displayed.
  • Holding the Windows key down and tapping the down cursor key will restore the current window if it is maximised and minimise it if it is restored.

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