Sep
17
From regular post to your Inbox
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There are amny service providers that offer you to sen your e-mail as regular mail, but now there is a company that offers the opposite.
To receive for you your regular mail and send it to you as e-mail (Unopened of course). Then you can decide what to be done with the mail move to trash or scan it or even forward to me.
Unfortunately it is not free, but for some offices it could be really convenient.
Sep
14
Make you stolen car traceable…
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Here is video of how to create inexpensive car tracking system.
It cheap an ingenious simple.
You will need old but functioning cell phone or prepaid phone, car charger, creativity and probably some long wires.
You connect cell phone to the car battery via car charger and hide it on place where it will have connection to cell towers.
Then when you car is stolen you can give cell phone IMEA number to authorities and with the help of your cell phone provider they can easily trace current car location.
Sep
14
Racing is dangerous….
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TG Daily has a story of an inventor and his crash after his demonstration.
I wonder why he ride a racing bike without a helmet and special equipment.
Hopefully he seemed to be OK so he can learn something from this experience.
Sep
13
P2P Cellular network?!
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TerraNet found new application of P2P (peer to peer) technology – Cellular network.
They plan to implement technology looking for other P2P capable cell phones in 2 km radius and using them to transfer calls without using cellular network.
The main use of this technology may be local calls or as replacement of PTT (push to talk)/ WalkyTalkies.
Another maybe lifesaving use of this technology is in case of disaster all cell towers may be down, but communication will be still possible.
Sep
13
Star Wars + Simpsons = More fun
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I must share it…..
Sep
13
Here is the instructional video:
Sep
13
How to increase your MPG?
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In the era of increasing gas prices everybody are interested how to increase their MPG (miles per gallon – used in USA) or respectively decrease gas consumption l/km (Used in Europe and most of the world).
This is not a simple task and it is mostly a function of how car is driven. Here are some tips.
- Take a look at car consumption that manufacturer put in your manual. Usually this is the optimum value you can reach – so inform yourself about it before you buy the car.
- Try carrying as less as possible “useless” stuff in your car – heavier your car is more it will consume
- Avoid putting stuff on the rooftop such as car-tops if you do not need them.
- If you have 2 cars try to use them appropriately – do not use SUV for your shopping when you can do it with your hatchback (SUV consumes usually 2+ l/100km more than compact class car)
- Maintain your car according to manufacturer instructions – inflate your tires to nominal pressure, change your oil regularly,replace your air filter, maintain your ignition system (change spark plugs and cables) etc.
- Do not use A/C when you can open your window
- Do not drive on highway with full open windows – This will break car aerodynamics (true for 60km/h+)
- Do not speed – most of the cars are manufactured to be fuel efficient at the speed around the speed limit and if you drive faster you consumption increases.
- …..
Some of those “tricks” are common sense, but thinking about them when driving will allow you to safe money….
Sep
11
How to recognise telemarketing fraud?
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In addition to be annoying and time consuming some of telemarketers are real crooks. According to fraud.org here are six signs to recognise fraudent telemarketer and best action is to say thank you and hang up.
- Demanding that you act immediately or else miss out on this great opportunity….
- Promising that you can win money, make money, or borrow money easily…
- Refusing to send written information prior to your purchase or donation
- Trying to scare you into buying something
- Insisting you wire money or a courier will come by to pick up your payment
- Refusing to stop calling after you ask them to stop.
If you recognize one of those signs better say “NO, THANK YOU” and hangup.
Sep
6
How to predict the weather without TV forecast
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Scientifically predicting the weather is something really hard, and you need a lot of information and powerful computers to do it. So how our grandparents were able to predict weather without watching TV forecast.
wikiHow published interesting article of how this could be done.
Sep
6
How to add Google repository in CentOS
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Google is adding more apps to his Linux repository.
They also have script to setup repositories, but unfortunately it does not recognize CentOS and yum enabled distribution. I’ve added this code to check if yum is installed:
# Check if yum is installed RHEL v5 and CentOS 4.x and 5
if [ '/bin/rpm -q yum' ]; then
PACKAGEMANAGER=yum
Resulting script is here:
NOTE: After downloading the file just rename it from .txt to .sh and run with the shell:
bash google-repo-setup_CentOS.sh
Currently you can find there only picasa and google desktop