Students at engineering universities are currently designing concept cars that are plastic-part intensive instead of heavily steel-made cars. Cars that are made largely of plastic parts have many pros and cons. The current evolution of plastic automobile parts are more efficient, cost-effective, safe, and environmentally friendly. When the car is done, the plastics can be … Read more
If you already have a NAS and it’s not one of Apple’s fancy new Time Capsules, you can still use it to backup your Mac using the Time Machine app in OS X Leopard. Here’s how: Open Disk Utility. Click on “New Image” and then name your image. Set the type to “sparse bundle” and … Read more
On May 15th, 2008, bloggers from across the world will be participating in one of the largest collaborations of online publication for human rights violations. If you decide to join me, you can help by being a voice for those who don’t have a voice. There are several main topics to choose from, primarily to … Read more
Did you know that most YouTube videos can be downloaded now as high-quality mp4 (MPEG-4) files? There have been browser and URL hacks to download files previously, and several sites and Firefox extensions would allow you to plug-in an URL to a YouTube video and it would snag the file or give you an URL … Read more
Two years ago, before the official release of Mac OS X (the operating system most Mac computers run these days) that would work on Intel hardware and PowerPC hardware, there were people out there who dared to install developer releases on completely non-Apple hardware by using a software patch on the install disc. This method … Read more