Tinkernut Labs

  • Vista Tip – Increase Speed By Disabling Visual Styles

    March 20, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: computers, diy, how, os, tinkernut, tip, to, tweak, vista, windows 3 Responses

    Speed up Windows Vista by disabling the Visual Styles (eye candy) and the sidebar to free up memory.

  • Gmail Tip: Labels and Filters

    March 19, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: computer, diy, email, gmail, google, how, internet, tip, to 1 Response

    Organize your E-mail inbox by labeling e-mail by filtering out e-mail with common subjects, e-mail address or content and them categorize them with color-coded labels.

  • Gmail Tip – Group Your Contacts

    March 18, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: diy, email, gmail, google, how, tip, to 1 Response

    This tip will show you how to organize your Gmail contacts into groups so that you can send an e-mail to several people at once just by typing a few letters.

  • Vista Tip: Remove Warning Balloons

    March 17, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: computers, diy, how, os, tip, to, tweak, vista, windows 1 Response

    This vista tip will show you how you can disable those annoying pop-up notification balloons that appear at the bottom right of your screen. As a bonus, we will also disable the start menu notifications as well.

  • How To Make Computer Animations

    March 14, 2008 // davisde // DIY Projects, Video Tags: animate, animations, computer, diy, how, tinkernut, to, tutorial 2 Responses

    This program covers how to create computer animations using Anim8or. Please keep in mind that this is not a tutorial on how to use Anim8or, but just on how to create computer animations. For tutorials on how to use Anim8or, please visit these sites: wheel tutorial, user’s manual.

  • Make A Fake Virus

    March 10, 2008 // davisde // Hacks, Programming Tips, Video Tags: computer, fake, how, prank, to, tutorial, virus 7 Responses

    This tutorial will show you how to make a non-destructive prank that will make someone think they have a virus on their computer every time they click on it. Please do not use this for destructive purposes.

  • Run Linux Programs as Windows Applicaitons

    March 4, 2008 // davisde // Linux Tips, Software Tips, Video Tags: amarok, linux, programs, software, tutorial, ubuntu, windows 9 Responses

    This video will show you how you can run almost any Linux only program as if it were a Windows program. You will need a program called andLinux (freeware) to do this. Once installed, I will show you how to set up a linux music program called Amarok.

  • Shutdown your Computer with a Cell Phone

    February 25, 2008 // davisde // DIY Projects, Hacks, Video Tags: cell, computer, hack, instructional, phone, text 26 Responses

    ***UPDATE*** This project can also be done with Tunderbird. Here’s a link to the article:
    http://lifehacker.com/386811/shutdown-windows-with-a-text-message-thunderbird-edition

    This video will show you how to shutdown your computer from anywhere using a texting capable cell phone, Microsoft Outlook and a free account from www.kwiry.com.

  • How To Speed Up XP

    February 10, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: diy, speed, tutorial, tweak, up, windows, xp 3 Responses

    This video covers seven different ways to speed up Windows XP:  Running “Disk Cleanup”, Removing cached web pages, defragmenting the hard drive, disabling indexing, disabling visual styles, editing Windows startup items, and defragmenting the registry.

  • Learn A Foreign Language For Free

    January 27, 2008 // davisde // DIY Projects, Video Tags: diy, foreign, how, language, to, tutorial, websites 2 Responses

    This is a collection of website to help aid you if you want to try taking on a different language. Here are the websites covered:
    http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html
    http://www.oculture.com/
    http://fsi-language-courses.com/
    http://babbel.com/
    http://www.mangolanguages.com/
    http://jvlt.sourceforge.net/
    http://babelfish.altavista.com/
    http://www.transl8it.com/

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